Book editions with different volume counts

[Pedro]

Sometimes a different edition / translation of a book gets split in a different volume count then the original work, e.g., in the "Songs of Ice and Fire" portuguese translation each original volume gets split in two...

Should this multi-volume edition be associated with the original edition ? (and, if so, how ?)
OR
should this multi-volume edition be a new record ?

thanks for your answers...

[Scott]

If the two volumes are a single entry, the set can be combined with the original volume.

If they appear as two separate entries, they should not be combined.

For an edition to be combined, it must have the same contents.

If you can link to the works concerned, we can give you a definite answer.

[Pedro]

Ok, here goes an example:

The portuguese translation of Arthur C. Clarke's "Imperial Earth" (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...) has been published as a two-volume mass market paperback edition. There are two references to those books:

As two distinct books, not linked to the original work:
Volume 1: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
Volume 2: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

And also as two distinct books, in which one of them appears as an edition of the original:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
and the second volume is an "independent" entry:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

Hope its clearer now.
There are a lot of other examples on that particular collection.

[Scott]

The Part 1 should not have been combined with the full work; I have separated it.

In these cases the parts should not be combined with the whole.

If there was a Goodreads page that had both parts together, packaged as a set, that could be combined with the whole, original edition, because they both contain the full work.

[Pedro]

Ok, thank you.. I'll flag those cases and ask for the proper separations / combines...

[Scott]

Thanks.