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Bonhams Auction

7 Sep, 2015 (edited)
2015-9-7 2:14:15 PM UTC

This is very poor cataloging by what I thought was a reputable auction house.

They are listing the first of these items as first UK editions of the Lord of the Rings, but no indication of impressions and really no useful info at all :(

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22464/lot/205/

I have also looked at the US set, and the same goes, first editions of the Lord of the Rings, but no indication of impressions and really no useful info at all :(

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22464/lot/206/

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7 Sep, 2015
2015-9-7 5:13:30 PM UTC
As a reputable auction house, I feel that they are following the (sadly falling out of use with the influx of so many new "booksellers") rule that "first edition" means first impression (for modern books, for older books it has meant first setting of type)

See for example
http://www.abaa.org/glossary#F

and http://www.ioba.org/pages/resources/book-terminology/
FIRST EDITION The first printing of a book, done from the original setting of type. The collectability of the first printing of the first edition was established in the early days of printing, when the type used in the presses would quickly wear away, compromising the readability of the book being printed. (Note: Technically, this term is used to describe any of the printings of a book, done from the original setting of type, at any time until the type is so altered as to constitute a second edition (see “Edition”). In the world of literature and Modern Firsts, the term is used differently, and means the very first printing of those copies, done at the same time. A second print run, though it is technically still the “First Edition”, is not what is meant by the phrase in the world of collectible Modern Firsts.) - See more at: http://www.ioba.org/pages/resources/b ... ogy/#sthash.tphG6MDK.dpuf
8 Sep, 2015
2015-9-8 6:49:04 PM UTC
I know, get with it Trotter!

BH
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