Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

World War III: The United States Of America VS China And Russia
https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Wo...

China War: The Looming Global Conflict Between the United States and China — And Its Potential to Spark World War III
https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8...

The Search for the Tomb of Jesus
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Done - the first two.

Are you sure the last two are the same book? The Search for the Tomb of Jesus is shorter than The Search for the Authentic Tomb of Jesus (and one edition of this has a published date of 1961).

Hi Greg, sorry for the delay. I had to do some additional research.

You said that one edition of The Search for the Authentic Tomb of Jesus has a published date of 1961. Right, but if you look at the cover of that edition, the cover title is Search for the Tomb of Jesus, and it has the same cover as the paperback copies (all of which have the shorter title, Search for the Tomb of Jesus).

I think that the 1961 edition should have been recorded with the shorter title (as per its cover), but it appears with the same discrepancy in other places too:

Archive.org has the Third printing (1981) of the paperback:
https://archive.org/details/searchfor...

As you can see, the title is recorded as "The search for the authentic tomb of Jesus" (directly underneath the pdf), but lower down it adds "Cover title: The search for the tomb of Jesus", and you can see the scanned cover on the pdf.

The goodreads record for the 1961 edition doesn't say how many pages it is, but I see that both of the editions that show 200 pages are hardcovers, and the ones with 132 pages are paperbacks.

Tomb editions: https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...

Authentic Tomb editions: https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...

I know the hardcover versions of books always have more pages than their paperback versions, so I thought it was just the normal difference in formatting... but I wanted to see both versions myself and double check.

The hardcover (Authentic Tomb) is kind of hard to track down, but I was able to get this photo from a rare book seller: https://drive.proton.me/urls/3YP6BK6Y...

The first five chapters are the same as in the shorter book (compare with table of contents in the pdf on Archive.org), there's a new chapter inserted as chapt 6, the next five chapters are the same in both, and then there are three additional chapters and a conclusion in the longer book.

So basically, Search for the Authentic Tomb is an expanded edition of Search for the Tomb... I don't know if goodreads considers expanded editions to be the same book or a different book. If they are different books, then the 1961 edition should get moved over to the other listing. In any case, it should have its title corrected to match the cover, since it doesn't have the added chapters and might confuse people. Same for the "Unknown Binding" with 132 pages published in 1981. That's the Third printing of the paperback (the one on Archive.org); it should have the shorter title.

The expanded edition seems to only have had a single printing in 1975, in harcover only.

Done - combined and corrected the titles on those two editions.

Thanks for the detailed information.

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Thanks!