October 12, 2008
The first edition is a book's first printing run. For some titles, this can be as many as 50,000 copies. But for older books, or books originally published by small imprints, the first run may have been as few as 100 copies. First editions often gain value if the book was changed for the second printing, e.g. with new prefaces or chapters, or text corrections. Note that some first editions are hard to distinguish from subsequent printings, especially in older books.
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Paul Mccartney Signed 1st Beatles Rare! W/ Proof$2,550.00 Ends in 4 hours 20 bids
On The Road, Jack Kerouac, First Edition Buy it Now$1,500.00 Ends Thursday 1 bid
Quintus Curtius Rufus/englished By John Brende/1st/1602$1,145.00 Ends Monday 13 bids
Evidence Larry Sultan Mike Mandel First 1977 Inscribed$1,100.00 Ends in 19 hours 1 bid
1633 1st King James Version Holy Bible-scotland Rare Nr$1,009.00 Ends Friday 15 bids
James Bond 007 Tomorrow Never Dies Raymond Benson 1st$857.00 Ends in 1 hour 39 bids
First Edition Ian Fleming James Bond Live And Let Die$821.18 Ends Sunday 18 bids
A Voyage Into The Levant/1st Ed./2 Vols/tournefort/1718$810.00 Ends Monday 15 bids
Life & Reign:czar Alexander I/1st Ed./n.k.schilder/1897$710.00 Ends Monday 8 bids
1655 Travel India Mughal Empire Muslims Hindus First Ed$650.00 Ends in 21 hours 8 bids
Barack Obama - Dreams From My Father (1995) True 1st Ed$610.00 Ends Tuesday 11 bids
Dreams From My Father 1st/1st * Signed * Barack Obama!$560.00 Ends in 2 hours 35 bids
91036: A. Conan Doyle. Hound Of The Baskervilles 1st Ed$500.00 Ends Thursday 1 bid
Where The Wild Things Are * Sendak * 1st/1st * Signed *$484.00 Ends in 2 hours 13 bids
Exrare Kay Nielsen 1st Edn Fairy Tales 1924 Beauty!!!!!$414.99 Ends Tuesday 12 bids
Eragon- Paolini - Original - 1st Edition - Signed- $402.00 Ends in 3 hours 16 bids
0764: John Grisham Signed First Printing A Time To Kill$400.00 Ends in 2 hours 1 bid
Exrare Heath Robinson Mids' Night's Dream 1914 1st Ed!!$399.95 Ends Tuesday 5 bids
Signed Ernest Hemingway * Winner Take Nothing * 1st/1st$385.00 Ends in 2 hours 24 bids
N C Wyeth Illustrated The Parables Of Jesus 1st Edition$375.00 Ends in 2 hours 2 bids
The Audacity Of Hope-signed 1st Edition-barack Obama$361.99 Ends in 1 hour 19 bids
Cormac Mccarthy No Country For Old Men 1st/sgd/ltd/2005$355.00 Ends Monday 3 bids
Raymond Chandler 1st Printing Long Goodbye W/ Dj$355.00 Ends Thursday 8 bids
90073: Dean Koontz. Eleven First Editions.$350.00 Ends Thursday 1 bid
The Audacity Of Hope True First Edition * Barack Obama$345.00 Ends in 2 hours 25 bids
Alice In Wonderland *through The Looking Glass* 1st/1st$307.00 Ends in 2 hours 32 bids
Lewis Carroll, The Game Of Logic, 1st/1887$305.00 Ends Monday 6 bids
Clive Cussler Signed 1st Iceberg W/ Dj$305.00 Ends Thursday 11 bids
The Decisive Moment Henri Cartier Bresson 1st Edition$304.00 Ends in 3 hours 12 bids
90020: The Vintage Bradbury. Signed 1st Edition. 1965.$300.00 Ends Thursday 1 bid
1st 3 Twilight Books Autographed Stephenie Meyer$300.00 Ends Thursday 1 bid
Exrare Cicely Barker Flower Fairy Book 1st Beauty 1927!$300.00 Ends Friday 22 bids
The Old Man And The Sea * Ernest Hemingway * 1st/1st * $299.99 Ends in 2 hours 1 bid
Ian Fleming - Thunderball - 1st Uk 1961 W/dj Unread Npc$299.99 Ends Wednesday 1 bid
Alcoholics Anonymous Book 1st Edition 10th Printing '46$299.99 Ends Wednesday 1 bid
The Hunt For Red October * 1st/1st * Signed Tom Clancy$295.00 Ends in 2 hours 21 bids
Ronald Reagan Abortion, 1st Ed, Signed, Hc/dj$294.00 Ends in 4 hours 1 bid
John Steinbeck, Grapes Of Wrath, 1st/1st/dj/1939$281.76 Ends in 2 hours 8 bids
Alcoholics Anonymous 1st Ed 11th Printing 1947 Fine Con$277.77 Ends Saturday 2 bids
Digital Fortress * Signed Dan Brown* Original 1st 1998$255.00 Ends in 2 hours 12 bids
Angels And Demons* Dan Brown * True 1st/1st *$255.00 Ends in 2 hours 17 bids
The Harvard Classics,1st Edition Set-1909,complete,nice$255.00 Ends in 3 hours 24 bids
0801: J. K. Rowling Signed First American Edition Book$250.00 Ends in 2 hours 1 bid
458: Wright, Harold Bell. To My Sons. 1st. $250.00 Ends in 4 hours 1 bid
Kurt Vonnegut Signed Breakfast Of Champions 1st Ed$227.50 Ends Wednesday 10 bids
1769 Physics Mathematics Electricity 1st French Edition$224.72 Ends Friday 5 bids
Harry Truman Signed 1st Mr. Citizen W/ Dj$223.50 Ends in 4 hours 8 bids
Exrare Edmund Dulac Princess Badoura 1st Edn+orig'box!!$213.50 Ends Friday 5 bids
The Lone Ranger On Red Butte Trail - 1st/dj 1956 *rare*$212.50 Ends Wednesday 17 bids
1811 History Of Culdees Medieval Church Scotland 1st Ed$212.50 Ends Monday 18 bids
Truman Capote Signed Limited 1st In Cold Blood Rare++$202.50 Ends Thursday 2 bids
John Irving A Prayer For Owen Meany First Ed. Signed$202.50 Ends in 3 hours 5 bids
Observations Photographs Richard Avedon 1959 First $200.00 Ends Tuesday 3 bids
Rare~ Alice Woodward 1st Ed 1904 Edgar Allan Poe Tales$199.95 Ends Tuesday 1 bid
Charles Dickens 1st Ed. Edwin Drood Original Parts 1870$190.81 Ends in 13 hours 2 bids
The Jungle Book. 1894 1st Ed. 1st Imp. Rudyard Kipling$187.41 Ends in 15 hours 1 bid
Madonna Sex Book Sealed 1st Edition $182.49 Ends Tuesday 10 bids
Rare 1806 1st Edition Life Of Lord Horatio Nelson Book $178.38 Ends Wednesday 6 bids
New Stephen King Just After Sunset Hc 1st Signed By Sk$177.50 Ends Sunday 8 bids
Stephen King Signed The Talisman True 1st/1st Hc$177.50 Ends in 2 hours 10 bids
