Book collectible edition first

Find a first edition of your favorite book to add to your own collection or as a gift for the bibliophile in your life. In publishing terms, a first edition book is all copies that were printed from the same setting of type as when first published.

The book is only described as a second edition if significant changes are made to the copy. In collecting terms, a general definition of 1st edition book would be a work's first commercially available appearance in book form, printed with the original setting of type.

The first time a publisher releases a new book, all copies of that book printed without major changes can be considered a first edition book. If the initial print run - known as the 'first printing' or 'first impression'- sells out and the publisher decides to produce a subsequent printing with the same typeset, books from that second print run can be described as a first edition, second printing.

But it's more complicated than that. Each time a publisher releases a new instance of the same title, or when a book is released in a new format, these may also be considered first edition books. Get to Know Us About Gumtree. Rules for Posting Ads. Gumtree Blog. Gumtree for Business. Explore Best Ads.

Gumtree Content. Adevinta Brands. This means that the first number in that line of numbers must start with the first number for that publisher. Counter intuitively, a 1 in the number line for that publisher during those years meant a later printing. The printing history page is the first thing to check, but not the last. In some cases the printing history may show everything that you could hope for, but other parts of the book contradict that story.

Reprint houses EG: Sundial Press, Triangle Books, Grossett and Dunlap would sometimes purchase the original printing plates from the original publisher. Their reprinted edition would potentially bear all of the same edition identifiers on the copyright page. The test here is to compare that copyright page with the information on the spine of the book. Typically, the reprint house would label the tail of the spine with their company name.

If the copyright page tells you that the book is a first edition from William Morrow and Company, but the spine of the book tells you that it was published by Walter J. Advanced review copies and other pre-production copies of a book may also share all of the printing history details as the first edition, but the cover of these editions almost invariably will state that it is an advanced review copy or galley, or something similar.

Much the same as reprint houses, book clubs will reproduce the entire book without any changes, and that reproduction includes the printing history. Book club editions can usually be identified as such by one of a few tell-tale signs.

In most any hardcover modern work of fiction, the dust jacket has a price in the front flap. For many decades book clubs would mark their editions with a blind stamp or colored deboss on the tail of the back board, near the spine. That little mark is a sure sign of a book club edition.

The Traveler First Edition. Bullseye First Edition. Authors A - C. Authors D - G. Authors H - K. Authors L - N. Authors O - R. Authors S - Z.