not a series...is an anthology

[Lou]

"Getting rid of series designation."
Help requested please.

The anthology is "Before the Golden Age".
...is just an anthology, NOT a series.
Originally published, 26 stories complete, in 3 hc editions by two different publishers, and later on in paperback by two different publishers...with the 26 stories split into 3 and 4 separate books.

In editing these books (and, thankfully, they ALL have different covers & isbn's) I've been unable to discover how to remove that series designation that shows up in parenthesis.
IE: (.....#1-4 omnibus) Plus, this wrong series stuff is (I think) mucking up the OTHER EDITIONS pic listings on the right side of page.


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"Before the Golden Age" is the TITLE IN COMMON between all the hc & pb editions, all with different cover pics & isbn's, thankfully.

Two of the hc editions are similiar titled...
> Before the Golden Age: A Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930's
One of the hc editions is titled slightly differently...
> Before the Golden Age - Trilogy


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Fawcett Crest published the 26 stories divided into THREE pb's, adding a comma and then the word Book + number after the title...
> Before the Golden Age, Book 1

Orbit Futura published the 26 stories divided into FOUR pb's, adding just number, no comma, after the main title...
> Before the Golden Age 1


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Help, please.

regards
Lou B/justloux
..new'ish GoodReads Librarian, 3 yr PBS data/image volunteer editor.

ps:...am studying the Librarians Manual but am still confused about the differences and how-to's between: merge, combine, consolidate, disambiguate. sigh, and have no clue how to get rid of the series designation.

[This Is Not The Michael You're Looking For]

When a large single work is subsequently broken into smaller works, one way to show the relationship among the smaller works are to treat them as a "series". The term "series" has broader connotations here than it normally would. I don't have time to look at these now, but it seems to me the "series" is useful for letting people know that the 3/4 separate book cases are linked in a logical way.

[Lou]

Thanks for your reply. ummm...ok, sounds logical.
Upon reflection, it's the (.....#1-4 omnibus) that bothers me mostly...as 'that' is attached to/after the titles of the three hc's...and has nothing to do with them, at all.

So maybe I was in error/assumption before re saying 'series'...so now how to get rid of that (.....#1-4 omnibus) ?

Lou

[This Is Not The Michael You're Looking For]

If you go into the series and click "edit" you can remove a book from the series.

I changed the "description" of its place in the series to "full original text" which keeps it linked with the others but doesn't make it sound like an omnibus edition when it really isn't. Let me know if that seems reasonable. The other option is to add hyperlinks in the series description (where I added some explanatory text), but I like having it right there.

[Lou]

Thanks...for keeping the editions 'linked' and for your creativity with the alternative term of 'full original text'... works for me.

It's curious how info becomes garbled along the way, ie: that 'omnibus' term ... one of the three books it was attached to, isn't really an omnibus, just quasi (and that book isn't really a trilogy either even 'tho trilogy is in the title) ... and the other two hc's are just plain anthologies (no omnibus about 'em) ... and the 1-4 was just one of the paperback publisher's chosen story divisions.

I'm having fun doing edits adding info...am reluctant to start removing books from a series during an edit without knowing what I'm doing'...by doing that', lol.

Lou