(Done) Please merge records

[Lauren]

Edit: I've updated this comment to reflect which parts of my request remain outstanding. The original request is further down and has been stricken out.

The publishing information for this edition (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...), which purports to be the 1989 Plume edition, does not match the cover, which is actually the 2011 Virago edition ISBN 1844087220 (https://www.amazon.com/Civil-Stranger...).

ISBN 1844087220 already exists in Goodreads here (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...).

Please merge the two records and remove the incorrect publishing information:
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Please also update the book description, which, per the publisher (https://www.virago.co.uk/titles/barba...), is as follows (please note that I have inserted italic HTML formatting, but the extra spaces will need to be removed; please also maintain paragraph breaks):

When Barbara Pym died in 1980, she left a considerable amount of unpublished material. This volume contains an early novel, < i>Civil to Strangers< /i>, three novellas and an autobiographical essay, ‘Finding a Voice’, Pym’s only written comment on her writing career.

In < i>Civil to Strangers< /i>, the lives of a young couple, Cassandra Marsh-Gibbon and her self-absorbed writer husband Adam, are thrown into upheaval when a mysterious Hungarian arrives in their village.

(Oh, and the 1989 Plume edition already exists here, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6..., so no need to do anything about that one.)

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Original request (can be ignored)

The book cover for ISBN 9780452264533 is incorrect.

The book cover currently pictured is for the version published by Virago in 2011 (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...), while you will see in the book information that ISBN 9780452264533 is published by Plume in 1989.

Here you can see some examples of the correct book cover for this ISBN: https://www.abebooks.com/978045226453... https://www.amazon.com/Civil-Stranger...

Additionally, I own a copy of this ISBN and have scanned the cover, which is higher-quality than any other cover images available online. Please replace the cover image with the following (please be sure to use the largest size): https://www.goodreads.com/photo/user/...

Additionally, please correct the page count. The correct page count is 388, not 398.

Finally, please replace the description with the following, which I've transcribed from the back of the book (note italics):

< i>Civil to Strangers< /i> is the last, and perhaps the most rewarding, of Barbara Pym's writings, making it both a wonderful and a poignant reading experience. Witty, vintage Pym is offered up here in one more complete novel, sections of three others, the best of her shot stories, and a unique autobiographical essay. Her assorted British eccentrics – excellent women, dotty dons, and marvelous clergy – once again invite us to share a worm, cozy tea while they show us a cool, surprisingly urbane view of human nature . . . in one last journey into Pym country, where all affairs ae those of the heart.

Thank you!

Edit: If librarians are reluctant/not allowed to change the cover, perhaps deleting the ISBN from this edition and adding a new edition with the above cover and description would be the appropriate solution.

[Lauren]

Can someone please help with this?

[Lauren]

Can anyone please help with this?

[Lauren]

Someone? Anyone?

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

alternate cover edition here:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/edit/6...

[Lauren]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "alternate cover edition here:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/edit/6..."

Thanks so much! Would you please also remove/update the information for the original record (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...)?

Per Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Civil-Stranger...

ISBN: 1844087220, 9781844087228
Publisher: Virago Press
Publication Date: January 1, 2011
Length: 400 Pages

[Lauren]

Bump

[Lauren]

Bump

[Lauren]

Bump

[Abcdarian]

That edition is already there: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

[Lauren]

Abcdarian wrote: "That edition is already there: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1..."

Thanks! The publishing information is still incorrect, though—this (edit: this record https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...) is not the cover for the 1989 edition published by Plume. It also looks like those two records should be merged?

[Lauren]

Can anyone please help with this?

[Lauren]

Bump

[Lauren]

On further examination, I think I need a Superlibrarian to do the merge so am moving this request to that folder.

[David]

I deleted the redundant Plume edition and I corrected the description of the Virago edition

[Lauren]

David wrote: "I deleted the redundant Plume edition and I corrected the description of the Virago edition"

I guess that works too, thanks!