Excited seeing Sterne's first book (7)

I believe the answer is:

genesis

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'first book' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'excited seeing sterne's' is the wordplay.
'excited' is an anagram indicator.
'sterne' becomes 's' (this could be a standard abbreviation of which I'm unaware).
'seeing' is an anagram of 'genesi'.
'genesi'+'s'='GENESIS'

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(Other definitions for genesis that I've seen before include "rock band" , "Origin or formation of something" , "Bible's first book" , "Band; book" , "Creation" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.

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