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Babel-17/Empire Star
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I'd say that the ISBN wins out over page number, summary, etc, so we should be able to fix the listing without a problem. Is this the cover your copy has?
Violetta wrote: "... Is this the cover your copy has?"That's the one!
Great! Is the rest of the info on the WorldCat site correct for your edition? (Oftentimes the page numbers don't quite match up, because GR has it's own policy on what constitutes total page count.)What we can do is use your book's info on the page with the ISBN you've listed, and make the "starry-eyed" cover an alternate cover edition. Unless you or I manage to find that cover's info...
WorldCat data looks right to me. How do we do the page count for this? It's done in the style of the old Ace Doubles, with the two back-to-back and inverted. Do we just sum the page counts? WorldCat lists each half separately, but I'm not sure that works in this software. There are several unnumbered blank pages in the middle where the two stories meet, presumably to fill out a signature, so if we count those it's actually 318pp.
I suppose we'll have to go with a summed page count and include a note in the description something like "titles transcribed from individual title pages; works bound back-to-back with inverted pagination."As for the blank pages, GR doesn't include those. It's a bit of a bother for people who don't like math, but not much else comes to mind that fits within GR's capabilities =(
Just 311 pages, then, I suppose.Thank you for this; I'm learning a lot.
C. wrote: "Just 311 pages, then, I suppose.Thank you for this; I'm learning a lot."
Ok, I have made the changes. The "starry-eyed" cover is left as an alternate cover edition (without an ISBN) and I have combined it. WorldCat doesn't seem to have any info on the "starry eyed" edition, and conversely, Amazon only has the starry-eyed edition, but with this ISBN. Therefore, I think alternate cover edition is the safe way to go (unless and until time proves me wrong, lol).
I forgot to add the snippet about page numbers though. Oops. Better go do that!
P.S. You're very welcome! I always learn more when I can help others simultaneously! :-D
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I am holding a physical book, purchased by my local library in 2008, that lists 0375706690 as the ISBN, and is a combined volume for Delaney's Babel-17 and Empire Star from Vintage Books, printed publication date 2001. The listing here shows a different cover with that title, and shows Vintage Books; but the publication date,page count, and description are for a completely different book (a reissue for Dick's Martian Time-Slip from Vintage, with a publication date of 2012). I'm not sure how to tell whether this is a simple editing error we can fix, or whether this is symptomatic of a database problem, or if the publisher made an error.
Thus, I thought I should bring the question here to the experts rather than trying to fix it myself.
(I only got librarian status this morning, and don't want to try something overcomplicated my first time.)
I apologize again if I'm going about this the wrong way, and welcome advice.