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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 496109, member: 25"]Usually when referring to books, and to publisher's notes in books, First Edition is only applicable to the first appearance of the book in print, but First Published may appear in many forms in later editions. For example, a Book Club edition may simply say First Published 1932 even if it came out in the 1960s, as may an edition in a different format, such as a 'Collected Works'.</p><p><br /></p><p>In general the value attaches to first editions because they tend to be a relatively small number of books, usually of works that later went on to sell millions. </p><p>As important for value is that it be the first printing of the edition or even the first state of an edition, some first editions had minor corrections during the production run, common in Charles Dickens work for example.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 496109, member: 25"]Usually when referring to books, and to publisher's notes in books, First Edition is only applicable to the first appearance of the book in print, but First Published may appear in many forms in later editions. For example, a Book Club edition may simply say First Published 1932 even if it came out in the 1960s, as may an edition in a different format, such as a 'Collected Works'. In general the value attaches to first editions because they tend to be a relatively small number of books, usually of works that later went on to sell millions. As important for value is that it be the first printing of the edition or even the first state of an edition, some first editions had minor corrections during the production run, common in Charles Dickens work for example.[/QUOTE]
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