How to Use first edition in a Sentence

first edition

noun
  • There were many errors in the book's first edition.
  • She owns a valuable first edition of Huckleberry Finn.
  • The first edition of the Red Sea fest runs through Dec. 15.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The map is on the seventh page of the first edition, above.
    USA Today, 15 Sep. 2022
  • To see the first edition of the rankings, click through the gallery above.
    Jacob Calvin Meyer, baltimoresun.com, 12 Sep. 2021
  • The first edition of The Book was published back in 2008.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 22 Aug. 2019
  • In 1851, the first edition of The New York Times was published.
    BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2021
  • The first edition of 1,000 copies were sold at the restaurant.
    Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2023
  • My wife got me all the pages of the first edition, and they're all framed in our house.
    Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The first edition of the Concord Review came out in the fall of 1988.
    Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2021
  • Welcome to the first edition of the report card in 2021.
    Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2021
  • On the Origin of Species, title page of the 1859 first edition.
    National Geographic, 11 June 2020
  • Young shot to fame after winning the first edition of the U.K.'s Pop Idol in 2002.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The first edition outside the United States was in Chile, in 2011.
    Sigal Ratner-Arias, Billboard, 7 Nov. 2023
  • In the first edition of the coaches poll, released on Aug. 7, the Tide had earned four first-place votes.
    Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The first edition is flavored with rich shinko Asian pears and shiso.
    Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The award comes at the conclusion of the first edition of Munich Film Up!
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 24 June 2022
  • Richard Morin offers his first edition of the 2018 NHL mock draft.
    Richard Morin, azcentral, 8 June 2018
  • The first edition of the pharmacopeia was a landmark in many ways.
    Michael Eisenstein, Scientific American, 31 May 2018
  • The first edition of the festival will be held for three days in April - April 5, April 6 and April 7- this year.
    Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Welcome to the first edition of Bracket Watch for 2018.
    Michael Beller, SI.com, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Welcome to the first edition of the cleveland.com high school track and field performance list.
    Joe Magill, cleveland, 9 Apr. 2021
  • And so begins our first edition of The Perfect Present With...
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The price is one of the highest recorded for one of Rowling’s first edition books.
    Emma Pocock, Forbes, 28 Aug. 2021
  • The lunar module was the last of the first edition series of that spacecraft.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The first edition of Project Presents was held in January.
    Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 26 June 2024
  • The first edition of Basu's book was published in 2010.
    Kate Samuelson, Time, 25 Sep. 2017
  • This is not the first edition of Wimbledon plagued by falls.
    New York Times, 30 June 2021
  • The first edition, dark brown with illustrations of Black men on the cover, is rare.
    Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2025
  • In the video, Nintendo showed a larger screen and Joy-Cons (the controllers on the side of the screen) that are bigger and black rather than the first edition's blue and red.
    Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 16 Jan. 2025

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