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 "datePublished": "2026-06-28",
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "creator": {
  "name": "Josh Eldred",
  "sameAs": "https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5147-4825"
 },
 "publisher": "New Mexico Literacy Project",
 "count": 3759,
 "data": [
  {
   "slug": "the-great-gatsby",
   "title": "The Great Gatsby",
   "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1925",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the Scribner's seal 'A' and the 1925 Scribner's imprint on the copyright page. First-issue text points: 'chatter' (p.60), 'northern' (p.119), 'sick in tired' (p.205), 'Union Street station' (p.211), and the famously corrected 'echolalia' (p.60); the jacket has 'Jay Gatsby' corrected from a lowercase 'jay Gatsby' on the rear panel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-great-gatsby"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sun-also-rises",
   "title": "The Sun Also Rises",
   "author": "Ernest Hemingway",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1926",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has Scribner's seal 'A' with the 1926 imprint. Primary point: on p.181 line 26 'stoppped' is misspelled with three p's (corrected in the second printing). First-issue dust jacket lists the quotation 'This is an unimportant story...' and the jacket carries the period quotation from Ecclesiastes/Gertrude Stein.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sun-also-rises"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-farewell-to-arms",
   "title": "A Farewell to Arms",
   "author": "Ernest Hemingway",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1929",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trade first: Scribner's 'A' with 1929 imprint, no disclaimer notice on the copyright page (the disclaimer was added in later printings). Dust jacket without the 'legal' notice. A signed/limited issue of 510 copies was printed on rag paper, signed by Hemingway, in slipcase.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-farewell-to-arms"
  },
  {
   "slug": "for-whom-the-bell-tolls",
   "title": "For Whom the Bell Tolls",
   "author": "Ernest Hemingway",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the 'A' with 1940 imprint and the first-issue dust jacket WITHOUT the photographer's credit ('Photograph by ...') on the rear flap — the credit line was added in a later issue. Some first-issue jackets show the publisher's $2.75 price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/for-whom-the-bell-tolls"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-old-man-and-the-sea",
   "title": "The Old Man and the Sea",
   "author": "Ernest Hemingway",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the 'A' with 1952 imprint on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket has the blue/silver design with NO Book-of-the-Month Club blind-stamp and the $3.00 price present (jacket not clipped).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-old-man-and-the-sea"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sound-and-the-fury",
   "title": "The Sound and the Fury",
   "author": "William Faulkner",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith",
   "year": "1929",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "CONFIRMED: 1,789 copies first printing (Daniel; multiple ABAA dealers). True first is US Cape and Smith 1929, published Oct 7 1929; UK Chatto and Windus 1931 is later. No additional-printing notice is consistent. WRONG BINDING: not black cloth with paper spine label; it is patterned Art Deco paper-covered boards with a white cloth spine, title stamped in black on the spine with no paper label, dark blue-gray topstain, patterned endpapers. WRONG JACKET: not glassine; it is a printed pictorial jacket with a Kathe Kollwitz design; the real point of issue is the rear-panel Humanity Uprooted listing at 3.00 dollars first state versus 3.50 dollars second state. The jacket is genuinely scarce. PARTLY MISLEADING COLORED INK: it is true the 1929 text has no colored ink and Faulkner wished for colored type for the Benjy time-shifts, but this is not a point of issue since all early printings are monochrome, and it was later realized in the 2012 Folio Society edition; reword unrealized to unrealized in his lifetime.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sound-and-the-fury"
  },
  {
   "slug": "light-in-august",
   "title": "Light in August",
   "author": "William Faulkner",
   "publisher": "Harrison Smith & Robert Haas",
   "year": "1932",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade printing has the publisher's device and no later-printing notice; orange/tan cloth. A signed limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies preceded or accompanied the trade issue and is the premium state. The first trade issue lacks any printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/light-in-august"
  },
  {
   "slug": "absalom-absalom",
   "title": "Absalom, Absalom!",
   "author": "William Faulkner",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade edition is identified by \"1936\" on the title page AND \"1936\" on the copyright page with NO additional statement of later printings (no \"Second printing,\" etc.); a printer's code \"EH\" appears at the foot of the copyright page on the true first. Random House did NOT print the words \"FIRST EDITION\" on the copyright page of this 1936 book — the original claim is wrong on that point. The first edition does include the fold-out map of Yoknapatawpha County (printed in red and black) and the Chronology and Genealogy appendices (CONFIRMED). A signed limited edition of 300 numbered copies, signed by Faulkner on the limitation page, precedes the trade issue and is the premium true-first state (CONFIRMED) — but it was issued WITHOUT a publisher's slipcase: dealers (e.g., Bauman Rare Books) describe it as \"issued without dust jacket or slipcase,\" bound in half green cloth over patterned boards, top edge gilt. The original claim's \"in slipcase\" is incorrect; any slipcase/clamshell/chemise seen today is a later collector-added protective case, not original issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/absalom-absalom"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-grapes-of-wrath",
   "title": "The Grapes of Wrath",
   "author": "John Steinbeck",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press (New York)",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trade first: copyright page reads 'Copyright 1939 John Steinbeck / First Published in April 1939' AND 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page; dust jacket has $2.75 price upper-right of front flap and 'First Edition' in blue ink lower-right of front flap. The endpapers are the correct first-issue (no 'A Limited Edition' notice).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-grapes-of-wrath"
  },
  {
   "slug": "of-mice-and-men",
   "title": "Of Mice and Men",
   "author": "John Steinbeck",
   "publisher": "Covici-Friede",
   "year": "1937",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first: US Covici-Friede (NY, 1937) is the recognized true first edition; the UK Heinemann edition is also 1937 but later/secondary — CONFIRMED. First-issue point (CORRECTED): the point on p.9 is TEXTUAL, not \"broken/cropped type.\" The first issue (first printing, first state) CONTAINS the nine-word phrase at the bottom of p.9 reading \"...and only moved because the heavy hands were pendula.\" Roughly 2,500 copies were bound with this uncorrected reading; the page was then reset to delete those nine words, so the second issue/state ends the sentence at \"...hung loosely.\" Thus the first state has the original (longer) uncorrected reading — it is not that it \"lacks a correction\" so much as it predates the deletion. A second corroborating point is the bullet (raised period) between the two 8's of the page number on p.88 in the first issue (claim omitted this). Binding (CORRECTED/refined): publisher's beige/tan cloth, but stamped in terracotta/orange and black with a blue top-edge stain — NOT gilt. Dust jacket: $2.00 price on the upper front flap — CONFIRMED. Reference: Goldstone & Payne A7.a.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/of-mice-and-men"
  },
  {
   "slug": "east-of-eden",
   "title": "East of Eden",
   "author": "John Steinbeck",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First published by The Viking Press in September 1952' with no later printing line. First-issue text error: 'bite' for 'bight' on p.281, line 38. A 1,500-copy signed limited edition preceded the trade. Original jacket priced $4.50.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/east-of-eden"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-catcher-in-the-rye",
   "title": "The Catcher in the Rye",
   "author": "J. D. Salinger",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company (Boston)",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing: copyright page reads 'FIRST EDITION' and the dust jacket has the famous rear-panel photo of Salinger (later removed at his request) and lists the price $3.00. First-issue jacket has the Salinger photograph on the rear panel; the front flap mentions 'Lozenge' point per Ahearn.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-catcher-in-the-rye"
  },
  {
   "slug": "to-kill-a-mockingbird",
   "title": "To Kill a Mockingbird",
   "author": "Harper Lee",
   "publisher": "J. B. Lippincott (Philadelphia)",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page. First-issue dust jacket has the $3.95 price intact and the rear panel with Truman Capote's recommendation; the jacket back lists the photo by Truman Capote. No statement of later printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/to-kill-a-mockingbird"
  },
  {
   "slug": "invisible-man",
   "title": "Invisible Man",
   "author": "Ralph Ellison",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' with no later-printing notice. Original jacket priced $3.50, designed by E. McKnight Kauffer. Grey cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/invisible-man"
  },
  {
   "slug": "slaughterhouse-five",
   "title": "Slaughterhouse-Five",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence (New York)",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has 'First printing' stated on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket priced $5.95 with the Vonnegut blurbs. The 'Seymour Lawrence / Delacorte' imprint is present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/slaughterhouse-five"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cats-cradle",
   "title": "Cat's Cradle",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first edition, first printing states \"First Edition\" on the copyright page under the Holt, Rinehart and Winston imprint (New York, Chicago, San Francisco; 1963), with no additional later-printing notice. CORRECTION: the original first-issue dust jacket is priced $3.95 on the front flap, NOT $4.50. Multiple independent dealers (bbrarebooks, burnsiderarebooks, dustjackets.com) consistently cite $3.95; no source supports $4.50. The true-first note is ACCURATE: the US Holt, Rinehart and Winston edition (published March 18, 1963) is the true first; the UK Gollancz edition (1963) followed it, so the stated \"First Edition\" US trade copy is the collected first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cats-cradle"
  },
  {
   "slug": "blood-meridian",
   "title": "Blood Meridian",
   "author": "Cormac McCarthy",
   "publisher": "Random House (New York)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has 'FIRST EDITION' stated with the full number line ending in '1' and the Random House 'house' device on the title page; first-issue dust jacket priced $16.95 with the correct rear-panel author photo and blurbs.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/blood-meridian"
  },
  {
   "slug": "all-the-pretty-horses",
   "title": "All the Pretty Horses",
   "author": "Cormac McCarthy",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing has the full number line '9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' on the copyright page (Knopf) and 'FIRST EDITION' stated. Bound in quarter cloth/boards; first-issue dust jacket priced $21.00 on the front flap with the original Western landscape jacket art.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/all-the-pretty-horses"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-road",
   "title": "The Road",
   "author": "Cormac McCarthy",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "2006",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the full number line '9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' (ending in 1) and 'FIRST EDITION' with the Borzoi device; first-issue dust jacket priced $24.00. Oprah's Book Club sticker is NOT on a true first-issue jacket (the selection came later).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-road"
  },
  {
   "slug": "beloved",
   "title": "Beloved",
   "author": "Toni Morrison",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the full number line ending in '1' and 'FIRST EDITION' stated with the Borzoi device; first-issue dust jacket priced $18.95. A signed/limited issue of 400 copies, signed by Morrison, in slipcase, was issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/beloved"
  },
  {
   "slug": "song-of-solomon",
   "title": "Song of Solomon",
   "author": "Toni Morrison",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page with the Knopf colophon. Original jacket priced $8.95. No later-printing number line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/song-of-solomon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "portnoys-complaint",
   "title": "Portnoy's Complaint",
   "author": "Philip Roth",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page. Original jacket priced $6.95. A signed limited edition of 600 copies (in slipcase) preceded/accompanied the trade.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/portnoys-complaint"
  },
  {
   "slug": "goodbye-columbus",
   "title": "Goodbye, Columbus",
   "author": "Philip Roth",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'First Printing' on the copyright page with the Houghton Mifflin imprint; Roth's first book and National Book Award winner. Original jacket priced $3.50.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/goodbye-columbus"
  },
  {
   "slug": "american-pastoral",
   "title": "American Pastoral",
   "author": "Philip Roth",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition has the full number line ending in '1' with the Houghton Mifflin imprint. Original jacket priced $26.00. Pulitzer Prize winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/american-pastoral"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rabbit-run",
   "title": "Rabbit, Run",
   "author": "John Updike",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page with the Knopf Borzoi device. The first printing contains the unexpurgated text that Knopf later toned down; original jacket priced $4.00.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/rabbit-run"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-adventures-of-augie-march",
   "title": "The Adventures of Augie March",
   "author": "Saul Bellow",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The claimed points are individually accurate but materially INCOMPLETE — they omit the two decisive first-ISSUE points, so a copy matching the claim could still be a later second-issue printing. Corrected/complete points for the true first edition, first issue (The Viking Press, 1953): 1. COPYRIGHT PAGE: Reads \"Published by The Viking Press in September 1953\" with NO statement of later/subsequent printings. (Claim's generic \"Published...1953, no later-printing line, Viking imprint\" is correct but imprecise on the month.)\n2. PRINTER STATEMENT (KEY ISSUE POINT — OMITTED IN CLAIM): First issue states \"Printed in U.S.A. by the Vail-Ballou Press, Inc.\" at the bottom of the copyright page. The SECOND issue instead shows H. Wolff as printer.\n3. TOP-EDGE STAIN (KEY ISSUE POINT — OMITTED IN CLAIM): First issue has ORANGE top-edge stain (topstain). The second issue has NO topstain. Binding: black and gray cloth with orange titles.\n4. DUST JACKET (issue point — partly omitted): Price $4.50 on the upper front flap (CONFIRMED accurate). First-issue jacket has the ad for \"The Short Novels of John Steinbeck\" on the rear flap and NO reviews. Jacket design by Robert Hallock.\n5. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD: CONFIRMED — won the National Book Award for Fiction (awarded 1954). Bellow's third book and first NBA winner. TRUE-FIRST NOTE: CONFIRMED ACCURATE — US Viking Press (1953) is the true first edition; the UK Weidenfeld & Nicolson edition (1954) is later.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-adventures-of-augie-march"
  },
  {
   "slug": "herzog",
   "title": "Herzog",
   "author": "Saul Bellow",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: published by The Viking Press, New York, 1964. The true first is an UNSTATED first edition: the copyright page reads \"First published in 1964\" with NO printing statement and no later-printing notice (later printings ARE stated). The claim's \"copyright-page first-printing statement\" is incorrect and inverted — there is no stated first-printing line; identification is by the absence of a printing statement plus \"First published in 1964.\" First-issue dust jacket has Saul Bellow's photograph on the rear panel and is priced $5.95 on the front flap (later-issue jackets carry review blurbs); jacket designed by Mel Williamson. Blue cloth boards, silver spine lettering. Bound/printed as [viii], 341, [3] pp. The premium state is a fine first printing in a fine, unclipped first-issue ($5.95) jacket (and, if present, an authentic Bellow signature) — NOT a separate limited edition. National Book Award (1965) winner: correct. US Viking 1964 is the true first; UK Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1965 is later: correct.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/herzog"
  },
  {
   "slug": "white-noise",
   "title": "White Noise",
   "author": "Don DeLillo",
   "publisher": "Viking",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Mostly right with two corrections. CONFIRMED: US Viking 1985 is the true first; original jacket priced $16.95 on the front flap; first-state jacket is unclipped with that price; National Book Award winner (National Book Foundation lists \"Winner, National Book Awards 1985 for Fiction\" — note the 1980-86 awards were also branded \"American Book Awards,\" so some listings say American Book Award; modern canonical name is National Book Award, so the claim stands). CORRECTION 1 — the number-line point is NOT how this first is identified and appears to be wrong/unverifiable. The leading specialist reference (fedpo.com) identifies the first edition solely by the copyright-page statement \"First published in 1985 by Viking Penguin Inc.\" with NO mention of subsequent printings — it lists no number line at all. Multiple bookseller listings likewise authenticate by that copyright statement plus the unclipped $16.95 jacket, not by a \"number line ending in 1.\" Drop or rewrite the number-line claim; the real point of issue is the copyright statement with no additional-printing language. CORRECTION 2 — the imprint on the copyright page reads \"Viking Penguin Inc.\" (the spine/binding shows Viking); \"Viking imprint\" is loosely fine but the precise copyright-page wording is \"Viking Penguin Inc.\" TRUE-FIRST NOTE: US Viking true first = correct. UK first = Picador, 1985 (confirmed). The \"/Cape\" alternative is unsupported in sources found — there's no evidence of a Jonathan Cape first of White Noise; remove \"/Cape.\" Penguin/Viking \"Contemporary Classics\"/Penguin Classics framing as a later trade paperback (not the first) = correct.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/white-noise"
  },
  {
   "slug": "libra",
   "title": "Libra",
   "author": "Don DeLillo",
   "publisher": "Viking",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition has the full number line ending in '1' with the Viking imprint. Original jacket priced $19.95.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/libra"
  },
  {
   "slug": "underworld",
   "title": "Underworld",
   "author": "Don DeLillo",
   "publisher": "Scribner",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Mostly accurate, with one factual error in the jacket description and a missing sharper point. CONFIRMED:\n- Full number line \"1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2\" (i.e., ending such that the lowest numeral 1 is present) on the copyright page = first printing. Correct.\n- Dust jacket priced $27.50 US (Canadian $34.95). An unclipped flap showing $27.50 is the correct first-state price. Correct.\n- Scribner imprint; US Scribner 1997 is the TRUE FIRST. UK Picador hardcover is 1998 (later). Correct. (Note: a Picador uncorrected proof and an Australian release circulated in late 1997, but the US Scribner hardcover remains the recognized true first.)\n- Signed copies are the premium. Correct. Note a distinct \"not for sale\" signed issue exists (tipped-in signed leaf, \"not for sale\" on the jacket back, no price on the flap) — a separate state, not the trade first. CORRECTION (jacket): The claim calls it the \"black-and-white Manhattan/church jacket.\" The defining image is André Kertész's 1972 photograph of the World Trade Center TWIN TOWERS shrouded in fog, with a church steeple and cross in the foreground (front = positive image, rear = negative/inverted). The phrase \"Manhattan/church\" omits the single most identifying element — the Twin Towers. Reword to: \"the black-and-white André Kertész photo of the World Trade Center towers with a church/cross in the foreground.\" ADD (stronger first-issue point): The front jacket reads \"a novel by the author of LIBRA and WHITE NOISE.\" The Advance Reader's Copy reverses this to \"by the author of WHITE NOISE and LIBRA\" — a useful tell to distinguish the trade first from the ARC. Sources: FEDPO (fedpo.com/BookDetail.php/Underworld), Perival DeLillo bibliography (perival.com/delillo/underworld.html), Wikipedia \"Underworld (novel)\", aphelis.net on the Kertész 1972 photo.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/underworld"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gravitys-rainbow",
   "title": "Gravity's Rainbow",
   "author": "Thomas Pynchon",
   "publisher": "Viking Press",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "CORE STRUCTURE IS RIGHT, ONE MATERIAL ERROR. Accurate elements: (1) US Viking Press (March 1973) is the true first; UK Jonathan Cape is later — CONFIRMED. (2) Two simultaneous first-issue formats — a hardcover and a softcover — issued together (4,000 hardbacks, 16,000 paperbacks); both are true firsts; copyright page reads \"First published in 1973 in a hardbound and paperbound edition by The Viking Press.\" CONFIRMED. (3) Hardcover first: $15.00 on the dust-jacket front flap (code \"0273\" on lower flap), SBN 670-34832-5, no later-printing statement on copyright page; orange boards, red spine lettering. CONFIRMED. (4) Hardcover with jacket is the more collectible/preferable format. CONFIRMED. ERROR — paperback imprint: The simultaneous trade paperback is NOT \"A Richard Seaver Book.\" It is a VIKING COMPASS edition (Viking Compass C374), priced $4.95 at the top-right of the front cover. Richard Seaver did run a Viking imprint, but Gravity's Rainbow was not issued under it. Strike \"A Richard Seaver Book\" and replace with: \"the simultaneous trade paperback is a Viking Compass edition (C374), $4.95, also a true first in wrappers.\" MINOR/UNVERIFIED — \"No author photo (Pynchon's reclusiveness)\": consistent with known facts but NOT a recognized point of issue; it is background color, not a distinguishing point. Do not present it as a point. Recommended corrected statement: \"US Viking Press (March 1973) is the true first; UK Cape is later. Two simultaneous first-issue formats: a hardcover (Viking, $15.00 jacket, code 0273, SBN 670-34832-5, no later-printing statement) and a softcover Viking Compass edition (C374, $4.95 on front cover) — both true firsts. The hardcover with jacket is the more collectible. Distinguish from book-club issues, which lack the jacket price and may carry a blind stamp.\"",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gravitys-rainbow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-crying-of-lot-49",
   "title": "The Crying of Lot 49",
   "author": "Thomas Pynchon",
   "publisher": "J. B. Lippincott Company",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with the Lippincott imprint. Original jacket priced $3.95. Half-cloth boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-crying-of-lot-49"
  },
  {
   "slug": "v",
   "title": "V.",
   "author": "Thomas Pynchon",
   "publisher": "J. B. Lippincott Company",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with the Lippincott imprint; Pynchon's debut novel. Original jacket priced $5.95. Issued in cloth with the distinctive jacket; first issue has no later-printing notices.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/v"
  },
  {
   "slug": "on-the-road",
   "title": "On the Road",
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press (New York)",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing states 'FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1957' / 'Published by The Viking Press' with no statement of later printing; the first-issue dust jacket has the $3.95 price and the rear panel author photo by Mark Jacobson and lists Viking titles to a specific point.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/on-the-road"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-confederacy-of-dunces",
   "title": "A Confederacy of Dunces",
   "author": "John Kennedy Toole",
   "publisher": "Louisiana State University Press",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "VERIFIED TRUE FIRST: US LSU Press 1980 is the true first edition. Identification points: - LSU Press imprint; \"1980\" on title page; copyright page states NO additional/later printings (later printings add a printing statement). CONFIRMED.\n- Foreword (often called a foreword/introduction) by Walker Percy. CONFIRMED.\n- First printing small, approx. 2,500 copies. CONFIRMED (widely cited; genuine firsts are scarce as a result).\n- Original dust jacket priced $12.95 on the front flap. CONFIRMED.\n- Bound in publisher's tan cloth, lettered in black on spine; ~338 pp. (supporting detail). CORRECTION 1 (factual error): The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was won in 1981 (awarded for the 1980 publication), NOT 1980. It was indeed posthumous (Toole died 1969). Fix any \"1980 Pulitzer\" wording to \"1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (posthumous).\" CORRECTION 2 (outdated/oversimplified jacket point): The claim implies the first-state jacket is identified simply by the Walker Percy blurb being the only blurb on the rear panel. This old \"Walker Percy rule\" has been SUPERSEDED. Since a 2022 discovery, the accepted first-state jacket point is the presence of faint white \"specks\"/stars in the black areas of the jacket (background of the front panel, back panel, and spine), with the title lettering faded toward beige. The LSU production manager confirmed the stars were deleted and the title color intensified for the reprint. The first-state jacket also lacks the later-added review blurbs (Chicago Sun-Times, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Booklist) on the rear panel. So: presence of Percy-only blurbs is consistent with first state but is NOT the definitive modern point; the stars/specks are. Note this only matters for first-PRINTING-vs-later-jacket state; the book's printing statement on the copyright page remains the primary point for the book itself.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-confederacy-of-dunces"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lolita",
   "title": "Lolita",
   "author": "Vladimir Nabokov",
   "publisher": "The Olympia Press (Paris)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Two volumes in green printed wrappers (Traveller's Companion Series nos. 66-67). True first issue has 'Francs: 900' printed on the rear cover of each volume, no price sticker/erasure. No printer's overprint correcting the price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lolita"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pale-fire",
   "title": "Pale Fire",
   "author": "Vladimir Nabokov",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Putnam first states 'First Impression' on the copyright page. Original jacket priced $5.00. Issued in cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pale-fire"
  },
  {
   "slug": "catch-22",
   "title": "Catch-22",
   "author": "Joseph Heller",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster (New York)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has 'FIRST PRINTING' stated on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket is priced $5.95 and the rear panel carries the blurbs without later additions.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/catch-22"
  },
  {
   "slug": "infinite-jest",
   "title": "Infinite Jest",
   "author": "David Foster Wallace",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company (Boston)",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the full number line ending in '1' and 'FIRST EDITION'; first-issue dust jacket priced $29.95 with the cloud/sky design and the correct rear-panel. The advance/uncorrected proof (galley) is a distinct sought-after state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/infinite-jest"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-virgin-suicides",
   "title": "The Virgin Suicides",
   "author": "Jeffrey Eugenides",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US first edition (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1993), Eugenides's debut, is the true first. The first-printing dust jacket is priced $18.00 on the front flap, NOT $19.00 as claimed. Primary point of issue is the stated \"First edition, 1993\" on the copyright page. The FSG number line, when present, reads 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2; the stated-first line is the real identifier rather than the number line. Physical: quarter white cloth over orange paper boards, black spine lettering, 249 pp. UK Bloomsbury (1993) is a separate market true first; US FSG is the overall first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-virgin-suicides"
