Rescued from the stealer of souls

The Michael Moorcock work http://www.librarything.com/work/8639896/editions Elric:the Stealer of Souls has a strange habit of collecting other works, for no apparent reason. I've separated out quite a few of these over the last while. Since I looked yesterday, two new works have appeared, so I've decided to keep a list of works, in case there is any pattern to be seen. Today's haul:
Filón de Alejandría y la génesis de la cultura occidental / José Pablo Martín (ISBN 9501403262) (1 copy separate)
L'Homme immortel / Nothomb (ISBN 2226018484) (1 copy separate)

edited to add:
Both show up as zero-copy works after separation:
http://www.librarything.com/work/10336790/editions

Today on Search Results page for "Randall", I found Essai d'une histoire raisonnée de la philosophie païenne, tome 2 by Adams, Randall.

# Essai d'une histoire raisonnée de la philosophie païenne, tome 2 by Adams, Randall (1284 copies) — matched on Elric: The Stealer of Souls (Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melniboné, Vol. 1)

This title does not show on the editions page of the Stealer, neither on Moorcock's author combine/separate page. Randall Adams was shown as being combined with Moorcock. The name, naturally, does not show up on Moorcock's author page, and probably is not the Randall Adams of "Randall v. Texas".

The Essai is by Alexandre Kojeve, who is not listed as a Moorcock alias, either. On Search for the Essai, the author shows now as Moorcock! There is a correct result on the search as well, however.

Odd-ish. Was unable to detach the work, since it doesn't show up in wrong places, except on the search result.

Looking at the edition page for Elric, it strikes me that there are no single copies of any line but lots of two copy lines. I have noticed elsewhere that editing a single copy will leave a two copy line - one real copy and one zero copy. I fear the doppelgangers are taking over the world ;-)

#2
This title does not show on the editions page of the Stealer, neither on Moorcock's author combine/separate page.

Because of caching, search results often show combinations that have since been separated. I have no idea how long it takes to clear the cache, but that edition of the Essai could have been separated days (or weeks?) ago.

Checking today, I found
La Découverte de l'esprit / Bruno Snell (ISBN 2905372966) (2 copies separate)
which I've separated out and which is now at http://www.librarything.com/work/10366333

#3

Look at my post here... There is a bug. Also look at my posts about separation

http://www.librarything.com/topic/96849

http://www.librarything.com/topic/97614

Checking today, I found
Weaver's Companion (Companion (Interweave)) / "Handwoven Magazine" (ISBN 1883010810) (no current copies separate)
Weaver's Companion / Handwoven Magazine (ISBN 1883010810) (1 copy separate)

Today's haul:
13 Paintings Children Should Know / Angela Wenzel (ISBN 3791343238) (2 copies separate)
John Colet and the Platonic Tradition / Leland Miles (ISBN 0875480055) (2 copies separate)

A non-rescue, at least for me, I'm afraid. A search for a hardcore crime/detective novel:
http://www.librarything.com/search_works.php?q=too+dangerous+to+live
returned

• Baby's First Tattoo: A Memory Book for Modern Parents by Pierucci, Antonio Flavio de Oliveira (1291 copies) — matched on Elric: The Stealer of Souls (Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melniboné, Vol. 1)

Naturally, this does not show on Elric's editions page. Neither does it seem to fit de Oliveira's other works; anyway, he is not indicated to be combined to Moorcock.

In addition reviews on Elric indicate at least one surfing book.

There hadn't been any strays for a long time, but today I found and separated:
Deleuze / Gualandi, Alberto (ISBN 2251760113) (1 copy separate)
now at http://www.librarything.com/work/10587147

and
Godel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid / HOFATADTER, Douglas R. (ISBN 0394745027) (no current copies separate)
Godel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid / HOFSTADTER, Douglas R. (ISBN 0394745027) (1 copy separate)
now combined into http://www.librarything.com/work/5619

Several of the books in this catalog are inexplicably combined with Elric, Stealer of Souls, despite the fact that they have complete author, title, isbn, information, and information that bears no relationship to Elric:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/alenaroo/yourlibrary

Check out one of the column views that contains Work Title vs. one of the views that contains book title.

