A Zac-Chat about ... First Editions! 

Very interesting! Thanks to you and Zac for this chat!

I found this fascinating, I would love a continuation and would be interested in Zac's response to the part that dust jackets play in the valuation.

Unless I’m mistaken, Infinite Jest was published simultaneously in hardcover and softcover - I have a paperback copy of the first edition with the “Vollman” misspelling, just like you’d find on the first edition dust jacket.

Fascinating discussion.

A new Zac-Chat! What a nice surprise.

Great video!

I'm terminally superficial - I'll take a later edition with a better looking dust jacket and/or illustrations over the first edition any day.

This guy digressed all the way to the basement on the first question.

I kind of want to call in a nice Brattle credit but can only be used on the "floor that Steve never goes"!

For me, reading a first edition signed by the author is like a dining experience. The ultimate reading experience would be to read the galleys with the author's proofs. It has to be the work of an author I like, of course.

An endless, confusing, bizarre, hopelessly incomprehensible conversation! 😮

I buy books (almost all the time), but what if the 1st edition, printed in the UK, where it was written, and the 1st American edition? Given that both were printed in 2024, what would be any difference in value? Why? Or how about the 1st German edition, meaning the first translation? (I usually think of those as less valuable.)