  },
  {
   "slug": "middlesex",
   "title": "Middlesex",
   "author": "Jeffrey Eugenides",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition has the FSG number line ending in '1'. Original jacket priced $26.00. Pulitzer Prize winner. Oprah's Book Club selection — Oprah-seal jacket copies are a later jacket state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/middlesex"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-corrections",
   "title": "The Corrections",
   "author": "Jonathan Franzen",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Claimed points are not wrong where stated, but they are INCOMPLETE and partly MISLEADING. Corrected/complete points of issue for the TRUE FIRST (US Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001): 1. NUMBER LINE (claim: ending in 1) is CORRECT. First printing has First Edition, 2001 on the copyright page with a full number line descending to 1 (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1); the lowest digit drops on later printings. 2. PRICE 26.00 dollars (claim) is CORRECT. First-state jacket is priced 26 dollars on the front flap (fedpo.com, Manhattan Rare Books, Evening Star Books). 3. PRIMARY POINT OF ISSUE is OMITTED BY THE CLAIM. The defining first-issue point is that pages 430 and 431 are bound/printed TRANSPOSED (an email appears on p.430 instead of p.431), with a publisher ERRATUM SLIP laid in telling the reader to read p.431 before p.430. Copies with reversed pages plus the errata slip are the sought-after first issue. The claimed list omits this entirely, a significant gap since this is the central collecting point. 4. OPRAH SEAL (claim: printed on some jackets, first-state jackets lack the seal) is MISLEADING/IMPRECISE. True that the preferred first-state jacket has NO Oprah mark. But Franzen objected and Oprah WITHDREW the selection, so printed on some jackets understates that Oprah-marked copies are LATER printings/states (logo slug or O sticker), not a uniform first-printing feature. The preferred-state conclusion is right; the mechanism is loosely described. TRUE-FIRST NOTE is CORRECT. US FSG 2001 precedes the UK edition (Fourth Estate, 2002). The first-state jacket without any Oprah mark IS the preferred state. RECOMMENDATION: Revise to LEAD with the 430/431 transposition plus errata-slip issue, and reword the Oprah point as first-state jacket bears no Oprah mark; Oprah-logo/sticker copies are later states.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-corrections"
  },
  {
   "slug": "wise-blood",
   "title": "Wise Blood",
   "author": "Flannery O'Connor",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition is identified by the words \"FIRST EDITION\" stated on the copyright page (the primary, definitive point of issue — the original claim omits this entirely). Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1952; O'Connor's debut novel. Issued in publisher's yellow cloth with the title/spine lettering in gray (the claim's generic \"issued in cloth\" is correct but vague — the cloth is specifically yellow). Octavo, 232pp. Original first-issue dust jacket priced $3.00 on the front flap. Small first printing (commonly cited as ~3,000 copies), making true firsts genuinely scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/wise-blood"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-good-man-is-hard-to-find",
   "title": "A Good Man Is Hard to Find",
   "author": "Flannery O'Connor",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition has the Harcourt, Brace imprint with no later-printing notice. Original jacket priced $3.50. The story-collection first is scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-good-man-is-hard-to-find"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tropic-of-cancer",
   "title": "Tropic of Cancer",
   "author": "Henry Miller",
   "publisher": "Obelisk Press (Paris)",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "TRUE first is the Obelisk Press (Paris, 1934) issue in printed wrappers with the bank wraparound band; the US edition was banned until Grove Press published it in 1961. First-issue Obelisk has the original price on the wrapper and the preface by Anaïs Nin.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tropic-of-cancer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "native-son",
   "title": "Native Son",
   "author": "Richard Wright",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "CORRECTED FIRST-EDITION POINTS for Native Son by Richard Wright (Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940): 1. HARPER LETTER CODE — partly right, location WRONG. The first printing carries the Harper two-letter date code \"A-P\" (A = January, P = 1940). This is correct and IS the standard first-printing identifier. BUT the claim that the code sits \"at the foot of the last text page\" is FALSE. On Harper & Brothers books of this era the code appears on the COPYRIGHT PAGE (title-page verso) — and for Native Son specifically it appears directly below the \"FIRST EDITION\" statement on the verso of the title page (booksellers consistently describe \"A-P below the edition statement\"). The foot-of-last-page numeral row is a LATER Harper & Row practice (post-1969), not applicable to a 1940 book. So: code is \"A-P,\" and a true first ALSO has \"FIRST EDITION\" stated on the copyright page; the code is NOT on the last text page. 2. JACKET PRICE $2.50 — CORRECT, but incomplete. The first-issue dust jacket is priced $2.50. Add the more diagnostic point: the first-issue jacket is GREEN AND YELLOW with NO review blurbs on the spine; a second state adds review quotes to the spine. The cloth is dark blue. The bare \"$2.50\" alone is weak as a point. 3. BOMC / EXPURGATION CLAIM — FALSE and BACKWARDS. The claim that \"the trade first carries the unexpurgated text\" is WRONG. The opposite is true: the Book-of-the-Month Club required Wright to cut/soften sexual and racial passages (e.g., the movie-theater masturbation scene, Mary's sexual arousal of Bigger) BEFORE publication, and the 1940 Harper TRADE first edition was printed FROM THAT SAME EXPURGATED TEXT. The novel was not published in its full, unexpurgated form until the Library of America edition of 1991 (text restored by editors preparing the LOA volumes; intro/notes by Arnold Rampersad). Therefore NO 1940 printing — trade or club — carries the unexpurgated text. Any selling point implying the trade first is textually \"complete/uncensored\" is false. TRUE-FIRST NOTE — the framing is CORRECT. The US Harper & Brothers trade first (1940, dark blue cloth, \"FIRST EDITION\" + \"A-P\" on copyright page) is the true first edition; the UK Gollancz edition (1940) is later/secondary. The Harper \"A-P\" code does identify the first printing. (Caveat: collectors distinguish the trade first from the simultaneous Book-of-the-Month Club issue, which can look similar but lacks the \"A-P\" code and is not the true first.)",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/native-son"
  },
  {
   "slug": "their-eyes-were-watching-god",
   "title": "Their Eyes Were Watching God",
   "author": "Zora Neale Hurston",
   "publisher": "J. B. Lippincott Company",
   "year": "1937",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Partly accurate, but two claims need correction and one is unverifiable. TRUE-FIRST (CONFIRMED): The US J.B. Lippincott Company edition, Philadelphia, 1937, is the genuine true first edition. British/UK editions are much later (the first UK appearance is the Virago Press paperback, 1986). Genuine 1937 firsts in the original dust jacket are genuinely scarce and valuable — jacketed copies are offered by dealers at roughly $8,800–$12,500, the jacket is routinely described as \"rare in the original,\" and the great majority of surviving copies lack it. This note is accurate. POINTS OF ISSUE — corrections: 1. COPYRIGHT-PAGE POINT (imprecise as written). The claim's framing (\"Lippincott imprint with no later-printing notice\") is a weak/imprecise rendering of the actual point. The standard identification is that the true first printing has the 1937 Lippincott imprint and copyright (\"Copyright, 1937, by Zora Neale Hurston\") with NO statement of any later printing/impression on the copyright page; later printings add such a notice. Reputable dealer copy commonly describes the first as \"First edition, first printing.\" Recommend rephrasing to: \"First printing: J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1937 imprint, with copyright 1937 and no statement of a later printing on the copyright page.\" 2. BINDING (incomplete). \"Issued in cloth\" is true but omits the key identifying detail: the publisher's binding is ORANGE cloth lettered in black (spine and front lettered in black). Specify the orange cloth. 3. JACKET PRICE \"$2.00\" (UNVERIFIABLE — remove or flag). No reachable source confirms a $2.00 (or any specific) price printed on the first-edition jacket flap. Multiple dealer listings describe the jacket art (gold/tan ground with a God-like figure hurling lightning over a flooded landscape) but none state a flap price. This $2.00 figure should be removed unless it can be confirmed against a documented jacketed copy; asserting it as a point of issue is not supported. SCARCITY: \"genuine firsts are scarce\" — accurate, and scarcer/most valuable in the original jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/their-eyes-were-watching-god"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-color-purple",
   "title": "The Color Purple",
   "author": "Alice Walker",
   "publisher": "Harcourt Brace Jovanovich",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition has the HBJ imprint with the first-printing letter code beginning at 'B' (HBJ code). Original jacket priced $11.95. Pulitzer Prize winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-color-purple"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bell-jar",
   "title": "The Bell Jar",
   "author": "Sylvia Plath",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "TRUE first is the UK Heinemann edition (1963), published under the pseudonym 'Victoria Lucas' — first issue states 'Victoria Lucas' on the title page and jacket. The US Harper & Row edition (1971) is the first American edition under Plath's own name.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bell-jar"
  },
  {
   "slug": "breakfast-at-tiffanys",
   "title": "Breakfast at Tiffany's",
   "author": "Truman Capote",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page (Random House). Original jacket priced $3.50. Issued in cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/breakfast-at-tiffanys"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-cold-blood",
   "title": "In Cold Blood",
   "author": "Truman Capote",
   "publisher": "Random House (New York)",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing states 'FIRST EDITION' / 'First Printing' on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket priced $5.95. A signed/limited issue of 500 copies, signed by Capote, in slipcase, was printed concurrently.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-cold-blood"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-moviegoer",
   "title": "The Moviegoer",
   "author": "Walker Percy",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page with the Knopf Borzoi device; the author's debut and National Book Award winner. Original jacket priced $3.95. First-issue jacket has the original (pre-award) blurbs and no later-printing notice; the first printing was small.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-moviegoer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "franny-and-zooey",
   "title": "Franny and Zooey",
   "author": "J. D. Salinger",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Mostly accurate, but the dust-jacket color description is WRONG and must be corrected. CONFIRMED points:\n- \"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page identifies the first printing. CONFIRMED (fedpo bibliography: \"The copyright page includes the statement 'FIRST EDITION.'\"). Later printings add print-line information; first printing states only \"First Edition\" with no other printings noted.\n- Binding: publisher's dark blue-gray / gray cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine. CONFIRMED.\n- Priced $4.00 on the front jacket flap (unclipped). CONFIRMED by fedpo and multiple dealers.\n- No review excerpts / blurbs on the first-state jacket; the back of the jacket is the same as the front. CONFIRMED (fedpo).\n- Salinger demanded no author photo and no biographical matter; instead the flap carries his statement beginning \"It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him...\" CONFIRMED. This is genuinely a hallmark of the true Little, Brown first.\n- True first edition is the US Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1961; the UK William Heinemann edition (1962, \"First published in Great Britain in 1962\") is later. CONFIRMED. CORRECTED / WRONG points:\n- \"the jacket is plain cream/taupe with the title in colored panels\" — INCORRECT. The first-edition dust jacket is consistently described by dealers and bibliographies as GREEN AND WHITE, lettered in BLACK (green spine, white front panel). It is NOT cream or taupe. A well-documented anecdote notes the publisher sent Salinger ~27 white samples before finding the exact shade of white he wanted, confirming the panel is white, not cream/taupe. The phrase \"title in colored panels\" is also misleading: the lettering is black on the green/white jacket, not a multi-color-paneled design with colored title text. NET: The copyright-page point, $4.00 price, no-review-excerpts, no-author-photo/no-bio, and the US-first/UK-1962-later true-first note are all ACCURATE. The dust-jacket color (\"cream/taupe\", \"colored panels\") is INACCURATE and should read \"green and white jacket lettered in black.\"",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/franny-and-zooey"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cathedral",
   "title": "Cathedral",
   "author": "Raymond Carver",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Identify the first by a STATED \"First Edition\" on the copyright page (confirmed by ABAA dealers), NOT by a \"number line ending 1\" — that claim is unsupported and misleading for this Knopf title. The $13.95 front-flap price is CONFIRMED. The Borzoi colophon is present but is not a point of issue distinguishing printings. The \"signed limited edition exists\" claim is UNSUPPORTED and should be removed: all signed copies are trade firsts signed in person (e.g., \"Raymond Carver / 10/31/83\"); no separate numbered/limited issue exists. The true-first note is correct (US Knopf 1983 over UK 1984), but the UK publisher is Collins Harvill / Harvill Press, not \"Collins\" alone, and there is no signed/limited state — the premium is simply a fine signed trade first in a fine unclipped $13.95 jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cathedral"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ulysses",
   "title": "Ulysses",
   "author": "James Joyce",
   "publisher": "Shakespeare and Company (Paris)",
   "year": "1922",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Edition limited to 1,000 copies on three papers: nos. 1-100 on Dutch handmade paper SIGNED by Joyce; nos. 101-250 on vergé d'Arches; nos. 251-1,000 on handmade paper. Blue printed wrappers with white lettering ('Ulysses by James Joyce'). The first printing contains the printer's errata and the famous textual errors of the Dijon (Darantiere) printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ulysses"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dubliners",
   "title": "Dubliners",
   "author": "James Joyce",
   "publisher": "Grant Richards (London)",
   "year": "1914",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London Grant Richards 1914, red cloth. The genuine first has the publisher's device and is distinguished from the 1916 US Huebsch edition. Notoriously delayed (set in type 1906) but not published until 1914 after years of printer's objections.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dubliners"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man",
   "title": "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man",
   "author": "James Joyce",
   "publisher": "B.W. Huebsch (New York)",
   "year": "1916",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the New York Huebsch edition of 1916 (the English Egoist Press edition, 1917, was actually printed from American sheets). Publisher's cloth; '1916' on title/copyright.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mrs-dalloway",
   "title": "Mrs Dalloway",
   "author": "Virginia Woolf",
   "publisher": "Hogarth Press (London)",
   "year": "1925",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hogarth Press 1925, Vanessa Bell dust jacket design. Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh. UK first precedes the US Harcourt Brace edition of the same year.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mrs-dalloway"
  },
  {
   "slug": "to-the-lighthouse",
   "title": "To the Lighthouse",
   "author": "Virginia Woolf",
   "publisher": "Hogarth Press (London)",
   "year": "1927",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hogarth Press 1927. First printing has the misprint on the dedication page and the Vanessa Bell jacket. UK first precedes US Harcourt Brace 1927. Blue cloth, paper label / Bell-designed jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/to-the-lighthouse"
  },
  {
   "slug": "orlando",
   "title": "Orlando",
   "author": "Virginia Woolf",
   "publisher": "Hogarth Press (London)",
   "year": "1928",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Two near-simultaneous 1928 issues: the ordinary Hogarth trade edition and a signed limited edition of 861 copies (Crosby Gaige, New York, actually precedes by a few days). The trade first has the photographic plates of 'Orlando.' UK Hogarth trade edition in publisher's cloth with jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/orlando"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
   "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
   "author": "George Orwell",
   "publisher": "Secker & Warburg (London)",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Secker & Warburg London, June 1949. Two dust-jacket states issued simultaneously: red jacket and green jacket (neither has confirmed priority; both are first-issue, the red somewhat scarcer/more sought). Price 10s net on jacket. Book in pale green cloth. The two jackets are the key collecting point.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nineteen-eighty-four"
  },
  {
   "slug": "animal-farm",
   "title": "Animal Farm",
   "author": "George Orwell",
   "publisher": "Secker & Warburg (London)",
   "year": "1945",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first: Secker & Warburg August 1945 in pale green cloth, dust jacket priced 6s, the jacket WITHOUT the later second-issue 'plain' design; first-issue jacket has the correct blurb. The 'six shillings' price on the jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/animal-farm"
  },
  {
   "slug": "brighton-rock",
   "title": "Brighton Rock",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1938",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Heinemann London 1938. The notorious point: a small number of the first edition were bound by error in GREEN cloth (intended for another Heinemann title) rather than the standard red cloth; the green-cloth copies are considered the earliest/most desirable state. Standard issue is red cloth, gilt spine lettering. Dust jacket is scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/brighton-rock"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-power-and-the-glory",
   "title": "The Power and the Glory",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Heinemann London 1940, in orange/red cloth. Wartime production. UK first precedes the US edition, which was retitled 'The Labyrinthine Ways' (Viking, 1940).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-power-and-the-glory"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-end-of-the-affair",
   "title": "The End of the Affair",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Heinemann London 1951, in the typical Heinemann cloth with windmill device. Jacket priced. UK first precedes US Viking 1951.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-end-of-the-affair"
  },
  {
   "slug": "brideshead-revisited",
   "title": "Brideshead Revisited",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall (London)",
   "year": "1945",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Chapman & Hall London 1945. There was also a small privately-printed 1944 issue of about 50 copies for the author's friends, which technically precedes. The 1945 trade first is in the standard Chapman & Hall cloth; later Waugh revised the text (1960), so the 1945 text is the unrevised first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/brideshead-revisited"
  },
  {
   "slug": "decline-and-fall",
   "title": "Decline and Fall",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall (London)",
   "year": "1928",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Chapman & Hall London 1928, Waugh's first novel. First issue includes Waugh's own illustrations and the subtitle 'An Illustrated Novelette.' Some early printings were censored; the first issue retains certain passages. Pictorial jacket and cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/decline-and-fall"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lord-of-the-flies",
   "title": "Lord of the Flies",
   "author": "William Golding",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first: Faber 1954, first-issue dust jacket priced 12s 6d, with the correct blurb and no later-printing statement; '8s 6d' / price point per Connolly. The boards in the correct color and the Faber colophon.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lord-of-the-flies"
  },
  {
   "slug": "under-the-net",
   "title": "Under the Net",
   "author": "Iris Murdoch",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (London)",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Chatto & Windus London 1954, Murdoch's first novel. Publisher's cloth with dust jacket; jacket priced. UK first precedes US Viking 1954.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/under-the-net"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sea-the-sea",
   "title": "The Sea, the Sea",
   "author": "Iris Murdoch",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (London)",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Chatto & Windus London 1978 (Booker Prize winner). Publisher's boards with dust jacket, priced. UK first precedes US Viking 1978.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sea-the-sea"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lucky-jim",
   "title": "Lucky Jim",
   "author": "Kingsley Amis",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz (London)",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Mostly accurate, but the jacket lettering colors are wrong and one date nuance should be corrected. CORRECTED POINTS OF ISSUE (true first edition): (1) Publisher Victor Gollancz, London. Title page dated 1953, although the book was actually published January 1954. The true first impression bears \"1953\" on the title page; the claim's \"1954\" is the publication year, not the printed date. (2) Amis's first novel — CONFIRMED (Christie's: \"the author's first and most celebrated novel\"). (3) Binding: original GREEN cloth, spine lettered in gilt (the claim omitted binding color). (4) Dust jacket: characteristic bright-yellow Gollancz typographic jacket, but lettered in PINK and BLACK, NOT \"red/black/magenta\" as claimed. Authoritative Christie's catalogue states \"yellow dust-jacket lettered in pink and black.\" (5) First-issue jacket priced 12/6 net, unclipped — CONFIRMED. (6) UK Gollancz precedes first US edition (Doubleday, Garden City, 1954 — red buckram, Edward Gorey illustrated jacket, $3.50) — CONFIRMED. TRUE-FIRST NOTE: substantially correct; Gollancz London is the true first, Doubleday New York 1954 is the first US, and the bright-yellow Gollancz typographic jacket is the recognizable feature. Add that the title page is dated 1953 (despite Jan-1954 publication), itself a recognized identifier of the first impression.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lucky-jim"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-comfort-of-strangers",
   "title": "The Comfort of Strangers",
   "author": "Ian McEwan",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Jonathan Cape London 1981. Publisher's boards, dust jacket priced. UK first precedes US Simon & Schuster 1981.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-comfort-of-strangers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "atonement",
   "title": "Atonement",
   "author": "Ian McEwan",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Jonathan Cape London 2001. First printing has the full number line '1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2' (or descending to 1) on the copyright page. Publisher's boards, dust jacket priced £16.99. UK first precedes US Doubleday/Nan A. Talese 2002.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/atonement"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-remains-of-the-day",
   "title": "The Remains of the Day",
   "author": "Kazuo Ishiguro",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber & Faber London 1989 (Booker Prize winner). First printing copyright page should show the full number line ending in '1' and no statement of later impression. Publisher's boards, dust jacket priced £11.99.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-remains-of-the-day"
  },
  {
   "slug": "an-artist-of-the-floating-world",
   "title": "An Artist of the Floating World",
   "author": "Kazuo Ishiguro",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber & Faber London 1986. First printing with number line ending in '1' on the copyright page; dust jacket priced. UK first precedes US Putnam 1986.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/an-artist-of-the-floating-world"
  },
  {
   "slug": "midnights-children",
   "title": "Midnight's Children",
   "author": "Salman Rushdie",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Jonathan Cape London 1981 (Booker Prize winner; later 'Booker of Bookers'). First impression copyright page shows the number line and no later-impression statement; dust jacket priced £6.95. Publisher's boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/midnights-children"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-satanic-verses",
   "title": "The Satanic Verses",
   "author": "Salman Rushdie",
   "publisher": "Viking (London)",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Viking/Penguin London 1988. First printing copyright page with full number line; dust jacket priced. Publisher's boards. Notorious for the fatwa controversy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-satanic-verses"
  },
  {
   "slug": "waiting-for-godot",
   "title": "Waiting for Godot",
   "author": "Samuel Beckett",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London) / Grove Press (New York)",
   "year": "1954/1956",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The original French text 'En attendant Godot' was published by Les Éditions de Minuit (Paris) in 1952. The first English-language edition is Grove Press New York 1954 (Beckett's own translation); the first UK English edition is Faber & Faber London 1956, which was censored (with restorations later). For the English first, look for Grove 1954 with the first-state binding/jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/waiting-for-godot"
  },
  {
   "slug": "molloy",
   "title": "Molloy",
   "author": "Samuel Beckett",
   "publisher": "Olympia Press (Paris) / Grove Press (New York)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The French original was Les Éditions de Minuit (Paris) 1951. The first English translation (by Beckett and Patrick Bowles) was published by Olympia Press, Paris, 1955, in the Merlin/Collection Merlin series, preceding the Grove Press New York edition (also 1955).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/molloy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "one-hundred-years-of-solitude",
   "title": "One Hundred Years of Solitude",
   "author": "Gabriel García Márquez",
   "publisher": "Editorial Sudamericana (Buenos Aires)",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the Spanish 'Cien años de soledad,' Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires, 1967, pictorial wrappers (galleon/boat cover). First printing (June 1967) has specific typographical points (e.g., the corrected/uncorrected text states and the line on a given page); genuine first printings are scarce and frequently faked. The first English edition is Harper & Row New York 1970 (trans. Gregory Rabassa).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/one-hundred-years-of-solitude"
  },
  {
   "slug": "love-in-the-time-of-cholera",
   "title": "Love in the Time of Cholera",
   "author": "Gabriel García Márquez",
   "publisher": "Editorial Oveja Negra (Bogotá)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Spanish 'El amor en los tiempos del cólera,' first published Bogotá 1985. First English edition Alfred A. Knopf New York 1988 (trans. Edith Grossman), first printing with number line, dust jacket priced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/love-in-the-time-of-cholera"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-name-of-the-rose",
   "title": "The Name of the Rose",
   "author": "Umberto Eco",
   "publisher": "Bompiani (Milan)",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Italian 'Il nome della rosa,' Bompiani, Milan, 1980, is the true first. First English edition Harcourt Brace Jovanovich New York 1983 (trans. William Weaver); UK Secker & Warburg 1983.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-name-of-the-rose"
