Talk:Karen Wynn Fonstad

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ISBNs[edit]

Note to self (or any other interested party :-): look up the actual name for each book and add in ISBNs. Phil 16:11, Dec 3, 2003 (UTC)

Eight years later the listed titles, dates, and ISBN for all six Atlases (two for Middle-earth) now match the first edition data provided by Karen Wynn Fonstad at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. --P64 (talk) 22:00, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wow! Better late than never... 129.33.19.254 (talk) 15:11, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Editions of The Atlas of Middle-earth[edit]

Two anonymous revisions of this biography today 2013-07-31 change the reference in our brief annotation for the 1981 edition to Tolkien's legendarium from The Lord of the Rings. (compare versions)

The latter is true of the 1991 fully reworked edition. Certainly the 1981 covers more than LOTR. Given my current knowledge, for the first edition I would say tHobbit, tLotR, and tSilmarillion.

Examination is not for me. I consulted a local university library catalog (first edition Missing; presum. stolen) and local public library network catalog (impossible to search by edition or publ date).
WorldCat library records give a list of contents for the revised edition only (WorldCat: Formats and editions of The Atlas).
Checking the Library of Congress online catalog (now one External link indirectly) as well as WorldCat, I did not find any summary of the first edition such as this for the revised: "Find your way through every part of Tolkien's great creation from Middle-Earth to the undying lands of the west. Completely revised ..." (WorldCat: Revised ed., one catalog record with Summary and lengthy list of Contents).
Ext link LC Catalog does have records for two version-editions of the 1991 Revised edition. (Its seven records for Fonstad cover only the five atlases of fictional worlds.) No explanation, no difference but ISBN (and one price is missing). Hardcover and paperback, maybe, but it's unusual for LC to hold paperback eds.

Translations

WorldCat Formats and editions [2] identifies English, German and Spanish-language editions only, but WorldCat: KW Fonstad lists Czech and Japanese editions also. And Spanish eds. of the Forgotten Worlds and Dragonlance atlases.

Book article

Our article The Atlas of Middle-earth suffers from mixing editions in the {{infobox book}}. I will be happy to give that attention if I know more about the first edition scope [same as revised?] and nature of its re-working.

--P64 (talk) 00:15, 1 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]