The February 2021 meeting highlighted anniversary editions. Members presented an array of classic and favorite books which have proved popular and successful enough to be reprinted in anniversary editions. While these special editions mark an anniversary of the original publication, commemorative editions honor historic events or celebrate milestones of their subject matter. A combination of both anniversary and commemorative editions were shown during the online meeting.
The anniversary edition books are arranged in order of
appearance of the first edition. The
commemorative edition books are similarly chronologically ordered.
Anniversary Editions
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| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Twain, Mark. Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn. Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press, 1985.
100th anniversary edition, with a foreword by Henry Nash Smith and
woodcut illustrations by Barry Moser.
First published in the United Kingdom in 1884 by Chatto
& Windus and in the United States in 1885 by Charles L. Webster &
Company.
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| The Hobbit |
Tolkien, J. R. R. The
Hobbit, or There and Back Again.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
50th anniversary edition, with a foreword by Christopher Tolkien and
maps, illustrations, and drawings by J. R. R. Tolkien. Bound in gold leatherette with green and red
foil stamping and housed in a paper gold slipcase.
First published in 1937 by Allen & Unwin.
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| The Power and the Glory |
Greene,
Graham. The Power and the Glory. New York: Viking Press, 1990. 50th anniversary edition with an introduction
by John Updike. This copy is signed by
Updike on the first preliminary page.
First
published in 1940 by William Heinemann.
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| Fahrenheit 451 |
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit
451. New York: Simon & Schuster,
1993. 40th anniversary edition, with
a new foreword by the author.
First published in 1951 in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine
as "The Firemen," and in book form in 1953 as Fahrenheit 451
by Ballantine Books.
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| The Lord of the Rings |
Tolkien, J. R. R. The
Lord of the Rings. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1981. 25th anniversary
edition. Boxed 3 volume set, bound in
silver leatherette. Issued on the 25th anniversary
of the first publication of The Return of the King, the final book in
the trilogy, in the United States in 1956.
First published 1954-1955 by Allen & Unwin. First published in the United States
1954-1956 by Houghton Mifflin.
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| The Owl Service |
Garner, Alan. The
Owl Service. London: HarperCollins,
2017. 50th anniversary edition, with
a new introduction by Philip Pullman.
First published in 1967 by William Collins & Sons, Co.
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| The Front Runner |
Warren, Patricia Nell.
The Front Runner. Beverly
Hills: Wildcat Press, 1996. 20th
anniversary edition. The book was first
published in hardcover in 1975 and paperback in 1976. Wildcat Press similarly released the
anniversary edition in hardback in 1995 and paperback in 1996.
First published in 1975 by William Morrow & Company.
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| The Polar Express |
Van Allsburg, Chris.
The Polar Express. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 10th
anniversary edition, with a note from the author.
First published in 1985 by Houghton Mifflin.
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| The Alchemist |
Coelho, Paulo. The
Alchemist. New York: HarperOne,
2014. 25th anniversary edition,
signed by the author on an anniversary edition signature page.
First published as O Alquimista in Portuguese in 1988. First published in English in 1993 by
HarperTorch.
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| American Gods |
Gaiman, Neil. American
Gods. New York: HarperCollins, 2011. 10th anniversary edition, using the author's
preferred text and with a special introduction by the author.
First published in 2001 by William Morrow.
Commemorative Editions
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| Oz: The Hundreth Anniversary Celebration |
Glassman, Peter, ed.
Oz: The Hundreth Anniversary Celebration. New York: HarperCollins, 2000. Thirty children's book authors and
illustrators pay tribute to L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz on the
100th anniversary of the first Oz book.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was first published in
1900 by George M. Hill Company.
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| I Have a Dream |
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
I Have a Dream. San
Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1993.
30th anniversary edition of Dr. King's August 28, 1963, "I Have a
Dream" speech delivered at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. This copy is signed on the half title page by
Coretta Scott King.
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| Apollo 13 |
Lovell, Jim and Jeffrey Kluger. Apollo 13. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. Previously published as Lost Moon,
with a new preface. Commemorative
edition on the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission, April 11, 1970. This copy is signed by Jim Lovell on the
title page.
First published as Lost Moon in 1994 by Houghton
Mifflin.
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| The First Twenty-Five Years of the Beehive Press |
Beehive Press. The
First Twenty-Five Years of the Beehive Press. Savannah, GA: Beehive Foundation, 1995. Published in collaboration with the Boston
Public Library, the University of Georgia Libraries, and the Beehive
Foundation. Includes a complete
catalogue of books published by the press from its 1970 inception through 1995.
