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message 1: by Eleanor (new)

Eleanor (emfarrell) | 14 comments I have updated information about Elisabeth Brewer's scholarship book, "T.H. White's The Once and Future King" which is incorrectly listed as an edition of White's novel. I've changed the title and author but can't figure out how to get this listed as a completely different book. Here is the book url:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38...

Thanks!


message 2: by Amara (new)

Amara Tanith (aftanith) Separated.

(To separate, click on "other editions", and then "separate" on the right side of the page. You'll get a list of all the editions, and you can separate out the incorrectly combined ones.)


message 3: by Eleanor (new)

Eleanor (emfarrell) | 14 comments Thanks so much for your help! The separation seemed to work except that there is now an "untitled" book in the White novel editions that I think might have originally been this volume (from the remaining info that exists in the record). Here's the link:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43...

Also, if I search for "Elisabeth Brewer" the White novel still comes up, but maybe it just takes time to go away.


message 4: by Amara (last edited May 24, 2012 11:49AM) (new)

Amara Tanith (aftanith) The search can take ten minutes or so to be reflect the changes we've made to the book.

As for the untitled book (it's untitled because of the Amazon data going away, in case you weren't aware), and I'm assuming you're identifying it as T.H. White's the Once and Future King because of the original title field?

If so, I found the problem. When you edited the incorrectly combined edition, you also edited the "original title field" to read T.H. White's the Once and Future King. In the future, keep in mind that the original title field affects all editions of the book. I've changed it back.

As the Untitled edition has no other identifying data, it should be left alone for the meantime. Imports might take care of it, or someone who's shelved it might be able to identify it.


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