[DONE] Please add new edition of Baltasar & Blimunda

[Ion]

[DONE] Hello,

Could you please add this new edition:

* Title: Baltasar & Blimunda
* Authors: José Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero (translator)
* ISBN (or ASIN): 9781860469015
* Publisher: Vintage
* Publication date: 2018
* First Published: 1982
* Format: Paperback
* Page count: 345
* Language: English
* Description: In early eighteenth-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where her mother is burned at the stake, the two are bound body and soul by love of an unassailable strength. A third party shares their supper that evening: Padre Bartolomeu Lourenco, whose fantasy is to invent a flying machine. As the Crown and the Church clash, they purse his impossible, not to mention heretical, dream of flight.
* Book cover: https://www.goodreads.com/photo/user/... (I have scanned the cover of the copy that I own, which states that it was released in 2018.)

Thank you!

[Edwina]

Note to librarian: OP requesting ACE of book below, has provided scan of cover and info above.

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

[ERI]

here https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

[Ion]

[DONE] Note that this https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... is the 2001 edition. I am asking to add the edition published in 2018.

[David]

I'm not sure exactly what happened here, but I can say that the Amazon entry suggests this cover was already extant in 2001: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/186...
Are you certain this is not a 2018 reprint with the same 2001 cover?

[Tal]

David wrote: "Are you certain this is not a 2018 reprint with the same 2001 cover"

Even though this has been marked as closed, to answer your question, the original cover of the Harvill Press Panther Imprint (now Vintage Classics through acquisition) edition published in 2001 can be seen from this WC record,
(zoomable screencap from within FirstSearch as it's not public)
*link removed now that record has been corrected
FS is the best way to see the history of an ISBN in one view unlike the public WC page. The Year field shows the two editions with that ISBN, 2001 & 2018.

Here is the copyright page -> https://images.gr-assets.com/photos/1...

The second cover edition using the same ISBN (ACE) was reissued on June 28, 2018 under the Vintage Classics imprint which you can see from the publisher page (expand Details) here -> https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/37426...

So the ACE https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... needs its pub date changed from Sep 1 2001 to June 28, 2018.

p.s. Amazon is utter crap for book data especially with respect to covers and pub dates as they don't change the publication date for new covers using the same ISBNs or ASINs. Oh and publisher/imprints are often wrong as well.

[David]

I agree with your assessment of Amazon's data quality, which is why I phrased it as "...the Amazon entry suggests...".
I corrected the release date on the Vintage edition and the publisher on the Harvill edition. I added the appropriate ACE librarian notes as well.
Now this is truly closed (I hope).