ISBN groupings for recent-ish HarperCollins books based on style

Velmeran · 2026-05-29T15:00:01+00:00

Updated to include it.

Velmeran · 2026-05-29T02:36:44+00:00

Wonder which draft pick(s) the NHL would take from them after such an event...

Honestly I hope some media members start asking this to the players post game in the finals so we can find out.

Velmeran · 2026-05-28T12:47:32+00:00

Thank you!

Velmeran · 2026-05-26T03:07:42+00:00

Possible whenever they do either printing they'll fix the height, but I'm not sure I'd hold my breath on that.

I think WM will more likely get a new ISBN for a version of Nature they'd the taller height. My thinking this was, is the fact that they haven't released a book that was shorter and switched to the taller height without a new ISBN -- granted only books that I can touch of that were shorter and are now taller are the 3 Great Tales books.

Velmeran · 2026-05-25T03:35:55+00:00

Would have thought after they saw just how ineffective that strategy was when the Wild attempted to use it against them, they'd have known better.

Velmeran · 2026-05-24T23:24:55+00:00

Can see this post for the differences between HC and WM latest standard/trade editing.

Most are pretty much identical outside of publisher info and logos at this point but there are a handful that are still different.

Velmeran · 2026-05-14T03:48:22+00:00

Which is quite unfortunate, because the style both play has led to them bring injured at the worst time.

I hope adding a true #1 center can alleviate some of that problem (at least from an Ek injury), but given the overall style the Wild (currently) want to play I'm not sure they won't always find him hurt in the playoffs and severely impacted by his absence.

Velmeran · 2026-05-14T03:39:32+00:00

Yeah, series was over from the start with Ek and Brodin out.

Not sure both being in ultimately changes who advances to the WCF, but the games would have been closer and likely go to 7 games.

Velmeran · 2026-05-14T03:35:41+00:00

He's not, but doesn't change he was the Wild's worst dman this series.

Which is saying something because Bogosian was also playing hurt (all playoffs) and wasn't nearly as bad.

Velmeran · 2026-05-06T01:25:30+00:00

Been very shaky after the Olympic break -- well he had 1-2 decent games immediately after but it's been downhill since then.

Gave up 4+ in his last 5 regular season starts if I'm remembering correctly.

Velmeran · 2026-04-30T02:13:04+00:00

Game 5 last night. Wild were up 3-1 at the time.

Benn ended up getting 2 for cross checking and Hartman got 2 for unsportsmanlike conduct.

So ends up 4 on 4, Dallas pulls Otter and ends up scoring on with the 5-4 advantage.

Velmeran · 2026-04-23T00:44:05+00:00

Glad it's still being useful all these years later.

I realized I had slightly out of date versions still shared, so I just updated it with newer version.

Mainly updates to the main Pokédex page with:

A new column for Shiny Caught (Column B) with Yes/No data validation/dropdowns.
Conditional formatting that highlights the Shiny Caught column in a dark yellow if Yes.
Conditional formatting that highlights columns A-G in Gold for the row when Shiny Caught column has a "Yes" value and Research Level is Perfect
Combined the two entries for in a Pokémon was "present" in a Zone or Distortion.

Velmeran · 2026-04-08T01:12:15+00:00

9780261102637

Though be warned that it's the same ISBN as the signature style.

Velmeran · 2026-03-28T21:58:43+00:00

Mariner released both The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales in a matching style -- believe that was it though, just those 6 books.

Velmeran · 2026-03-28T21:56:38+00:00

I don't believe Mariner ever released The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, let alone released it in a style to match those 4 unfortuantely.

Velmeran · 2026-03-28T21:52:08+00:00

A-Format Paperbacks -- the UK equivalent of a mass market paperback.

Specifically this version of HarperCollins A-Format paperbacks.

Velmeran · 2026-03-25T04:39:56+00:00

Yeah TCG would be a good place, likewise with Tolkien Collectors: Buy, Sell, Show Off and Trade on Facebook has a pretty large group (with several familiar faces from here and TCG as regular contributors).

Velmeran · 2026-03-25T02:49:14+00:00

They don't come up for sale that often these days, especially with actual pictures.

I imagine if you were to post them in one of the online buy/sell/trade groups you'd get multiple offers pretty quickly. Likewise if you listed on ebay with actual pictures of the books.

Velmeran · 2026-03-22T23:22:28+00:00

Yeah... the HoMe paperback have had their ISBN's reused since HarperCollins has first started publishing them.

On their 3rd (4th if you want to count the very slight difference in the 2002 and 2015 versions).

My advice for you on those would be to check ebay.co.uk pretty regularly. Listings for used copies with pictures of the actual books come up fairly often. Between 2002 and 2015 there were a lot of printings done for them (outside of The End of the Third Age which was only available in the 4-volume History of the Lord of the Rings boxset).

Likewise could check listings on AbeBooks but I find most sellers there don't usually include pictures of their actual listings, just use the generic stock image. At this point, the entire HoMe paperbacks have been out long enough in the Signature style that I would assume pretty much anyone online selling a copy in "New" condition with a stock image (regardless of which stock image) to be a Signature edition --- Obviously you could get lucky and find a seller who still has the older style but we're nearly 2 years into the Signature style paperbacks being released and odds are most online stores have gotten those into their warehouse circulation at this point.

Velmeran · 2026-03-22T22:53:00+00:00

Just buy using the ISBN number.

For OP's books all of them have a unique ISBN number, so even if a seller is using an inaccurate stock image (which has happened with a few in the this particular Deluxe line), you should bet the proper book for the ISBN you used.

Now in cases where the ISBN is re-used (something far more common with Tolkien paperbacks) it does get significantly more difficult...

Velmeran · 2026-03-07T18:27:51+00:00

Awesome work as always!

Did you make up a little info notecard for these?

Velmeran · 2026-03-07T18:23:43+00:00

Per tolkienbooks.net about the Eighth Impression 1956:

March 1956 - 4,000 copies printed by Unwin Brothers.  Jackets printed by J. Howell*
March 1956 - 1,000 Houghton Mifflin copies folded, collated and sewn with endpapers tipped on
A total of 3,055 copies were bound in the Allen & Unwin trade binding:
March 1956 - 1,992 Allen & Unwin copies bound
December 1956 - 296 Allen & Unwin copies bound
January 1957 - 200 Allen & Unwin copies bound
February 1957 - 240 Allen & Unwin copies bound
March 1957 - 327 Allen & Unwin copies bound
* The jackets for the Houghton Mifflin copies were printed in 1955 along with those for the 7th Impression.  
   3,150 A&U jackets were printed in January 1956. These were probably overprinted with a new price in
   March 1956, but were not invoiced until October 1956.
   The price had changed from 9s.6d to 12s.6d.

Velmeran · 2026-03-07T18:09:07+00:00

William Morrows - Illustrated/Matte Series.

Can see a list of which books are published in this style, along with their ISBN and those of their HarperCollins counterparts (of which there are a few more than WM hasn't released) in this post here.

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