Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

Not sure whether you care or not again and didn't think I should add a new listing. But this book
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34...
was originally published in 1911 by the American Book Company as a hardcover. As it was published that early it doesn't have an ISBN. I figured I'd just use listing you already have to add it to my inventory but I thought I'd mention it since you don't have all the editions there. At the same time as my edition doesn't have an ISBN I'm not sure how you'd add it as an edition. Also I wasn't sure where to put this because it's not like it's some sort of major book issue. So I put it in Questions. Would you believe I found my copy at a rummage sale in a box some idiot left sitting on the wet grass? Found a bunch like that most of them really old books which were being treated like crap but anyway that really has nothing to do with this post, I was just venting. I just posted because I thought you should know.

I just want to make sure I understand correctly. You have the 1911 edition by the American Book Company in your hands and you want it added to the database? How many pages does it have? I think I can get the rest from the link you gave to manually add an edition. Except for the cover. Do you have a scanner and feel like scanning it in by any chance?

The only copyright date on the book I have is 1911 so I think it's a first edition. There's no other dates in the book. I can scan in the cover but there's really nothing on it. It's just a plain bluish black. Did you still want it scanned? I actually have a lot of books like this at the moment. Most of which I'm not planning to keep. Some lady wanted to get rid of them put them in a box on the grass the day after it rained, I paid a dollar for the box. Of course 80 percent of the books in the box were soaked and I'm trying to dry them at the moment. But the only copy right dates on most of the books are the early 1900s. And I acquired another box of Dickens books the week before in this lot of 150 books that I paid like $40.00 for where the only copy right date on them are in the 1800s. But again they were all damp and some were chewed up. I kept a couple but I'm planning to get rid of the rest, maybe someone that collects books will want them, I collect books only because of the contents being something I want to read not for possible values of them. I get really frustrated when I get them in conditions like the ones I just acquired. I save them from people that don't care and trade them to people who I hope will for something I do want to read. This particular one is one I'm keeping. It has 431 pages. I scanned all three but I don't know where to send the images. I made the front cover my current profile photo but I have a scan of the spine and back cover but I can only upload one photo to my profile.

I think I have another one. This is the book I think is the same
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63...

Here's the weird part on my copy the spine reads Virgil's Aeneid and Bucolics with Vocabulary then a line Greenough and Kittredge. The Title page reads PVBLI Vergili Maronis Aenis: Bvcolica: Georgica then a line The Greater Poems of Virgil Vol. I containing the first six books of The Aeneid edited by J.B. Greenough and G. L. Kittredge.

So I think it's the same book. I've scanned the cover but I have to wait until you get the one I just scanned before I can change my profile image. Mine is copyright 1895. Published by Ginn & Company I think it's a second edition because in the preface it talks about being a careful revision of the one published in 1882. It is 307 pages long and hardcover.

It's got the same title and editor as the one listed but there's is WAY longer for some reason but it still looks like the same book to me.

I think I have another one where I have a different edition of the same book.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50...

Mine is Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving illustrated by David Levine with an afterword by Clifton Fadiman. It was published in 1966 by The Macmillan Company. No ISBN, Library of Congress Catalog number 63-14833. 80 pages long. Hardcover. I have a scan but have to wait until you get the other from my profile to change it.

I uploaded all the cover images to the photos section of the group.

Sorry! Work interferes with my GR time! Check out History of American Literature and make sure everything looks okay.

Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Can another librarian look at The Greater Poems of Virgil, Volume I, please? I'm afraid to combine it with
Publi Vergili Maronis Bucolica; Aeneis; Georgica The Greater Poems Of Virgil V1. They do look the same, but there's about a 500 page difference in the page numbers. Also, I'm not sure how Virgil's name should be entered. Thanks!

Thanks for scanning your covers and answering my questions, Jenn. Let me know if I screwed something up.

YVW. I appreciate you fixing it for me. :) I applied for librarian status so I can start fixing some stuff myself, the things that I know how to do lol. I've been getting good at uploading cover images lol.

Jenn wrote: "I applied for librarian status"

And you were approved, too. :)

I'm fixing what I see as I find it while listing things. When I get through the massive stack of books I have here still to list, I'll go back through what's on there and make sure I've added what information I have on it if it's not there, but that may take me a while. Someday I will find the floor in my office again...

Welcome Jenn. Thanks for the help!