Sentence examples for a presentation copy from inspiring English sources

My puzzle in today's Independent will be signed by the people mentioned in it to make a presentation copy for auction or raffle.

"My dear Mrs. Lewes, you really must get that Casaubon quietly, decently, and gravely of course, out of the way," he wrote, after receiving a presentation copy of Book One.

It happened to be the day of publication of his new novel, Russian Hide and Seek, and he rather boldly took the opportunity of taking a presentation copy to give to Thatcher.

The copy of A Tale of Two Cities he sent to Eliot is a presentation copy – authors would request a handful of copies from their publishers to give away early to the people they wanted to see it, said Pom Harrington at Peter Harrington.

From a presentation copy inscribed by T.S. Eliot to his sister on the day of its publication to an anthology of Hemingway's inscribed to his boxing coach (later a pallbearer at the author's funeral), association books have yet another layer of cultural value: that of social objects.

And then, when your Mum's birthday comes around – she loves George Eliot and has been on at you for ages to take the plunge – you give her a handsome presentation copy of the book, bound in buckram and silk, the sort of thing that the Folio Society does surpassingly well.

According to the BBC, the most a Dickens work has previously gone for is the $290,500£175,10000), paid for a pre-publication presentation copy of A Christmas Carol which Christie's sold in New York five years ago.

The librarian, who had requested the book for the library, returned the presentation copy to Wilde with a note of apology.

Harrington said interest in the presentation copy has already been expressed by potential buyers.

The manuscript is believed to be the presentation copy he had made of that translation, the only surviving contemporary manuscript of any literary work by Tyndale.

An author's presentation copy of the first edition of Thomas's Collected Poems dedicated 'to the Richardses' and dated November 1952, the month of its publication, is also for sale with an estimated price of £1,000-£1,500.