1990 March, Cliff Gromer, Firsthand Report: Yamaha WaveRunner III, Popular Mechanics.
Not previously owned or used; contrasted with secondhand.
a firsthand copy
adverb
Directly or from personal experience.
2003, Katherine Edgar, “Levant”, in Jennifer Speake, Literature of Travel and Exploration: G to P
However, the romantic subjective approach persisted, allowing the nontraveling reader the illusion of experiencing the region at firsthand, […]