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Larry Moss raises interesting points.  One reason to write the review would be to air them
in a wider forum. Textbooks often go through many editions.  In such evolution, the work
of the original author may be completely replaced by a subsequent author or authors.  It
does not all happen at once, so the most recent book bears a genetic relationship to the
original, but it may have none of the original content and may even have none of the
original orientation, design, intention.  Would it be unreasonable in this case   to drop
the original author's name, while acknowledging his role in the the history of the book?
(Some school textbooks appear to be written by committees so extensive that no one takes
any authorship for them even in the first edition.)  One of my colleagues wrote a book
with two coauthors.  Royalties were divided according to the proportion of text each
supplied.  Over time, he supplied more and more.  At the point that he started taking in
all the royalties, would it be unreasonable to identify him as the sole author?
 
Kevin 
 
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