[COMPLETE] Merge Required: Queer

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There's a duplicate edition of the novel Queer by William S. Burroughs that needs to be merged.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7... - This version has the correct ISBN, but something went horribly wrong with the uploaded cover art. Some kind of corruption happened and messed up the colors. I have a physical copy of this edition checked out from the library and have seen other copies in person, and this light blue coloration does not exist on any of them. It's some kind of error with the image file that washed out the colors.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... - This edition has the correct cover art, but the ISBN is missing and it's been assigned a Goodreads-only ASIN.

Once merged, the edition's information should be as follows:

TITLE: Queer
AUTHOR: William S. Burroughs
INTRODUCTION/EDITOR: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... (there are two Oliver Harrises on Goodreads, and that's a whole other issue that needs to be sorted out)
ISBN-10: 0143117831
ISBN-13: 9780143117834
ASIN: 0143117831
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books
DATE PUBLISHED: August 31, 2010
NUMBER OF PAGES: 150
FORMAT: Paperback
DESCRIPTION:

Originally written in 1952 but not published until 1985, Queer is an enigma – both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs’ only realist love story and a montage of comic-grotesque fantasies that paved the way for his masterpiece, Naked Lunch. Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, Queer follows William Lee’s hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene. As Lee breaks down, the trademark Burroughsian voice emerges, a maniacal mix of self-lacerating humor and the Ugly American at his ugliest. A haunting tale of possession and exorcism, Queer is also a novel with a history of secrets, as this new edition reveals.


EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: [cover art in second edition linked is correct]

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Several more issues that require a superlibrarian:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... – This edition is a duplicate of ISBN 9780330300162. I have found photos of an actual copy of the book online, and Picador was the imprint under which ISBN 9780330300162 was published. They need to be merged. If needed, I can provide links to the photos I found.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... – This is a duplicate of the Romanian paperback edition and needs to be merged with ISBN 9786069784259.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... & https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6... – These are duplicates and the latter link has the correct ISBN, but both of them have cover art that is just a kind of crappy scan of the physical book. Unsure which one should be used as the correct art.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... – Duplicate of first Penguin Modern Classics edition with bad cover art. Needs to be merged with ISBN 9780141189918

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... – Duplicate of first Penguin edition. Needs to be merged with ISBN 9780140083897

Editions that just need to be invalidated:
A. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
B. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
C. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
D. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
E. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
F. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
G. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
H. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
I. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
J. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
K. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
L. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
M. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6... – I’m not sure if this should be invalidated or just turned into a separate book, but this isn’t Queer by Burroughs. If you look up the ISBN on Amazon and AbeBooks, you get an entirely unrelated book that has somehow been given the metadata for Queer.

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In addition to all of this, there were errors when trying to create an ACE of the current UK edition that need to be corrected.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... – This is the previous edition of the current UK paperback.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... – This is the current edition (note the blue penguin logo instead of orange). As per Goodreads policy surrounding ACEs, it should have been given the ISBNs from the older edition. This did not happen, and Goodreads gave this edition a site-only ASIN. The following steps need to be taken to correct this issue:

1. Create an ACE of this book: Queer (ISBN 9780141189918)
The information for the ACE should be as follows:
TITLE: Queer
AUTHOR: William S. Burroughs
EDITOR: Oliver Harris
ISBN-10: 0141189916
ISBN-13: 9780141189918
ASIN: 0141189916
PUBLISHER: Penguin Classics
DATE PUBLISHED: [can’t find any evidence of when the edition switched to the ACE, but the ISBN for all editions of this was first published November 25, 2010)
NUMBER OF PAGES: 208
FORMAT: Paperback
DESCRIPTION (from the back cover):

Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story and a montage of comic-grotesque fantasies that paved the way for his masterpiece, Naked Lunch. Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, Queer follows William Lee's hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene. As Lee breaks down, the trademark Burroughsian voice emerges; a maniacal mix of self-lacerating humor and the Ugly American at his ugliest. A haunting tale of possession and exorcism, Queer is also a novel with a history of secrets, as this new edition reveals.

EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: https://cdn.penguin.co.uk/dam-assets/... // https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57617...

2. Merge the newly created ACE with this edition: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

[David]

Too many requests on one thread with no numbering is a recipe for confusion.
* Editions with ISBN 9780143117834 merged
* Supposed editions with ISBN 9780330300162 not merged - covers are different.
* ISBN 9786069784259 merged
* Spanish editions merged. Watermark removed with the wonders of AI
* Editions with ISBN 9780141189918 merged
* Editions with ISBN 9780140083897 merged
* The editions you requested to "invalidate" were shelved so they cannot be invalidated, they need to be merge and each of them needs to be provided with the appropriate target edition. If they were shelved five times or more, feel free to repost here with a proper target.
* ACE done correctly

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Thanks for the help, and apologies for the messy post. Out of the alphabetically organized invalid editions I linked, this is the only one that's been shelved 5+ times:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... - Needs to be merged with ISBN 9789875036031

Is there any estimation on how long it will be before ISBN 9780143117834 is recombined with the other editions? Thanks again for all your help!

[David]

Invalid merged.
ISBN 9780143117834 was recombined.

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Thanks again!