That includes all of these books, none of which are visible on the editions page of Elric:
BOLTON, ROBERT -- PEOPLE SKILLS 1987 KANGAROO PRESS PTY.LTD (1987), Paperback, 300 pages 0731800311
Winton, Tim -- Breath: A Novel 2008 Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2008), Edition: 1st. Printing, Hardcover, 224 pages 0374116342
Díaz, Junot The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 2007 Riverhead Hardcover (2007), Edition: 1, Hardcover, 352 pages 1594489580
Gilbert, Elizabeth -- Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia 2007 Penguin (Non-Classics) (2007), Edition: Later Printing, Paperback, 352 pages 0143038419
Adiga, Aravind The White Tiger: A Novel 2008 Free Press (2008), Edition: 1, Hardcover, 288 pages 1416562591
Courtenay, Bryce -- The Power of One: A Novel 1996 Ballantine Books (1996), Edition: Mti, Paperback, 544 pages 034541005X
Liss, David-- A Conspiracy of Paper 2001 Abacus (2001), Paperback, 512 pages 034911420X

#10
Now that is seriously weird!

One of my column views has book title and series CK, and those anomalies show up with a Melniboné series label, which makes them easy to spot. Checking the libraries of the members who are mysteriously listed as owning lots of copies of the the Stealer of Souls, mccastro has a huge number of other titles which are combined with it while not showing up on the editions page:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/mccastro/yourlibrary (It could be a hundred or more!)

Interestingly, one of the first covers I see is that of Deleuze, one of the titles I mentioned separating in #9. Maybe it's corrupt data in these few libraries that is sucking in the other copies that show as actual editions.

Furthermore, ari.joki's example in #2, which showed up in a search as Essai d'une histoire raisonnée de la philosophie païenne, tome 2 by Adams, Randall (1284 copies) — matched on Elric: The Stealer of Souls (Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melniboné, Vol. 1), is present in mccastro's library
http://www.librarything.com/work/8639896/editions/60613415

edited to add: ari.joki's example in #8 is probably due to another anomalous library, that of booklovingmama:
http://www.librarything.com/work/8639896/editions/60605901

and the Weaver's Companion of #6 is probably due to crumpart's library:
http://www.librarything.com/work/8639896/editions/60615325

Two more separated today:
The Shipping News: A Novel Paperback ISBN 0671510053 / Proulx, Annie (ISBN 0671510053)
Ludwig Wittgenstein / Chauviré, Christiane (ISBN 2020105225)

(4th January, edited to add)
A bigger batch today:
A guide to meditation the Ramana way / Vasudevan, N. (ISBN 0951878905)
Existence: Studies From the Dramatic Universe 2 / Bennett, John G. (ISBN 0900306408)
Food / Bennett, John G (ISBN 0900306459)
Geisha of Gion: The True Story of Japan's Foremost Geisha / Iwasaki, Mineko (ISBN 074343059X)
Geisha of Gion: The True Story of Japan's Foremost Geisha: The Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki / Iwasaki, Mineko (ISBN 074343059X)
The first liberation: Freedom from like and dislike (The Sherborne theme talks series) / Bennett, John G (ISBN 0900306327)
Vocabulaire Technique Et Critique De LA Philosophie / Lalande, Andre (ISBN 0686572750)

(12th January, edited to add)
4 editions of
Logicomix: an epic search for truth / Doxiadis, Apostolos (ISBN 1596914521)

(23rd January, edited to add)
The Gap Series (4) - Chaos and Order / Donaldson, Stephen (ISBN 0002238306)
(14th February, eta)
The Doctrine of Sufis: Translated from the Arabic of Abu Bakr al-Kalabadhi / al-Kalabadhi, Abu Bakr (ISBN 0521292182)

A bigger batch today:
Blood Brothers: Book One of the Sign of the Seven Trilogy / Roberts, Nora (ISBN 0515143804)
Cartographies of Time (ISBN 1568987633)
Chinese Posters (ISBN 0811859460)
Lady Cottington's Fairy Album (ISBN 0810932946)
Le mesnevi - 150 contes soufis (ISBN 2226034234)
Le mesnevi - 150 contes soufis / Rumi (ISBN 2226034234)
Red Star Over Russia (ISBN 081098279X)
Sign of the Seahorse (ISBN 0810938251)
The Little Prince Deluxe Pop-Up Book / Saint-Exupery, Antoine de (ISBN 0547260695)
Des premiers principes / Damascius (ISBN 286432055X)
Dialogues avec Lanza del Vasto : non-violence, Bible et communautés / Lanza del Vasto, Joseph Jean (ISBN 2204015687)
True Compass (ISBN 0446539252)
What the Dog Saw (ISBN 0316075841)

11th April:
Middllesex Eugenides, Jeffrey 0312427735 0

28th April:
Undiscovered Country: In Search of Gurdjieff Hulme, Kathryn 0316381381
Mélanges Guenon 2070720624
The Mystery of the Seven Vowels in Theory and Practice Godwin, Joscelyn 0933999860