Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

So I created a book because I couldn't find it anywhere.

Poems of William Blake

But I wasn't sure if we combine books with works selected by different people, since the contents will be different? ....or how exactly to list it. I did my best, but I didn't want to leave it out there without someone checking it over and possibly combining it with whichever collection it should be connected with.

There is no ISBN for the book and the only info I can find is inside the front it reads:

Poems of William Blake
Selected by Amelia H. Munson
Illustrations by William Blake

Then I found "Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 64-22542"on the LoC website, LCCN 64022542 brings up a different name for the book, but I think its the same book?

The back cover puts this book under a series:

The Crowell Poets
(under the editorship of Lillian Morrison)

Along with:

Poems of William Blake
selected by Amelia H. Munson

Poems of Robert Browning
selected by Rosemary Sprague

Poems of Stephen Crane
Selected by Gerald D. McDonald

Poems of Emily Dickinson
Selected by Helen Plotz

Poems of John Keats
Selected by Stanley Kunitz

Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Selected by Dwight Macdonald

Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Selected by Ruth Greiner Rausen

Poems of Walt Whitman
Selected by Lawrence Clark Powell

Poems of William Wordsworth
Selected by Elinor Parker

So I'm not sure what to do with this book. Anyone have time to clear it up for me? :D

Thank you!!

You cannot combine unless you know the contents of each book are the same. It is therefore a standalone edition.

It is helpful to list the poems in the description field otherwise it can never be combined.

It is possibly a series, it is definitely a collection. Definition for series is - every edition of the book must be part of the series; for collection - usually a publishers series, which this sounds like.

Doesn't look like you need to do anything else, except list the poems and list Amelia as "selected by", otherwise it looks like she wrote the poems.

Ok thanks. I wasn't sure what I should tag her as, "selected by" or "compiler." I looked at the list and it doesn't seem like there is a standard set for that one. There is a 9 page intro by her as well, does that matter?

I'll add the poems now. Thanks again

No, I wouldn't bother listing her twice ie once as Selected By and 2nd as Foreward By. Seems redundant.