  },
  {
   "slug": "if-on-a-winters-night-a-traveler",
   "title": "If on a winter's night a traveler",
   "author": "Italo Calvino",
   "publisher": "Giulio Einaudi (Turin)",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Italian 'Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore,' Einaudi, Turin, 1979. First English edition Harcourt Brace Jovanovich New York 1981 (trans. William Weaver); UK Secker & Warburg 1981.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/if-on-a-winters-night-a-traveler"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-tin-drum",
   "title": "The Tin Drum",
   "author": "Günter Grass",
   "publisher": "Hermann Luchterhand Verlag (Neuwied)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "German 'Die Blechtrommel,' Luchterhand, 1959, is the true first. First English edition Pantheon Books New York 1962 / Secker & Warburg London 1962 (trans. Ralph Manheim).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-tin-drum"
  },
  {
   "slug": "possession",
   "title": "Possession",
   "author": "A.S. Byatt",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (London)",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Chatto & Windus, London, 1990 (Booker Prize winner). First edition / first impression is identified by the COPYRIGHT-PAGE STATEMENT, not by a number line: the copyright page reads \"Published in 1990 by Chatto & Windus\" (first published statement) with NO later-impression line and names the printer as Butler & Tanner. Later impressions (e.g. 5th, 6th impressions of the 1990 Chatto edition exist) add an impression statement. The claim of \"a full number line ending in '1'\" is NOT supported by collector references (fedpo.com and dealer descriptions) and appears to be an erroneous/templated detail — Chatto & Windus first impressions of this title are typically not designated by a descending 10–1 number line. First-state dust jacket is unclipped, priced £13.95, and carries NO reference to the Booker Prize. Binding: blue publisher's boards (cloth-backed boards) with blue-stained top edge and a sewn-in dark blue silk ribbon marker; 511 pp.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/possession"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-god-of-small-things",
   "title": "The God of Small Things",
   "author": "Arundhati Roy",
   "publisher": "IndiaInk (India) / Flamingo (London)",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the IndiaInk edition (New Delhi, 1997), which precedes the UK Flamingo/HarperCollins 1997. For the UK first, Flamingo London 1997 with full number line. Booker Prize winner; Roy's debut.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-god-of-small-things"
  },
  {
   "slug": "wolf-hall",
   "title": "Wolf Hall",
   "author": "Hilary Mantel",
   "publisher": "Fourth Estate (London)",
   "year": "2009",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Fourth Estate London 2009 (Booker Prize winner). First printing copyright page with full number line ending in '1'; dust jacket priced £18.99. Publisher's boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/wolf-hall"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-buddha-of-suburbia",
   "title": "The Buddha of Suburbia",
   "author": "Hanif Kureishi",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber & Faber, London, 1990 — Kureishi's first novel (won the Whitbread Best First Novel award) [CONFIRMED]. Bound in publisher's ORIGINAL BLACK CLOTH with white lettering to the spine — NOT plain \"publisher's boards.\" Multiple independent dealers consistently describe the Faber first as black cloth; \"publisher's boards\" is misleading and should be corrected to \"publisher's black cloth.\" Dust jacket priced at £12.99 net on the front flap; a priced/unclipped jacket is the desirable first-issue point (clipped copies also exist) [CONFIRMED]. The first-printing number line ending in \"1\" is PLAUSIBLE for Faber of this era but was NOT confirmed by any source consulted for the UK Faber first — treat as unverified; do not assert it as a definitive point of issue. (It is the Viking US edition that sources tie to a \"complete number line.\") True-first note is ACCURATE: Faber London 1990 is the true first; Viking New York 1990 is the first US edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-buddha-of-suburbia"
  },
  {
   "slug": "trainspotting",
   "title": "Trainspotting",
   "author": "Irvine Welsh",
   "publisher": "Secker & Warburg (London)",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "CORRECTED. Core publisher/date/firstness facts are right, but the hardback framing is inverted/misleading and one ID point is unverified. TRUE FIRST: Secker & Warburg, London, 1993 — confirmed. Welsh's first book — confirmed. FORMAT (critical correction): Trainspotting was published as a PAPERBACK ORIGINAL in publisher's stiff wraps with integral fold-over 'French' flaps. ISBN 0-436-56567-6; first-printing run ~1,000 copies; original price £8.99. The paperback IS the true first and the premier collectible — NOT a secondary 'more common' issue. Reputable dealers (Burnside ABAA, John Atkinson, rarebookcellar, biblio) describe the true first exclusively as wraps; signed true-first wraps copies command roughly $2,000–$3,000. HARDBACK CLAIM (inaccurate/unverifiable): The assertion that a scarce trade hardback first edition exists and is the 'premier collectible' is NOT reliably corroborated and is essentially inverted. Only one dealer references a 'hardbound issue,' with no confirmation it is a distinct simultaneous trade-hardback first rather than a library/reinforced or later binding. Do not present a hardback as the premier first. ID POINTS: Reliable identifiers are the £8.99 price on the wraps, the French flaps, and ISBN 0-436-56567-6. The 'number line ending in 1' point is UNVERIFIED for the paperback first and should not be relied upon. FIRST US: W. W. Norton, New York, 1996 — confirmed (first American edition, paperback original).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/trainspotting"
  },
  {
   "slug": "white-teeth",
   "title": "White Teeth",
   "author": "Zadie Smith",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hamish Hamilton London 2000, Smith's debut. First printing copyright page with full number line ending in '1'; dust jacket priced £12.99. Publisher's boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/white-teeth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cloud-atlas",
   "title": "Cloud Atlas",
   "author": "David Mitchell",
   "publisher": "Sceptre (London)",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Sceptre (Hodder & Stoughton) London 2004. First printing copyright page with full number line ending in '1'; dust jacket priced £16.99. Publisher's boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cloud-atlas"
  },
  {
   "slug": "disgrace",
   "title": "Disgrace",
   "author": "J.M. Coetzee",
   "publisher": "Secker & Warburg (London)",
   "year": "1999",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Secker & Warburg (London), 1999 is the true first edition (Booker Prize winner, awarded Oct 1999). Points of issue for the first edition, first printing, FIRST STATE: (1) Printed by Biddles Ltd — NOT Clays. This is the critical discriminator. (2) Number line present, full 1-10 / ending in \"1\". CAUTION: a \"1\" in the number line alone does NOT confirm a true first — later second-state copies were printed by Clays yet still carry a number line ending in \"1.\" So the number-line point as originally stated (\"first printing number line ending in 1\") is necessary but NOT sufficient and is potentially misleading on its own; it must be paired with the Biddles printer credit. (3) First-STATE dust jacket has NO \"Winner of The Booker Prize 1999\" legend on the front panel (the book was printed before the prize was announced); second-state jackets add the Booker banner. (4) Dust jacket priced £14.99 (unclipped) — CONFIRMED. (5) Bound in publisher's boards (cloth-covered boards) with burgundy/maroon endpapers — the \"publisher's boards\" claim is consistent with dealer descriptions. Jacket photograph by Lucy Harmer.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/disgrace"
  },
  {
   "slug": "life-of-pi",
   "title": "Life of Pi",
   "author": "Yann Martel",
   "publisher": "Knopf Canada (Toronto)",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf Canada (Toronto) 2001 is the true first, preceding the UK Canongate 2002 (which won the Booker). The Canadian first has the Knopf Canada imprint and first-printing statement; the UK Canongate first is also collected. First printing number line/statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/life-of-pi"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-blind-assassin",
   "title": "The Blind Assassin",
   "author": "Margaret Atwood",
   "publisher": "McClelland & Stewart (Toronto)",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) 2000 is the true first (Booker Prize winner), preceding the UK Bloomsbury and US Nan A. Talese/Doubleday editions of 2000. Canadian first has the M&S imprint and first-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-blind-assassin"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-handmaids-tale",
   "title": "The Handmaid's Tale",
   "author": "Margaret Atwood",
   "publisher": "McClelland & Stewart (Toronto)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) 1985 is the true first, preceding the US Houghton Mifflin 1986 and UK Jonathan Cape 1986. Canadian first in publisher's cloth/jacket with first-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-handmaids-tale"
  },
  {
   "slug": "casino-royale",
   "title": "Casino Royale",
   "author": "Ian Fleming",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (UK hardcover)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1953 Jonathan Cape UK HARDCOVER (first Bond). Caution title for paperback collectors. The first US paperback was Popular Library, retitled 'You Asked for It' (1955); the first US hardcover was Macmillan (1954). Cape first has the correct first-state jacket and no later-printing statements.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/casino-royale"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-clockwork-orange",
   "title": "A Clockwork Orange",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Heinemann London 1962 is the true first and contains the final (21st) chapter omitted from the US edition. Publisher's boards, dust jacket priced 16s net. UK first precedes US Norton 1963.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-clockwork-orange"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-french-lieutenants-woman",
   "title": "The French Lieutenant's Woman",
   "author": "John Fowles",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Jonathan Cape London 1969. First printing with no later-impression statement; dust jacket priced. Publisher's boards. UK first precedes US Little, Brown 1969.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-french-lieutenants-woman"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-magus",
   "title": "The Magus",
   "author": "John Fowles",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London) / Little, Brown (Boston)",
   "year": "1965/1966",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first edition is the US Little, Brown Boston 1965, which precedes the UK Jonathan Cape 1966. First printing with no later-printing statement. (Fowles revised the text in 1977; the 1965/66 text is the unrevised first.)",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-magus"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-passage-to-india",
   "title": "A Passage to India",
   "author": "E.M. Forster",
   "publisher": "Edward Arnold (London)",
   "year": "1924",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Edward Arnold & Co., London, 1924 (published 6 June 1924) is the true first edition, trade printing of 5,000 copies; Kirkpatrick A10. First-impression points: title page dated 1924, NO mention of later printings on the verso, and 3 pages of publisher's ads at rear. BINDING: the first issue is in publisher's RED cloth (dark red/maroon) with black stamping — NOT blue. The \"blue cloth\" claim is wrong and in fact backwards: blue cloth is a later REMAINDER binding (James Cummins describes it as \"an unrecorded variant issue, in blue (remainder) binding, not noted by Kirkpatrick\"). NO recognized single-page misprint point identifies the first impression; the claimed misprint/textual point is unverifiable and not a standard bibliographic point (Forster's documented textual revisions belong to the later Abinger/Norton scholarly apparatus, not a first-impression identifier). UK Edward Arnold first DOES precede the US Harcourt, Brace, New York 1924 edition — that part is correct.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-passage-to-india"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sons-and-lovers",
   "title": "Sons and Lovers",
   "author": "D.H. Lawrence",
   "publisher": "Gerald Duckworth (London)",
   "year": "1913",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Duckworth London 1913. First issue in the publisher's blue/green cloth with Duckworth imprint and the '1913' date; 16-page catalogue of advertisements often present. UK first precedes US Mitchell Kennerley 1913.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sons-and-lovers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "women-in-love",
   "title": "Women in Love",
   "author": "D.H. Lawrence",
   "publisher": "Privately printed (Thomas Seltzer, New York)",
   "year": "1920",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the privately printed subscribers' edition (Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1920), limited to 1,250 copies, signed by the author. The first UK trade edition is Martin Secker London 1921.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/women-in-love"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-heart-of-the-matter",
   "title": "The Heart of the Matter",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1948",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Heinemann London 1948, in the Heinemann cloth with windmill device; dust jacket priced. First impression with no later-impression statement. UK first precedes US Viking 1948.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-heart-of-the-matter"
  },
  {
   "slug": "harry-potter-and-the-philosophers-stone",
   "title": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone",
   "author": "J.K. Rowling (as 'Joanne Rowling')",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury (London)",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Bloomsbury London 1997 hardback (only ~500 copies; ~300 to libraries). Points: full number line '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'; '1 wand' listed twice in the equipment list on p.53; author credited as 'Joanne Rowling' (not J.K.); 'Wizard' / crucially 'Philosopher's' misspelled 'Philosopher's' is correct but the rear cover has the 'Philosopher's' point — verify the p.53 '1 wand' duplication and the print line. Thomas Taylor cover art; copyright page shows '1997' only.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/harry-potter-and-the-philosophers-stone"
  },
  {
   "slug": "never-let-me-go",
   "title": "Never Let Me Go",
   "author": "Kazuo Ishiguro",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber & Faber London 2005. First printing copyright page with full number line ending in '1'; dust jacket priced £16.99. Publisher's boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/never-let-me-go"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-buried-giant",
   "title": "The Buried Giant",
   "author": "Kazuo Ishiguro",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "2015",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber & Faber London 2015. First printing copyright page with full number line ending in '1'; dust jacket priced. Publisher's boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-buried-giant"
  },
  {
   "slug": "money-a-suicide-note",
   "title": "Money: A Suicide Note",
   "author": "Martin Amis",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Jonathan Cape London 1984. First printing with no later-impression statement; dust jacket priced £8.95. Publisher's boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/money-a-suicide-note"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bell-jar-sylvia-plath-a",
   "title": "The Bell Jar",
   "author": "Sylvia Plath (as 'Victoria Lucas')",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Heinemann London 1963, published under the pseudonym 'Victoria Lucas.' First issue in the Heinemann cloth with dust jacket; the 'Victoria Lucas' attribution on the title page is the key point. UK first precedes the first US (Harper & Row 1971) by eight years.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bell-jar-sylvia-plath-a"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dune",
   "title": "Dune",
   "author": "Frank Herbert",
   "publisher": "Chilton Books (Philadelphia/New York)",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with no later printing line. Blue cloth boards. Dust jacket priced $5.95 on the front flap; rear panel has a map of Arrakis; rear flap carries the Chilton address (Chilton Book Company / 401 Walnut Street / Philadelphia, etc.). Pictorial red/blue desert-scene jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dune"
  },
  {
   "slug": "foundation",
   "title": "Foundation",
   "author": "Isaac Asimov",
   "publisher": "Gnome Press (New York)",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Dark blue cloth, red lettering on spine. First-state dust jacket priced $2.75 with NO mention of the later Foundation sequels; rear panel lists Gnome Press titles only (no 'Foundation and Empire' or 'Second Foundation'). Front flap has the famous misprint 'Hari Seldon.' Gnome address 80 East 11th Street, N.Y.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/foundation"
  },
  {
   "slug": "i-robot",
   "title": "I, Robot",
   "author": "Isaac Asimov",
   "publisher": "Gnome Press (New York)",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition so stated / no later printing indicia. Dust jacket priced $2.50. Beige/tan cloth. First printing of 5,000 copies.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/i-robot"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-martian-chronicles",
   "title": "The Martian Chronicles",
   "author": "Ray Bradbury",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (Garden City, NY)",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Code 'a' or '1' present on the copyright page per Doubleday practice; first issue dust jacket priced $2.75. No statement of later printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-martian-chronicles"
  },
  {
   "slug": "fahrenheit-451",
   "title": "Fahrenheit 451",
   "author": "Ray Bradbury",
   "publisher": "Ballantine Books (New York)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Two issue points: (1) the scarce signed/limited issue of 200 copies bound in asbestos boards (Johns-Manville Quinterra), signed and numbered; (2) the trade first in hardcover and the simultaneous paperback. Hardcover trade first stated 'First Edition' / first printing, jacket priced $2.50.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/fahrenheit-451"
  },
  {
   "slug": "stranger-in-a-strange-land",
   "title": "Stranger in a Strange Land",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the publisher's code 'C22' in the gutter at the foot of page 408. Green cloth, spine stamped gilt, green top-stain. No statement of printing on copyright page. First-issue jacket priced $4.50, with Heinlein's photo on the rear flap and a Starship Troopers ad/blurbs on the rear panel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/stranger-in-a-strange-land"
  },
  {
   "slug": "starship-troopers",
   "title": "Starship Troopers",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the Putnam code at the foot of the last text page; no statement of later printing on copyright page. First-issue jacket priced $3.50.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/starship-troopers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress",
   "title": "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the Putnam code at the foot of the final text page; copyright page lacks any later-printing statement. First-issue jacket priced $5.95.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress"
  },
  {
   "slug": "neuromancer",
   "title": "Neuromancer",
   "author": "William Gibson",
   "publisher": "Ace Books (New York)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Paperback original: Ace Science Fiction Special (edited by Terry Carr). True first printing has NO number line / print code on the copyright page (first three printings were the Ace Special series). Black pictorial wrappers lettered white/blue/pink, yellow page edges. Priced $2.95.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/neuromancer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "enders-game",
   "title": "Ender's Game",
   "author": "Orson Scott Card",
   "publisher": "Tor Books (New York)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the full number line ending in '1' on the copyright page and states 'First Edition.' Jacket priced $13.95. Jacket art by John Harris.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/enders-game"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hyperion",
   "title": "Hyperion",
   "author": "Dan Simmons",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (New York)",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the full number line ending in '1' and 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page. Jacket priced $18.95.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hyperion"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ringworld",
   "title": "Ringworld",
   "author": "Larry Niven",
   "publisher": "Ballantine Books (New York)",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Paperback original. First printing so stated; cover priced $0.95; first-printing code on copyright page. Note the famous first-printing error: Niven had the Earth rotating in the wrong direction (corrected in later printings), but this is a textual point, not a binding point.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ringworld"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-left-hand-of-darkness",
   "title": "The Left Hand of Darkness",
   "author": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
   "publisher": "Ace Books (New York)",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Paperback original, Ace Science Fiction Special (Terry Carr). First printing has no number line / Special-series indicia; priced $0.95.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-left-hand-of-darkness"
  },
  {
   "slug": "do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep",
   "title": "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (Garden City, NY)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing indicated by Doubleday code (no later-printing statement; '1' or letter code per Doubleday practice). First-issue jacket priced $4.50.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-man-in-the-high-castle",
   "title": "The Man in the High Castle",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the Putnam code at the foot of the last text page; no later-printing statement. First-issue jacket priced $3.95.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-man-in-the-high-castle"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four-1984",
   "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)",
   "author": "George Orwell",
   "publisher": "Secker & Warburg (London)",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK true first issued in TWO dust-jacket states — red jacket and green jacket — with NO established precedence (both are first issue; condition/scarcity drive value, red often considered slightly scarcer). Pale green/blue cloth, spine lettered in red/dark. First-issue jacket priced 10s. net. No statement of later printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nineteen-eighty-four-1984"
  },
  {
   "slug": "brave-new-world",
   "title": "Brave New World",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (London)",
   "year": "1932",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trade first: Chatto & Windus 1932 in blue cloth, dust jacket priced 7s 6d. A signed/limited issue of 324 copies on hand-made paper, signed by Huxley, in slipcase, was printed concurrently.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/brave-new-world"
  },
  {
   "slug": "childhoods-end",
   "title": "Childhood's End",
   "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
   "publisher": "Ballantine Books (New York)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued simultaneously as a hardcover and a paperback by Ballantine. Hardcover first is so stated, jacket priced $2.00. Note a first-printing textual point: the original first-printing prologue was later revised by Clarke (the 'superpower' opening), so first printings carry the original prologue text.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/childhoods-end"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-canticle-for-leibowitz",
   "title": "A Canticle for Leibowitz",
   "author": "Walter M. Miller Jr.",
   "publisher": "J. B. Lippincott (Philadelphia & New York)",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition stated with no later-printing line; first-issue jacket priced $4.50.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-canticle-for-leibowitz"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-forever-war",
   "title": "The Forever War",
   "author": "Joe Haldeman",
   "publisher": "St. Martin's Press (New York)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the number line ending in '1' and 'First Edition' / no later statement; first-issue jacket priced $7.95.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-forever-war"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-wrinkle-in-time",
   "title": "A Wrinkle in Time",
   "author": "Madeleine L'Engle",
   "publisher": "Ariel Books / Farrar, Straus and Cudahy",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Ariel Books (Farrar, Straus & Cudahy), 1962; first-issue dust jacket WITHOUT the Newbery Medal (won 1963), priced $3.50, art by Ellen Raskin. Copyright page states 'First printing' / no later-printing line; jacket carries 'Cudahy' (the firm became Farrar, Straus & Giroux shortly after).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-wrinkle-in-time"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy",
   "title": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy",
   "author": "Douglas Adams",
   "publisher": "Pan Books (London)",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Paperback original. First printing has the number line including '1' and the Pan imprint; priced 95p on the cover. The hardcover (Arthur Barker, 1979) was published shortly after.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "snow-crash",
   "title": "Snow Crash",
   "author": "Neal Stephenson",
   "publisher": "Bantam Spectra (New York)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition was the Bantam Spectra trade PAPERBACK; first printing has the full number line ending in '1.' A simultaneous/near-simultaneous hardcover issue exists but is extremely scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/snow-crash"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dispossessed",
   "title": "The Dispossessed",
   "author": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row (New York)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the code 'FIRST EDITION' and Harper's '0-06-...' with no later-printing statement; first-issue jacket priced $7.95.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dispossessed"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gateway",
   "title": "Gateway",
   "author": "Frederik Pohl",
   "publisher": "St. Martin's Press (New York)",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the number line ending in '1' / no later statement; first-issue jacket priced $8.95.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gateway"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-stars-my-destination",
   "title": "The Stars My Destination",
   "author": "Alfred Bester",
   "publisher": "Signet / New American Library (New York)",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US paperback original (Signet #S1389), priced $0.35 on the cover; first printing so coded. (Published in the UK first as 'Tiger! Tiger!' by Sidgwick & Jackson, 1956, in hardcover.)",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-stars-my-destination"
  },
  {
   "slug": "speaker-for-the-dead",
   "title": "Speaker for the Dead",
   "author": "Orson Scott Card",
   "publisher": "Tor Books (New York)",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the number line ending in '1' and states 'First Edition'; first-issue jacket priced $15.95.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/speaker-for-the-dead"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-time-machine",
   "title": "The Time Machine",
   "author": "H. G. Wells",
   "publisher": "Henry Holt (US) / William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1895",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The US Henry Holt edition (May 1895) PRECEDES the UK Heinemann (June 1895). The Holt first is bound in tan/buff cloth. The UK Heinemann first: gray-purple cloth, with the winged-sphinx device on the cover; first-issue points include the '16pp catalogue' at rear dated and the absence of later-printing notice. Heinemann first state lacks the 'The End' textual variants debated by bibliographers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-time-machine"
  },
  {
   "slug": "frankenstein",
   "title": "Frankenstein",
   "author": "Mary Shelley",
   "publisher": "Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones (London)",
