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The earliest printed book in the list is a Southern Song annotated woodblock edition of the Book of Tang printed c. 1234. The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978.
Early editions of the books use a different format: The Valuetale of y: The value of x. So the first edition of the Helen Keller book is called The ValueTale of Helen Keller : the value of determination. The books were quite popular in homes, elementary school libraries, pediatrics offices, and sunday schools across North America.
However, book collectors generally use the term first edition to mean specifically the first print run of the first edition (aka "first edition, first impression"). Since World War II, books often include a number line (printer's key) that indicates the print run. A "first edition" per se is not a valuable collectible book.
A rare first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone has sold for £36,000 after being bought for around just £10 in 1997.. Christine McCulloch, who bought the book in Stratford ...
In the first printed issue of the novel, the word 'Decides' was misprinted as 'Decided', and the word 'saw' is mistyped as 'was' on page 57. If you own a copy of this famous Mark Twain book with a ...
Under the auspices of Overstreet Publications, the first Comic Book Price Guide was published in November 1970. Priced at $5, saddle-stitched and published in a print run of 1000 (a second edition of 800 was released subsequently), [4] the book included 218 pages of listings.
The Red Book has its own Red Book – A Guide Book Of The Official Red Book Of United States Coins by Frank J. Colletti published 2009 by Whitman Publishing (ISBN 978-0-7948-2580-5). A facsimile of the 1947 edition was published in 2006, on the 60th anniversary of the publication of the first edition.
This list includes seven novels, the most recent being six years old (Lost Horizons, 1933), two classics (Shakespeare and Wuthering Heights, both out of copyright), one mystery novel, one book of poetry (Enough Rope), and one self-help book. The edition of Wuthering Heights hit the bestseller list, and by the end of the first week sold out of ...