We give below a tabulated list of first editions, in which this change will be seen at a glance: Former Recent Price.
First editions of any very successful work always tend to become scarce, since the number printed is smaller, as a rule, and a large part of the issue is absorbed by public libraries.
Nor do the many reprints which have appeared much affect the market value of the originals, or first editions.
Mr. Chaundy has a number of first editions of Disraeli's novels for sale.
Dobell have an interesting collection of first editions of works by Victor Hugo, most of them presentation copies, with Hugo's autograph inscription, to Mademoiselle Louise Jung.
First editions of Robert Bridges are, we notice, priced a good deal higher than the later firsts of Robert Browning.
Taming of the Shrew, Tempest, Timon of Athens, first editions in folio.
But it may be well in this place to observe that his successors continued his work by giving Pausanias, Strabo, Aeschylus, Galen, Hippocrates and Longinus to the world in first editions.
But, though their publications count a large number of first editions, and some are works of considerable magnitude, they were not brought out with the scholarly perfection at which Aldo aimed.
The Bibliotaph was not a blind enthusiast on the subject of first editions.
He used to hunt books in Texas at one period in his life; and out of Texas would he come, bringing, so it is said, first editions of George Borrow and Jane Austen.
The author's business is, not to take account of first editions, but to make books of such virtue that bibliomaniacs shall be eager to possess the first editions thereof.
But in hunting rare books the time will be sure to come when a man may well cry, 'I had rather than forty dollars I had my list of first editions with me!
I have this worthless little volume among my first editions; to me it is one, and it is certainly the last volume of Lamb I would part with.
Drake, in New York, specializes in association books and in first editions of nineteenth-century authors.
In "first editions" it would be difficult to say whether the library prides itself most on its Bibles, its Miltoniana, or its Shakesperiana.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "first editions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
