A question for all you rogue librarians

[kestrell]

Is there a way to tell if these are an older and newer edition of the same text, or whether the newer text has been changed from that of the older edition?

1. _The School of Peter Abelard: The Influence of Abelard's Thought in the Early Scholastic Period_
by D. E. Luscombe (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: New Series)
Publication date: October 2008
ISBN: 97805210888a24

http://www.amazon.com/The-School-Peter-Abelard-Scholastic/dp/0521088828/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=1I7K4AKE6CO1B&coliid=I1JDHLUTEO5FN3

2. Same title, same author, same series, but different publication date and ISBN
Publication Date: July 1, 1969
ISBN-10: 0521073375 ISBN-13: 978-0521073370

http://www.amazon.com/The-School-Peter-Abelard-Scholastic/dp/0521073375/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=1I7K4AKE6CO1B&coliid=I32G10YGABUAPK

Comments

[stormsdotter]

A new ISBN indicates a new edition of the book. (I'm putting various editions of books in my research library into a searchable Excel spreadsheet for the next few weeks.)

If you want to know what changed, you'd have to contact the publishing house and ask for the book's editor. I know what tends to change in k-12 textbooks, but not full scholarly publications.

Also, I couldn't reply to your post on LJ because LJ is claiming I'm not one of your friends. Huh?

[kestrell]

Thank you for the info about editions. Also, I went friends-only on LJ a few months ago in order to decrease the amount of spam I was getting, but LJ has also made finding my friends page more complicated, so I'm still catching up on adding people. I believe I have successfully added you to my LJ friends list now.

[stormsdotter]

I completely understand. LJ has gotten more and more annoying as the years go by.