Join Multi-disc Audiobooks

Hello
How do I get multi disc audiobooks (that are already imported) to show up in itunes 11 as one book as opposed to multiple books (ie book had 10 CDs now I have 10 books).  It is a hassle to sort through the books and also hard to figure out on my iphone which book is next.  I have tried setting it as a compliation but that didn't do anything.

I think I just figured it out. For anyone else who had this same question this is what I did:
Selected all of the books.
Get Info
Put the book's title in the album and the grouping box.
Go to the options tab and select that it is part of a compliation.
I'll start listening to one of the audiobooks that I did this for tomorrow.  Hopefully I didn't mess it up.

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