The White House: An Historic Guide editions

My copy of The White House An Historic Guide is the 9th edition and features Richard and Patricia Nixon as the current President and First Lady. The Library of Congress number is 62-18058, but it does not have an ISBN listed in the book.

I'm curious if the LOC number or ISBN have changed with editions. I know the cover has changed, but has it changed with each edition? My cover looks very similar to the copies I have seen online with the first edition cover photo that was taken from the top of a D.C. Fire Department ladder truck.

Your entry says 2022. I don't think Nixon was president then. The LOC Number would indicate that it was published in (19)62 which also doesn't fit. ISBN started after 1970. Even in 1974 it wasn't anywhere near universal. If you care about your data being accurate, you could edit your entry to really match what you have.

Theoretically a new edition with noticable changes would get a new ISBN, but publishers often are less than careful about that. Covers can change separately from anything else.

>2 MarthaJeanne: Thank you! I'm new to LibraryThing and made my entry with a simple search. I will update it to be more accurate. The newest copyright in my copy is 1969, so I guess that helps us see that the LOC number wasn't always updated with new editions.

The best place for entering is on the add books page. OverCat is one of the best sources, but currently seems to only work for ISBNs.

Another tip: That bit about covers changing - if the publisher changes the cover for an ISBN, so will Amazon. If Amazon stops carrying it they will stop providing a cover. That also affects your cover on LT. Member covers are on LT servers, so they stay stable as long as anybody is using them. You are mostly using Amazon covers, so you might want to switch them.

BTW That work has 25 associated ISBNs, so updates are being given new numbers.

>4 MarthaJeanne: Is there a way to switch from Amazon to LT covers in bulk? I added everything on the add books page (mostly searching by title, but sometimes by scanning UPC), but only fussed with covers if it had the generic "no cover" in the My books page.

>5 jwindisch: No. How could there be? Many works, like this one have many different covers to chose from.

There is an account setting that lets you refuse all Amazon covers.

The White House Historical Society website says the first edition was published in 1962, and the ISBN of the most recent (2022, 26th) edition is 9781950273300
https://shop.whitehousehistory.org/collections/bookstore-books-and-journals/prod...