Talk:The Adventures of Mabel

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Changed article to make it slightly less horrifically POV, taking out the publication dates (not encyclopedic, why include them unless they're important? If they are reinstate them and say why. No (or very, very few) other books have detailed publication dates. Also removed the POV stuff at the end about how great the sequel is. Maybe it is, but that's not the point. The article still needs cleaning up, it's quite disorganised and the stuff about first edition books seems a bit POV, but since I don't know anything about it I didn't change it. Inebriatedonkey 10:56, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

The relevance of the publication history previously provided was to eliminate any confusion about what constitutes a First Edition. This was intended to respond to many cases of unscrupulous on-line booksellers attempting to extract First Edition prices for editions that are anything but First Edition. Further, the author, as stated in the entry, was VERY specific about which illustrations were "authorized" and what types of illustrations were otherwise unacceptable. Attempting to sell a late edition with unathorized illustrations under the banner of First Edition may be acceptable to some, but a person who wishes to purchases a copy of this book should have access to a definitive source for determining the authenticity of these claims.

Suggest Inebriated DOnkey restore the publication history.

Just to really drive my point home, consider the following two entries from AddAll.com:

Entry: 6 The Adventures Of Mabel[Buy it!]

[match this title] Harry Thurston Peck 201.25 Abebooks Prince and the Pauper Children's Books New York Graphic Society Hardcover Dust Jacket Has Been Removed. A Facsimile Edition Of The Original Published In 1896, This Is The Charming Story Of A Five-Year-Old Girl Who Does A Favor For The King Of The Lizards. In Return She Receives A Wonderful Gift - A Call That Makes All Animals Treat Her Kindly And The Ability To Speak To And Understand Them. [San Diego, CA, U.S.A.]

Entry: 19 Adventures of Mabel[Buy it!]

[match this title] Pyke, Rafford 100.00 Abebooks Dogtown Book Shop Dodd, Mead 1897 [published date: 1897] Hardcover 8vo, brown pictorial cloth, 1st ed., dampstained throughout, fr. Hinge cracked, boards soiled, Fair/-. Unusual illustratons by Melanie Elisabeth Norton. [Gloucester, MA, U.S.A.]

Entry 6 is asking over $200 for a book claiming to be be a "Facsimile Edition of the Original Published in 1896". This is an incorrect claim!

Entry 19, although it is in sorry condition, is a real First Edition. $100 may be a fair price to pay.

--Dtkokovoko 20:03, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for the Original Research
Have tried to eliminate speculation and what would seem to be logical conclusions from the text, and have tried to provide only verifiable facts. Don't have a lot of experience writing articles for Wikipedia, but I thought an extensive collection of primary sources and primary research might be of some value to someone. Hope these changes will help you take the page out of the penalty box!

Won't submit any more entries. Good luck with the project! (Dtkokovoko 20:53, 23 August 2007 (UTC))

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 13:48, 9 November 2007 (UTC)