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The A Robert Heinlein Omnibus
Hi, you state "There is a problem here: The Robert Heinlein Omnibus (1958) and A Robert Heinlein Omnibus (1966) are two unrelated books. The isfdb appears to have concatenated them. The RH Omnibus ('58) includes two stories - a preface, The Man Who Sold the Moon, and The Green Hills of Earth, in that order. A RH Omnibus (1966) includes 15 stories (including an updated Preface to The Man Who Sold the Moon), much as is given here as the list for The RH Omnibus. The RH Omnibus= OCLC 2083946, 1101217886 (the first entry lists the titles included) A RH Omnibus = OCLC 11178903, 314704775, 559237213, 852820146 (none of these include the full list of titles included - see your entry for The RH Omnibus for a more accurate list of titles in A RH Omnibus)."
In Isfdb we have: The Robert Heinlein Omnibus (1958, The Science Fiction Book Club (UK)), given as 256+224 and containing two COLLECTIONS The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950) and The Green Hills of Earth (1951) and A Robert Heinlein Omnibus (1966, Sidgwick & Jackson), given as 158+256+224, containing the COLLECTIONS above, plus the novel Beyond This Horizon (1948).
If what you stated (The RH Omnibus ('58) includes two stories - a preface, The Man Who Sold the Moon, and The Green Hills of Earth) was true it wouldn't have been an OMNIBUS, but a COLLECTION. I think the confusion is started by having story names that are also names of collections with those same stories being part.--Dirk P Broer 05:09, 29 October 2019 (EDT)