The first book in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was first published by Bloomsbury in 1997 with an initial print-run of 500 copies in hardback, three hundred of which were distributed to libraries.

As this was Alastair Reynolds's first published hardback or hardcover fiction, and was published in a relatively small initial print run in the United Kingdom, it subsequently became a collectible first edition.

Although some found initial refuge in Italy ( especially Venice ), most resettled in the Ottoman Empire, where Spanish speaking Jews established in Istanbul a rich sub-culture with a flourishing Hebrew and Ladino printing industry.

The book never sold its initial printing of 3, 000 copies in his lifetime, and total earnings from the American edition amounted to just $ 556. 37 from his publisher, Harper & Brothers.

Among the longest single poems in American literature, Clarel, published in 1876, had an initial printing of only 350 copies.

A supplement gives celebrations, such as that of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, added to the Roman Catholic calendar of saints after the initial printing of the 2002 typical edition.

The prosecutions surrounding the printing of The Age of Reason in Britain continued for thirty years after its initial release and encompassed numerous publishers as well as over a hundred booksellers.

However, not much should be read into this price difference as the printing costs for inkjet and laser printers are a great deal higher than for dot matrix printers, and the inkjet / laser printer manufacturers effectively use their monopoly over arbitrarily priced printer cartridges to subsidise the initial cost of the printer itself.

By 1865, an initial printing of 1200 copies of his Mémoires was completed.

* Full text of the initial US printing of this novel

* Motown Yesteryear: a label created in late 1970s and used through the 1980s for the reissues of 7-inch singles from all eras of the company's history, after printing in the initial label has ceased.

Fundamentally, analytical bibliography is concerned with objective, physical analysis and history of a book while descriptive bibliography employs all data that analytical bibliography furnishes and then codifies it with a view to identifying the ideal copy or form of a book that most nearly represents the printer ’ s initial conception and intention in printing.

The initial print run of 1, 000 copies almost immediately sold out, leading to the printing of three more 1, 000-book lots over the next three years, which all sold out.

His book Golf My Way is one of the all-time classics of golf instruction, and has been reissued several times since the initial printing in 1974.

Editing and formatting services may or may not be offered and they may come with the initial publishing fee ( or more correctly, printing fee ) or might be offered at an additional cost.

The initial printing quickly sells out, and before long the tiny village is bombarded with members of the international media anxious to report the feel-good story.

The first full publication was by Ordo Templi Orientis in 1969, although this initial printing was seen by many to be of inferior quality, and in 1977 Harris ' paintings were rephotographed for a second edition.

That initial comic, cover-dated October 1939, quickly sold out 80, 000 copies, prompting Goodman to produce a second printing, cover-dated November 1939.

Even though the initial investment was somewhat heavy, it was more than neutralised by the savings in the matter of production and printing of ballot papers in lakhs, their transportation, storage etc., and the substantial reduction in the counting staff and the renumeration paid to them.

The North American version of the manga, retitled X / 1999 in its initial printing, was serialized in Viz Media's Animerica Extra and released in form under the Shōjo imprint.

The initial printing sold out in three days, confirming Fitzgerald's prediction of overnight fame.

For the initial run of booklets, Dahl had a printing job for a client and " tacked " the pet rock booklet onto the main job.

The initial printing run of 2, 000 copies was quickly sold out, and 30, 000 copies were sold within six months.

That initial comic quickly sold out 80, 000 copies, prompting Goodman to produce a second printing, cover-dated November 1939 and identical except for a black bar in the inside-front-cover indicia over the October date, and the November date added at the end.

They also include free market solutions to international poverty that was not included in the book-they interview economist Hernando de Soto, whose book on the subject was not published until after the initial printing of Commanding Heights.

In October 2006, RR Donnelley completed acquisition of Canadian Bank Note's financial printing business, consisting of documentation for initial public offerings.

One of the most frequent speculations is that the entire book ( excepting 9: 4-20 ) was originally written in Aramaic, with portions translated into Hebrew, possibly to increase acceptance-many Aramaisms in the Hebrew text find proposed explanation by the hypothesis of an inexact initial translation into Hebrew.

The book Minutes to Go resulted from his initial cut-up experiment: unedited and unchanged cut-ups which emerged as coherent and meaningful prose.

Eusebius ' description of his own method —" I shall collect the entries from the whole of the divinely inspired Scriptures, and I shall set them out grouped by their initial letters so that one may easily perceive what lies scattered throughout the text "— implies that he had no similar type of book to work from ; his work was entirely original, based only on the text of the Bible.

University of Chicago Professor Peter Novick, whose work Finkelstein described as providing the " initial stimulus " for The Holocaust Industry, asserted in the July 28, 2000 Jewish Chronicle ( London ) that the book is replete with " false accusations ", " egregious misrepresentations ", " absurd claims " and " repeated mis-statements " (" A charge into darkness that sheds no light ").

The book was banned in Poland from its initial publication until the fall of the Communist government in 1989.

The book was the best-selling children's book for two years after its initial publication.

Card and Krueger expanded on this initial article in their 1995 book Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage.

Nomic actually refers to a large number of games based on the initial ruleset laid out by Peter Suber in his book The Paradox of Self-Amendment.

The Bachman book Thinner sold 28, 000 copies during its initial run — and then ten times as many when it was revealed that Bachman was, in fact, King.

Darwin greatly expands his initial three-page treatment of Sexual Selection in the 1871 book The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex.

The five books of the Torah are known in Judaism by their incipits, the initial words of the first verse of each book.

Overall, initial critical reception of the book was poor, with the book gaining " certain notoriety for being ' mawkish and nauseous ,' ' unclean ,' ' effeminate ,' and ' contaminating.

However, towards the end of the book he forgets the initial reason for maintaining the fire.

* November 24 – British naturalist Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species, a book which argues that species gradually evolve through natural selection ( it immediately sells out its initial print run ).

Mathematical biologists ' initial relationship with the ideas in the book was, according to Alan Grafen, " at best difficult " due to what Grafen postulates is a reliance solely on Mendelian genetics by these biologists.

The initial reviews of the book ranged from very positive to very negative.

Although Addams ' own characters were well established by the time of their initial encounter, in a 2001 interview Bradbury states that Addams " went his way and created the Addams Family and I went my own way and created my family in this book.

Although Addams ' own characters were well-established by the time of their initial encounter, in a 2001 interview Bradbury states that "( Addams ) went his way and created the Addams Family and I went my own way and created my family in this book.

However, Groff Conklin, reviewing the novel's initial book publication, characterized it as " a good run-of-the-mill affair " and " pleasant reading ... provided you aren't out hunting science fiction masterpieces.

The magazine was founded by American journalist Louis Rossetto and his partner Jane Metcalfe and Ian Charles Stewart in 1993 with initial backing from software entrepreneur Charlie Jackson and eclectic academic Nicholas Negroponte of the MIT Media Lab, who was a regular columnist for six years, through 1998 and wrote the book Being Digital.

A journalist with three decades of experience, and the author of a dozen travel-inspired books, Winchester's initial proposal to write a book about an obscure lexicographer met with rejection.