Given the option, which would you generally choose, first editions or fine editions? (First editions may be fine editions too, of course. But often they aren't.) Or are you indifferent?
Personally, I've never really understood first-edition allure. For my part, I agree with Edith Wharton's Mr. Selden (House of Mirth): 'I simply like to have good editions of the books I am fond of.'
Edit: You mustn't think that I agree with Selden in other ways.