some librarian seems to have deleted the original 1961 edition of The Phantom Tollbooth

[Lisa]

I had the 1961 edition on my shelves. It's the one I own.

I now have another edition on my shelves and can't find the pre-ISBN edition that was there.

I'm tired of my old, pre-ISBN editions disappearing.

Is there a way it can be added back and is there a way to make sure it can't be deleted again.

Or, am I just not seeing it in the long list?

Thanks for any help.

I have little time to do librarian work for the next few months.

[Renske]

Adding a librarian note should be the most useful. An if the note is ignored, you can flag that.

It can sometimes be difficult/not possible to see the difference between a valid pre-ISBN edition and a duplicate.

[Lisa]

I'd written a librarian note and put a lot of information in the book edition description. It was more then sufficient. But it seems to be deleted anyway, perhaps a long time ago. Given that the book was published in 1961, librarians should expect to see some pre-ISBN editions. Old books with documentation should never be deleted, but they are. It's a chronic and too frequent a problem.

[Lobstergirl]

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

There is a 1961 edition (above) without ISBN, and several 1961 editions with ISBNs.

Sort by publication date, the most recent will appear first.

[Lisa]

Thank you so much, Lobsergirl! I'm going to check to see if mine is there. I'm assuming the edition is there even if not my 2007 manually entered copy.

[Lisa]

Actually, that's how the publication date list usually works but not here. The second to the last edition should be a 1961 edition and that's the one on my shelves but someone has changed it to a 25th anniversary edition. Some librarians really make a mess of the GR database. I have no time and less patience right now. Someday I might deal with my missing and erroneously edited manually added editions. Thanks again, Lobstergirl.