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The description on this particular edition of Don't Look Now is incorrect. The proper description is as follows (taken directly from the book):

A pair of grief-stricken parents and a strange set of psychic sisters whose vision of future tragedy goes unrecognized; a young girl who attempts to fulfill her dead father’s wishes and thereby discovers the horrifying truth about her own past; an engineer who becomes involved in an experiment that seeks to answer the question of Death and the ultimate force of Life�

These are some of the characters whose strange adventures unfold with gripping suspense in this collection of five new tales by Daphne du Maurier. Chilling and compelling, all of the stories contain elements of mystery, and some of them touch on the supernatural in very real and frightening ways. And together they represent Daphne du Maurier at her very best—full of intricately woven drama and shattering surprise endings.

I also believe this edition has had the wrong ISBN assigned to it. I have a copy of this edition in my hands right now from the library, and there is no ISBN number anywhere within it. I also cannot find any solid evidence to link the listed ISBN number on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ to this specific edition.

Two-week bump.

Another two weeks have passed, so I'm bumping again.

As an addition to my original post, the current description should be changed not just because it is incorrect but also because it is written very clumsily and contains spoilers for the titular story while not describing any other aspect of the book.

Updated the description.

I can't find a lot of info on the ISBN either, except that it does seem to belong to some edition of this book. Could the edition you have be, e.g., this one, which has the same cover but no ISBN assigned?

Liralen wrote: "Updated the description.

I can't find a lot of info on the ISBN either, except that it does seem to belong to some edition of this book. Could the edition you have be, e.g., this one, which has th..."

It seems like it might be - I don't have the book right now but I'll take a second look when I go into work at the library this afternoon.

Assuming the hardcover you linked isn't a duplicate entry, should it be marked as an ACE of the one I posted in the OP?

Thank you so much for all your help with this.

Drace wrote: "Assuming the hardcover you linked isn't a duplicate entry, should it be marked as an ACE of the one I posted in the OP?"

It's possible that it's either a duplicate or an ACE (maybe not an ACE, since the covers do appear to be the same), but in the absence of more info, safer to leave as is unless someone finds definitive proof of either.

Liralen wrote: "Drace wrote: "Assuming the hardcover you linked isn't a duplicate entry, should it be marked as an ACE of the one I posted in the OP?"

It's possible that it's either a duplicate or an ACE (maybe n..."

Took another look at the copy in the library. No sign of an ISBN at all. However, I did some Googling, and it seems like the ISBN number that's causing us confusion is an edition published by G.K. Hall, whereas this edition was published by Doubleday.

I'll leave it up to you if you want to try to move the ISBN, but I did notice a new issue while doing research. Could you please set the publication dates for both the edition you linked and the one I linked to 1971? They're currently incorrect.

Librarians no longer have the power to change ISBNs, and I'd be reluctant to anyway - not enough information about why the current information is listed as it is. (It's a combination of auto-import and several-years-old librarian edits, and I have no way of knowing whether whoever changed things before had a physical copy/more info than Amazon and WorldCat.)

I'm not sure that there isn't some edition conflation (predating this thread!) going on. If another librarian would like to weigh in about whether to edit things like page count - current page count is very different from Amazon/WorldCat - I'm all ears.

Where are you getting 1971? Amazon and WorldCat both list 1972 for ISBN 9780816160198.

Liralen wrote: "Librarians no longer have the power to change ISBNs, and I'd be reluctant to anyway - not enough information about why the current information is listed as it is. (It's a combination of auto-import..."

This involves personal research of varying degrees, so I apologize for the upcoming infodump, and I thank you for bearing with me. I'm not sure how much of this is going to be admissible in the final decision, and I understand if none of it counts due to Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ policy.

First: the inside of the book itself lists 1971 as its copyright date. This is the accurate year of original publication- I did some digging, and both Wikipedia and the American Library of Congress say that 1971 was the original year of publication for Don't Look Now. Other people posting images of this specific edition online on bookselling sites also all confirm that it is a first edition.

Additionally, my research has shown that the ISBN 9780816160198 is not associated with the actual first edition of the book it's linked on. Amazon and Worldcat list that ISBN as being connected to an edition published by G.K. Hall. The edition(s) we're dealing with here are first editions (even beyond the copyright date in the front, if you look up entries of people selling first edition copies of Don't Look Now on ebay and the like, they all have the cover art listed on the two entries discussed in this thread), and the first edition American copy of the book was published by Doubleday, not G.K. Hall. Furthermore, by using Worldcat to visit catalog websites for libraries that do have a copy of the G.K. Hall edition in their stacks, I found that every single one of them specifically notes that the G.K. Hall edition is a large print edition with 531 pages (Amazon and Worldcat also list 531 pages as the page count). The editions discussed in this thread are absolutely not large print. I've held my library's copy in my hands, and it is only 303 pages and the typeface is far too small to be large print.

With all this said, I think what needs to be done regarding these editions is that the two editions discussed/linked in this thread need to be combined, have their ISBN removed, and have the publication date set to 1971 to reflect that it is a first edition copy, and the ISBN number 9780816160198 should be given a new edition page with the G.K. Hall large print edition's information.