Sentence examples similar to scarce editions from inspiring English sources

Handsomely reconstituted by New Directions from the scarce original editions, "The Unfortunates" comes in a box of 27 unbound chapters (plus the novelist Jonathan Coe's invaluable introduction).

But he removed it from the second edition and 'As later biologists seldom consulted the scarce first edition, Darwin's contribution seems to have been forgotten even by his own son'.

Such are the vagaries of the book business, but to a collector and a huge fan of Hazan, it means something to have that scarce failed edition.

This cheap reprint of a scarce and very good edition of a great work is a thing to be welcomed.

And as mercenaries stampeded to eBay to peddle copies of Ms. Viswanathan's suddenly scarce book (a first edition was selling for $80 on Friday), the hope for any larger lessons in the "Opal" episode began to dim.

They vary in price from $100 for a signed presentation copy of Philip Jose Farmer's "The Alley God" to a collection of Robert A. Heinlein first editions and other scarce items for $18,500.

Details on the upcoming year's editions of TAKEN remain scarce, but it will be going worldwide and (disappointingly) won't feature a guest DJ set by Liam Neeson. .

Even paper copies of this edition of De animalibus are scarce; only three have come to auction since 1978.

But even the fall warm-up edition gives a chance to see scarce materials on short-term view.

The liberal use of the term "first edition" has made it seem synonymous with "scarce" and "valuable". This is by no means the case.

Twenty-five yeago ago, first editions of Kerouac's On the Road were both scarce and valuable.