   "year": "1818",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Three volumes, published anonymously, half-titles present; the dedication to William Godwin; the famous misprints in vol. I. Volume I title page reads '1818.' Boards/original drab paper-covered boards with paper spine labels in untouched copies.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/frankenstein"
  },
  {
   "slug": "american-gods",
   "title": "American Gods",
   "author": "Neil Gaiman",
   "publisher": "William Morrow / HarperCollins (New York)",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the full number line ending in '1' and 'First Edition' stated; jacket priced $26.00. (Note: a signed/limited 'author's preferred text' edition came much later — 2011, Headline/Morrow — and is a 'first thus,' not the true first.)",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/american-gods"
  },
  {
   "slug": "jurassic-park",
   "title": "Jurassic Park",
   "author": "Michael Crichton",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page with no number line removing it; first-issue jacket priced $19.95 and shows the Knopf borzoi colophon. The Tyrannosaurus-skeleton jacket art (by Chip Kidd) is on the first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/jurassic-park"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-three-body-problem",
   "title": "The Three-Body Problem",
   "author": "Liu Cixin (trans. Ken Liu)",
   "publisher": "Tor Books (New York)",
   "year": "2014",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English-language printing has the number line ending in '1' and 'First Edition' stated; jacket priced $25.99. (The true world first is the Chinese-language edition, Chongqing Press, 2008.)",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-three-body-problem"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hobbit",
   "title": "The Hobbit",
   "author": "J. R. R. Tolkien",
   "publisher": "George Allen & Unwin (London)",
   "year": "1937",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First impression of 1,500 copies. Key point: the rear flap of the dust jacket has 'Dodgeson' misspelled (corrected to 'Dodgson' in later state). On p.[160], 'Down he came' second line — first-state textual points; the runes and the four-color plates; '11. p.dd' issue. The book has the black-and-white illustrations and the map endpapers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hobbit"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lord-of-the-rings-trilogy",
   "title": "The Lord of the Rings (trilogy)",
   "author": "J.R.R. Tolkien",
   "publisher": "George Allen & Unwin (London)",
   "year": "1954-1955",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Three volumes. Vol I 'The Fellowship of the Ring' (1954) verso reads 'First published in 1954'; the signature mark '4' appears on page 'iv' of the preliminaries instead of correctly — the key Fellowship point is the misprint and the publisher's print run of 3,500. Vol III 'The Return of the King' (1955) first state has 'Estella Bolger' correctly. Each volume must state 'First published in 19__' with no later impressions. Folding red-and-black map present in each volume.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lord-of-the-rings-trilogy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "harry-potter-and-the-philosophers-stone-j-k-rowling",
   "title": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone",
   "author": "J. K. Rowling",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury (London)",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first: print line reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'; '1 Wand' listed TWICE in the equipment list on p.53; 'Philosopher's Stone' on the title page and rear cover credits 'Joanne Rowling'. First issue: 500 copies (300 to libraries) in hardback, the rest paperback. Copyright page has 'Joanne Rowling' and the bar-code/ISBN points.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/harry-potter-and-the-philosophers-stone-j-k-rowling"
  },
  {
   "slug": "harry-potter-and-the-chamber-of-secrets",
   "title": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets",
   "author": "J.K. Rowling",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury (London)",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Number line '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. Crucial error: page 6 lists '3 Quills' but Harry only buys 1; and the copyright page mistakenly credits 'Joanne Rowling'. The genuine first issue has the misprint where '7' is dropped from the number line in some copies (true first has the full line). Bloomsbury imprint, 1998.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/harry-potter-and-the-chamber-of-secrets"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dracula",
   "title": "Dracula",
   "author": "Bram Stoker",
   "publisher": "Archibald Constable and Company (Westminster/London)",
   "year": "1897",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in yellow cloth lettered in red, 'Dracula' on the spine and front board; first issue has the correct advertisements (dated catalogue) bound in and the 'six shillings' point; the textual points include 'castle Dracula' and the reading on specific pages per the bibliography.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dracula"
  },
  {
   "slug": "frankenstein-or-the-modern-prometheus",
   "title": "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus",
   "author": "Mary Shelley (published anonymously)",
   "publisher": "Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones (London)",
   "year": "1818",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Three volumes, published anonymously. Title pages dated 1818, imprint 'Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones'. Half-titles present; the dedication to William Godwin. Three small octavo volumes in original boards with paper labels (rarely surviving). 500 copies printed.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/frankenstein-or-the-modern-prometheus"
  },
  {
   "slug": "carrie",
   "title": "Carrie",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (New York)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Code 'P6' on the bottom of the last text page (gutter code, Doubleday convention). 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page (often, but the gutter code is decisive). Dust jacket priced $5.95 and does NOT mention 'The Shining' or later King titles on the rear panel; the jacket flap mentions only Carrie. First-issue jacket has the $5.95 price with no clipping.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/carrie"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-shining",
   "title": "The Shining",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (New York)",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page AND the gutter code 'R49' on the bottom inside corner of page 447. Dust jacket priced $8.95. First-issue jacket carries the $8.95 price; the rear panel/flap reflects 1977 King titles only.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-shining"
  },
  {
   "slug": "it",
   "title": "It",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Viking (New York)",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Published in 1986' on the copyright page with the full number line '1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 86 87 88 89' (Viking style). Dust jacket priced $22.95. Issued by Viking (not Doubleday, so no gutter code). First state has the $22.95 price and the complete number line beginning with 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/it"
  },
  {
   "slug": "salems-lot",
   "title": "Salem's Lot",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (New York)",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' on the copyright page plus gutter code 'P8' (or related Doubleday code) on the last text page. First-issue dust jacket priced $7.95. The notorious first-issue jacket point: the rear panel author photo — first-state jackets are sometimes cited for the 'Cody, Father Callahan' text errors; the decisive points are the gutter code and the $7.95 price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/salems-lot"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-stand",
   "title": "The Stand",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (New York)",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on copyright page with Doubleday gutter code 'T39' on the last text page. Dust jacket priced $12.95. This is the original (abridged) text; first-issue jacket has the $12.95 price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-stand"
  },
  {
   "slug": "interview-with-the-vampire",
   "title": "Interview with the Vampire",
   "author": "Anne Rice",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page with the Borzoi/Knopf colophon and no additional printings noted. Dust jacket priced $8.95, designed with the distinctive photographic/portrait jacket; jacket spine carries the Borzoi device. First state has 'First Edition' and no number line beyond the statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/interview-with-the-vampire"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-game-of-thrones",
   "title": "A Game of Thrones",
   "author": "George R.R. Martin",
   "publisher": "Bantam Spectra (New York)",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Number line '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' on the copyright page and the stated date August 1996. Bantam Spectra hardcover. Dust jacket priced $23.95 with art by Stephen Youll. First state has the complete descending-to-1 number line and the original jacket without later blurbs/awards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-game-of-thrones"
  },
  {
   "slug": "conan-the-conqueror-the-hour-of-the-dragon",
   "title": "Conan the Conqueror (The Hour of the Dragon)",
   "author": "Robert E. Howard",
   "publisher": "Gnome Press (New York)",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Gnome Press first hardcover edition, 1950, titled 'Conan the Conqueror'. Copyright page with Gnome Press imprint and no later printings stated. Dust jacket art; first state has the original Gnome Press price on the jacket flap. This was the first Conan story in hardcover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/conan-the-conqueror-the-hour-of-the-dragon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-wizard-of-earthsea",
   "title": "A Wizard of Earthsea",
   "author": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
   "publisher": "Parnassus Press (Berkeley)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by Parnassus Press, 1968, illustrated by Ruth Robbins. Copyright page with Parnassus imprint, no later printings. Issued in cloth with the distinctive Robbins jacket art (Sparrowhawk). First state has the Parnassus imprint and the original price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-wizard-of-earthsea"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-last-unicorn",
   "title": "The Last Unicorn",
   "author": "Peter S. Beagle",
   "publisher": "Viking Press (New York)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Viking Press 1968, 'Published in 1968 by The Viking Press' on the copyright page with no additional printings stated. Dust jacket art; first state carries the original Viking price. First printing so stated/dated.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-last-unicorn"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-exorcist",
   "title": "The Exorcist",
   "author": "William Peter Blatty",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row (New York)",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page with the Harper & Row code 'K-V' or similar first-printing notation and no number line indicating later printings. Dust jacket priced $6.95. First-issue jacket has the original price and no movie tie-in references.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-exorcist"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rosemarys-baby",
   "title": "Rosemary's Baby",
   "author": "Ira Levin",
   "publisher": "Random House (New York)",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Printing' / 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page with the Random House imprint and no later printings. Dust jacket priced $4.95 with the distinctive pram-silhouette design. First state has the original price and the 'First Edition' wording.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/rosemarys-baby"
  },
  {
   "slug": "i-am-legend",
   "title": "I Am Legend",
   "author": "Richard Matheson",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books / Fawcett (New York)",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Gold Medal Books paperback original, 1954, Gold Medal number '417'. As a paperback original, the first edition is identified by the Gold Medal logo, the publisher's number, and the absence of any later printing line; first printing has the original 25-cent cover price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/i-am-legend"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-haunting-of-hill-house",
   "title": "The Haunting of Hill House",
   "author": "Shirley Jackson",
   "publisher": "Viking Press (New York)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'Published in 1959 by The Viking Press' on the copyright page with no later printings stated. Dust jacket priced $3.50. First state has the Viking imprint, 1959 date, and original price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-haunting-of-hill-house"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe",
   "title": "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe",
   "author": "C.S. Lewis",
   "publisher": "Geoffrey Bles (London)",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Geoffrey Bles, 1950, with illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Verso reads 'First published 1950' with no later dates. First-issue cloth and the original Baynes jacket; the genuine first has the Bles imprint and 1950-only dating. The first issue has 'forty' for the number of chapters consistent with first text state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-eyes-of-the-dragon",
   "title": "The Eyes of the Dragon",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Philtrum Press (Bangor, Maine)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the Philtrum Press limited edition, 1984, limited to 1,250 numbered copies (1,000 in black, 250 in red asbestos slipcase), illustrated by Kenny Ray Linkous. Signed/numbered limitation page. The trade first is the later Viking 1987 edition with number line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-eyes-of-the-dragon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mythago-wood",
   "title": "Mythago Wood",
   "author": "Robert Holdstock",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz (London)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Victor Gollancz 1984 in the characteristic yellow Gollancz dust jacket. Copyright page states 'First published in Great Britain 1984' with no later printings. First state has the yellow Gollancz jacket and 1984-only dating.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mythago-wood"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-drawing-of-the-three-the-gunslinger-the-dark-tower-i",
   "title": "The Drawing of the Three / The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower I)",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Donald M. Grant (West Kingston, RI)",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'The Gunslinger' true first is the Donald M. Grant trade edition, 1982, illustrated by Michael Whelan, limited to 10,000 copies (plus a 500-copy signed/numbered state). Limitation page; first state has no later-printing statement. Issued in slipcase for the signed state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-drawing-of-the-three-the-gunslinger-the-dark-tower-i"
  },
  {
   "slug": "something-wicked-this-way-comes",
   "title": "Something Wicked This Way Comes",
   "author": "Ray Bradbury",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster (New York)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'FIRST PRINTING' stated on the copyright page with the Simon & Schuster imprint and no later printings. Dust jacket priced $3.95. First state has the stated First Printing and the original unclipped jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/something-wicked-this-way-comes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "good-omens",
   "title": "Good Omens",
   "author": "Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz (London)",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Gollancz 1990 hardcover in the yellow Gollancz jacket; copyright page 'First published in Great Britain 1990' with no later printings. First state has the yellow jacket and 1990-only dating. The US Workman edition (1990) is a separate first American.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/good-omens"
  },
  {
   "slug": "misery",
   "title": "Misery",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Viking (New York)",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Published in 1987 by Viking Penguin' with the number line including 1. Dust jacket priced $18.95. First state has the complete number line and the original jacket price; Viking imprint (no gutter code, post-Doubleday).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/misery"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pet-sematary",
   "title": "Pet Sematary",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (New York)",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with the Doubleday gutter code 'Q35' (final text page). Dust jacket priced $15.95. First state has the gutter code, stated First Edition, and original jacket price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pet-sematary"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz",
   "title": "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz",
   "author": "L. Frank Baum",
   "publisher": "Geo. M. Hill Co. (Chicago & New York)",
   "year": "1900",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First state has the George M. Hill imprint, 1900, with W.W. Denslow color plates. Key first-state points: on the copyright page a '1' present; eleven-line colophon; and textual states including the 'Chapter II' with a flat/curled plate. First binding in light green cloth with red lettering. The first-state title page reads 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'. First issue has the blank verso on certain plates and the '1899' copyright with 1900 title page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-maltese-falcon",
   "title": "The Maltese Falcon",
   "author": "Dashiell Hammett",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1930",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the Knopf Borzoi device with 'FIRST EDITION' / 'Published February, 1930' (no later printing statement); first-issue dust jacket priced $2.50 with the correct blurb and no review quotes from after publication.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-maltese-falcon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-big-sleep",
   "title": "The Big Sleep",
   "author": "Raymond Chandler",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has 'FIRST EDITION' with the Borzoi device and 'Published February, 1939'; first-issue dust jacket priced $2.00 with the correct design and no later review blurbs.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-big-sleep"
  },
  {
   "slug": "farewell-my-lovely",
   "title": "Farewell, My Lovely",
   "author": "Raymond Chandler",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION'. Original yellow cloth lettered in red/blue; first-state dust jacket priced $2.00. No later-printing notice present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/farewell-my-lovely"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-long-goodbye",
   "title": "The Long Goodbye",
   "author": "Raymond Chandler",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "TRUE FIRST is the UK Hamish Hamilton 1953 edition, which PRECEDES the US Houghton Mifflin 1954 edition by roughly six months. UK first in black cloth, dust jacket priced 10s 6d. The US first (Houghton Mifflin 1954) has its own 'first printing' indicia.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-long-goodbye"
  },
  {
   "slug": "red-harvest",
   "title": "Red Harvest",
   "author": "Dashiell Hammett",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1929",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf first, no later-printing statement on copyright page (early Knopf practice). Hammett's first novel. Original cloth with Borzoi device; first-state jacket priced $2.00.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/red-harvest"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-thin-man",
   "title": "The Thin Man",
   "author": "Dashiell Hammett",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf first edition; copyright page consistent with the unmarked/first-state Knopf practice of the period with no later printing indicated. Hammett's last novel. First-state dust jacket priced $2.00.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-thin-man"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hound-of-the-baskervilles",
   "title": "The Hound of the Baskervilles",
   "author": "Arthur Conan Doyle",
   "publisher": "George Newnes (London)",
   "year": "1902",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the George Newnes UK first edition, 1902. The most reliable points are the first-issue binding (red cloth, gilt) and the first-state advertisements. A noted first-issue textual point: 'you' for 'your' on p. 13. Endpaper/advertisement states are used to confirm earliest issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes",
   "title": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes",
   "author": "Arthur Conan Doyle",
   "publisher": "George Newnes (London)",
   "year": "1892",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, George Newnes 1892. First issue dated 1892 on title with the Newnes imprint and first-state advertisement leaves; recognized first-issue points include early mis-set details. Second issue is dated 1893.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "murder-on-the-orient-express",
   "title": "Murder on the Orient Express",
   "author": "Agatha Christie",
   "publisher": "Collins Crime Club (London)",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Collins Crime Club, January 1934. Orange cloth, spine and front board lettered black. Copyright page reads 'Copyright 1934' with NO reference to any subsequent impression (second/third impressions of Jan 1934 are explicitly noted as such). The list of 'Agatha Christie' titles facing the title page ends with 'Lord Edgware Dies' (her most recent prior title). Top edge and endpapers orange.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/murder-on-the-orient-express"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-murder-of-roger-ackroyd",
   "title": "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd",
   "author": "Agatha Christie",
   "publisher": "William Collins (London)",
   "year": "1926",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "William Collins (pre-Crime-Club imprint), 1926. Orange/red cloth. Copyright/title page with 1926 date and no later-impression statement; ad listing of Christie titles ends at her then-current title. Earliest issue confirmed by the advertisement leaf states.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-murder-of-roger-ackroyd"
  },
  {
   "slug": "and-then-there-were-none",
   "title": "And Then There Were None",
   "author": "Agatha Christie",
   "publisher": "Collins Crime Club (London)",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Collins Crime Club, November 1939, under the original (now-retired) title. Copyright page dated 1939 with no later-impression statement. Red cloth, dust jacket with the original title. First-issue ad/title-page state confirms earliest printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/and-then-there-were-none"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-mysterious-affair-at-styles",
   "title": "The Mysterious Affair at Styles",
   "author": "Agatha Christie",
   "publisher": "John Lane Company (New York)",
   "year": "1920",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "TRUE FIRST is the US John Lane Company (New York) edition, October 1920, which PRECEDES the UK Bodley Head edition (January 1921). US first: red cloth, with the publisher's adverts; key point is the US 1920 imprint and first-state ad leaf. Christie's first published book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-mysterious-affair-at-styles"
  },
  {
   "slug": "whose-body",
   "title": "Whose Body?",
   "author": "Dorothy L. Sayers",
   "publisher": "Boni & Liveright (New York)",
   "year": "1923",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "TRUE FIRST is the US Boni & Liveright edition, 1923, which PRECEDES the UK T. Fisher Unwin edition (also 1923). US first: copyright page with 1923 Boni & Liveright imprint; the first appearance of Lord Peter Wimsey. Sayers's debut novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/whose-body"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-nine-tailors",
   "title": "The Nine Tailors",
   "author": "Dorothy L. Sayers",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz (London)",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Victor Gollancz UK first, 1934, in the characteristic Gollancz yellow dust jacket printed in black/magenta (typographical, no pictorial art). Copyright page dated 1934 with no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-nine-tailors"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-spy-who-came-in-from-the-cold",
   "title": "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold",
   "author": "John le Carré",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz (London)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Victor Gollancz first, 1963, in the typographic Gollancz dust jacket (black/red on yellow). Copyright page dated 1963 with no later-impression statement. Boards in black cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-spy-who-came-in-from-the-cold"
  },
  {
   "slug": "live-and-let-die",
   "title": "Live and Let Die",
   "author": "Ian Fleming",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Jonathan Cape UK first, 1954. Black cloth, front cover device blocked; dust jacket priced 10s 6d. First-state jacket has the original blurb without later review quotes. Copyright page with no later-impression statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/live-and-let-die"
  },
  {
   "slug": "goldfinger",
   "title": "Goldfinger",
   "author": "Ian Fleming",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Jonathan Cape UK first, 1959. Black cloth boards with a gilt/blind-stamped skull device with coin-filled eye sockets on the front cover (a noted binding point). Dust jacket priced 15s. No later-impression statement on copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/goldfinger"
  },
  {
   "slug": "from-russia-with-love",
   "title": "From Russia, with Love",
   "author": "Ian Fleming",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Jonathan Cape UK first, 1957. Black cloth; the first-issue dust jacket was designed by Richard Chopping (the trompe-l'oeil gun-and-rose painting) — the jacket is integral to value. Dust jacket priced 13s 6d. Copyright page with no later-impression statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/from-russia-with-love"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-day-of-the-jackal",
   "title": "The Day of the Jackal",
   "author": "Frederick Forsyth",
   "publisher": "Hutchinson (London)",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Hutchinson first, 1971. Copyright page dated 1971 with no later-impression statement. First-state dust jacket priced in UK pounds/shillings. Forsyth's debut novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-day-of-the-jackal"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tinker-tailor-soldier-spy",
   "title": "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy",
   "author": "John le Carré",
   "publisher": "Hodder & Stoughton (London)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Hodder & Stoughton first, 1974. Copyright page dated 1974 with no later-impression statement; dust jacket priced in £. First of the Karla trilogy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "smileys-people",
   "title": "Smiley's People",
   "author": "John le Carré",
   "publisher": "Hodder & Stoughton (London)",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Hodder & Stoughton first, 1980. Copyright page dated 1980, no later-impression statement; dust jacket priced in £. Concludes the Karla trilogy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/smileys-people"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-godfather",
   "title": "The Godfather",
   "author": "Mario Puzo",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam first printing: copyright page shows Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 69-11465 and the line 'PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA' (printed by American Book–Stratford Press), with NO statement of any additional printing and no number line. First-state dust jacket has $6.95 price on front flap and the code '6903' at the foot of the flap (indicating March 1969); rear flap lists Puzo's earlier titles 'The Dark Arena' and 'The Fortunate Pilgrim' with reviews. Quarter black cloth over white/cream boards, red endpapers; the marionette/puppet-strings device stamped on the binding.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-godfather"
  },
  {
   "slug": "red-dragon",
   "title": "Red Dragon",
   "author": "Thomas Harris",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam first printing: copyright page with no later-printing statement (per Putnam's practice; first state shows no number-line indicating a later printing). First-state dust jacket priced $13.95. First appearance of Hannibal Lecter (spelled 'Lecter' in the book).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/red-dragon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-silence-of-the-lambs",
   "title": "The Silence of the Lambs",
