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Jane Magnusson recalled rescuing a first edition of Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” that her mother might otherwise have discarded or given to a stranger.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

He publishes with a small press to little notice, yet word of mouth helps the book sell out its first edition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Welcome to the first edition of Executive Dysfunction.

From Slate • Feb. 19, 2026

The lead story in the first edition, according to the newspaper’s website, was about $1 million being spent to pave a stretch of modern-day Chautauqua Boulevard and to plant trees near Santa Monica Canyon.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025

I give him his birthday present, a first edition of The Waves I found in a little bookstore in New York.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven