Sentence examples for an original edition from inspiring English sources

My edition of these stories is a gaudily-covered reprint of an original edition of 1922.

The letter was found by two booksellers in Orléans in an original edition of a book, only 60 copies of which were published in 1966, of Sartre's writings.

As I read The History of the Saatchi Gallery, a magnificent new cloth-and-leather-bound volume reminiscent of an original edition of Macaulay's History of England, I was overcome with melancholy.

The buyer, who chose to remain anonymous and is almost certainly not McGonagall's mum, spent over six thousand English pounds, more than was paid for an original edition of "Nicholas Nickleby".

The price of an original edition of "Pleasures and Days," if one can be found on the market (try the Internet), would doubtless be many times what all Proust's works put together earned during their author's lifetime.

The Bay Psalm Book, printed in an original edition of 1,700 in Cambridge in 1640 by Stephen Daye, was intended as a closer paraphrase of the Hebrew original than the one the Puritans brought from England, and was quickly adopted by nearly every congregation in Massachusetts.

When I finished my first work of fiction in 1990 and went looking for a publisher, I was offered an advance of £1,700 for a paperback original edition.

In a final twist, the original edition of the book is a valuable collector's item.

The competition for a copy of the original edition of Benjamin Franklin's "Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain" provided the sensation of the day.

In a section of the original edition of "Etiquette" titled "Think Before You Speak," Post lays down what she considers to be the first principle of conversation: "Try to do and say those things only which will be agreeable to others".

The book Hermione receives in Dumbledore's will is a copy of the original edition of the fictional book.