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Two Books, probably identical
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If it's the same book, even in different forms, or with different isbns, you can combine. You just need to have the same author listed first on each edition. More details here: http://www.goodreads.com/help/librari...When in doubt as to whether to combine, check here:
http://www.goodreads.com/help/librari...
OK. I was concerned about whether or not there were really two editions involved or just one book with two different "made up" ISBN's, but I'll interpret your comments to mean that I shouldn't sweat it and I'll just combine the editions.
I did a google search with each isbn, and both pull up the book...so it looks like two different editions with legit isbn's.
OK. And thank you for the assistance.
I have a copy of the book and there is no clearly identified ISBN number on it (it was published in 1975), but the number 440-04812-150 is written on the spine. Both of the editions of the book on GR have some partial version of this number as their ISBN, but I strongly believe that they are really the same book and that someone just fiddled around with the spine number to get an acceptable ISBN number.
I chose one of the two that were already on GR and cleaned it up-- correcting the author field which had both authors' names in the one field, added the cover and a description to it, etc.
The other edition that was already there, I merely added the second author to.
I was going to combine this with the other one, but before I could figure out how to combine an edition that has two authors, I decided to ask for help here. How do I handle editions where I really don't know or believe that there are two editions with two different ISBN's? Any suggestions about what I should do from here?