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Often the full version is earlier and later re-issued version is abridged (especially paperbacks for younger readers). It's almost always done by the publisher, especially after the author's death. Rarely by author request. More common for an author's later preferred version to be longer.
Some PD editions are clearly marked as abridged. In my experience it's always the published paper edition that was abridged and it was not done by the people transferring to text.
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