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mdobson

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:48 am
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Hi All,

I seem to have found a book with a non-existent ISBN! Smile

Patricia D. Cornwell's "Body of Evidence"

ISBN 0-684-19240-5

The only mention I can find on the net is from some library's card
catalog (no price mentioned, natch'.)

Further Detail:
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Black DJ with bleeding heart

Charcoal boards with black backstrip and gold lettering

Listing of "books by the same author" --Postmortem

Published by:
--------------------
Charles Scribner's Sons (NY)
Collier MacMilln Canada (Toronto)
Maxwell Macmillan International (NY, Oxford, Singapore, Sydney)

Copyright 1991

Thanks,

Regards

Michael

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Allison Turner-

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:48 am
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on Fri, 20 Jan 2006 02:48:57 GMT, mdobson stated:
>
>Hi All,
>
>I seem to have found a book with a non-existent ISBN! Smile
>
>Patricia D. Cornwell's "Body of Evidence"
>
>ISBN 0-684-19240-5
>
>The only mention I can find on the net is from some library's card
>catalog (no price mentioned, natch'.)

Typo?

Try 0-684-19240-3

Scribner, 1990, first edition soft cover, according to
a listing in addall ... Oh, there are only two listings,
I think, and they both say ARC / Advanced reading copy.
$61 and 150.

Do publishers give different ISBNs to their ARCs? seems
like an odd thing to do.


-Allison

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mdobson

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 6:40 am
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On 19 Jan 2006 21:20:31 -0800, Allison Turner- <betonica RemoveThis @sover.net>
wrote:

>on Fri, 20 Jan 2006 02:48:57 GMT, mdobson stated:
>>
>>Hi All,
>>
>>I seem to have found a book with a non-existent ISBN! Smile
>>
>>Patricia D. Cornwell's "Body of Evidence"
>>
>>ISBN 0-684-19240-5
>>
>>The only mention I can find on the net is from some library's card
>>catalog (no price mentioned, natch'.)
>
>Typo?
>
>Try 0-684-19240-3
>
>Scribner, 1990, first edition soft cover, according to
>a listing in addall ... Oh, there are only two listings,
>I think, and they both say ARC / Advanced reading copy.
>$61 and 150.
>
>Do publishers give different ISBNs to their ARCs? seems
>like an odd thing to do.
>
>
>-Allison

I don't know. Do ARC's come in hardbacks?

Regards,

Michael
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John Machin

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:14 pm
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mdobson wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I seem to have found a book with a non-existent ISBN! Smile
>
> Patricia D. Cornwell's "Body of Evidence"
>
> ISBN 0-684-19240-5
>
> The only mention I can find on the net is from some library's card
> catalog (no price mentioned, natch'.)
>

That is not a valid ISBN (fails the check-digit test). Must be a
printing mistake. Amazon.com shows the "board back" edition as having
ISBN = 0684192403, which does pass the check-digit test.
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:14 pm
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On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:14:42 +1100, John Machin <sjmachin.DeleteThis@lexicon.net>
wrote:

>mdobson wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I seem to have found a book with a non-existent ISBN! Smile
>>
>> Patricia D. Cornwell's "Body of Evidence"
>>
>> ISBN 0-684-19240-5
>>
>> The only mention I can find on the net is from some library's card
>> catalog (no price mentioned, natch'.)
>>
>
>That is not a valid ISBN (fails the check-digit test). Must be a
>printing mistake. Amazon.com shows the "board back" edition as having
>ISBN = 0684192403, which does pass the check-digit test.


I can't be sure, John. It's the darndest thing I've ever seen (of the
two or three things I've seen so far...(lol)

The text on the inside of the jacket is written in one font, the ISBN
in another. And it ACTUALLY says "ISBN" in front of the numbers
(which, of course, had me scratching my head until you informed me of
the "check digits" website.

Regards,

Michael
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Mark Healey

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(Msg. 6) Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 2:46 am
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:20:31 -0800, Allison Turner- wrote:

> Do publishers give different ISBNs to their ARCs? seems
> like an odd thing to do.

Sometimes when they are doing the jacket design they don't know what the
ISBN will be so the just throw a random one there to be changed later.
Sometimes those jacket mock ups are used for the ARCs.

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Mark Healey
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