internetarchive / internetarchive/openlibrary

Ability to merge duplicate editions

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Affects: Librarians Lead: @cdrini Module: Merging Needs: Response openlibrary-client Priority: 3 Type: Feature Request Type: Subtask of Epic
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Description

## Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Subtask of #690

Proposing an API endpoint (available to users in the `librarian` usergroup) for dealing with duplicate editions (by deleting one and turning it into a redirect to the other

## Describe the solution you'd like

Something like:
`/books/merge?records=OL...M,OL...M`

Should use the same code/UI as the /works/merge endpoint

## Proposal & Constraints

## Additional context

Contributor guide

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