UNESCO series

The UNESCO Collection of Representative Works for all countries are under publisher series. UNESCO is not the publisher. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO_Collection_of_Representative_Works

On the series page for UNESCO, it is a mishmash between the two. (And the fact that some of the above series are under country and some are just under UNESCO Collection of Representative Works is another problem.)
https://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=unesco&searchtype=series&...

Some may be correct and some not as UNESCO does publish some items.

So what is to be done?

First of all, a publishers series is really just any series in which the works are not all published by the same publisher. So, Little Women has been published by many publishers therefore any series that contain Little Women should be a publishers series. So the fact that UNESCO isn't a publisher isn't really a problem.

>2 jjwilson61: For 10 years, I assumed that the publishers series were books by the same publisher. So this means that the titles like Harry Potter which were published by many different firms have to be moved to publishers series?

Edited to add - in different countries.

>3 fdholt: That's not what jj is saying.

Little Women is in a series written by the author.
https://www.librarything.com/series/Little+Women

But numerous publishers have printed it as part of a classics series. Right now there are 32 of them listed on the work page - Bantam Classics, Children's Golden Library, etc.
Those are publisher series.

Aladdin Classics

Bantam Classics

Barnes & Noble Classics

Blackie's Library of Famous Books

The Children's Golden Library (9)

Companion Library

Courage Giant Classics

Dent Dutton Children's Illustrated Classics (2)

Dover Children's Classics

Dover Juvenile Classics

Everyman's Library Children's Classics

The Great Writers : their lives, works and inspiration (16)

Junior Deluxe Editions

Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions

Penguin Clothbound Hardcover Classics

Penguin Threads

Puffin Classics Relaunch

Puffin Story Books (76)

Rainbow Classics

Reader's Digest World's Best Reading (11)

Scholastic Classics

Signet Classics

Tor Classics

The World's Best Reading

Aventura (5)

The Great Writers Library (16)

Everyman's Library (248)

The Great Classics for Children

Puffin in Bloom

Grosset and Dunlap, Inc.

Collins Clear-type Press

Seagull Library - Collins

I think UNESCO Collection of Representative Works is better as a list, like 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.

If every copy of the book is in the series, it's a series. E.g. Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, or for Dummies. So it's certainly not a series in the LibraryThing sense.

I don't think it qualifies as a publisher series, because the works aren't published by UNESCO. But it does produce them, in a sense, so maybe.

But my preference is for a list.

>3 fdholt:

I assumed that the publishers series were books by the same publisher.

From the wiki: "A Publisher Series is a set of books released serially by a publisher. The works may be republications of older works or they may be entirely new works that have never been published before. Sometimes a Publisher Series consists of both older and newer works. The defining characteristic of a Publisher Series is that the books have been marketed together by the publisher."

The Loeb Classical Library is a publishers series, as are Great Books of the Western World and the Oxford World's Classics. And the "for Dummies" and "Chicken Soup" books are both publishers series.

So this means that the titles like Harry Potter which were published by many different firms have to be moved to publishers series?

No, but a book could be in a regular series and a publishers series. For example, The Eustace Diamonds is the third in Trollope's Palliser Novels series, but it is also included in the Oxford World's Classics series, as well as other publishers series.

>6 lilithcat: Loeb is under both publisher and series. The Classical library is under both so that's a muddle also.

>3 fdholt: The book Little Women is part 1 of the set Little women/Good wives. The publishers series list is is probably not correct as most of that long list should be for parts 1 and 2. My copy of Little women (the Illustrated junior library) is properly combined with Little women/Good wives as it contains both parts. I changed the designation of Little women (the first part) to 1.1 to match the disambig. notice. But my guess is that a lot of the series listed under Part 1 actually belong to both parts; I can't tell which is which and don't want to try. It would take a library search for each edition and that may not be exactly right.

I think that Tim is right and we need to rethink all this.
https://www.librarything.com/topic/314171. Need to look at that thread again.