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2nd Nov 2017, 2:42 PM
	ppint. Member since Aug 2012 6451 Points	definitely "omnibus": indicates the single publication° of two or more works previously°° published as separately-bound books, which may or may not all be by the same author, and may include one (or more) collections (of shorter works by a single author or collaboration), or one (or more) anthologies (of shorter works by more than one single author or collaboration). - there's one consistent exception that springs to mind: ace books' "ace doubles": ace books, inc., later the ace books division of charter communications inc, later a division of grosset & dunlap, inc. (eventually fading into ace sf, an imprint of the berkley-putnam publishing group) devised and had considerable success for twenty years with an omnibus format called the ace double, in which a short novel (sometimes abridged) and a novella, or a short novel and a collection of novelettes, novella and/or short stories, or a novella and a collection of short stories, novelettes and/or a novella, were published tete-beche (or dos à dos) to one another in one paperback which thus had two - different- front covers, upside-down to one another, and no back cover. the two books thus conjoined were usually by two different authors, and one or both of the short novels or novellas might be original publications, the first book (or the first paperback) reprints of previously-published works, or sometimes a fresh pairing of works previously published by ace books in the "ace double" format. (e.g. see ace books D-94, "one against eternity" by a. e. van vogt, published new york 1955 tete beche with "the other side of here" by murray leinster,.) - the great majority of these doubles were science fiction (including fantasy, which was not a distinct merkin publishing category until after the success of random house, inc./ballantine books' abysmal "the sword of shannara"), but some were westerns. - though clearly omnibus publications, these are ~universally referred to as "ace doubles". (the few belmont "doubles" and the later, rather more successful, series of dell "binary stars" did not adopt the "tete-beche" (or "dos-à-dos") formatting peculiar to the ace doubles.) ° - upon occasion, usually for reasons of physical practicality, a single work by a single author or collaboration, or a single collection, or a single anthology, may have been published in two or more bound volumes: where the publication of these has been simultaneous, the bound volumes are usually considered to be one book; where some - occasionally considerable - delay occurs between the publication of the bound volumes, they are generally considered to be separate books, though intimately linked (e.g. lewis carroll's "sylvie and bruno" (1889) and "sylvie and bruno, concluded" (1893)). °° - on rare occasions, the omnibus may have preceded the separate publications of its component, later separately-bound books; but this is quite exceptional Edited by ppint. on 7th Nov 2017, 11:22 PM