   "author": "Thomas Harris",
   "publisher": "St. Martin's Press",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "St. Martin's Press first printing: copyright page states 'First Edition' ABOVE a complete number line '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' (must end in 1). Boards gray with the author's initials 'TH' as a BLIND STAMP on the front board; burgundy/maroon cloth spine. Dust jacket priced $18.95.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-silence-of-the-lambs"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-talented-mr-ripley",
   "title": "The Talented Mr. Ripley",
   "author": "Patricia Highsmith",
   "publisher": "Coward-McCann (New York)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "TRUE FIRST is the US Coward-McCann edition, 1955, which PRECEDES the UK Cresset Press edition (1957). US first: copyright page with no later-printing statement; first-state dust jacket priced $3.00.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-talented-mr-ripley"
  },
  {
   "slug": "strangers-on-a-train",
   "title": "Strangers on a Train",
   "author": "Patricia Highsmith",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers (New York)",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Harper first, 1950. Harper used a printer's code (a letter-pair) at the foot of the last text page denoting month/year of printing; the first printing carries the code for 1950. First-state dust jacket priced $2.50. Highsmith's debut novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/strangers-on-a-train"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-postman-always-rings-twice",
   "title": "The Postman Always Rings Twice",
   "author": "James M. Cain",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (hardcover)",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1934 Knopf HARDCOVER (Cain's debut). Caution title. Knopf first states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page with the Borzoi device; the jacket has the original price. The later Pocket Books paperback (1947, an early Pocket number) is a famous reprint, not the first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-postman-always-rings-twice"
  },
  {
   "slug": "double-indemnity-in-three-of-a-kind",
   "title": "Double Indemnity (in 'Three of a Kind')",
   "author": "James M. Cain",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1943",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First book appearance is WITHIN the Knopf collection 'Three of a Kind' (1943), NOT as a standalone. Knopf first of 'Three of a Kind' with no later-printing statement; first-state jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/double-indemnity-in-three-of-a-kind"
  },
  {
   "slug": "presumed-innocent",
   "title": "Presumed Innocent",
   "author": "Scott Turow",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "FSG first printing: copyright page states 'First edition, 1987' with a number line; the first printing has the complete line descending to 1. Dust jacket priced $18.95. Turow's debut novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/presumed-innocent"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hunt-for-red-october",
   "title": "The Hunt for Red October",
   "author": "Tom Clancy",
   "publisher": "Naval Institute Press (Annapolis)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Naval Institute Press first, 1984. Issued by an academic/naval press (unusual for fiction); the true first carries the Naval Institute Press imprint with first-edition/printing indicia; dust jacket priced $14.95. The scarce true first has the NIP imprint, NOT Putnam/Berkley.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hunt-for-red-october"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bourne-identity",
   "title": "The Bourne Identity",
   "author": "Robert Ludlum",
   "publisher": "Richard Marek Publishers (New York)",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Richard Marek Publishers first printing, 1980: copyright page with the number line descending to 1 (first printing). Dust jacket priced $12.95. First Jason Bourne novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bourne-identity"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gone-girl",
   "title": "Gone Girl",
   "author": "Gillian Flynn",
   "publisher": "Crown Publishers",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Crown first printing: copyright page states 'First Edition' AND has a number line descending to 1 ('10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'). All printings may say 'First Edition,' so the NUMBER LINE ending in 1 is the deciding point. Dust jacket priced $25.00; published June 5, 2012.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gone-girl"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-english-first",
   "title": "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (English first)",
   "author": "Stieg Larsson",
   "publisher": "MacLehose Press / Quercus (London)",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "TRUE FIRST overall is the Swedish original 'Män som hatar kvinnor' (Norstedts, Stockholm, 2005). The true first ENGLISH edition is the UK MacLehose Press / Quercus 2008, which PRECEDES the US Knopf edition (2008). UK first: Quercus/MacLehose imprint with first-printing indicia; jacket priced in £.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-english-first"
  },
  {
   "slug": "devil-in-a-blue-dress",
   "title": "Devil in a Blue Dress",
   "author": "Walter Mosley",
   "publisher": "W.W. Norton",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "W.W. Norton first printing: copyright page with the number line descending to 1 (first printing). Dust jacket priced $18.95. Mosley's debut and first Easy Rawlins novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/devil-in-a-blue-dress"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-is-for-alibi",
   "title": "A Is for Alibi",
   "author": "Sue Grafton",
   "publisher": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston first printing, 1982: copyright page with first-printing indicia (number line descending to 1 per HRW practice). Dust jacket priced $13.50. Grafton's first Kinsey Millhone novel — the key collectible because the first printing was small before the series became a bestseller.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-is-for-alibi"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-black-echo",
   "title": "The Black Echo",
   "author": "Michael Connelly",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Little, Brown first printing, 1992: copyright page with the number line descending to 1 (first printing). Dust jacket priced $19.95. Connelly's debut and first Harry Bosch novel — the key collectible of the series.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-black-echo"
  },
  {
   "slug": "get-shorty",
   "title": "Get Shorty",
   "author": "Elmore Leonard",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Delacorte Press first printing, 1990: copyright page with the number line descending to 1 (first printing). Dust jacket priced $18.95. A peak Leonard crime title.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/get-shorty"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mystic-river",
   "title": "Mystic River",
   "author": "Dennis Lehane",
   "publisher": "William Morrow",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "William Morrow first printing, 2001: copyright page with the number line descending to 1 and the Morrow first-edition statement. Dust jacket priced $25.00. Lehane's breakout standalone.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mystic-river"
  },
  {
   "slug": "smillas-sense-of-snow",
   "title": "Smilla's Sense of Snow",
   "author": "Peter Høeg",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux (US, English translation; UK: 'Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow', Harvill)",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "TRUE FIRST overall is the Danish original 'Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne' (Rosinante, 1992). English firsts diverge by title: the US FSG 1993 is 'Smilla's Sense of Snow' (number line to 1); the UK Harvill 1993 is titled 'Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow.' Note the differing titles between US and UK firsts.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/smillas-sense-of-snow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-cuckoos-calling",
   "title": "The Cuckoo's Calling",
   "author": "Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)",
   "publisher": "Sphere / Little, Brown (London)",
   "year": "2013",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Sphere (Little, Brown imprint) first printing, April 2013, published under the pseudonym 'Robert Galbraith' BEFORE the Rowling authorship was revealed. First printing has the number line descending to 1. The true first was a small run printed before the July 2013 unmasking, making early jacketed firsts scarce and valuable.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-cuckoos-calling"
  },
  {
   "slug": "where-the-wild-things-are",
   "title": "Where the Wild Things Are",
   "author": "Maurice Sendak",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row (New York)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing dust jacket priced $3.95 / '3.50' point and the rear flap states the first-edition reviews absent; the copyright page has no later-printing statement. First-issue jacket has the price and the Caldecott medal is NOT on the jacket (the medal was won in 1964, so true first-issue jackets predate it).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/where-the-wild-things-are"
  },
  {
   "slug": "goodnight-moon",
   "title": "Goodnight Moon",
   "author": "Margaret Wise Brown (illus. Clement Hurd)",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'FIRST EDITION' is NOT used by Harper of this era; identify by code 'I-W' on the copyright page (Harper letter-code: I = January, W = 1947). First-issue jacket priced $1.75. Early printings show the green nightstand lamp with a visibly lit/correct color rendering; many later printings differ in the reproduction of the great green room's colors.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/goodnight-moon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-cat-in-the-hat",
   "title": "The Cat in the Hat",
   "author": "Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin / Random House (New York)",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first: the Houghton Mifflin '200/200' price ('2.00 net' with matching '200/200' code) on the front jacket flap; the rear flap lists the book as the only Beginner Book. The first-issue jacket has the '200/200' price code.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-cat-in-the-hat"
  },
  {
   "slug": "green-eggs-and-ham",
   "title": "Green Eggs and Ham",
   "author": "Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)",
   "publisher": "Beginner Books / Random House",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First-issue dust jacket priced '195' ($1.95) at upper corner of front flap. Rear jacket panel lists Beginner Books with 'Green Eggs and Ham' as the most recent title (it should not list titles published after 1960). Copyright page shows no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/green-eggs-and-ham"
  },
  {
   "slug": "charlottes-web",
   "title": "Charlotte's Web",
   "author": "E. B. White (illus. Garth Williams)",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First state has the Harper code 'I-B' on the copyright page (I = January... per Harper code; the first-issue letter combination identifies 1952). First-issue dust jacket priced $2.50 and lists no awards (Newbery Honor came after). Garth Williams's pictorial jacket with no medal sticker.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/charlottes-web"
  },
  {
   "slug": "winnie-the-pooh",
   "title": "Winnie-the-Pooh",
   "author": "A. A. Milne (illus. E. H. Shepard)",
   "publisher": "Methuen (UK) / E. P. Dutton (US)",
   "year": "1926",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Methuen first: published October 1926; first issue in green cloth, gilt, with the first-state text and no statement of later printing on the verso. Many first-edition copies exist in a deluxe issue. The ordinary first trade is gilt-decorated cloth. Collation and 'First Published in 1926' with no further printings listed is required.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/winnie-the-pooh"
  },
  {
   "slug": "harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone",
   "title": "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone",
   "author": "J. K. Rowling",
   "publisher": "Arthur A. Levine / Scholastic (US)",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US printing: full number line '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' on the copyright page AND the line 'Printed in the U.S.A. 23' with first printing 'October 1998.' The number line must end in 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone"
  },
  {
   "slug": "charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory",
   "title": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory",
   "author": "Roald Dahl (illus. Joseph Schindelman)",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (US)",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the US Knopf 1964 edition (it preceded the UK by a year). First printing states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket priced $3.95 with Joseph Schindelman's jacket art. Original text features the Oompa-Loompas as African pygmies (later editions revised this).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory"
  },
  {
   "slug": "james-and-the-giant-peach",
   "title": "James and the Giant Peach",
   "author": "Roald Dahl (illus. Nancy Ekholm Burkert)",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (US)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is US Knopf 1961 with 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page; Nancy Ekholm Burkert illustrations; first-issue jacket priced $3.50.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/james-and-the-giant-peach"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-giving-tree",
   "title": "The Giving Tree",
   "author": "Shel Silverstein",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states a Harper code on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket priced $2.50 with no Caldecott/award mention. Earliest issue has the green cloth-textured boards / first-state binding and the jacket spine without later award blurbs. The book block is undated by reprint line on the first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-giving-tree"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-very-hungry-caterpillar",
   "title": "The Very Hungry Caterpillar",
   "author": "Eric Carle",
   "publisher": "World Publishing (US) / Hamish Hamilton (UK)",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by The World Publishing Company (Cleveland/New York), 1969, with die-cut pages. First printing has the World Publishing imprint and no later-printing statement; first-issue jacket priced $3.95. The die-cut/board construction of the true first was printed in Japan.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-very-hungry-caterpillar"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hatchet",
   "title": "Hatchet",
   "author": "Gary Paulsen",
   "publisher": "Bradbury Press",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Bradbury Press imprint, 1987; full number line ending in 1 ('10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1') on the copyright page; first-issue jacket priced $11.95 and carries NO Newbery Honor seal (the Honor was awarded in 1988, after publication).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hatchet"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-outsiders",
   "title": "The Outsiders",
   "author": "S. E. Hinton",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Viking Press 1967, black cloth boards with spine lettered in orange and red top-stain; first-issue dust jacket (art by Richard M. Powers) priced $3.95, unclipped. Copyright page bears no later-printing statement; 188 pp.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-outsiders"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-snowy-day",
   "title": "The Snowy Day",
   "author": "Ezra Jack Keats",
   "publisher": "Viking Press",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Viking 1962; first-issue dust jacket with no Caldecott Medal (won 1963) and price $3.00. Copyright page has no later-printing statement and bears the Library of Congress number for 1962.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-snowy-day"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe-c-s-lewis-illu",
   "title": "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe",
   "author": "C. S. Lewis (illus. Pauline Baynes)",
   "publisher": "Geoffrey Bles (UK)",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first: Geoffrey Bles (London), 1950; first issue lists only the single Narnia title on the half-title/series page (no later Narnia books advertised, since they had not yet appeared). Copyright/verso shows 'First published 1950' with no further impression line; Pauline Baynes illustrations and first-state jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe-c-s-lewis-illu"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-tale-of-peter-rabbit",
   "title": "The Tale of Peter Rabbit",
   "author": "Beatrix Potter",
   "publisher": "Frederick Warne & Co. (first commercial trade)",
   "year": "1902",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Privately printed first (1901, Potter's own, 250 copies) precedes everything; the Warne first commercial edition (Oct. 1902) is the collected trade first: first issue has the 'Frederick Warne & Co.' imprint, the original endpapers, and the first-state of certain plates. The private 1901 printing has a flat spine and black-and-white illustrations plus one color frontispiece.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-tale-of-peter-rabbit"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-polar-express",
   "title": "The Polar Express",
   "author": "Chris Van Allsburg",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Houghton Mifflin 1985; first-issue dust jacket WITHOUT the Caldecott Medal (won 1986), priced $16.95 (some early at $15.95). Copyright page has the full number line ending in 1; jacket carries no medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-polar-express"
  },
  {
   "slug": "make-way-for-ducklings",
   "title": "Make Way for Ducklings",
   "author": "Robert McCloskey",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1941",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Viking 1941; first issue is the larger trim oblong folio with the first-state jacket lacking the Caldecott Medal (won 1942) and priced $2.00. Copyright page shows no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/make-way-for-ducklings"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-phantom-tollbooth",
   "title": "The Phantom Tollbooth",
   "author": "Norton Juster (illus. Jules Feiffer)",
   "publisher": "Epstein & Carroll / Random House",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: 1961, distributed by Random House (Epstein & Carroll association); copyright page states 'First Edition'; first-issue dust jacket priced $3.95 with Jules Feiffer art and no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-phantom-tollbooth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "where-the-sidewalk-ends",
   "title": "Where the Sidewalk Ends",
   "author": "Shel Silverstein",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Harper & Row 1974; copyright page bears the Harper code and full number line; first-issue dust jacket priced $5.95 (and $6.89 library) with no later-printing statement. First-state binding in the textured boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/where-the-sidewalk-ends"
  },
  {
   "slug": "madeline",
   "title": "Madeline",
   "author": "Ludwig Bemelmans",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Simon & Schuster 1939; first issue is the larger format with first-state jacket lacking the Caldecott Honor mention (Honor 1940) and priced $2.00. Copyright page shows 1939 and no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/madeline"
  },
  {
   "slug": "holes",
   "title": "Holes",
   "author": "Louis Sachar",
   "publisher": "Frances Foster Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: FSG (Frances Foster Books) 1998; full number line '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket WITHOUT the Newbery Medal (won 1999), priced $16.00.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/holes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "harriet-the-spy",
   "title": "Harriet the Spy",
   "author": "Louise Fitzhugh",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Harper & Row 1964; Harper code on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket priced $3.50 with Fitzhugh's own art. No later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/harriet-the-spy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lorax",
   "title": "The Lorax",
   "author": "Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Random House 1971; first-issue text contains the line 'I hear things are just as bad up in Lake Erie' (page with the Humming-Fish) — REMOVED from printings after ~1980s. First-issue jacket priced $2.95 with rear-panel title list ending appropriately for 1971.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lorax"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bridge-to-terabithia",
   "title": "Bridge to Terabithia",
   "author": "Katherine Paterson (illus. Donna Diamond)",
   "publisher": "Thomas Y. Crowell",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Thomas Y. Crowell 1977; first-issue dust jacket WITHOUT the Newbery Medal (won 1978), priced $6.95; copyright page shows '1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10' or a code with no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bridge-to-terabithia"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz-l-frank-baum-i",
   "title": "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz",
   "author": "L. Frank Baum (illus. W. W. Denslow)",
   "publisher": "Geo. M. Hill Co.",
   "year": "1900",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first state: Geo. M. Hill Co., Chicago/New York, 1900. First-state points include the '11-line' colophon errors and specific plate states; the title page reads 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' (later editions retitled 'The New Wizard of Oz'). First state has a blank verso of the half-title and the Hill imprint; numerous documented states exist (color plates, text settings on p. [2], p. 14, p. 81, p. 100, etc.).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz-l-frank-baum-i"
  },
  {
   "slug": "stuart-little",
   "title": "Stuart Little",
   "author": "E. B. White (illus. Garth Williams)",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers",
   "year": "1945",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Harper & Brothers 1945; Harper code on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket priced $2.00 with Garth Williams art. No later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/stuart-little"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-giver",
   "title": "The Giver",
   "author": "Lois Lowry",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Houghton Mifflin 1993; full number line ending in 1; first-issue dust jacket WITHOUT the Newbery Medal (won 1994), priced $13.95, with the photographic portrait of the old man on the front. No later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-giver"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sylvester-and-the-magic-pebble",
   "title": "Sylvester and the Magic Pebble",
   "author": "William Steig",
   "publisher": "Windmill Books / Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Windmill Books/Simon & Schuster 1969; first-issue dust jacket WITHOUT the Caldecott Medal (won 1970), priced $3.95. Copyright page 1969 with no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sylvester-and-the-magic-pebble"
  },
  {
   "slug": "number-the-stars",
   "title": "Number the Stars",
   "author": "Lois Lowry",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Houghton Mifflin 1989; full number line ending in 1; first-issue dust jacket WITHOUT the Newbery Medal (won 1990), priced $12.95, with the Annemarie portrait on the front. No later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/number-the-stars"
  },
  {
   "slug": "roll-of-thunder-hear-my-cry",
   "title": "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry",
   "author": "Mildred D. Taylor (illus. Jerry Pinkney)",
   "publisher": "Dial Press",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Dial Press 1976; first-issue dust jacket WITHOUT the Newbery Medal (won 1977), priced $6.95, with Jerry Pinkney jacket art; copyright page 1976 with no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/roll-of-thunder-hear-my-cry"
  },
  {
   "slug": "frog-and-toad-are-friends",
   "title": "Frog and Toad Are Friends",
   "author": "Arnold Lobel",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Harper & Row 1970; Harper code on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket WITHOUT the Caldecott Honor seal (Honor 1971), priced $2.50. No later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/frog-and-toad-are-friends"
  },
  {
   "slug": "howl-and-other-poems",
   "title": "Howl and Other Poems",
   "author": "Allen Ginsberg",
   "publisher": "City Lights Books (San Francisco)",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing is the City Lights Pocket Poets Series Number Four in black-and-white printed wrappers; first issue has the price '75c' and the mimeographed/first-state points, with no statement of later printing and the early City Lights address. Limited to ~1,000 in the first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/howl-and-other-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "naked-lunch",
   "title": "Naked Lunch",
   "author": "William S. Burroughs (as 'William Burroughs')",
   "publisher": "The Olympia Press (Paris) / The Traveller's Companion Series No. 76",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Green pictorial wrappers, Traveller's Companion Series No. 76. First state has the rear wrapper printed 'Francs: 1500'. Title on the book is 'The Naked Lunch' (the 'The' was dropped for the US Grove edition). Author credited as 'William Burroughs' (no middle initial).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/naked-lunch"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ariel",
   "title": "Ariel",
   "author": "Sylvia Plath",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber first (Tabor A5a), published 11 March 1965, ~3,100 copies; dust jacket designed by Berthold Wolpe. No 'first published' qualifier beyond the 1965 date; later Faber impressions are noted on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ariel"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lunch-poems",
   "title": "Lunch Poems",
   "author": "Frank O'Hara",
   "publisher": "City Lights Books / The Pocket Poets Series No. 19 (San Francisco)",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pocket Poets Series No. 19, printed wrappers. First printing so stated/identified by absence of later-printing notice; price on rear cover. Issued in wrappers (a small number of hardbound/cloth copies were also produced and are scarce).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lunch-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "leaves-of-grass",
   "title": "Leaves of Grass",
   "author": "Walt Whitman",
   "publisher": "(self-published, printed by Andrew & James Rome, Brooklyn)",
   "year": "1855",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First issue: large quarto in dark green cloth blind-stamped with rustic gilt lettering 'Leaves of Grass' and triple-rule border; the engraved frontispiece of Whitman in workman's dress; no author name on the title page; 95 pages. First-issue binding has gilt on all edges/specific gilt state per Myerson's bibliography.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/leaves-of-grass"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-waste-land",
   "title": "The Waste Land",
   "author": "T. S. Eliot",
   "publisher": "Boni and Liveright (New York)",
   "year": "1922",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in book form, US, of 1,000 copies. Key point: on page 41 (the Notes), the word 'mountain' is correctly spelled — the famous first-printing error to check is the line on p. 41/the misprint 'a' for the broken type; the most cited point is the flexible black cloth binding stamped in gold, with the publisher's device. First printing has 'mountain' and the gilt-stamped boards; the second printing corrects/alters points. (The single most reliable point: 1,000-copy first printing, Boni & Liveright, black cloth, gilt-stamped, with the dropped/numbered Notes.)",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-waste-land"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dharma-bums",
   "title": "The Dharma Bums",
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press (New York)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing so stated by 'Published in 1958' with no additional printing notice on the copyright page. First-issue dust jacket priced $3.95. Bound in cloth; jacket design distinct from reprints.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dharma-bums"
  },
  {
   "slug": "junkie-confessions-of-an-unredeemed-drug-addict",
   "title": "Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict",
   "author": "William Lee (pseudonym of William S. Burroughs)",
   "publisher": "Ace Books (New York), Ace Double D-15",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Mass-market paperback, Ace Double D-15, bound dos-à-dos (tête-bêche) with Maurice Helbrant's 'Narcotic Agent.' Author pseudonym 'William Lee.' First printing carries the Ace D-15 number and original 35¢ price; pulp cover art. No printing statement beyond the original Ace issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/junkie-confessions-of-an-unredeemed-drug-addict"
