Series appears as editions for another book

[Eva]

I just became a librarian and this series is really bothering me, but I can't figure out how to fix it.

The main issue is that volumes 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 all appear as editions to the original Arabian Nights. While heavily inspired by Arabian Nights, it is an entirely new book and should be listed as such.

Other problems: Volume 4 has two separate listings. One Thousand and One Nights, Vol. 4 One Thousand And One Nights, Volume 04
Almost all of the books list an Anonymous third author. None of them designate Jeon JinSeok as the author and SeungHee Han as the illustrator.

If someone could walk me through how to fix this, I would really appreciate it.

[Z-squared]

I'm not really familiar with these works, the original or this series. However, adaptations should be separated from the works that inspired them. If this is a true adaptation (as in, contains none or little of the original work word-for-word, not just an abridgement of the original or an illustrated edition of the original), then it should be separated from the others. The primary author should be set as the adaptor, which I guess would be Jeon JinSeok? Then SeungHee Han would be listed second as the illustrator.

Generally, the author of the original work would be added as well (as a secondary author, NOT primary), but in this case, since the original author is 'anonymous', I'm not sure it's necessary.

To separate a book, there are two ways to go. The first is to use the separate tool. You can get to it by clicking on 'all editions' (just above the green get-a-copy buttons), then click on 'separate' (in the top right corner) and follow the instructions from there.

The other way to separate books is from the combine screen. Each edition in a combined work will have a 'separate' button next to it. However, if a book is the default (most popular) edition, then clicking on 'separate' on this screen will result in an error, and you'll have to use the separate tool I described above instead. This is a problem for volume 3 in this series, for example.

To combine books, they need to have the same primary author. For the two volume 4 editions you linked to, the second one has Anonymous as the primary author. First, you need to separate that one from the other editions. Then edit so that Jeon JinSeok is the primary author (instead of Anonymous). Then you will be able to combine them together.

For all of the books in the series, they will need to be separated and then given Jeon JinSeok as their primary author (with role as "Adaptor"). This will prevent casual recombination with similarly titled (but unrelated) works. You could add a librarian note, too, if you wish.

I can't tell, someone may already be working on this right now (you?), but let me know if I can be of any more help.