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Adding New Books & Editions > Add Book 'The Biography of an Arctic Fox' + clean-up orphaned editions

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Matt | 7 comments I wasn't sure whether this was better suited here, or the Book & Author Page Issues folder. See below.

* Title: The Biography of an Arctic Fox
* Author(s) name(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
* ISBN (or ASIN): N/A, predates both (but see below)
* Publisher: D. Appleton-Century Company
* Publication Date Year: 1937
* Page count: 126
* Format (such as paperback, hardcover, ebook, audiobook, etc): Hardcover
* Description: The story of Katug, the Arctic Fox, and Liagu his mate, whom we follow from their first meeting on Orlak, a bleak island in the Polar Sea.
* Language (for non-English books): English

Sources:
Entry on WorldCat: https://search.worldcat.org/title/313...
AbeBooks listings: https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/...
If allowed, Ernest Thompson Seton Institute bibliography verifies that this is a different book from The Biography of a Silver Fox (see below): https://etsetoninstitute.org/books-by...

Cover images from my personal copy:
Front cover: https://imgur.com/a/fPl6aag
Title page w/publication info (to verify this is an original edition ala above WorldCat entry): https://imgur.com/a/p99aVRw

Cleanup notes:
There are a few 'orphaned' records of this book on Goodreads...

Biography of An Arctic Fox
The details for this are mostly right, but it shouldn't be listed as an alternate edition of The Biography of a Silver Fox. That's an entirely different book by the author (I own original hardcover prints of both, and they have totally different Tables of Contents, which I can verify with scans if need be). This particular record was a Chinese-language re-release of the Arctic Fox book in 2015, which does correctly have its own new ISBN.
So it appears that once a proper separate parent record exists from the 1937 original The Biography of an Arctic Fox, this edition should migrate over to it.

Biography of an Arctic Fox 1st Edition
The Biography of an Arctic Fox
Based on the title and publisher (D APPLETON-CENTURY COMPANY INC for both), I'm almost certain this is Seton's Biography of an Arctic Fox. Both have ASIN's, but you can't find anything searching by them on Amazon any longer. Seems likely that these records are transitory artifacts from third party used book re-sellers. Note that the hardcover edition is a more authoritative original/parent record; I can't find any good evidence that there was ever a separate original library binding.


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