Sentence examples for first edition copy from inspiring English sources
Bidding on eBay for a first edition copy hit $255.
A first edition copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, with author JK Rowling's notes and original illustrations, was sold for £150,000 at auction in London.
Colombia's national police force has said authorities recovered a valuable first edition copy of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude.
George RR Martin has donated a first edition copy of The Hobbit to a Texas university in what the Game of Thrones author called an "acceptance of fantasy into the canon of world literature".
A rare first edition copy of Robert Burns's first book, Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, is set to fetch up to £25,000 at Bonhams in London on 28 May.
Once, with no money for a tip, Kerouac gave Mr. Gunther a signed first edition copy of his book "Visions of Gerard," which Mr. Gunther said he soon gave away.
They have made every novel since her third, published three decades ago, into a bestseller and ensured that first edition copies of her debut fetch in excess of $10,000.
And Other Stories are kindly offering five individually number-stamped first edition copies of Down the Rabbit Hole, signed by author and translator.
While the book was a commercial failure, first edition copies now change hands for higher prices than Frank's The Americans.
Just 10 first edition copies of John Gerard's The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes from 1598 – which first introduced the potato to a European audience – are known to survive with the elaborately engraved title page.
I've attended Objectivist conferences, owned first edition copies of Atlas Shrugged and I was personally kicked off the lawn of the Canadian power trio Rush's drummer by Neil Peart himself asserting his property rights.
