The launch ended with the presentation of a copy of the report, decorated with blue and white ribbons, by the Youth Parliament representative.
Toyota declined to elaborate on the presentation or provide a copy of it to The New York Times.
Halfway through her presentation she unfurled a copy of this week's issue and waved it around in front of the audience.
"If someone's looking to buy a presentation copy of a Hemingway book or Fitzgerald and spend $20,000 or $50,000 on it, that book's not competing with digital media". Whitmore has held his own against digital media while moving forward in the antiquarian world.
The copy of A Tale of Two Cities he sent to Eliot is a presentation copy – authors would request a handful of copies from their publishers to give away early to the people they wanted to see it, said Pom Harrington at Peter Harrington.
A recent gift of a presentation copy of The Great Gatsby provides documentary evidence of what has long been assumed regarding Fitzgerald's authorship of the epigraph.
Among the items to be auctioned are John Donne's first printed work, "Pseudo-Martyr" from 1610, a presentation copy to Lord Ellesmere with an autograph letter signed by Donne.
As I wrote in another post a few months ago, back in October 2008 I attended a presentation given by Barton and approached him after his presentation to give him a copy of my book, Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History, a book debunking many of his lies, as well as those of a number of his fellow revisionists.
My puzzle in today's Independent will be signed by the people mentioned in it to make a presentation copy for auction or raffle.
"My dear Mrs. Lewes, you really must get that Casaubon quietly, decently, and gravely of course, out of the way," he wrote, after receiving a presentation copy of Book One.
