Illustration: Inside a small letterpress publisher's binding room, a binder presents a freshly bound book to its nervous author. Beside them, the first modest batch of identical volumes has just been released from the book press; matching covers carry only an embossed plant motif.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

初しょ版はん

shohan

first edition

Example sentences

  1. 初版しょはんは１０年前ねんまえに出版しゅっぱんされた。

    The first edition was published ten years ago.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 彼女かのじょの蔵書ぞうしょは全部ぜんぶで３５００冊さつで多おおくの初版しょはんが入はいってる。

    Her library has 3,500 books and includes many first editions.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 人気作品にんきさくひんは増刷ぞうさつされ、それに伴ともなって帯おびも変更へんこうされる事ことから、初版しょはん時じの帯おびは特とくに珍重ちんちょうされる。

    Since popular books are reprinted with obi renewed, the obi of the first edition are especially highly valued.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 初版

  • 初first time; beginningOnショKunはじめ・はじめて・はつ
  • 版printing block; printing plateOnハン

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