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Later printings of a book, or something you usually don't want if you are a first edition collector. You can read them though.
There are two common exceptions among collectors: 1) textually or artistically significant reprints, in which academics and die-hard collectors will take an interest, and 2) signed or inscribed reprints, which, if the author rarely signed or the association is particularly notable, can command healthy interest and/or prices. This early reprint edition of The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, offered in our Catalog 122, was inscribed by Rand to the research director of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, making it an interesting association copy.
Andrew Roth's The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century, which has been a convenient guide to photography collectors.