Omnibus edition

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Anomnibus editionoromnibusis a book containing multiplecreative worksby the same or, more rarely, differentauthors.Commonly two or more of the works have been previously published as books, but a collection of shorter works, or shorter works collected with one previous book, may also be known as an omnibus.

Omnibus editions help consolidate longer series into fewer books. The prices are usually equal to or less than the price of buying each individual edition separately.

Examples

• The OmnibusJules Verne(4-Books-In-1:Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas,Around the World in Eighty Days,The Blockade Runners,From the Earth to the Moonand a Trip Around It).Philadelphia:J. B. Lippincott & Co.
• TheBigglesOmnibus(three volumes, 1938-1941), followed byThe First Biggles Omnibus(1953),The Biggles Air Detective Omnibus(1956) andThe Biggles Adventure Omnibus(1965).
• TheSherlock Holmesillustrated omnibus: a facsimile ed. of allArthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories,illustrated bySidney Paget,as they originally appeared in theStrand magazine.London:John Murray.1978.
• Agatha Christie1920s Omnibus,Agatha Christie 1930s Omnibus,and so on to the1960s Omnibus,are five omnibus editions of those novels by Agatha Christie that were originally published in one decade.
• Marvel Comics,DC ComicsandImage Comicshave published omnibus editions. DC published a line calledShowcase Presents,but was replaced with a line ofhardcovereditions called "Golden AgeOmnibus ","Silver AgeOmnibus "and"Bronze AgeOmnibus ", along with manyModern AgeOmnibus titles.
• The Lord of the Ringshas been sold in an omnibus containing all three volumes and 6 appendices.
• The Chronicles of Narniahave been sold in an omnibus edition containing all seven novels in the series.
• TheThree Californias TrilogybyKim Stanley Robinsonhas been published in a single-volume edition byTor Books.
• The three novels comprisingJoe Haldeman'sThe Forever War serieshave been published in a single volume titled "Peace and War"by Gollancz S.F.
• American-Japanese publishing companyYen Presspublished an omnibusconsisting of the first 22 volumes (and two side stories) of the Japanese light-novel seriesA Certain Magical Index.

See also

• Anthology
• Box set
• Trade paperback (comics)
• Short story collection
• Book series
• Volume (bibliography)
• Collection (publishing)