Sentence examples for for a first edition from inspiring English sources
Bidding on eBay for a first edition copy hit $255.
"I learned of the Fezziwigs while scouting for a first edition at Books at Croton River.
He came close to being thrown out of an antiquarian bookshop in the Turl when he casually asked for a first edition of "Paradise Lost".
The going rate for a first edition of the Kelmscott Chaucer today is more than £30,000, but it was not cheap in the 1890s, either.
In one case, Alibris and BookFinder.com each had an identically worded listing for a first edition of "Valley of the Dolls".
One bidder for a first edition of a novel may plan to resell it to a book dealer, for example, while another wants it because she is the author's great-granddaughter.
Among the works on display will be an original leaf from the Gutenberg Bible (1450-1455) for $60,000 and a first edition of Pinocchio (1883) for $75,000.
The book I would most like for Christmas is a first edition of Simon Schama's Landscape and Memory (Harper Perennial).
The copy of "Das Kapital" that sold for $40,000 is a first edition.
About 100 books had already been sold, for nearly $1.7 million, including a first edition of More's "Utopia".
— a worn hardcover that you've been wanting in a first edition for years.