  },
  {
   "slug": "kaddish-and-other-poems-1958-1960",
   "title": "Kaddish and Other Poems 1958–1960",
   "author": "Allen Ginsberg",
   "publisher": "City Lights Books / The Pocket Poets Series No. 14 (San Francisco)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pocket Poets Series No. 14, printed wrappers. First printing identified by the absence of later-printing notice on the copyright page; original price on rear cover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/kaddish-and-other-poems-1958-1960"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-coney-island-of-the-mind",
   "title": "A Coney Island of the Mind",
   "author": "Lawrence Ferlinghetti",
   "publisher": "New Directions (New York)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued both in cloth (in dust jacket) and in wrappers (New Directions Paperbook). First printing so identified by the copyright page; later printings add printing/impression statements. The hardcover-in-jacket first is the prime collectible state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-coney-island-of-the-mind"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gasoline",
   "title": "Gasoline",
   "author": "Gregory Corso",
   "publisher": "City Lights Books / The Pocket Poets Series No. 8 (San Francisco)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pocket Poets Series No. 8, printed wrappers, with an introduction by Allen Ginsberg. First printing identified by absence of later-printing notice on the copyright page; original price on rear cover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gasoline"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pictures-of-the-gone-world",
   "title": "Pictures of the Gone World",
   "author": "Lawrence Ferlinghetti",
   "publisher": "City Lights Books / The Pocket Poets Series No. 1 (San Francisco)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pocket Poets Series No. 1 — the inaugural volume of the series, predating Howl (No. 4). Printed wrappers in glassine; original price on rear cover. First printing lacks any later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pictures-of-the-gone-world"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-subterraneans",
   "title": "The Subterraneans",
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "publisher": "Grove Press (New York)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition issued in wrappers (Evergreen / Grove paperback original) as well as a clothbound issue. First printing identified by the copyright page lacking later-printing notice. Original price present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-subterraneans"
  },
  {
   "slug": "big-sur",
   "title": "Big Sur",
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (New York)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing so indicated by 'First printing, 1962' on the copyright page. First-issue dust jacket with original price on the flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/big-sur"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mexico-city-blues",
   "title": "Mexico City Blues",
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "publisher": "Grove Press (New York)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition issued in cloth (with dust jacket) and in wrappers. First printing identified by copyright page without later-printing notice; original price present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mexico-city-blues"
  },
  {
   "slug": "visions-of-cody",
   "title": "Visions of Cody",
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "publisher": "New Directions (New York) — first complete edition: McGraw-Hill (1972)",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First (partial) edition: New Directions, 1960, a limited signed edition of 750 numbered copies containing only excerpts. The first COMPLETE edition is McGraw-Hill, 1972 (posthumous), with an introduction by Allen Ginsberg.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/visions-of-cody"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-soft-machine",
   "title": "The Soft Machine",
   "author": "William S. Burroughs",
   "publisher": "The Olympia Press (Paris) / The Traveller's Companion Series No. 88",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Olympia Press, Traveller's Companion Series No. 88, green wrappers. First printing carries the series number and original franc price on the rear wrapper.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-soft-machine"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-ticket-that-exploded",
   "title": "The Ticket That Exploded",
   "author": "William S. Burroughs",
   "publisher": "The Olympia Press (Paris) / The Traveller's Companion Series No. 100",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Olympia Press, Traveller's Companion Series No. 100, green wrappers; original franc price on the rear wrapper. First printing carries the series number 100.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-ticket-that-exploded"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-yage-letters",
   "title": "The Yage Letters",
   "author": "William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg",
   "publisher": "City Lights Books (San Francisco)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "City Lights, printed wrappers. First printing identified by copyright page without later-printing statement; original price on rear cover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-yage-letters"
  },
  {
   "slug": "planet-news-1961-1967",
   "title": "Planet News 1961–1967",
   "author": "Allen Ginsberg",
   "publisher": "City Lights Books / The Pocket Poets Series No. 23 (San Francisco)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pocket Poets Series No. 23, printed wrappers. First printing lacks later-printing statement on the copyright page; original price on rear cover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/planet-news-1961-1967"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-fall-of-america-poems-of-these-states-1965-1971",
   "title": "The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965–1971",
   "author": "Allen Ginsberg",
   "publisher": "City Lights Books / The Pocket Poets Series No. 30 (San Francisco)",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pocket Poets Series No. 30, printed wrappers. First printing lacks a later-printing statement; original price on rear cover. Won the National Book Award (1974).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-fall-of-america-poems-of-these-states-1965-1971"
  },
  {
   "slug": "birthday-letters",
   "title": "Birthday Letters",
   "author": "Ted Hughes",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber first edition in cloth with dust jacket; first printing so identified by a full number line ending in '1' on the copyright page (Faber's standard). A signed/limited edition was also issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/birthday-letters"
  },
  {
   "slug": "death-of-a-naturalist",
   "title": "Death of a Naturalist",
   "author": "Seamus Heaney",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber first edition, cloth in dust jacket. First printing identified by the absence of later-impression statements; Heaney's first major collection. Jacket price present on first issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/death-of-a-naturalist"
  },
  {
   "slug": "north",
   "title": "North",
   "author": "Seamus Heaney",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber first edition. First printing identified by number line / absence of later-impression statement on the copyright page; cloth in dust jacket with original price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/north"
  },
  {
   "slug": "life-studies",
   "title": "Life Studies",
   "author": "Robert Lowell",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (New York)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US printing so stated ('First printing, 1959' on the copyright page). The US edition includes the prose memoir '91 Revere Street.' Cloth in dust jacket, original price present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/life-studies"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bell-jar-victoria-lucas",
   "title": "The Bell Jar",
   "author": "Victoria Lucas (pseudonym of Sylvia Plath)",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Heinemann first edition, published under the pseudonym 'Victoria Lucas.' Cloth in dust jacket; first issue jacket with original price. The pseudonymous Heinemann issue is the true first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bell-jar-victoria-lucas"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-colossus-and-other-poems",
   "title": "The Colossus and Other Poems",
   "author": "Sylvia Plath",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Heinemann first edition, cloth in dust jacket; Plath's first poetry collection published in her lifetime. First issue jacket priced. The UK edition includes seven poems later dropped from the US edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-colossus-and-other-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ham-on-rye-caution-see-charles-bukowski-entry",
   "title": "Ham on Rye / (caution: see Charles Bukowski entry)",
   "author": "Charles Bukowski",
   "publisher": "Black Sparrow Press (Santa Barbara/Santa Rosa)",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Black Sparrow Press issues typically appear in three simultaneous states: (1) trade paperback wrappers; (2) clothbound trade hardcover; and (3) a signed, numbered limited hardcover edition (often with an additional lettered state), printed on better paper and bound in special cloth/boards. First printing stated on the copyright page; the signed limited (numbered, often of 300 or 400, plus ~26 lettered) is the prime collectible state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ham-on-rye-caution-see-charles-bukowski-entry"
  },
  {
   "slug": "love-is-a-dog-from-hell",
   "title": "Love Is a Dog from Hell",
   "author": "Charles Bukowski",
   "publisher": "Black Sparrow Press (Santa Barbara)",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued in Black Sparrow's standard multiple states: trade wrappers, trade cloth, and a signed numbered limited hardcover (plus lettered copies). First printing stated on the copyright page; limited states identified by the colophon.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/love-is-a-dog-from-hell"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cities-of-the-red-night",
   "title": "Cities of the Red Night",
   "author": "William S. Burroughs",
   "publisher": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston (New York)",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition, cloth in dust jacket; first printing stated by number line/printing statement on the copyright page. A signed limited edition was also issued (slipcased), which is the premium state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cities-of-the-red-night"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tarantula",
   "title": "Tarantula",
   "author": "Bob Dylan",
   "publisher": "The Macmillan Company (New York)",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade edition, Macmillan, cloth in dust jacket; first printing identified by the copyright page. (Note: bootleg/pirated copies circulated 1966–1971 before authorized publication.) The authorized first is the 1971 Macmillan.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tarantula"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-electric-kool-aid-acid-test",
   "title": "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test",
   "author": "Tom Wolfe",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition, cloth in dust jacket. First printing so stated ('First printing, 1968' on the copyright page). First-issue dust jacket with original price ($5.95) on the flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-electric-kool-aid-acid-test"
  },
  {
   "slug": "fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas",
   "title": "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas",
   "author": "Hunter S. Thompson",
   "publisher": "Random House (New York)",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition, cloth (and a simultaneous wrappered issue). First printing identified by 'First Edition' stated with the number line on the copyright page (Random House convention: 'First Edition' plus '9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2'). First-issue dust jacket priced $5.95, illustrated by Ralph Steadman.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-town-and-the-city",
   "title": "The Town and the City",
   "author": "John Kerouac (Jack Kerouac)",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company (New York)",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published as by 'John Kerouac' (his given first name). Cloth in dust jacket; first printing identified by the copyright page lacking later-printing statements, with the first-issue price on the jacket flap. This is Kerouac's first published book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-town-and-the-city"
  },
  {
   "slug": "doctor-sax",
   "title": "Doctor Sax",
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "publisher": "Grove Press (New York)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition issued in wrappers (Evergreen/Grove paperback original) and a clothbound issue. First printing identified by the copyright page without later-printing notice; original price present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/doctor-sax"
  },
  {
   "slug": "desolation-angels",
   "title": "Desolation Angels",
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "publisher": "Coward-McCann (New York)",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition, cloth in dust jacket, with an introduction by Seymour Krim. First printing identified by the copyright page; first-issue jacket with original price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/desolation-angels"
  },
  {
   "slug": "scattered-poems",
   "title": "Scattered Poems",
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "publisher": "City Lights Books / The Pocket Poets Series No. 28 (San Francisco)",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pocket Poets Series No. 28, printed wrappers; posthumous. First printing lacks a later-printing statement on the copyright page; original price on rear cover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/scattered-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "reality-sandwiches-1953-60",
   "title": "Reality Sandwiches 1953–60",
   "author": "Allen Ginsberg",
   "publisher": "City Lights Books / The Pocket Poets Series No. 18 (San Francisco)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pocket Poets Series No. 18, printed wrappers. First printing lacks later-printing statement on the copyright page; original price on rear cover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/reality-sandwiches-1953-60"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nova-express",
   "title": "Nova Express",
   "author": "William S. Burroughs",
   "publisher": "Grove Press (New York)",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition, cloth in dust jacket. First printing identified by the copyright page; first-issue jacket with original price. Completes Burroughs's 'Nova'/cut-up trilogy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nova-express"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-sand-county-almanac",
   "title": "A Sand County Almanac",
   "author": "Aldo Leopold",
   "publisher": "Oxford University Press (New York)",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in green cloth, gilt/silver-stamped, with a bird design on the front board; illustrated by Charles W. Schwartz. Dust jacket priced $3.50 on the front flap. Title-page/copyright page bears 1949 with no later-printing statements. The book itself states 'Printed in the United States of America.' The DJ rear flap makes NO mention of 'Round River' (a later companion volume), so a first-issue jacket carries no Round River reference.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-sand-county-almanac"
  },
  {
   "slug": "silent-spring",
   "title": "Silent Spring",
   "author": "Rachel Carson",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin (Boston)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page reads 'First Printing' (no additional 'C' or later-printing codes). x, [vi], 368 pp. Bound in dark green cloth lettered in gilt, yellow topstain. First-issue dust jacket is green with a $5.00 price on the front flap. Illustrations by Lois and Louis Darling.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/silent-spring"
  },
  {
   "slug": "desert-solitaire-a-season-in-the-wilderness",
   "title": "Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness",
   "author": "Edward Abbey",
   "publisher": "McGraw-Hill (New York)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing has the full number line / no additional-printing statement on the copyright page with 1968 copyright. Bound in brown cloth, spine lettered in white and tan; xiv, [2], 269 pp. First-issue dust jacket priced $5.95 on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/desert-solitaire-a-season-in-the-wilderness"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-monkey-wrench-gang",
   "title": "The Monkey Wrench Gang",
   "author": "Edward Abbey",
   "publisher": "J.B. Lippincott (Philadelphia & New York)",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page (Lippincott convention) with no later-printing line. Illustrated endpapers/illustrations by Robert Crumb appear in the later illustrated edition—NOT the 1975 first. First-issue jacket art is the cartoon-style monkey-wrench/bridge design; jacket price on front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-monkey-wrench-gang"
  },
  {
   "slug": "walden-or-life-in-the-woods",
   "title": "Walden; or, Life in the Woods",
   "author": "Henry David Thoreau",
   "publisher": "Ticknor and Fields (Boston)",
   "year": "1854",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in brown cloth (variant cloth colors exist), publisher's catalog of ads at rear dated to 1854; title vignette by Sophia Thoreau on the title page. A single print run of 2,000 copies; no number line (19th c.). Points include the rear advertisements and the absence of any later imprint; the title page reads 'Ticknor and Fields' with 1854.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/walden-or-life-in-the-woods"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bless-me-ultima",
   "title": "Bless Me, Ultima",
   "author": "Rudolfo A. Anaya",
   "publisher": "Quinto Sol Publications (Berkeley, CA)",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Printing,' dated June 1972. Issued SIMULTANEOUSLY in wrappers (pictorial card covers, the more common state) and in a small hardcover/cloth state (black boards, silver spine lettering). The prized first-issue dust jacket on the hardcover carries the WRONG price—$3.75 (the paperback price) mistakenly printed—quickly corrected to $6.75; the $3.75-jacket hardcover is the rarity. xiv, 248, [2] pp; illustrated.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bless-me-ultima"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lonesome-dove",
   "title": "Lonesome Dove",
   "author": "Larry McMurtry",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster (New York)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page has a complete number line ending (or beginning) in '1' with the printing run; first issue. First-issue dust jacket bears NO mention of the Pulitzer Prize (the novel won the 1986 Pulitzer, so any Pulitzer reference on the jacket = later printing/state). A text reading 'none' for 'done' on p.621 exists but persists into later printings, so it is NOT a reliable first-printing point—rely on the number line and the no-Pulitzer jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lonesome-dove"
  },
  {
   "slug": "true-grit",
   "title": "True Grit",
   "author": "Charles Portis",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster (New York)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the 1968 copyright with NO additional printing statement (and the S&S first-issue conventions of the period). Bound in blue-gray cloth, spine stamped in red and gilt, yellow topstain, mustard-yellow endpapers; 215 pp. First-issue dust jacket designed by Paul Davis, priced $4.95 on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/true-grit"
  },
  {
   "slug": "shane",
   "title": "Shane",
   "author": "Jack Schaefer",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin (Boston)",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing is bound in TAN cloth stamped in dark brown, and the date '1949' appears on the TITLE PAGE (as well as copyright). 214 pp; first-issue jacket priced $2.50 on the front flap. Later printings are in BLUE cloth and have an UNDATED title page (the 1949 remains only on the copyright page).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/shane"
  },
  {
   "slug": "death-comes-for-the-archbishop",
   "title": "Death Comes for the Archbishop",
   "author": "Willa Cather",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1927",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade issue points (per the Cather Archive bibliography): NO topstain, and the misprints 'happned' on p.20 and 'suppper' present in early text; 1927 on title and copyright with Knopf's first-issue conventions. Three issues exist: 50 copies on Japan vellum (signed, numbered, full cream vellum, slipcased), 175 copies on rag paper (signed, numbered, marbled boards/green spine cloth, gilt morocco label), and ~20,000 trade copies in cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/death-comes-for-the-archbishop"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-milagro-beanfield-war",
   "title": "The Milagro Beanfield War",
   "author": "John Nichols",
   "publisher": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston (New York)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page (Holt convention) with no later-printing line, 1974 copyright. Illustrations/decorations by Rini Templeton. First-issue dust jacket carries the front-flap price and no later-printing or award references.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-milagro-beanfield-war"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-big-sky",
   "title": "The Big Sky",
   "author": "A.B. Guthrie Jr.",
   "publisher": "William Sloane Associates (New York)",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing with 1947 copyright and no additional-printing statement; published by William Sloane Associates. First-issue dust jacket with front-flap price and no reference to the 1949 sequel 'The Way West' or to the Pulitzer (Guthrie won for The Way West, not this title).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-big-sky"
  },
  {
   "slug": "riders-of-the-purple-sage",
   "title": "Riders of the Purple Sage",
   "author": "Zane Grey",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers (New York)",
   "year": "1912",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition carries the Harper code 'M-M' on the copyright page (the Harper letter code denotes month/year: M-M = 1912) with the 'Published [date]' line; frontispiece illustration. No number line (period). Bound in red/maroon cloth with pictorial stamping; first-issue jacket (when present) is exceedingly rare.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/riders-of-the-purple-sage"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-virginian-a-horseman-of-the-plains",
   "title": "The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains",
   "author": "Owen Wister",
   "publisher": "The Macmillan Company (New York)",
   "year": "1902",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first state with 1902 on title page and 'Published April, 1902' on the copyright page; later first-edition printings add 'Reprinted' lines (May 1902, etc.). Bound in tan/olive pictorial cloth. Key textual point: certain early-state readings/dedication; the earliest printing has no list of later reprintings on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-virginian-a-horseman-of-the-plains"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-oregon-trail",
   "title": "The Oregon Trail",
   "author": "Francis Parkman",
   "publisher": "George P. Putnam (New York)",
   "year": "1849",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued first in book form 1849 by Putnam under the title 'The California and Oregon Trail' (the full original title), in cloth; the famous shortened title 'The Oregon Trail' came with later editions. First-book-edition points include the 1849 Putnam imprint and the original longer title on the title page. (Originally serialized in Knickerbocker Magazine 1847-49 prior to book form.)",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-oregon-trail"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn",
   "title": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn",
   "author": "Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)",
   "publisher": "Charles L. Webster and Company (New York)",
   "year": "1885",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First state has the famous points: p.13 'was' for 'saw' / 'Decided' contents point; the 'curve' caption / Uncle Silas illustration on p.283 in its uncensored (vulgar) state; p.155 'with the saw'; final '$2.30' / 'Him and another Man' caption listed as p.88 in contents but plate at p.87. The defective 'b' in 'Tom Sawyer' on p.[9].",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn"
  },
  {
   "slug": "my-antonia",
   "title": "My Antonia",
   "author": "Willa Cather",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin (Boston)",
   "year": "1918",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing with the W.T. Benda illustrations PRINTED ON COATED/GLOSSY paper and tipped/inserted as plates (first issue); a later state has the illustrations on the regular text paper. The title page reads 'My Antonia' with the diacritic; copyright 1918. Bound in tan cloth, dark-stamped, with the first-issue jacket priced accordingly.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/my-antonia"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sea-of-cortez-sea-of-cortez-a-leisurely-journal-of-trave",
   "title": "The Sea of Cortez (Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research)",
   "author": "John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press (New York)",
   "year": "1941",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first issue includes the color frontispiece and the full phyletic catalogue (species appendix); bound in tan/buff cloth. Co-authored by Steinbeck and Ricketts. First-issue dust jacket with front-flap price. The complete species catalogue and the integral color plate are the points to verify.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sea-of-cortez-sea-of-cortez-a-leisurely-journal-of-trave"
  },
  {
   "slug": "travels-with-charley-in-search-of-america",
   "title": "Travels with Charley in Search of America",
   "author": "John Steinbeck",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press (New York)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'First published in 1962' on the copyright page with no additional printing line; bound in beige/tan cloth, brown topstain. First-issue dust jacket priced $4.95 on the front flap with the original jacket art.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/travels-with-charley-in-search-of-america"
  },
  {
   "slug": "centennial",
   "title": "Centennial",
   "author": "James A. Michener",
   "publisher": "Random House (New York)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'First Edition' on the copyright page (Random House convention) with no number line indicating later printings; 1974 copyright. First-issue dust jacket with front-flap price and the original Colorado/American West jacket art.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/centennial"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-log-from-the-sea-of-cortez",
   "title": "The Log from the Sea of Cortez",
   "author": "John Steinbeck",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press (New York)",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, 1951 Viking, with the prefatory memoir 'About Ed Ricketts' and the narrative-only text (no species catalogue). Copyright page shows the 1951 first-issue state with no later-printing line; first-issue jacket with front-flap price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-log-from-the-sea-of-cortez"
  },
  {
   "slug": "blood-meridian-or-the-evening-redness-in-the-west",
   "title": "Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West",
   "author": "Cormac McCarthy",
   "publisher": "Random House (New York)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page (Random House) with no later-printing indicator. Bound in black cloth/boards; first-issue dust jacket priced $16.95 on the front flap, with the original jacket art (no later award/blurb references).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/blood-meridian-or-the-evening-redness-in-the-west"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pilgrim-at-tinker-creek",
   "title": "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek",
   "author": "Annie Dillard",
   "publisher": "Harper's Magazine Press / Harper & Row (New York)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing has the full number line ending in '1' and/or the Harper's Magazine Press first-issue copyright state, 1974. First-issue dust jacket priced on the front flap with NO mention of the Pulitzer Prize (Dillard won the 1975 Pulitzer for this book, so a Pulitzer-free jacket = first issue).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pilgrim-at-tinker-creek"
  },
  {
   "slug": "coming-into-the-country",
   "title": "Coming into the Country",
