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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. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon 's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
As new means that the book is in the state that it should have been in when it left the publisher. This is the equivalent of mint condition in numismatics. Fine (F or FN) is "as new" but allowing for the normal effects of time on an unused book that has been protected. A fine book shows no damage. Very good (VG) describes a book that is worn ...
The first edition of a facsimile reprint is the reprint publisher's first edition, but not the first edition of the work itself. The Independent Online Booksellers Association has A First Edition Primer that discusses several aspects of identifying first editions including publishing and specific publishers way of designating first editions.
Collecting Modern First Editions (1975) (a standard work on book collecting) Modern First Editions: Their Value to Collectors (1984) Children's Modern First Editions: Their Value to Collectors (1988) P.G. Wodehouse (1979) (biography) Jerome K. Jerome (1982) (biography) Beside the Seaside (1999) All Shook Up: A Flash of the Fifties (2000)
Even so, by 1941 Warne had published the first six Observer's books. In 1942 a special edition book was brought out on "airplanes" . This book had no number in the series, as it was brought out to help people spot enemy warplanes. [2] It was reprinted in 1943 and 1945. The first few Observer's titles had focused on nature, but gradually ...
Sales of Second Edition's core books were somewhat weaker than First Edition. Combined, the Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide sold over 400,000 copies in the first year of release, a solid hit, but their lifetime sales were not close to matching the huge success of First Edition. [15] The reasons why are contested.