text edition

An edition of a book designed especially for use in schools or colleges.

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text′ edi`tion

a special edition of a book for distribution to schools or colleges.

[1890–95]

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text edition - a book prepared for use in schools or colleges; "his economics textbook is in its tenth edition"; "the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy"

school text, schoolbook, textbook, text

book - a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together); "I am reading a good book on economics"

crammer - a textbook designed for cramming

introduction - a basic or elementary instructional text

primer - an introductory textbook

reader - one of a series of texts for students learning to read

trade book, trade edition - a book intended for general readership

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Although I no longer remember the edition of "Think and Grow Rich" I read, there is something nostalgic about rereading it in the original unedited 1937 text edition. I felt a sense of excitement as I realize the abundance of fulfillment and how I have been blessed in the material realm, contentment, and peace of mind, lasting friendships, and family relationships.

Think and Grow Rich: The Original Unedited 1937 Text

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Thus far the project has produced a parallel text edition, freely available online in digitized form, of both versions of Holinshed, which is of enormous value to anyone wishing to compare the two texts.

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It is therefore a pity that the text edition of Adelaar does not contain the seventeenth century Dutch text of the Statenbijbel, (State's Bible, Dutch authorized version) but a heavily modernized Dutch version of the Statenbijbel with different syntactic structures from the Dutch base text that Gravius used.

Alexander Adelaar: Siraya. Retrieving the Phonology, Grammar and Lexicon of a Dormant Formosan Language

In addition we have a new edition of Professor Timothy Armstrong's Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems ([pounds sterling]13.99) which replaces that of 1993 and a new edition of Rene Weis's edition of King Lear: A Parallel Text Edition ([pounds sterling] 12.99) featuring the Quarto (1608) version alongside the Folio (1623).

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Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany

In addition to the merits of the text edition, Hot Thespian Action!

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This text edition seems to have been designed by someone who does not use text editions.

Meneket Rivkah: A Manual of Wisdom and Piety for Jewish Women by Rivkah bat Meir

Salim also said that the encyclopaedia will be available in two editions: abridged version and full text edition.

A faithful rendering of the 'Holy Quran' Acents[euro]A[bar] in English