Ebay spectacular!!!!

[steamer]

This!!!  is going to be entertaining!!!!!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/machinerys-handbook-FIRST-Edition/223549081905?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908105057%26meid%3Dd389bd45a43249ef8a1134f2d8b631f8%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D223549081905%26itm%3D223549081905&_trksid=p2481888.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3A7b59e38a-8d71-11e9-a26e-74dbd1809929%7Cparentrq%3A4e37e7af16b0aa164161847fffff8591%7Ciid%3A1

Stay tuned!

[crueby]

 

[b.lindsey]

Would be quite the collectors item for sure, and will be interesting to see how high the bidding goes. It sure has gotten thicker over the years hasn't it

Bill

[steam guy willy]

i always wait for a third edition    by then all the mistakes should have been corrected...
willy

[Dan Rowe]

Dave, thanks for pointing that book out. I just picked up the reprint version in leather for less than $50.

Dan

[b.lindsey]

For any that might be interested in the reprint as Dan mentioned....it can be had here:

https://books.industrialpress.com/machinery-s-handbook-collector-s-edition-1914-first-edition-replica.html

Bill

[Craig DeShong]

Take two zeroes off it and he might get some bids.   

[steam guy willy]

So is it really 5 decades left to bid for it 

Willy

[Chipswitheverything]

Craig, if you knock off two zeros, the book is still two and a half thousand quid....!   Knock four off and perhaps he is in with a chance, but my 1955, 15th edition will do for me, and it cost me 50 PENCE !, in super condition just a few years ago.  A lucky find.    Dave

[steam guy willy]

so that was a quick 3 decades.... it says in the first page   First Edition tenth thousand... I thought that the first edition of any book never has  First edition printed in it ....or is this more like a second impression as the plates may have been worn out ???    citation please...Also although the date in the page is 1914  if you look at the top of the previous page there is a date August 10th 1916 ??? !!!


willy

[Elam Works]

Willy,

Could be a first edition, second (or later) printing. If the publisher runs out of copies and prints more without altering the type, content, etc., technically they can still call it the first edition. Many publishers do state if a edition is the first edition (or use a special glyph) of a title; and usually if it is a subsequent printing. However there is no agreed standard and the whole issue of what is a first edition: first issue in the USA vs, UK, first in paperback, first under a newly revised title or page layout, and so on is a debatable topic judging by a Google search on the subject. There is no official rule.

For example my 11th edition of Machinery's Handbook states fourth printing. So while it is copywrite 1943, the previous owner wrote in the date of 1952 when he bought it new.

However there is something odd about the page date you reference. It is cut down from a larger sheet and appears to be pasted into the book. So the date of 1916 might not have anything to do with this edition. Surely having a page pasted in knocks a few hundred quid off the value...

-Doug

[Mike Bondarczuk]

Hi all,

Very interesting comments and my version is the Sixteenth edition with second printing annotated below and published in 1959.

The copyright notes indicate printings were 1914 and then 1924 with no mention of 1916.

Mike

[b.lindsey]

 The seller notes that a quick reference index was added in 1916. Still no bids as of this morning though.

Bill

[steam guy willy]

Ok the post mark date is  Feb 1914 so yes it is a first edition.......sorry for being in the garden and casting nasturshams  about its authenticity........

[Rod999]

Interesting, that the mentioned date, August 10th, is my birthday. However 1916 doesn't apply and the price excludes my bidding - but then I already have too much "stuff", but it is really cool to have the box!!