Actually editions without works is extremely common.  In the February dump (the 
last I converted -- long story), there were 5,459,171 editions without a work 
id (out of 24,577,447 total, so over 20%).

So, if this is a bug, it's very widespread.
-Ross.

On May 21, 2012, at 1:27 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:

> All editions have a work, although when there is only one edition the 
> edition info is displayed on the work page. The work in your example 
> does not have any actions by WorkBot in its history, so it was either 
> missed or hasn't been caught up yet.
> 
> All works *should* have at least one edition. With Ben's latest data, 
> I've run into many works with zero editions. That's not good.
> 
> kc
> 
> On 5/21/12 10:05 AM, Tom Morris wrote:
>> Should all editions have a work?  This edition doesn't appear to have any 
>> work:
>> 
>>   http://openlibrary.org/books/OL5204939M/The_complete_old_English_sheepdog
>> 
>> and, perhaps because of this, can't be found by search:
>> 
>>   http://openlibrary.org/search?q=complete+old+english+sheepdog
>> 
>> Is every edition supposed to have a work created for it or are works
>> only created if there are multiple editions?
>> 
>> Tom
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