1/8/2024 0 Comments Book collector connectWhen a collector is spending thousands of dollars on a unique item, they typically want to display it. Sheets of paper pose the problem of not being that attractive to look at. Sheets of paper stacked neatly beside the typewriter or journals showing the writer’s original works, edits and marginalia can be the single most valuable version of an important work at times, but the value and marketability of that version of the text is a little troublesome. The earliest form of the book is the author’s original manuscript. Before the book was printed, bound and shipped out to the book stores in its final form, a book has gone through a number of prepublication versions. The first edition isn’t actually the earliest form of the book, of course. This is the way the book first appeared to readers, with the original cover art, and sometimes even the original typos. First editions are prized because they are as close as a reader can get to the source. ![]() ![]() The drive to collect first editions has the same impetus, although quite a bit less sinister than Ms. Kathy Bates brilliantly portrayed a worst-case scenario extreme of this psychology in Stephen King’s Misery, satisfied only by possessing the author himself. They seek to posses the works that they so love. For the collector, reading those books is no longer enough. People come to book collecting through many channels, but the one constant is that a book collector has formed an emotional connection to a particular book or body of works for one reason or another. There isn’t any one profile of the collector. For the purposes of modern collectible books, first edition is shorthand for the first printing of the first edition of a work. ![]() In the simplest terms, a first edition is the first commercially distributed version of a book.
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