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Each dust jacket is protected in an acidfree archival quality acetate cover. The first edition refers to a book s first printing run. Book collectors tend to be fussy about such things and will pay a premium for a copy that looks like it just left the printing press. The best websites to buy collectible and first edition books. As a matter of fact, when we first opened in 1977, we sold only used books today, we. Bookpoi a guide to identify points of issue for first. In publishing terms, an edition is technically all copies of a book. How to tell if a book is a first edition or valuable.
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