The phrase "a private edition of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific version or release of a work that is intended for a limited audience or for personal use.
Example: "The author released a private edition of her novel, complete with handwritten notes and illustrations."
Alternatives: "a limited edition of" or "an exclusive version of".
Andreas produced a private edition of the novella 63: Dream Palace (1956).
By that time she had returned to the United States, and in 1834 she published a private edition of Zóphiël in Boston.
The novel was finally published in semi-samizdat, semi-official form in 1983, by the Jazz Section of the Czech Musicians' Union, in a private edition of 5,000 copies for members.
The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks has reached an agreement with a private publisher, W.W. Norton & Company, that will allow Norton to print a private edition of the panel's report before it is released to the public this summer, commission officials said Monday.
Allen and the author were so smitten by it, they toyed with the idea of trying to persuade Nabokov to let them publish "Lolita" in a private edition.
No commercial publisher would issue the work as a book, so in 1843 she issued a private edition in New York.
Bacalta is the eighth release of Private Edition, an annual bottling that's adored by fans who line up for a sip of what mad scientist Dr. Bill Lumsden and director of whisky stocks, Brendan McCarron, is pouring.
All 1000 copies of the private edition sold out.
Potter agreed to colour the pen and ink illustrations of the private edition, and chose the then-new Hentschel three-colour process for reproducing her watercolours.
Here, an affluent tech schlub scavenges the DNA of his co-founder and their employees to create digital clones who exist in a personalized private-server edition of the company's successful online game.
Face.com says the private alpha edition of Photo Tagger attracted over 30,000 users and identified 5 million faces on Facebook within three months.
