The Two Albert Schweitzers (W-33)

A Second Schweitzer (W-33)

While it was not a common practice, Random House sometimes printed different editions of a title (by edition we mean another version in which the written content has been revised). These changes are not usually highlighted in any way, so the collector may not even know that two versions of a title exist. My Landmark Guide co-author Dan was doing some analysis of the Schweitzer volume (World Landmark 33) and he determined that Schweitzer is one of those cases. When this book was published in 1957, Albert Schweitzer was active in his charity work. Then in 1965 he died. Starting as early as March 1966 (Dan noted this in a Gibraltar Library edition of this title with micro-print information indicating a 12th printing in that month and year) the book was changed to add about a page worth's of new content relating to his death. So there are 2 distinct versions of this title, and if you are collector striving for completeness, you'll have to account for that. My personal opinion is that a change to written content is enough to require adding it a a distinct variant.

There are other oddities associated with Schweitzer. It is probably the only landmark in which a picture of the author is included. In one of the volume's photos, Anita Daniel is shown interviewing Albert, so she snuck in via the back door. Also the earlier printings of Schweitzer packed the photos together in a 12 page segment at the center of the book. Later these photos were not treated as a single unit but scattered throughout the volume. We haven't really spent a lot of time looking at photos for changes in layout or continuity (photos added to or deleted between printings), so that's an unknown aspect across the series.