Hey y’all! As I’ve been growing my collection, I’ve been paying more notice to collecting certain editions or special covers on books. My concern, however, is that I truly don’t know what’s out there. Take Harry Potter for example. There’s been so many cool covers, and editions throughout the years!
Is there some way I can check all the different editions that have released for a book? Some resource perhaps that would list them all out? This would be so helpful!
by marctomato
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Goodreads and storygraph have lists of editions but they won’t necessarily have all the editions made. Probably just popular/recent ones.
If you use goodreads- look up the book, scroll beneath the synopsis, click on ‘Book details & editions’, more editions will show up and then underneath that select ‘show all [#] editions’. From there you can scroll through all the editions, sort by ratings and formats.
If you use storygraph- look up the book, underneath the title and author there’s a line with the information about pages, publication date- beside that select ‘(editions)’. From there you can scroll through and also filter by format.
for certain genres anyway:
[The Internet Speculative Fiction Database](https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi)
(*The ISFDB is a community effort to catalog works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. It links together various types of bibliographic data: author bibliographies, publication bibliographies, award listings, magazine content listings, anthology and collection content listings, and forthcoming books.*)
>Harry Potter for example
find author
– [Summary Bibliography: J. K. Rowling](https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?6304)
find book
– [Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone](https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?19763)
click the ‘View all covers for …’ link at bottom
example gallery
– [All Covers for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone](https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/titlecovers.cgi?19763)