Le Guin Always Coming Home standard and expanded editions

My inclination is that the original and expanded editions of Always Coming Home should be combined:

https://www.librarything.com/work/22938966/workdetails/254930074
https://www.librarything.com/work/52032/workdetails/254930486

Anyone have any thoughts?

Have you read the descriptions for the expanded version? There has been a lot of material added.

>1 Rivendell:

There is significant new material in the expanded version.

"Le Guin has added a special section of new material, including the two 'missing' chapters of Wordriver's Dangerous People, newly discovered poetry and meditations of the Kesh people, and a guide to their syntax." "The volume concludes with a selection of Le Guin's essays about the novel's genesis and larger aims, a note on its editorial and publication history, and an updated chronology of Le guin's life and career. "

That is enough additional material to suggest that the expanded version should not be combined with the original.

I don't think the expanded and non-expanded edition are properly divided in these 2 groups. While I don't have either, so no first hand knowledge, the listing of composer and geomancer (of all things) as secondary authors - all editions on non-expanded edition would indicate it includes at least some with additional sound recording and whatever it is a geomancer does in a special edition. My search only revealed some editions come with a cassette tape with poetry, accompanied presumably by music composed by Barton.

There seems to be a lot of extra material in the expanded edition that is not audio material.

The copies that are the original novel with extra material on tape, should probably also be a separate work, but that is a different issue.

Thanks, I agree that the original and expanded versions should be kept separate. I have added disambiguation notices to both.
The original text was sometimes issued with the accompanying audio cassette and sometimes without (although the composer was always given a title page credit along with the geomancer). The audio cassette was also sold separately and later reissued as a CD and in vinyl. music and poetry of the kesh

The expanded version is listed as such in Work Relationships, and both works are over 200 copies, so combining them would not happen by accident.