first edition. n.p. (NY), n.p. (The Viking Press), n.d. (1944), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Advance copy, an uncorrecte...
$25,000.00
first edition. NY, Viking, 1939, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. No book is more identified with John St...
$15,000.00
London: Henry Colburn, 1845. Three volumes. Original forest green cloth, decorated in blind, spines lettered in gilt, edges unt...
$7,500.00
first edition. n.p. (NY), n.p. (Viking Press), n.d. (April 1957), first edition, spiral-bound wrappers. Softcover. No. 4 of an ...
$7,500.00
first edition. NY, Covici Friede, 1935, first edition, first printing, wrappers. Softcover. The dust jacket is glued at the spi...
$5,000.00
New York: Dial Press, 1967. Near Fine. Uncorrected galley proofs. Bradbound sheets printed rectos only on proofing paper. A li...
$4,500.00
New York: George Braziller, 1991. Signed by the Nobel laureate author. First U.S. edition / First printing. Uncorrected proof....
$1,800.00
New York: Horace Liveright, Inc., 1931. Three volumes. Small quarto. Plain brown wrappers, titled in manuscript. Slight tannin...
$1,750.00
New York: World Publishing Co., Country Press., 1971 Uncorrected Galley Proofs for the First Edition. Author's first Novel. ...
$1,745.00
New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1979. A typed manuscript, there were reportedly only 20 copies printed and of REVENG...
$1,500.00
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. Printed house logo wrappers. Spine rolled from reading, with short splits at the toes of the joint...
$1,400.00
New York: Scribner, 1931. Original long galleys, folded as issued. Very good. The author's original working set of long galleys...
$1,250.00
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966. Narrow quarto. Plastic comb bound printed wrappers, with authorship ascription on upp...
$1,250.00
New York: Harper & Row, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Review copy, with publis...
$1,200.00
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. Drab wrappers, printed in black. Some use, creases and short tears at wrapper fore- edges, ...
$1,200.00Unlike first editions, proofs and advanced review copies of books were not printed to be consumed publicly. Proofs and advance review copies are printed for publishers, reviewers, and select magazines and bookstores as sneak previews of soon to be available books. Proofs and advance review copies may be different than the finished product, and the level of difference varies greatly. Some differences are minor and grammatical, while other proofs and advance reading copies have entire paragraphs or pages included that are edited out before the first official printing.
Even though book galleys are also early printed versions of books before they are widely released, galleys sometimes serve a slightly different purpose than proofs and advance reading copies. The typeset is determined and it has usually been proofed by an editor, but galleys are often used as the final proofreading copy for the author.
By their nature, proofs, advance review copies, and galleys are quite scarce, so if they are copies of successful titles, they are often considered to be highly collectible and valuable. They are great additions to personal rare book collections, and they can tremendous diversity and insight to the collection.
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