[OT, Semi-urgent] Someone here good with MLA format work documentation?

[Tsyr]

I know this is horridly off topic for this forum, and I am terribly sorry, but it's fairly urgent, and I know we have a few people around here that deal with stuff like this... I can't ask my prof., she's not in (and won't be until the paper is due tonight).

I'm trying to compile my "works cited/consulted" pages for my final paper, but I'm having trouble with one book... we are supposed to use MLA format whenever possible, and I just don't see how to work with this one.

The book is The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan, by Ivan Morris.

The only details the book has are, on the title page:

New York: Alfred A Knopf
1964

And then on the reverse side of that page:

L.C. catalog card number: 64-12310
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THIS BOOK IS A BORZOI BOOK,
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.
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Copyright (C) 1964 by Ivan Morris. All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form
without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a
reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review to be
printed in a magazine or newspaper. Manufactured in the
United States of America, and distributed by Random
House, Inc.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION

The book seems to have been published in london first, then later published in America. MLA has specific rules on how to handle a book that's not the original edition, but it doesn't cover "first import edition" anywhere that I can find...

Help! This thing is due in about 7 hours.

 

[shilsen]

Ignore the "first import edition" angle and just provide the year, if it is different to the original year of publication. Suppose it was first published in England in 1959, then it would be:

Morris, Ivan. The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan. 1964 ed. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1959.

If you don't have the info about when the original was produced, use the basic format:

Morris, Ivan. The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1964.

Unless your professor is unbelievably picky about formats, the latter should actually be just fine anyway.

 

[Tsyr]

Thank you!

 

[shilsen]

You're welcome. How often does one get to show off one's MLA format skills anyway ?