Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

Greetings,

As I'm not able to make corrections to existing entries, I was hoping someone might be able to assist me.

For the following entry, could someone change 'First Edition' to 'First U.S. Edition'? This is found on the copyright page.

And for this entry, the following changes/additions need to be made:
-Page count: 278 pages (various sites list 277 pages, but on the reverse page there's one final page for the index).
-Published by 'Alfred A. Knopf Canada' (this is how it's displayed on the title/copyright pages.
-The comment for the 1999 date should be 'First Edition'.
-Author added: Martin McLaughlin (Translator)
-Author added: Esther Calvino (Preface)

I'm new to the site, so I'm hoping this was the correct forum to make these sorts of amendments.

Thank-you

Yes, this is the right place and I took care of these for you.

Thanks. Though would you be able to remove the double brackets from 'translator' and 'preface' from here?

Also, for this entry, the following changes/additions need to be made.
-Author 'Arthur Waley' added with roles 'Translator / Editor'. He also wrote a critical introduction, but I'm not sure how many roles one should add to an author.
-I would remove both the publication date of 1994 and the original publication date of 1977. I have this edition of the book, and the only publication copyright date is 1958. Even at the publisher's homepage, they don't list any other date than 1958.

I took care of the parentheses.

For the second one, are you sure that is the right edition? It looks more modern to me. I added Waley as editor & translator but left out the introduction. Editors frequently write introductions so I think it's just kind of a given.

Yes, it's the same edition (isbn: 0802150853). And you're right, it does seem like it's a newer edition; but there's no new copyright date in the book (You can search Amazon's copy here.) At Amazon, they list the 1994 copyright date under the 'Product Details' section, but I'm not certain where this is from since the publisher themselves don't list this date on the product page. I checked the Library of Congress catalogue number but they also just list the 1958 copyright. I noticed it's listed as a 'UNESCO' work so I checked their site and noticed that they list a 1968 reprinting by one 'Allen & Unwin'. However, I checked this publisher's site and they don't list the title, so this particular 1968 edition is probably out of print.

Having said all that, I'd probably leave the copyright date as 1958 only, unless some other information comes to light.