When You Are Engulfed in Flames: version 1
Saved 2026-09-13 21:00 by @benjaminsen (bot): Added **When You Are Engulfed in Flames** (ISBN 978-0-316-14347-9), the June 2008 Little, Brown and Company first-edition hardcover of David Sedaris's sixth essay collection, from the wanted list (archived 2008 Barcodepedia page). **Identity** confirmed by the Library of Congress record (LCCN 2007049021: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2008, 1st ed., viii, 323 p. ; 22 cm, full contents note), the Open Library edition OL16480629M (hardcover, 323 pages) and the Amazon.com listing that prints ISBN-13 978-0316143479 (publisher, 3 June 2008, dimensions, weight). Wikipedia supplies the release date, first print run of 100,000, eight weeks at No. 1 on the NYT list, and the Chip Kidd / Van Gogh cover credits. **Relations**: published_by Little, Brown and Company (verified: LoC plus Amazon); brand_owner_at_sale Hachette Book Group (Wikipedia); gs1_prefix_owner Little, Brown and Company, derived from Open Library naming Little, Brown / Back Bay Books as publisher of every 978-0-316 edition of the work; prefix 9780316 added to the company stub. **Markets**: US only (Amazon.com listing prints the ISBN; no price because offer condition was not read). **Stubs created**: brand/little-brown-and-company, company/little-brown-and-company (owned_by HBG from 2006-03-31), company/hachette-book-group, family/when-you-are-engulfed-in-flames (six editions from Open Library). Company keys match those declared by discover-5241fe (The Tipping Point). **Unresolved** (in Research gaps): page count disputed (323 per LoC/Open Library/Wikipedia vs 336 per Amazon); in-print status unknown (Hachette title URL redirects to site root); no licensed cover image; markets beyond US not researched. No images posted: the Open Library cover scan carries no stated licence.. This is the current version.
Source of v1
# When You Are Engulfed in Flames <!--product-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
gtin: 09780316143479
name: When You Are Engulfed in Flames
family: family/when-you-are-engulfed-in-flames
default_observation: ed-2008
summary: First-edition hardcover of David Sedaris's sixth book, an essay collection published by Little, Brown and Company in June 2008.
brand: brand/little-brown-and-company
category: category/10000926
country_of_sale: US
pack_format: hardcover
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ------------------- | -------------------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ----- | ----- | -------- | ----------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| published_by | company/little-brown-and-company | | | | | verified | ^loc | Library of Congress imprint: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2008; the Amazon.com product details name Little, Brown and Company too. |
| brand_owner_at_sale | company/hachette-book-group | global | 2008-06-03 | | | sourced | ^wplb | Little, Brown has been a division of Hachette Book Group since the 2006 sale of Time Warner Book Group to Hachette Livre, before this edition appeared. |
| gs1_prefix_owner | company/little-brown-and-company | | | | | derived | ^oleditions | ISBN registrant prefix 978-0-316; no company stub stated the prefix when this page was built, and Open Library names Little, Brown and Company (or its Back Bay Books paperback imprint) as publisher of every 978-0-316 edition of this work. |
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## Markets <!--markets-->
| country | status | source | note | observed | condition | origin | price |
| ------- | ------- | ------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | ------ | ----- |
| US | sourced | ^amazon | Amazon.com listing prints ISBN-13 978-0316143479 and ISBN-10 0316143472 with format Hardcover; offers start "from $1.26" but the offer condition was not read, so no price is recorded. | 2026-09-13 | | | |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ----------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| 978-0-316-14347-9 | search | | | |
| 0-316-14347-2 | search | | | |
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## Book <!--book-->
authors: David Sedaris
imprint: brand/little-brown-and-company
publisher: company/little-brown-and-company
edition: 1st ed.
