November 23, 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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Alcoholics Anonymous 1945 1st Edition 7th Printing$8,500.00 Ends Tuesday 4 bids
Ernest Hemingway Signed Ltd 1st Farewell To Arms$5,100.00 Ends Tuesday 25 bids
Esper's Very Rare First Edition - European Butterflies$2,651.00 Ends in 7 hours 17 bids
Stephen King, Dark Tower, Gunslinger 1st + 2-7 Ltd 533 $2,559.86 Ends in 7 hours 14 bids
Madeleine L'engle A Wrinkle In Time 1962 True 1st W/dj$2,447.00 Ends in 11 hours 13 bids
1596 Gallucci, Astronomy, Science, Sun Dials, 1st Ed$1,325.00 Ends in 8 hours 31 bids
1909 Plan Of Chicago By Daniel Burnham 1st Edition$1,230.00 Ends in 14 hours 11 bids
1591 Prosperi Alpini, De Medicina Aegyptiorum, 1st Ed$1,125.00 Ends in 8 hours 35 bids
John Grisham Signed True 1st Time To Kill Wynwood$1,050.00 Ends in 16 hours 9 bids
1st Ed Erasmus Jerome Post Incunable Folio Vellum,1516!$1,006.00 Ends in 12 hours 16 bids
William Faulkner Light In August 1st Ed In Dj$775.00 Ends Monday 1 bid
Exrare Warwick Goble Fairy Book Art Nouveau 1st Ed 1913$699.95 Ends Saturday 3 bids
Tarzan And The Lion Man~signed First Edition Copy~$676.00 Ends Wednesday 3 bids
Wow - Easton Press Lot Of Signed Books! + 1st Editions$600.00 Ends Thursday 5 bids
Stephen King Limited Skeleton Crew 1st Edition Signed$599.00 Ends Thursday 1 bid
Eleanor Roosevelt Signed 1st Ltd This Is My Story$540.00 Ends Tuesday 39 bids
William Faulkner Signed Ltd #rd 1st Pylon Rare Book$510.00 Ends Tuesday 6 bids
Hardy Boys House On Cliff W/ Dj-1927-red Book-1st $510.00 Ends in 13 hours 26 bids
Huckleberry Finn 1885 U.s. 1st Edition-fine Condition! $501.00 Ends Monday 13 bids
Harper Lee: To Kill A Mockingbird, Rare, 1st, 1960$445.00 Ends in 8 hours 9 bids
Signed Ernest Hemingway First Ed The Fifth Column 1938$430.00 Ends Monday 7 bids
Tales Of The Jazz Age ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ 1st/1st ~$429.99 Ends in 14 hours 1 bid
Incredible Hulk #181 Cgc 7.5 (first Wolverine)$422.27 Ends in 2 hours 16 bids
Barack Obama Dreams From My Father First Print First Ed$414.00 Ends Tuesday 2 bids
Complete Stephenie Meyer Twilight Series 1-4 1st /1st !$405.00 Ends in 15 hours 5 bids
Leather Charles Dickens;1st Edition! David Copperfield!$395.00 Ends in 14 hours 11 bids
Big Book Of Alcoholics Anonymous 1st Edition $384.99 Ends Wednesday 16 bids
Larry Mcmurtry Signed 1st Horseman Pass By Rare$380.00 Ends in 15 hours 8 bids
Harry Potter Chamber Of Secrets Signed J K Rowling 1st$377.81 Ends Wednesday 11 bids
13 Vols Winston Churchill Biography Rare 1st Editions$370.40 Ends in 9 hours 1 bid
1896 Negro Art Kemble's Coons Black Americana 1st Ed.$360.55 Ends Saturday 6 bids
Anne Rice Interview With The Vampire 1st Edition Signed$355.00 Ends in 15 hours 13 bids
J R R Tolkien-1st Ed-lord Of The Rings-first Ed Tolkien$340.77 Ends in 9 hours 19 bids
Ernest Hemingway 1st The Old Man And The Sea$338.00 Ends Friday 6 bids
Andy Warhol Signed 1st Philosophy Of Warhol$315.00 Ends in 15 hours 7 bids
Jane Eyre First American Edition 1848$305.00 Ends in 11 hours 22 bids
True First American Edition - Dracula Bram Stoker 1899 Buy it Now$305.00 Ends Monday 7 bids
1894 The Jungle Book First True Edition/no Reserve!!!$305.00 Ends Tuesday 46 bids
Rare Fabulous John Austen 1st Hamlet 1922 Harry Clarke$300.00 Ends in 9 hours 15 bids
When Christmas Comes Around ~ Jessie Willcox Smith 1st$299.99 Ends in 10 hours 5 bids
Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man And The Sea, 1st , 1952$299.00 Ends in 8 hours 2 bids
Dorothy B Hughes Pueblo On The Mesa Rare 1st Ed Signed$274.00 Ends Tuesday 1 bid
Mip Sng 1st Easton Press Desmond Tutu God Has A Dream$271.66 Ends in 8 hours 11 bids
Audie Murphy Signed 1st To Hell And Back$270.07 Ends in 15 hours 4 bids
William Faulkner Signed Ltd #rd 1st A Fable$261.00 Ends in 15 hours 6 bids
Leather, True 1st Edition! Charles Dickens! 1857, Rare!$256.99 Ends in 15 hours 12 bids
Incidents Of Travel In Yucatan 1st Ed Very Very Rare$255.00 Ends in 10 hours 20 bids
Steiff Antique Book -the Perfect Zoo -first Edition $250.00 Ends in 13 hours 8 bids
Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird 1st Ed. 4th Printing$250.00 Ends Monday 1 bid
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man And The Sea, 1st/dj/1952$250.00 Ends Monday 10 bids
Solzhenitsyn The Gulag Archpelago 1st 1st Arc *signed*$249.95 Ends in 12 hours 1 bid
Personal Memoirs Of Ulysses S. Grant Deluxe 1st Edition$249.00 Ends in 12 hours 1 bid
Alcoholics Anonymous 2nd Edition First Printing 1955 Bk$235.50 Ends Tuesday 5 bids
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess Uk 1st Ed/1st Print$229.65 Ends Monday 7 bids
Nares Arctic Papers 1875 Markham 1st Uk Eskimo Scarce$224.50 Ends in 9 hours 5 bids
Set Of First 26~the Three Investigators~hb's - Excond!$222.50 Ends Monday 3 bids
Hunter S Thompson Signed The Great Shark Hunt 1st Ed$217.65 Ends Tuesday 15 bids
1911 Peter And Wendy First True Edition/ October1911$212.50 Ends Tuesday 30 bids
C.s. Lewis - Narnia - The Last Battle - 1st Editon 1956$211.87 Ends in 8 hours 4 bids
