Please add details and cover to Napoleón de André Maurois

[Ramiro]

There are some details to fix in this edition, like writer's prologue, ISBN, page count, description in correct language and cover to add too.

* Title: Napoleón (Biblioteca Salvat de Grandes Biografías)
* Author(s) name(s): André Maurois; Carmen Llorca (Prologue)
* ISBN (or ASIN): 84-345-8148-90
* Publisher: Salvat Editores S.A.
* Publication Date Year: 1985
* Publication Date Month: N/A
* Publication Date Day: N/A
* Page count: 189
* Format: Paperback
* Description:
Pocas figuras históricas han despertado tanto interés como la de Napoleón Bonaparte. De él pueden hacerse los mayores elogios y las más duras críticas. La trayectoria de aquel pequeño soldado corso, que llegó a convertirse en el hombre más poderoso de su tiempo y a tener en sus manos el destino de Europa, ha dado pie a un fragmento del libro de la historia, de lectura inexcusable.
André Maurois, que debe buena parte de su justo prestigio como escritor a su capacidad para iluminar las sombras del pasado, ha escrito sobre Napoleón las que tal vez sean sus páginas más sugerentes. De ellas emerge el perfil biográfico, humano, político y militar del emperador, sobre el trasfondo de una época verdaderamente apasionante.
* Language (for non-English books): Spanish
* Link to cover: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/l...

Thanks so much!
Happy New Year!

[Bruno]

Please provide a photo of your own book Edition page, where is ISBN, Publication date, etc, as the ISBN you provided is Invalid

[Emmy]

Furthermore this request does not involve the adding of new books/new editions to the Goodreads database, so it is in the wrong folder..
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[Ramiro]

I apologize for the inconvenience, but on Amazon the ASIN code is incorrect regarding the author. This is André Maurois, not Emil Ludwig. Furthermore, the title with which it previously appeared -"Napoleón (Biblioteca Salvat de Grandes Biografías)"- was correct, since the difference between this work and the original in English is the preface by Carmen Mallorca and the image files that corresponds to Salvat.
Thanks so much!

[Bruno]

I had already made some fixes to this edition, but I'm undoing some of them as I can't rely on the provided info.

In your fisrt post, you mention a prologue by Carmen Llorca, now you mention Carmen Mallorca.
The link you provided mention a Carmen Llorca Vilaplana.
These might all be the same person (I'm not saying they are) but they are 3 different authors in GR.
And we must introduce the author as it is in the book.

Also, you mention an ISBN, which is Invalid, but this book record doesn't have an ISBN.
And the link you provided mentions 2 different ISBN for this book. Sesrching Worldcat with these 2 ISBN, they result in editions with a different publication date than 1985, as you reffer in your first post.

This way it's really hard to make this book record accurate.

So please, provide a reliable source that we can use to complete the book details, either photos of your own book, or a link to a reliable source as a Public Library.
You can learn more about accepted sources here (I'm not relying in Amazon for this one):
https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/...

[Ramiro]

Okay. I understand the confusion, I was wrong when referring to the author of the prologue in the last post. It's Carmen Llorca (that's how she appears in the book, which I understand is the same person as Carmen Llorca Villaplana). On the following page you will find the information that I consider most reliable: https://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20...
On the other hand, regarding the ISBN issue, I think there may be some confusion since the book presents an ISBN for the collection and another for the particular volume (which is the first in the collection). In any case, it is the one found on this page of the Dialnet Foundation of the La Rioja Library (Spain): https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/l... and it corresponds to my book, of which I attach a photograph of the page that contains it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HQVU...
I hope that these data can clarify the doubts.
Thank you very much for your time.

[Bruno]

OK, I have to give up on this...

Your book shows the ISBN 8434581489 (your photo)

This ISBN is Invalid.

By looking through some sources, including Worldcat, I came to the conclusion that it must be a typo in your book ISBN printing.

So, probably, the right ISBN for it is 8434581469

This source leads to this conclusion:
https://rebiun.baratz.es/OpacDiscover...

Also does this one:
https://search.worldcat.org/pt/title/...

However...

This ISBN is taken by an already existing edition in GR:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

which I believe is not correct. But I can't be sure.

I'll ask for help of a spanish speaking librarian, maybe he can sort this out.

[Javier]

I've also found the book is related to ISBN 8434581485. See WorldCat https://search.worldcat.org/es/title/... (the general collection ISBN also matches) and abebooks https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Book.... However, that ISBN is also used by another book here: Einstein

Thus I'm not sure if the invalid ISBN was a typo or a deliberate attempt to avoid purchasing a (valid) ISBN by the publisher.

As we cannot add ISBNs that fail the checksum test (the system shows an error message if we try to do it), I've written a note about the printed ISBN in the description. I think that's the safest course of action in this case.

[Bruno]

Thank you for your help, Javier.

[Ramiro]

Thank you all. Just for information, it should be said that in the GR web version this book is still linked in "More editions" and in "Ratings & Reviews" with the work "Napoleon" by Emil Ludwig.

[Javier]

Unfortunately, combining/separating functions are disabled at the moment due to site maintenance (until Jan 8th if I remember correctly).

I bookmarked this thread and will (try to) come back here later for that purpose.

[Ramiro]

Ok, I understand the inconvenience. I'll try to remind you if you don't mind after that date. Again, thank you very much for your help.

[Javier]

Separated, may take a while to update.

[Ramiro]

Thanks again!