   "author": "John McPhee",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York)",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing states 'First printing, 1977' on the copyright page (FSG convention) with no later-printing line. Bound in cloth/quarter-cloth; first-issue dust jacket with the Alaska-themed art and front-flap price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/coming-into-the-country"
  },
  {
   "slug": "angle-of-repose",
   "title": "Angle of Repose",
   "author": "Wallace Stegner",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (Garden City, NY)",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing has 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page (Doubleday convention) with the matching first-issue jacket; 1971 copyright. First-issue dust jacket with front-flap price and NO mention of the Pulitzer (Stegner won the 1972 Pulitzer for this novel, so a Pulitzer-free first-issue jacket precedes the award).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/angle-of-repose"
  },
  {
   "slug": "black-elk-speaks",
   "title": "Black Elk Speaks",
   "author": "John G. Neihardt (as told through Black Elk)",
   "publisher": "William Morrow & Company (New York)",
   "year": "1932",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing 1932 William Morrow, with the Standing Bear color illustrations; first-issue copyright state with no later-printing line. First-issue dust jacket with the original art and front-flap price. Bound in cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/black-elk-speaks"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-way-to-rainy-mountain",
   "title": "The Way to Rainy Mountain",
   "author": "N. Scott Momaday",
   "publisher": "University of New Mexico Press (Albuquerque)",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing 1969 University of New Mexico Press, illustrated by Al Momaday; first-issue copyright state with no later-printing line. Issued in cloth (and a wrappers issue); first-issue dust jacket on the cloth state with front-flap price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-way-to-rainy-mountain"
  },
  {
   "slug": "house-made-of-dawn",
   "title": "House Made of Dawn",
   "author": "N. Scott Momaday",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row (New York)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing has the Harper & Row first-issue code 'F-S' (Harper letter code = 1968) on the copyright page with no later-printing line. First-issue dust jacket priced on the front flap with the original art and NO mention of the Pulitzer (the novel won the 1969 Pulitzer, so a Pulitzer-free jacket = first issue).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/house-made-of-dawn"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-land-of-little-rain",
   "title": "The Land of Little Rain",
   "author": "Mary Hunter Austin",
   "publisher": "Houghton, Mifflin and Company (Boston & New York)",
   "year": "1903",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1903 Houghton, Mifflin, illustrated by E. Boyd Smith, decorated cloth with the desert/landscape design; first-issue with the 1903 copyright and Riverside Press colophon, no later-printing line. Top edge gilt in the first issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-land-of-little-rain"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hondo",
   "title": "Hondo",
   "author": "Louis L'Amour",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books / Fawcett (New York)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition was a paperback original: Fawcett Gold Medal #511, 1953, with the Gold Medal first-printing code on the copyright page (no later-printing numbers). Pictorial wrappers; the John Wayne film tie-in connection drove demand. Verify the Gold Medal first-printing statement/number on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hondo"
  },
  {
   "slug": "on-the-origin-of-species-by-means-of-natural-selection",
   "title": "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection",
   "author": "Charles Darwin",
   "publisher": "John Murray (London)",
   "year": "1859",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first issue: 1,250 copies. Murray's catalogue of advertisements not present in first issue (some bound in vary). Key textual points: 'speceies' misspelled for 'species' on p. 20, line 11; on p. 1 the running head/text quotation page carries only two quotations (Whewell and Bacon) on the verso of the half-title; 'till' for 'still' on p. 21; the word 'whale' references and the famous p. 184 bear-into-whale passage (later softened). Title page dated 1859, priced 15 shillings. Bound in original green cloth, blind-stamped, with 32 pages of Murray ads dated June 1859.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/on-the-origin-of-species-by-means-of-natural-selection"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-brief-history-of-time-from-the-big-bang-to-black-holes",
   "title": "A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes",
   "author": "Stephen Hawking",
   "publisher": "Bantam Books (New York)",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition, first printing: number line '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' on the copyright page. Blue dust jacket. Introduction by Carl Sagan, illustrations by Ron Miller. The first printing contained numerous textual/illustration errors and several reversed or mis-captioned diagrams; it was effectively superseded by a corrected second printing, making true first printings comparatively scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-brief-history-of-time-from-the-big-bang-to-black-holes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-double-helix",
   "title": "The Double Helix",
   "author": "James D. Watson",
   "publisher": "Atheneum (New York)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition, first printing: copyright page states 'First Printing' (Atheneum). Issued in the series with the dust jacket showing the DNA-helix design; price on flap. Atheneum used 'First Printing' / 'First Edition' statements rather than number lines in this period.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-double-helix"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-selfish-gene",
   "title": "The Selfish Gene",
   "author": "Richard Dawkins",
   "publisher": "Oxford University Press (Oxford/New York)",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Oxford University Press, 1976, with no later-printing statements; OUP imprint on title page. Original dust jacket (the classic green/Desmond Morris-influenced design). First printing precedes the 1989 second edition, which adds extensive new endnotes and two new chapters — collectors want the 1976 text without the added chapters.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-selfish-gene"
  },
  {
   "slug": "guns-germs-and-steel-the-fates-of-human-societies",
   "title": "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies",
   "author": "Jared Diamond",
   "publisher": "W. W. Norton (New York)",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition, first printing: full number line '1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0' on the copyright page. Original dust jacket with the printed price. Subtitle on the US first is 'The Fates of Human Societies.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/guns-germs-and-steel-the-fates-of-human-societies"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-right-stuff",
   "title": "The Right Stuff",
   "author": "Tom Wolfe",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York)",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: FSG statement 'First printing, 1979' on the copyright page (FSG used a printed-statement convention). Original dust jacket priced $12.95, jacket design with the title in the period typography. No later-printing notations.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-right-stuff"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hiroshima",
   "title": "Hiroshima",
   "author": "John Hersey",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Knopf, 1946, with 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page and the Borzoi colophon. Issued in original cloth with the first-issue dust jacket. The entire text first appeared in The New Yorker, August 31, 1946 (single-issue), which is a separate, highly collected 'first appearance.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hiroshima"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-feynman-lectures-on-physics-3-vols",
   "title": "The Feynman Lectures on Physics (3 vols.)",
   "author": "Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands",
   "publisher": "Addison-Wesley (Reading, MA)",
   "year": "1963 (Vol I), 1964 (II), 1965 (III)",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Addison-Wesley, red cloth (commemorative/hardcover sets) — the desirable first issues carry the early printing statements. Volume I is 1963, Volume II 1964, Volume III 1965; a true first set has each volume in its respective first printing. Early printings note the Caltech lecture origin; check each volume's copyright page individually.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-feynman-lectures-on-physics-3-vols"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cosmos",
   "title": "Cosmos",
   "author": "Carl Sagan",
   "publisher": "Random House (New York)",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' with no number line below it (Random House convention of the period). Original dust jacket priced $19.95, lavishly illustrated. Issued alongside the PBS television series.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cosmos"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-feminine-mystique",
   "title": "The Feminine Mystique",
   "author": "Betty Friedan",
   "publisher": "W. W. Norton (New York)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: copyright page with 'FIRST EDITION' (Norton period statement) and no later-printing codes. Original dust jacket priced (about $5.95) with the first-issue design. Issued February 1963.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-feminine-mystique"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-structure-of-scientific-revolutions",
   "title": "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions",
   "author": "Thomas S. Kuhn",
   "publisher": "University of Chicago Press (Chicago)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: University of Chicago Press, 1962, issued in the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science series (Vol. II, No. 2). First printing has no later-printing statement; original wrappers (paperbound issue) and/or cloth. The 1962 first lacks the 1969 'Postscript' that appears in the second edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-structure-of-scientific-revolutions"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-affluent-society",
   "title": "The Affluent Society",
   "author": "John Kenneth Galbraith",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin (Boston)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Houghton Mifflin, 1958, with 'First Printing' stated on the copyright page (Houghton convention). Original cloth and first-issue dust jacket with price. Later revised editions (1969, 1976, 1984) altered the text and are not the first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-affluent-society"
  },
  {
   "slug": "profiles-in-courage",
   "title": "Profiles in Courage",
   "author": "John F. Kennedy",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers (New York)",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first issue: Harper code 'A-F' (i.e., letter code 'A' indicating January 1956 first printing) on the copyright page — Harper used a two-character code where the first letter is the printing (A = first) and following letters/numerals the year. First-issue dust jacket priced $3.50. Original cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/profiles-in-courage"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dispatches",
   "title": "Dispatches",
   "author": "Michael Herr",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Knopf, 1977, with 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page and the Borzoi colophon. First-issue dust jacket priced ($8.95). No number line below the 'FIRST EDITION' statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dispatches"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-power-broker-robert-moses-and-the-fall-of-new-york",
   "title": "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York",
   "author": "Robert A. Caro",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Knopf, 1974, with 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page and the Borzoi colophon; no number line below the statement. First-issue dust jacket priced $17.95. Thick single volume (~1,200+ pp).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-power-broker-robert-moses-and-the-fall-of-new-york"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-interpretation-of-dreams",
   "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams",
   "author": "Sigmund Freud",
   "publisher": "Franz Deuticke (Leipzig & Vienna, German) / George Allen & Unwin & Macmillan (English)",
   "year": "1899/1900 (German) / 1913 (English)",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "German true first: 'Die Traumdeutung,' Franz Deuticke, Leipzig & Vienna — printed 1899 but title-page dated 1900 (a famous point: the book bears '1900' though copies were available in November 1899). 600 copies. First English edition (trans. A. A. Brill) is Macmillan/George Allen, 1913.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-interpretation-of-dreams"
  },
  {
   "slug": "roots-the-saga-of-an-american-family",
   "title": "Roots: The Saga of an American Family",
   "author": "Alex Haley",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (Garden City, NY)",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Doubleday, 1976, with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page (Doubleday convention) and no later-printing codes. First-issue dust jacket priced ($12.50). Issued just before the landmark 1977 TV miniseries.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/roots-the-saga-of-an-american-family"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bury-my-heart-at-wounded-knee",
   "title": "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee",
   "author": "Dee Brown",
   "publisher": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston (New York)",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970, with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page and no later-printing codes. First-issue dust jacket priced ($10.95).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bury-my-heart-at-wounded-knee"
  },
  {
   "slug": "slouching-towards-bethlehem",
   "title": "Slouching Towards Bethlehem",
   "author": "Joan Didion",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: FSG, 1968, with the statement 'First printing, 1968' on the copyright page. First-issue dust jacket priced ($5.95). Didion's debut essay collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/slouching-towards-bethlehem"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sapiens-a-brief-history-of-humankind",
   "title": "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind",
   "author": "Yuval Noah Harari",
   "publisher": "Harvill Secker (London) / Harper (US)",
   "year": "2014 (English) — Hebrew original 2011",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "English first edition, first printing: Harvill Secker, London, 2014, with full number line '1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2' (the '1' present) on the copyright page. The US Harper edition (2015) is later. The original Hebrew edition ('Kitzur Toldot Ha-Enoshut,' 2011) predates all English printings.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sapiens-a-brief-history-of-humankind"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks",
   "title": "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks",
   "author": "Rebecca Skloot",
   "publisher": "Crown Publishers (New York)",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Crown, 2010, with both the statement 'First Edition' and the full number line '1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2' on the copyright page (the '1' present). First-issue dust jacket priced ($26.00).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks"
  },
  {
   "slug": "longitude",
   "title": "Longitude",
   "author": "Dava Sobel",
   "publisher": "Walker & Company (New York)",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Walker & Company, 1995, with the full number line '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' on the copyright page (the '1' present). First-issue dust jacket priced ($19.00). Small format hardcover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/longitude"
  },
  {
   "slug": "into-thin-air",
   "title": "Into Thin Air",
   "author": "Jon Krakauer",
   "publisher": "Villard (Random House) (New York)",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Villard, 1997, with 'FIRST EDITION' stated and the full number line '9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' (some copies). The notable point: the first printing contained an error — it misidentified/misattributed certain details corrected in later printings (the first state also has the original postscript before Krakauer's later additions). First-issue dust jacket priced ($24.95).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/into-thin-air"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-devil-in-the-white-city",
   "title": "The Devil in the White City",
   "author": "Erik Larson",
   "publisher": "Crown Publishers (New York)",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Crown, 2003, with 'First Edition' stated and the full number line '1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2' (the '1' present) on the copyright page. First-issue dust jacket priced ($25.95).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-devil-in-the-white-city"
  },
  {
   "slug": "fast-food-nation",
   "title": "Fast Food Nation",
   "author": "Eric Schlosser",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin (Boston)",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Houghton Mifflin, 2001, with the full number line '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' (the '1' present) on the copyright page. First-issue dust jacket priced ($25.00).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/fast-food-nation"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-tipping-point",
   "title": "The Tipping Point",
   "author": "Malcolm Gladwell",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company (Boston)",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Little, Brown, 2000, with the full number line '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' (the '1' present) on the copyright page. First-issue dust jacket priced ($24.95). Gladwell's debut.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-tipping-point"
  },
  {
   "slug": "junkie-confessions-of-an-unredeemed-drug-addict-william-s-burr",
   "title": "Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict",
   "author": "William S. Burroughs (as 'William Lee')",
   "publisher": "Ace Books (Ace Double D-15)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original Ace Double D-15, a dos-a-dos (tete-beche) double bound back-to-back with 'Narcotic Agent' by Maurice Helbrant. Author credited as 'William Lee' on the cover (the pseudonym). Priced 35 cents; cover designated an 'ACE Original.' Cover art by Al Rossi. Printed on poor, brittle paper, so genuinely fine copies are scarce and command a large premium. Bibliographic ref: Maynard & Miles A1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/junkie-confessions-of-an-unredeemed-drug-addict-william-s-burr"
  },
  {
   "slug": "solar-lottery",
   "title": "Solar Lottery",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Ace Books (Ace Double D-103)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original Ace Double D-103 (May 1955), bound dos-a-dos with Leigh Brackett's 'The Big Jump.' 35 cents; 131 pages on the Dick side; cover art by Valigursky. Dick's first published novel. Bibliographic ref: Levack 38a.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/solar-lottery"
  },
  {
   "slug": "i-the-jury",
   "title": "I, the Jury",
   "author": "Mickey Spillane",
   "publisher": "E. P. Dutton (hardcover); Signet/NAL (first paperback, 947)",
   "year": "1947 (hardcover); 1948 (Signet paperback)",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first edition is the 1947 E. P. Dutton HARDCOVER (this title is NOT a paperback original). The famous Signet paperback (Signet 699, 1948, 25 cents) is the first paperback printing and is what made Spillane a phenomenon. The hardcover first has the Dutton imprint with no later-printing statements; the dust jacket is rare.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/i-the-jury"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-big-heat",
   "title": "The Big Heat",
   "author": "William P. McGivern",
   "publisher": "Dodd, Mead (hardcover, 1953); Pocket Books (paperback)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1953 Dodd, Mead HARDCOVER (not a paperback original). Listed here only to flag that despite its noir/pulp reputation it had a hardcover first; the Pocket Books paperback is a later reprint, not the first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-big-heat"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-killer-inside-me",
   "title": "The Killer Inside Me",
   "author": "Jim Thompson",
   "publisher": "Lion Books (Lion #99)",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Lion Books #99 (1952), 25 cents. Wraps-only; no hardcover precedes it. Lion Books logo on spine/cover and the catalog number 99 identify the issue. A cornerstone Thompson paperback original and his most collected title.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-killer-inside-me"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-grifters",
   "title": "The Grifters",
   "author": "Jim Thompson",
   "publisher": "Regency Books (RB 110)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Regency Books RB 110 (1963). Paperback wraps; no prior hardcover. Regency Books imprint (the Chicago imprint associated with editor Harlan Ellison) and the RB 110 number identify the first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-grifters"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-getaway",
   "title": "The Getaway",
   "author": "Jim Thompson",
   "publisher": "Signet (Signet S1584)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Signet S1584 (1959; copyright 1958). Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Signet imprint and catalog number identify it.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-getaway"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pop-1280",
   "title": "Pop. 1280",
   "author": "Jim Thompson",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books (Gold Medal k1438)",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Fawcett Gold Medal k1438 (1964), 40 cents. Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Gold Medal logo and catalog number k1438; first printing has no additional printing line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pop-1280"
  },
  {
   "slug": "black-wings-has-my-angel",
   "title": "Black Wings Has My Angel",
   "author": "Elliott Chaze",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books (Gold Medal #404)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Fawcett Gold Medal #404 (1953), 25 cents. Paperback wraps only; no hardcover precedes it. Gold Medal logo and number 404. A scarce, highly prized noir PBO; genuine first-printing copies in fine condition are very scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/black-wings-has-my-angel"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-galton-case",
   "title": "The Galton Case",
   "author": "Ross Macdonald",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (hardcover)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1959 Knopf HARDCOVER (not a PBO). Listed only as a caution: Macdonald/Lew Archer firsts are hardcover. Knopf first printings state 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page with the Borzoi colophon and no later-printing indicators.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-galton-case"
  },
  {
   "slug": "build-my-gallows-high",
   "title": "Build My Gallows High",
   "author": "Geoffrey Homes (Daniel Mainwaring)",
   "publisher": "William Morrow (hardcover)",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1946 William Morrow HARDCOVER (basis for the film 'Out of the Past'). Caution title. Not a paperback original. Morrow first has no later-printing statement and the original jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/build-my-gallows-high"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hunter-point-blank-payback",
   "title": "The Hunter (Point Blank / Payback)",
   "author": "Richard Stark (Donald E. Westlake)",
   "publisher": "Pocket Books (Permabook M-4255)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Pocket Books/Permabooks M-4255 (1962), 35 cents. First Parker novel. Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Pocket/Perma imprint and the M-4255 number identify the first; first printing has no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hunter-point-blank-payback"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-touch-of-death",
   "title": "A Touch of Death",
   "author": "Charles Williams",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books (Gold Medal #s725)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Fawcett Gold Medal #s725 (1953). Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Gold Medal logo and number; first printing carries the original price and no later-printing line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-touch-of-death"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hell-hath-no-fury-the-hot-spot",
   "title": "Hell Hath No Fury (The Hot Spot)",
   "author": "Charles Williams",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books (Gold Medal #286)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Fawcett Gold Medal #286 (1953), 25 cents. Paperback wraps only. Gold Medal logo and number 286; basis for the film 'The Hot Spot.' First printing has the original price and no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hell-hath-no-fury-the-hot-spot"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-vengeful-virgin",
   "title": "The Vengeful Virgin",
   "author": "Gil Brewer",
   "publisher": "Crest Books (Fawcett Crest s375)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Fawcett Crest s375 (1958). Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Crest imprint and catalog number; classic Gil Brewer PBO noir. Reprinted by Hard Case Crime in 2007 (a modern first-thus).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-vengeful-virgin"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-big-bounce",
   "title": "The Big Bounce",
   "author": "Elmore Leonard",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books (Fawcett Gold Medal d1958)",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Fawcett Gold Medal d1958 (1969), 50 cents. Leonard's first crime novel and first contemporary (non-Western) novel; rejected by many publishers and issued as a PBO. Gold Medal logo and catalog number; first printing has no later-printing statement. A key, sought Leonard PBO.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-big-bounce"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-space-merchants",
   "title": "The Space Merchants",
   "author": "Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth",
   "publisher": "Ballantine Books (hardcover and paperback simultaneously)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ballantine issued this simultaneously in a hardcover (cloth) and a paperback in 1953; the paperback (Ballantine #21, 35 cents) is widely collected and was issued at the same time as the cloth. Both are 1953 firsts. Magazine serialization 'Gravy Planet' (Galaxy, 1952) precedes the book. Ballantine first paperback carries the early catalog number and original price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-space-merchants"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-long-tomorrow",
   "title": "The Long Tomorrow",
   "author": "Leigh Brackett",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (hardcover)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1955 Doubleday HARDCOVER. Caution title: not a PBO despite Brackett's strong pulp/paperback association. Doubleday SF firsts of the era state 'First Edition' on the copyright page with the gun colophon on the title page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-long-tomorrow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-stars-my-destination-tiger-tiger",
   "title": "The Stars My Destination (Tiger! Tiger!)",
   "author": "Alfred Bester",
   "publisher": "Signet/NAL (US paperback original); Sidgwick & Jackson (UK hardcover, as 'Tiger! Tiger!')",
   "year": "1956 (UK) / 1957 (US)",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The US edition was a PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: Signet S1389 (1957), titled 'The Stars My Destination.' The earlier UK first is the hardcover 'Tiger! Tiger!' (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1956). So the true world first is the UK hardcover under the alternate title; the US first appearance is the Signet paperback. US Signet S1389 with no later-printing line is the first US printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-stars-my-destination-tiger-tiger"
  },
  {
   "slug": "double-star",
   "title": "Double Star",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (hardcover)",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1956 Doubleday HARDCOVER (Hugo winner). Caution title. Doubleday first states 'First Edition' on the copyright page; serialized in Astounding (1956) before book form.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/double-star"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-hell-of-a-woman",
