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Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual
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Questions (not edit requests) > Not sure how to handle these two editions

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message 1: by Keith (new) - added it

Keith (kgf0) | 377 comments Putting this in Questions instead of Covers because it's not just a cover issue.

Even as an experienced Super, I'm not sure about the best path forward with these in compliance with policy.

Transcendental Magic is the primary edition (of more than 60 editions) and listed as the 1968 Weiser printing; however, the cover image is clearly from the more current Weiser edition, likely with the same ISBN (though I can't prove that). The actual 1968 cover does not appear to be available anywhere online, let alone anywhere we can use as a cover image source. I have the copy I read in storage and could probably photograph it for an ACE, but this entry would still have a clearly incorrect cover attached (or, arguably, the wrong publication date for the existing cover). Either way, I'm confused about which one would get the ISBN: the most current, right? (FWIW, Amazon lists the 1968 paperback with this same wrong cover/old pub date here.)

Relatedly, this Weiser Kindle edition uses the same cover and 1968 publication date, despite the very clear fact that there was no such thing as Kindle in 1968, and I'm totally at a loss what to do there, especially given that this again appears to be sourced directly from Amazon.


message 2: by Camilla (new)

Camilla | 340 comments I'm also interested in hearing what the solution in these cases should be. I've occasionally come across especially cases like the kindle edition that you mentioned, where the publication date is clearly wrong even on Amazon, since the date is way earlier than any ebook editions existed.


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