I'd badgered Knausgaard's London editor for early copies, dispatched them in a few long sittings.
Extant versions are based solely on early copies and first printings from Mozart's own day.
He sent me early copies of his novels, too — nine to my four.
But Pierre Rosenberg, a former director of the Louvre, counseled caution and described the paintings as "good-quality early copies".
The book is wrapped in the presumption of controversy: reviewers who received early copies had to sign a nondisclosure agreement.
His next title, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, is not out until September but early copies have begun to circulate.
Fans at Hitchcon hold up early copies of Eoin Colfer's And Another Thing, "Part Six of Three" in Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide sequence, published today.
In addition, la Bibliothèque de Pierre Bergé boasts super-rare early copies of classics by Cervantes, Joyce, Bronte, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and more.
And he said that he is always gratified when Don Logan, the chief executive of Time Inc., which publishes In Style, calls to see the early copies.
Despite the extraordinary secrecy with which the book was published, newspapers report that several lucky children in Virginia received early copies.
Enterprising deal hunters and loose-lipped workers have been known to obtain early copies of these ads to see what will be marked down and where.