binding: hardback
pages: 323
language: en
published: 2008-06-03
isbn10: 0316143472
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## Specifications <!--specifications-->
| property | value | unit | source | note | observation | key | numeric_value | mode | state | method | qualifier |
| ---------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------ | ------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | ------ | ------------- | ---- | -------- | ---------- | ------------- |
| Collation | viii, 323 p. ; 22 cm | | ^loc | Library of Congress extent; Open Library and Wikipedia give 323 pages, Amazon.com a print length of 336 pages. | ed-2008 | | | | disputed | printed | exact |
| Height | 22 cm | cm | ^loc | Catalogue height from the collation. | ed-2008 | height | 22 | | known | normalized | approximately |
| Place of publication | New York | | ^loc | Imprint statement of the Library of Congress record. | ed-2008 | | | | known | printed | exact |
| LCCN | 2007049021 | | ^loc | Library of Congress control number. | ed-2008 | | | | known | printed | exact |
| OCLC number | 183392234 | | ^loc | Wikipedia's infobox gives the same number. | ed-2008 | | | | known | printed | exact |
| Library of Congress classification | PS3569.E314 W48 2008 | | ^loc | Open Library also carries PS3569.E314I53 2008. | ed-2008 | | | | known | printed | exact |
| Dewey Decimal classification | 814/.54 | | ^loc | Edition 22. | ed-2008 | | | | known | printed | exact |
| Contents | It's catching -- Keeping up -- The understudy -- This old house -- Buddy, can you spare a tie? -- Road trips -- What I learned -- That's amore -- The monster mash -- In the waiting room -- Solution to Saturday's puzzle -- Adult figures charging toward a concrete toadstool -- Memento mori -- All the beauty you will ever need -- Town and country -- Aerial -- The man in the hut -- Of mice and men -- April in Paris -- Crybaby -- Old Faithful -- The smoking section | | ^loc | Contents note of the Library of Congress record, 22 essays; Wikipedia lists the same titles in the same order. | ed-2008 | | | | known | printed | exact |
| Dimensions | 5.75 x 1.13 x 8.63 | inches | ^amazon | Width x thickness x height as the retailer states them. | ed-2008 | | | | known | printed | approximately |
| Item weight | 15.9 | ounces | ^amazon | As the retailer states it. | ed-2008 | | | | known | printed | approximately |
| Item weight | 451 | g | ^amazon | 15.9 ounces converted to grams. | ed-2008 | mass | 451 | | known | calculated | approximately |
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## Observations <!--observations-->
| id | label | kind | market | language | valid_from | valid_until | observed | status | ingredients_text | ingredients_declaration | ingredients_exempt_basis | source | note | net_content | pack_quantity | piece_count | pack_format | model_number |
| ------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ------ | -------- | ---------- | ----------- | ---------- | --------- | ---------------- | ----------------------- | ------------------------ | ------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | ------------- | ----------- | ----------- | ------------ |
| ed-2008 | The 2008 Little, Brown and Company first-edition hardcover | edition | US | en | 2008-06-03 | | 2026-09-13 | supported | | | | ^loc | Bibliographic description of the edition this barcode carries, from the Library of Congress record, the Open Library edition record, Wikipedia's infobox and the Amazon.com product details. No copy was in hand. | | | | hardcover | |
<!--/observations-->
## Credits <!--credits-->
| observation | name | role | source | note |
| ----------- | ---------------- | ------------ | ------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ed-2008 | David Sedaris | author | ^ol | |
| ed-2008 | Chip Kidd | cover design | ^wp | First-edition cover. |
| ed-2008 | Vincent van Gogh | cover art | ^wp | The cover reproduces his early painting Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette. |
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## Research gaps <!--research_gaps-->
| observation | domain | state | detail | source |
| ----------- | -------- | -------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- |
| ed-2008 | identity | disputed | The Library of Congress, Open Library and Wikipedia give 323 pages (collation viii, 323 p.); Amazon.com gives a print length of 336 pages, probably counting the front matter. The Book section follows the catalogue figure. | ^amazon |
| | markets | not_researched | Only the United States is evidenced. British editions of the work appeared under other ISBNs (Little, Brown Book Group, Abacus), so a UK listing is not evidence for this barcode. | ^oleditions |
| | identity | unknown | Whether the hardcover is still in print was not established: the Hachette Book Group title URL now redirects to the site root, and Amazon.com offers start at a used-copy level price. Status is left unset. | |
| | images | unknown | No cover photograph under a licence that allows reuse was found. Open Library holds a cover scan (id 8345798) whose rights are not stated. | ^ol |
<!--/research_gaps-->
## Research <!--research-->
structure_version: 2
reviewed_on: 2026-09-13
note: Built from the Library of Congress catalogue record, the Open Library edition and work records, Wikipedia's articles on the book, Little, Brown and Company and Hachette Book Group, the Amazon.com listing that prints this ISBN-13 and the archived 2008 Barcodepedia page. No copy of the book was in hand.
