What is the policy for adding antqiue books or those lacking an ISBN?

[Rob]

Based upon skimming the FAQ and some of the posts in the forum I suspect I already know the answer to this, but I thought I would ask regardless to confirm. In summary, I have a collection of antique books that predate the the us of ISBN, is it possible to have these books added to the database so I that can track them or is this not supported as this time.

In some cases facsimile reprints of these books exist that do have ISBN attached to them but I'm not sure how these would be cataloged as the original printing(s) would still lack the ISBN.

As an example, the 1914 book "The Destruction Of Mephisto's Greatest Web" by H.K. James a non-fiction book about the various cons run by "confidence men" has recently been reprinted by Nabu Press and has been issued an ISBN, but the original text was never reprinted - as far as I can tell - and lacks an associated ISBN.

[vicki_girl]

Add the book using the following link:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/new

Fill in as many fields as you can (leaving the ISBN blank of course). Then post a link here in this group if it needs combined, e.g. with the Nabu Press edition.

[Cait]

In some cases facsimile reprints of these books exist that do have ISBN attached to them but I'm not sure how these would be cataloged as the original printing(s) would still lack the ISBN.

In that case there would be two edition records for the book: one for the original and one for the facsimile. The original's record would have no ISBN. The two editions would then be combined to show that they're editions of the same book.

[Rob]

Great! I'll see what I can do about chasing down the information on the reprints when I submit the originals for entry into the database..