first edition
noun
: the copies of a literary work first printed from the same type and issued at the same time
also
: a single copy from a first edition
Examples of first edition in a Sentence
There were many errors in the book's first edition.
She owns a valuable first edition of Huckleberry Finn.
Recent Examples on the Web
Rode has been involved with the festival for almost its entire history, having come on two years after the first edition unspooled in 2000.
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Chris Willman, Variety, 6 May 2024
This past week, Sotheby's announced the auction scheduled for June 26 in New York of Thomas Taylor's original watercolor illustration for the first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
—Chloe Veltman, NPR, 5 May 2024
Shaheen originally self-published the first edition of The Shadow Work Journal, which went viral on TikTok and has now sold over 1 million copies.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 4 May 2024
Last October, the library of Warsaw University, a former Russian imperial university with a large collection of 19th-century Russian books, discovered 78 Russian rare books missing, including first editions of Pushkin.
—Rachel Donadio, New York Times, 1 May 2024
Leading the lots is a 1543 first edition of Copernicus’s De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, expected to fetch an impressive $1 million to $1.5 million.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2024
Los Angeles Festival of Movies The first edition of the Los Angeles Festival of Movies will run April 4 to 7 at venues in Eagle Rock, Chinatown and Historic Filipinotown.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
The first edition of the lens showed the onion ring effect in highlights at 75mm, but Tamron paid attention to the bokeh quality with this revision.
—PCMAG, 28 Mar. 2024
Kim Jones understands the privilege of holding a first edition copy of T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland, originally purchased in 1922 by artist Vanessa Bell for her sister Virginia Woolf.
—Grace Banks, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
Chris Willman, Variety, 6 May 2024
This past week, Sotheby's announced the auction scheduled for June 26 in New York of Thomas Taylor's original watercolor illustration for the first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
—Chloe Veltman, NPR, 5 May 2024
Shaheen originally self-published the first edition of The Shadow Work Journal, which went viral on TikTok and has now sold over 1 million copies.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 4 May 2024
Last October, the library of Warsaw University, a former Russian imperial university with a large collection of 19th-century Russian books, discovered 78 Russian rare books missing, including first editions of Pushkin.
—Rachel Donadio, New York Times, 1 May 2024
Leading the lots is a 1543 first edition of Copernicus’s De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, expected to fetch an impressive $1 million to $1.5 million.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2024
Los Angeles Festival of Movies The first edition of the Los Angeles Festival of Movies will run April 4 to 7 at venues in Eagle Rock, Chinatown and Historic Filipinotown.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
The first edition of the lens showed the onion ring effect in highlights at 75mm, but Tamron paid attention to the bokeh quality with this revision.
—PCMAG, 28 Mar. 2024
Kim Jones understands the privilege of holding a first edition copy of T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland, originally purchased in 1922 by artist Vanessa Bell for her sister Virginia Woolf.
—Grace Banks, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
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“First edition.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/first%20edition. Accessed 13 May. 2024.
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