Sentence examples for presentation copies from inspiring English sources

Roberts said only two other presentation copies have ever come up for auction.

Before the event he edged several of the catalogs in gold and gave them as presentation copies to friends.

The first volume was the only one published in Marx's lifetime – in German – and presentation copies are very rare.

Tolkien inscribed only a "handful" of presentation copies of The Hobbit on its publication, said Sotheby's, with CS Lewis also a recipient.

This three-volume first edition, below, published in 1816, was one of 12 presentation copies that the publisher, John Murray, allotted to Austen for friends and family.

In the 9th century a still elegant style was used for both patristic and classical works in splendid volumes destined for the imperial library or for presentation copies, such as the copy of Gregory of Nazianzus (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris) made for the emperor Basil I between 879 and 883.

Harrington said interest in the presentation copy has already been expressed by potential buyers.

My puzzle in today's Independent will be signed by the people mentioned in it to make a presentation copy for auction or raffle.

The manuscript is believed to be the presentation copy he had made of that translation, the only surviving contemporary manuscript of any literary work by Tyndale.

According to the BBC, the most a Dickens work has previously gone for is the $290,500£175,10000), paid for a pre-publication presentation copy of A Christmas Carol which Christie's sold in New York five years ago.

"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.