I chose to look at one of my favorite books from my childhood, and a series that is considered to be a gateway of sorts into fantasy: Eragon by Christopher Paolini. It also helps that part of my job is creating individual item records to match with a parent item for library cataloging, so this feels very familiar, as I mostly looked at the publishing information that libraries use for their Marc reord catologing.

Metadata:

  • Title: Eragon
  • Creators:
    • Author: Christopher Paolini
    • Item Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
    • Original Publisher: Paolini International, LLC
    • Jacket Illustration: John Jude Palencar
  • Date:
    • Published: August 2003
    • Original Text Copyright: 2002
  • Format: Hardcover Book
  • Description:
    • A hardcover book, with a dustjacket. The dustjacket is blue, and on the front includes a drawing of a blue dragon, with the text ERAGON in gold embossing. The back of the dustjacket includes bestseller lists, and quotes about the book from different sources. The book has 509 numbered pages, with some illustrations included. The book was published specifically for teens, and was placed in the categories: Fantasy, Dragons, and Fiction. It is the first book in the Inheritance cycle. The bibliographic summary of the book is as follows: “In Alagaësia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.”