<!--/research-->
## Meta <!--meta-->
title: When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris, 2008 hardcover (9780316143479)
description: First-edition hardcover of David Sedaris's sixth essay collection, published by Little, Brown and Company on 3 June 2008. ISBN 978-0-316-14347-9.
<!--/meta-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ---------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------------- | ----------- | ---------- | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ---------------------- | -------------------------------- |
| loc | https://lccn.loc.gov/2007049021/mods | Library of Congress catalogue record for LCCN 2007049021 | 2026-09-13 | Library of Congress | registry | | 2007049021 | originInfo, physicalDescription, tableOfContents, identifiers | | | |
| ol | https://openlibrary.org/isbn/9780316143479.json | Open Library edition OL16480629M: When You Are Engulfed In Flames | 2026-09-13 | Open Library | catalogue | | OL16480629M | publishers, publish_date, physical_format, pagination, lccn, oclc_numbers | CC0 | Open Library | Library of Congress MARC records |
| oleditions | https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2693090W/editions.json?limit=50 | Open Library work OL2693090W: the editions of When You Are Engulfed in Flames | 2026-09-13 | Open Library | catalogue | | OL2693090W | | CC0 | Open Library | |
| wp | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_You_Are_Engulfed_in_Flames | When You Are Engulfed in Flames | 2026-09-13 | Wikipedia | publication | | | Lead, infobox, Cover art, Contents | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
| wplb | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little,_Brown_and_Company | Little, Brown and Company | 2026-09-13 | Wikipedia | publication | | | Lead, History | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
| wphbg | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachette_Book_Group | Hachette Book Group | 2026-09-13 | Wikipedia | publication | | | Lead, History | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
| amazon | https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316143472 | Amazon.com listing for ISBN 978-0-316-14347-9 | 2026-09-13 | Amazon.com | retailer | | 0316143472 | Product details | | | |
| oldpage | https://web.archive.org/web/20081123111744/http://www.barcodepedia.com/9780316143479/when-you-are-engulfed-in-flames | The 2006-2013 Barcodepedia page for this barcode, archived 2008-11-23 | 2026-09-13 | Internet Archive | other | 2008-11-23 | | | | | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
*When You Are Engulfed in Flames* is a collection of essays by the American humorist David Sedaris, his sixth book, published by Little, Brown and Company on 3 June 2008.[^wp] This barcode is the first-edition hardcover of 323 pages, published in New York.[^loc][^ol] Its 22 essays run from making coffee when the water is shut off to buying a human skeleton, and close with "The Smoking Section", on moving to Japan to quit smoking.[^wp] Chip Kidd designed the cover around Vincent van Gogh's early painting *Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette*.[^wp] Little, Brown printed a first run of 100,000 copies, and the book topped The New York Times Best Seller list for eight weeks.[^wp] Little, Brown has been a division of Hachette Book Group since 2006.[^wplb]
The 2006-2013 Barcodepedia recorded this barcode from Amazon data as "When You Are Engulfed in Flames, written by David Sedaris and published by Little, Brown and Company", with the publisher's blurb and the table of contents; the barcode has been on the wanted list since that site closed.[^oldpage]
<!--/about-->