Four Little Puppies

I hope this is the right place to post this. Even though I've had an account here since 2005, I've only just started using it so I'm still pretty new.

Four Little Puppies currently carries the disambiguation notice:
This book was published in 1935 by Rand McNally under the authorship of photographer Harry Whittier Frees. A 1983 reprint stripped Frees's name from the work. Please add this book from this work only.

I do not have access to the 1935 edition to check (though I have seen it and know it to be the same book), but I do have a 1957 edition, also published by Rand McNally. That edition says that it is "by Ruth Dixon; photographs by Harry Whittier Frees."

So I think the disambiguation notice may be erroneous.

Possibly. Since I don't actually know the work I'm puzzled. Using search I do see other "Four Little Puppies" titles though.

I don't even understand what this part is supposed to mean:

Please add this book from this work only.

Anyone?

Just guessing it's an attempt to get that type of author info to prevail. If so: seems silly to me.

P.s.: But yes, I would certainly take out that part of the disambiguation notice.

Okay, I have removed that part and added a note about Ruth Dixon. I am sure but not certain that the two books are the same -- I have seen the 1935 edition, but it has been forty years since I've read it, so there could have been textual changes between 1935 and 1957. If anyone who's reading this has a copy of the 1935 edition, perhaps we could compare texts.

Okay, but please remember the books need to be substantially different to warrant keeping them separated. Slight textual variations don't cut it.

After 40 years the puppies would have to be different, is that substantial enough?

#7 The 40 years is not the reason for combining or not combining. Are the words completely re-written? (Illustrations and photographs usually don't count here.)

Or is there substantially more material - is the pagination more than just a 1 or 2 page difference? 140 pages versus 300 pages really does make a difference. A few pages doesn't.

Mmm, I get it, I forgot to add an emoticon for irony. ;)

#9 Sorry about that - I was working on separating and recombining; that's enough to boggle the brain!

Okay, I'll go ahead and try to merge the records. The photographs are the same, and the text is similar if not the same. I just didn't want to offend whoever had made the original disambiguation notice, though I think it likely that he or she only wanted to be sure Frees received proper credit.

Actually, someone seems to have beaten me to the merger. Thanks, whoever did that!