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July 9, 2020 | History

Works and editions

Field assignments for Works and Editions

Work fields / Edition fields / both

Field Example (Description)
source_record_loc "marc_records_scriblio_net/part01.dat:29834:543" (a locator for the source record data)
source_record_id "LC:DLC:00000006" (a record identifier that is globally unique and that also can be constructed consistently from the contents of a record and an identifier for its source catalog)
author_identifier "Twain, Mark, 1835-1910" (unique author id in some catalog)
contributions "Illustrated by: Steve Bjorkman"
title "The adventures of Tom Sawyer"
subtitle "a play in three acts"
by_statement "Herman Melville ; [illustrated by Barry Moser]"
other_titles "Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
work_title (The 240 "work title" is used in the OCLC FRBR algorithm. The 130 is also used, and there should be either a 130 or a 240 in a record, but not both. It would be ideal if we could pick up either for the work title.)
edition "2nd. editon" (information about this edition)
publisher "W. W. Norton & Co."
publish_place "New York"
publish_date "2006"
pagination "viii, 383 p. :" (full pagination information)
number_of_pages 383 (largest decimal found)
subjects "Runaway children -- Fiction"
genre "Biography"
series "Oxford world's classics"
language "ISO: tel" (coded or human-readable description of the text's language)
physical_format
notes
description
exerpts
table_of_contents
cover_image Up to n cover images, preferably selecting earliest publications
scan_contributor
scan_sponsor
dewey_number "914.3"
LC_classification "BJ1533.C4 L49"
ISBN "9780393926033" (13-digit ISBN)
UCC_13
UPC
ISMN
DOI
LCCN "2006285320"
GTIN_14
oca_identifier "albertgallatinja00stevrich"

Here is an example, a work and two editions:

WORK

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
The adventures of Tom Sawyer
Subjects:
Mississippi River Valley -- Fiction.
Runaway children -- Fiction.
Child witnesses -- Fiction.
Missouri -- Fiction.
Boys -- Fiction.
Children’s stories.
Adventure fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Bildungsromans.

First line: "Tom!"

Description: From the famous episodes of the whitewashed fence and the ordeal in the cave to the trial of Injun Joe, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is redolent of life in the Mississippi River towns in which Twain spent his own youth. A somber undercurrent flows through the high humor and unabashed nostalgia of the novel, however, for beneath the innocence of childhood lie the inequities of adult reality—base emotions and superstitions, murder and revenge, starvation and slavery. In his introduction, noted Twain scholar John Seelye considers Twain’s impact on American letters and discusses the balance between humorous escapades and serious concern that is found in much of Twain’s writing.

EDITION #1

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
The adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain ; edited with an introduction and notes by Peter Stoneley.

Edition: New ed.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
xxxvii, 207 p. ; 20 cm.
Series: Oxford world’s classics
Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxviii]-xxxii)
LCCN: 2006030358
ISBN: 9780192806826
Language: English
Contributions: Stoneley, Peter.

EDITION #2

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
The adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain

Edition: 1st Vintage Books
Publisher:New York : Vintage Books/the Library of America, 1991.
xx, 230 p. ; 20 cm.
Series: Oxford world’s classics
Note: "Originally published in hardcover,in somewhat different form, by the Library of America, in 1982. Guy Cardwell wrote the notes and selected the text for this volume."
LCCN: 90050669
ISBN: 067935011
Language: English
Contributions: Cardwell, Guy, 1905-.

History

July 9, 2020 Edited by Lisa changed color of TOC as it is now on the edition
September 1, 2009 Edited by Karen Coyle Edited without comment.
September 1, 2009 Edited by Karen Coyle Edited without comment.
September 1, 2009 Edited by Karen Coyle Edited without comment.
August 17, 2008 Created by Karen Coyle Edited without comment.