omnibuses

Often what we do with omnibuses is catch series that we missed to begin with -- either we weren't paying attention at all (like Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series, which I took a look at after I was on a Worldcon panel with Jim) or we didn't find room for Book One when it was originally published.

INTERVIEW: Andrew Wheeler 2007

Tracking down classics for omnibuses is much more random, since publishers rarely submit forty-year-old books to the SFBC.

INTERVIEW: Andrew Wheeler 2007

I counted 181 anthologies on my "brag shelf" (which are actually 8 shelves), not including variant editions (for instance, the Italian editions of the SWORD & SORCERESS series were in omnibuses that reprinted two volumes at once) as separate entires.

Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2004

As we face each other in omnibuses and underground railways we are looking into the mirror; that accounts for the vagueness, the gleam of glassiness, in our eyes.

Monday or Tuesday 1921

I rush out and ride in omnibuses; I go about the house sorting up, or as the American Ladies say, "reconciling things."

New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

Meanwhile Mr.C. walks, and - rides in omnibuses!! and finds the variety amusing.

New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

Of all the sights of London streets, this procession of the omnibuses is the most impressive, and the common herd of

London Films William Dean Howells 1878

London, where, upon one occasion, I stepped into one of those popular modes of conveyance called omnibuses, would be much more suitable for a mode of progression than the animal's neck.

Glyn Severn's Schooldays George Manville Fenn 1870

Will publishers start publishing hardcover 'omnibuses' just so they can sell the same book as two or more separate books on Kindle?

E-book pricing The Brillig Blogger 2010

The gift shop was locked, but he could see the things pressing against the glass from inside, the collection of shiny synthetic stuffed animals and jumbo find-a-word omnibuses, none of which had ever saved a single person’s life.

The Position Meg Wolitzer 2005