   "title": "A Hell of a Woman",
   "author": "Jim Thompson",
   "publisher": "Lion Books (Lion #218)",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Lion Books #218 (1954), 25 cents. Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Lion logo and catalog number 218. Famous for its split-narrative ending. First printing has no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-hell-of-a-woman"
  },
  {
   "slug": "savage-night",
   "title": "Savage Night",
   "author": "Jim Thompson",
   "publisher": "Lion Books (Lion #155)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Lion Books #155 (1953). Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Lion logo and number 155; first printing carries the original price and no later-printing line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/savage-night"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pick-up",
   "title": "Pick-Up",
   "author": "Charles Willeford",
   "publisher": "Beacon Books (Beacon #B102)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Beacon Books #B102 (1955), 25 cents. Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Beacon logo and number B102. A scarce, prized Willeford PBO.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pick-up"
  },
  {
   "slug": "high-priest-of-california",
   "title": "High Priest of California",
   "author": "Charles Willeford",
   "publisher": "Royal Books (Royal Giant #16)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Royal Giant #16 (1953), bound back-to-back (a Royal double) with 'Wild Wives' in some states. Willeford's first novel. Paperback wraps only; Royal Books imprint and catalog number identify it.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/high-priest-of-california"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cassidys-girl",
   "title": "Cassidy's Girl",
   "author": "David Goodis",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books (Gold Medal #195)",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Fawcett Gold Medal #195 (1951), 25 cents. Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Gold Medal logo and number 195. One of Gold Medal's biggest early sellers; first printing has the original price and no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cassidys-girl"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-damned",
   "title": "The Damned",
   "author": "John D. MacDonald",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books (Gold Medal #240)",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Fawcett Gold Medal #240 (1952), 25 cents. Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Gold Medal logo and number; an early MacDonald PBO bestseller. First printing has the original price and no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-damned"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-deep-blue-good-by",
   "title": "The Deep Blue Good-by",
   "author": "John D. MacDonald",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books (Fawcett Gold Medal k1405)",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Fawcett Gold Medal k1405 (1964), 40 cents. First Travis McGee novel. Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Gold Medal logo and catalog number k1405; first printing has the 40-cent price and no later-printing statement. A key, sought first-in-series PBO.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-deep-blue-good-by"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nightmare-alley",
   "title": "Nightmare Alley",
   "author": "William Lindsay Gresham",
   "publisher": "Rinehart & Company (hardcover)",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1946 Rinehart HARDCOVER. Caution title. Not a PBO despite its noir/carny reputation. Rinehart first has no later-printing statement and the original jacket; later Signet/popular paperbacks are reprints.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nightmare-alley"
  },
  {
   "slug": "down-there-shoot-the-piano-player",
   "title": "Down There (Shoot the Piano Player)",
   "author": "David Goodis",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books (Fawcett Gold Medal #957)",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Fawcett Gold Medal #957 (1956), 25 cents, titled 'Down There.' Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Basis for Truffaut's 'Shoot the Piano Player'; later reissued under that title (tie-in). First printing has the original price and no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/down-there-shoot-the-piano-player"
  },
  {
   "slug": "some-of-your-blood",
   "title": "Some of Your Blood",
   "author": "Theodore Sturgeon",
   "publisher": "Ballantine Books (Ballantine F562)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Ballantine Books F562 (1961), 50 cents. Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Ballantine imprint and catalog number; first printing has no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/some-of-your-blood"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bring-the-jubilee",
   "title": "Bring the Jubilee",
   "author": "Ward Moore",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Young (hardcover)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1953 Farrar, Straus & Young HARDCOVER. Caution title. Serialized in F&SF (1952) before book form; the Ballantine paperback is a reprint.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bring-the-jubilee"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sword-of-rhiannon-sea-kings-of-mars",
   "title": "The Sword of Rhiannon (Sea-Kings of Mars)",
   "author": "Leigh Brackett",
   "publisher": "Ace Books (Ace Double D-36)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First book edition is the paperback original Ace Double D-36 (1953), bound dos-a-dos with 'Conan the Conqueror' in the Ace double. The text first appeared as 'Sea-Kings of Mars' in Thrilling Wonder Stories (1949). Ace double number D-36 and dos-a-dos format identify the first book edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sword-of-rhiannon-sea-kings-of-mars"
  },
  {
   "slug": "killers-choice-cop-hater-87th-precinct",
   "title": "Killer's Choice / Cop Hater (87th Precinct)",
   "author": "Ed McBain (Evan Hunter)",
   "publisher": "Pocket Books / Permabooks (paperback originals)",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The 87th Precinct series launched as paperback originals: 'Cop Hater' (Permabooks M-3061, 1956) is the first in the series and a PBO. Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Perma/Pocket imprint and catalog number identify the first; first printing has no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/killers-choice-cop-hater-87th-precinct"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-big-clock",
   "title": "The Big Clock",
   "author": "Kenneth Fearing",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace (hardcover)",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1946 Harcourt, Brace HARDCOVER. Caution title. Not a PBO. Harcourt first has no later-printing statement and the original jacket; the later paperback is a reprint.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-big-clock"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-day-of-the-triffids",
   "title": "The Day of the Triffids",
   "author": "John Wyndham",
   "publisher": "Michael Joseph (UK hardcover); Doubleday (US hardcover)",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1951 Michael Joseph UK HARDCOVER. Caution title. The US Doubleday hardcover (1951) follows. Serialized in Collier's (1951) as 'Revolt of the Triffids.' The Popular Library/paperback editions are reprints.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-day-of-the-triffids"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tarzan-of-the-apes",
   "title": "Tarzan of the Apes",
   "author": "Edgar Rice Burroughs",
   "publisher": "A. C. McClurg (hardcover)",
   "year": "1914",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first book edition is the 1914 A. C. McClurg HARDCOVER. The text first appeared in All-Story magazine (October 1912). First-issue points: McClurg 1914 with 'W. F. Hall' printer's imprint on the copyright page and the acorn device; the famous first-issue has specific binding and printer's-mark points documented in ERB bibliographies.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tarzan-of-the-apes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "weird-tales-pulp-magazine",
   "title": "Weird Tales (pulp magazine)",
   "author": "various (ed. Farnsworth Wright et al.)",
   "publisher": "Rural Publishing / Popular Fiction Publishing",
   "year": "1923 onward",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Iconic pulp. Key collectible issues are identified by date and contents rather than 'edition': e.g., the first issue (March 1923); issues with first Conan/Robert E. Howard appearances ('The Phoenix on the Sword,' Dec. 1932); first Cthulhu Mythos appearances by H. P. Lovecraft ('The Call of Cthulhu,' Weird Tales Feb. 1928). Each pulp issue exists in a single printing; identification is by cover date, volume/number, and verified contents.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/weird-tales-pulp-magazine"
  },
  {
   "slug": "amazing-stories-pulp-magazine",
   "title": "Amazing Stories (pulp magazine)",
   "author": "various (ed. Hugo Gernsback)",
   "publisher": "Experimenter Publishing",
   "year": "1926 onward",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Iconic pulp; the first SF-dedicated magazine. Most collectible issue is the first, April 1926 (Frank R. Paul cover). Identification is by cover date, volume/number, and contents. Single printing per issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/amazing-stories-pulp-magazine"
  },
  {
   "slug": "astounding-science-fiction-pulp-magazine",
   "title": "Astounding Science-Fiction (pulp magazine)",
   "author": "various (ed. John W. Campbell)",
   "publisher": "Street & Smith",
   "year": "1930 onward",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Iconic pulp central to SF's Golden Age. Key collectible issues by date/contents: first appearances such as Asimov's 'Nightfall' (Sept. 1941), the 'Foundation' stories (1942 onward), Heinlein's early work, and the issue containing the controversial 'Deadline' atomic-bomb story (Cleve Cartmill, March 1944). Single printing per issue; identified by cover date and verified contents.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/astounding-science-fiction-pulp-magazine"
  },
  {
   "slug": "black-mask-pulp-magazine",
   "title": "Black Mask (pulp magazine)",
   "author": "various (Hammett, Chandler, et al.)",
   "publisher": "Pro-Distributors / Popular Publications",
   "year": "1920 onward",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The seminal hardboiled-crime pulp. Key collectible issues by date/contents: the serialization of Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon' (1929-30) and 'Red Harvest,' and Raymond Chandler's first published story 'Blackmailers Don't Shoot' (Dec. 1933). Single printing per issue; identification by cover date, volume/number and contents.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/black-mask-pulp-magazine"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-shadow-magazine-pulp",
   "title": "The Shadow Magazine (pulp)",
   "author": "Maxwell Grant (Walter B. Gibson)",
   "publisher": "Street & Smith",
   "year": "1931 onward",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Landmark hero pulp. Most collectible issue is the first, 'The Living Shadow' (The Shadow Magazine, April/Spring 1931). Identification by cover date, volume/number, and contents; single printing per issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-shadow-magazine-pulp"
  },
  {
   "slug": "doc-savage-magazine-pulp",
   "title": "Doc Savage Magazine (pulp)",
   "author": "Kenneth Robeson (Lester Dent)",
   "publisher": "Street & Smith",
   "year": "1933 onward",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Landmark hero pulp. Most collectible issue is the first, 'The Man of Bronze' (Doc Savage Magazine, March 1933). Identification by cover date, volume/number, and contents; single printing per issue. The 1960s-70s Bantam paperback reprints (with James Bama covers) are reprints, NOT the pulp firsts.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/doc-savage-magazine-pulp"
  },
  {
   "slug": "spicy-detective-spicy-adventure-stories-pulp",
   "title": "Spicy Detective / Spicy-Adventure Stories (pulp)",
   "author": "various (incl. Robert E. Howard as 'Sam Walser')",
   "publisher": "Culture Publications",
   "year": "1934 onward",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Notorious 'spicy' pulp line, heavily collected for cover art and for risque content. Identification by cover date, volume/number, and contents; single printing per issue. Many issues exist in 'toned-down' newsstand vs. fuller states, but the principal collecting point is the specific issue, cover artist, and condition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/spicy-detective-spicy-adventure-stories-pulp"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-name-of-the-game-is-death",
   "title": "The Name of the Game Is Death",
   "author": "Dan J. Marlowe",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books (Fawcett Gold Medal k1308)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Fawcett Gold Medal k1308 (1962), 40 cents. Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Gold Medal logo and catalog number; first printing has the original price and no later-printing statement. A celebrated hardboiled PBO (admired by Stephen King).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-name-of-the-game-is-death"
  },
  {
   "slug": "day-keene-home-is-the-sailor",
   "title": "Day Keene / Home Is the Sailor",
   "author": "Day Keene",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books (Fawcett Gold Medal #281)",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Fawcett Gold Medal #281 (1952), 25 cents. Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Gold Medal logo and number; representative of Keene's Gold Medal PBO output. First printing has the original price and no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/day-keene-home-is-the-sailor"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gone-with-the-wind",
   "title": "Gone with the Wind",
   "author": "Margaret Mitchell",
   "publisher": "The Macmillan Company (New York)",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first: copyright page states 'Published May, 1936' and the dust jacket lists GWTW on the rear panel among the 'Spring' titles (i.e., it is NOT listed at the top of the published list). First-issue jacket has the $3.00 price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gone-with-the-wind"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lord-of-the-rings-3-vols",
   "title": "The Lord of the Rings (3 vols)",
   "author": "J. R. R. Tolkien",
   "publisher": "George Allen & Unwin (London)",
   "year": "1954-1955",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Fellowship (1954) first impression: 'Made and Printed in Great Britain' and the famous signature gathering points; Two Towers and Return of the King (1955). Return of the King first impression has the 'Estella Bolger' point and the slip on p.49 of the index; Fellowship has 'middle e' / the first-state map. The Ring inscription and red/black title pages present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lord-of-the-rings-3-vols"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tamerlane-and-other-poems",
   "title": "Tamerlane and Other Poems",
   "author": "Edgar Allan Poe ('A Bostonian')",
   "publisher": "Calvin F. S. Thomas (Boston)",
   "year": "1827",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition is a thin pamphlet in tan/buff printed wrappers, attributed only to 'A Bostonian' (Poe unnamed), 40 pages; Calvin F. S. Thomas imprint. The text is the unrevised early version of 'Tamerlane'.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tamerlane-and-other-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sound-and-the-fury-as-i-lay-dying",
   "title": "The Sound and the Fury / As I Lay Dying",
   "author": "William Faulkner",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith (New York)",
   "year": "1930",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "As I Lay Dying (1930) first printing: the well-known broken-type point — 'I' dropped / damaged type on a specific page, and the first-issue binding. Limited signed issue exists.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sound-and-the-fury-as-i-lay-dying"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tender-is-the-night",
   "title": "Tender Is the Night",
   "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the Scribner's 'A' with 1934 imprint; first-issue dust jacket priced $2.50. The first-issue text precedes the later author-revised reordering.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tender-is-the-night"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-moveable-feast",
   "title": "A Moveable Feast",
   "author": "Ernest Hemingway",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the 'A' with 1964 imprint (posthumous); first-issue dust jacket priced $4.95. The Scribner's seal present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-moveable-feast"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer",
   "title": "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer",
   "author": "Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)",
   "publisher": "American Publishing Company (Hartford)",
   "year": "1876",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First American edition points (BAL): the half-title, the inserted ads, the 'Tom Sawyer' frontispiece state, and the specific gatherings; first issue has the correct list of illustrations and the 'first state' binding in the period cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "goodnight-moon-margaret-wise-",
   "title": "Goodnight Moon",
   "author": "Margaret Wise Brown",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers (New York)",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing: the copyright page with 'FIRST EDITION' / no later code; the first-issue interior has the green color states correct, and the jacket priced accordingly. Specific point: the 'mush' bowl and the wallpaper color states distinguish printings.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/goodnight-moon-margaret-wise-"
  },
  {
   "slug": "frankenstein-mary-shelley-a",
   "title": "Frankenstein",
   "author": "Mary Shelley (anonymous)",
   "publisher": "Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones (London)",
   "year": "1818",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in three volumes, published anonymously, with the dedication to William Godwin; half-titles present, the correct collation across all three volumes, and the period boards/blue-grey wrappers (original boards state). The 1818 imprint with the Lackington device.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/frankenstein-mary-shelley-a"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-christmas-carol",
   "title": "A Christmas Carol",
   "author": "Charles Dickens",
   "publisher": "Chapman and Hall (London)",
   "year": "1843",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first issue points: title page printed in red and blue with the date 1843; 'Stave I' (not 'Stave One'); green endpapers and yellow half-title; the four hand-colored Leech plates with the correct first-state coloring. The reading 'Stave I' and the salmon/yellow endpaper and uncorrected title page are the key first-issue states.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-christmas-carol"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-old-curiosity-shop-dickens-in-parts",
   "title": "The Old Curiosity Shop / Dickens in parts",
   "author": "Charles Dickens",
   "publisher": "Chapman and Hall (London)",
   "year": "1840-1841",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "For Dickens issued in monthly parts (e.g., this and 'David Copperfield', 'Bleak House'): true first is the original monthly parts in printed wrappers WITH the inserted advertisements ('Dickens advertiser') in the correct states, complete plates by the correct etcher state, and the part-wrappers intact.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-old-curiosity-shop-dickens-in-parts"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tess-of-the-durbervilles",
   "title": "Tess of the d'Urbervilles",
   "author": "Thomas Hardy",
   "publisher": "James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. (London)",
   "year": "1891",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in three volumes (three-decker), with the half-titles and the correct first-issue text including the 'Chapter XXV' / 'Saturday Review' points; the 'ramble' and the first-state readings (e.g., the corrected text in later issues). Original cloth in three volumes.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tess-of-the-durbervilles"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bell-jar-sylvia-plath-v",
   "title": "The Bell Jar",
   "author": "Sylvia Plath ('Victoria Lucas')",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first: published under the pseudonym 'Victoria Lucas', Heinemann 1963, dust jacket priced 16s with the correct design; the copyright/title page bears 'Victoria Lucas' not Plath.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bell-jar-sylvia-plath-v"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sun-also-rises-advance-proof-and-general-proof-note",
   "title": "The Sun Also Rises (advance/proof) — and general proof note",
   "author": "various / Ernest Hemingway",
   "publisher": "various",
   "year": "various",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Advance/uncorrected proofs and ARCs (galleys) precede the trade first and are identified by plain printed wrappers, 'UNCORRECTED PROOF'/'ADVANCE READING COPY' statements, often a different (sometimes provisional) price/date, and textual differences later corrected in the trade. They are NOT 'first editions' bibliographically but precede them in production.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sun-also-rises-advance-proof-and-general-proof-note"
  },
  {
   "slug": "trout-fishing-in-america",
   "title": "Trout Fishing in America",
   "author": "Richard Brautigan",
   "publisher": "Four Seasons Foundation (San Francisco)",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition is the Four Seasons Foundation paperback (Writing 8 series), first issue with the correct price and series statement; the cover photograph of Brautigan in front of the Ben Franklin statue. No later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/trout-fishing-in-america"
  },
  {
   "slug": "naked-lunch-william-s-burr",
   "title": "Naked Lunch",
   "author": "William S. Burroughs",
   "publisher": "The Olympia Press (Paris)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first: Olympia Press 1959 (The Traveller's Companion Series no. 76) in green printed wrappers, priced 'Francs: 1,500' on the rear cover; first issue has the correct price and series number with the title as 'The Naked Lunch'.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/naked-lunch-william-s-burr"
  },
  {
   "slug": "one-hundred-years-of-solitude-cien-a-os-de-soledad",
   "title": "One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad)",
   "author": "Gabriel García Márquez",
   "publisher": "Editorial Sudamericana (Buenos Aires)",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first: Sudamericana Buenos Aires, June 1967, with the galleon/ships cover (the first-issue wrapper design) and the printer's date; first issue has the textual errata later corrected (e.g., specific misprints in the early printing). The first-printing colophon dated May/June 1967.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/one-hundred-years-of-solitude-cien-a-os-de-soledad"
  },
  {
   "slug": "housekeeping",
   "title": "Housekeeping",
   "author": "Marilynne Robinson",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries no statement of a later printing on the copyright page (FSG's convention of indicating only reprints) with the number line intact. Bound in quarter blue cloth over lighter-blue paper boards with gilt spine titling. A notable variant exists: trial dust jackets on which the author and title lettering on the front panel and spine appear in deep orange rather than the issued blue-black. Robinson's debut novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/housekeeping"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gilead",
   "title": "Gilead",
   "author": "Marilynne Robinson",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states \"First edition, 2004\" with a full FSG number line beginning with 1. Bound in quarter cloth. First-state jacket carries the printed price and no Pulitzer announcement printed on it. Published well after Robinson's debut, Housekeeping.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gilead"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-broom-of-the-system",
   "title": "The Broom of the System",
   "author": "David Foster Wallace",
   "publisher": "Viking (Viking Penguin)",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover bound in light blue paper-covered boards over black spine cloth, stamped on the spine in metallic blue; dust jacket carries the printed price; number line present down to 1. The cloth print run was roughly 1,300 copies, with a simultaneous trade paperback in pictorial wraps.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-broom-of-the-system"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-brief-wondrous-life-of-oscar-wao",
   "title": "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao",
   "author": "Junot Díaz",
   "publisher": "Riverhead Books (New York)",
   "year": "2007",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Riverhead first printing has a full number line including 1 on the copyright page; first-issue cloth and jacket carry the printed price. Published September 2007.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-brief-wondrous-life-of-oscar-wao"
  },
  {
   "slug": "drown",
   "title": "Drown",
   "author": "Junot Díaz",
   "publisher": "Riverhead Books (Penguin)",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition so stated with a full number line down to 1. Bound in brown paper over boards with the spine backed in red and lettered in silver; dust jacket carries the printed price. Many first-printing copies also originally contained a publisher's erratum slip, frequently absent now. Díaz's debut story collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/drown"
  },
  {
   "slug": "interpreter-of-maladies",
   "title": "Interpreter of Maladies",
   "author": "Jhumpa Lahiri",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin (Mariner Books imprint)",
   "year": "1999",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued as a Mariner Books (Houghton Mifflin) trade-paperback original; the true first is the paperback original, with a full number line on the copyright page and no reference to the Pulitzer Prize. Lahiri's debut.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/interpreter-of-maladies"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-namesake",
   "title": "The Namesake",
   "author": "Jhumpa Lahiri",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the full number line ending in 1 (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1) on the copyright page. Hardcover in dust jacket with the printed price on the flap. Lahiri's first novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-namesake"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-secret-history",
   "title": "The Secret History",
   "author": "Donna Tartt",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (US)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states First Edition with the Borzoi (Knopf) colophon. First-state jacket carries the printed price and no later printing or award additions. Boards are white with black spine lettering; note the printed acetate jacket designed by Chip Kidd and Barbara de Wilde.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-secret-history"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-goldfinch",
   "title": "The Goldfinch",
   "author": "Donna Tartt",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company (US)",
   "year": "2013",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states First Edition: October 2013 with the full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ending in 1. White cloth boards with black lettering to front and spine; the jacket carries the printed price on the front flap and no review blurbs. Because the first printing predates the 2014 Pulitzer win, the first jacket bears no Pulitzer emblem.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-goldfinch"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-visit-from-the-goon-squad",
   "title": "A Visit from the Goon Squad",
   "author": "Jennifer Egan",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states First Edition with the Borzoi device; first-issue cloth and jacket carry the printed price on the flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-visit-from-the-goon-squad"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-amazing-adventures-of-kavalier-clay",
   "title": "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay",
   "author": "Michael Chabon",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states First Edition together with a number line whose lowest number is 2 (Random House's manner for a first printing when the First Edition statement is present). Jacket carries the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-amazing-adventures-of-kavalier-clay"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-mysteries-of-pittsburgh",
   "title": "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh",
   "author": "Michael Chabon",
   "publisher": "William Morrow",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states First Edition with a number line ending in 1; jacket carries the printed price on the flap. Chabon's debut novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-mysteries-of-pittsburgh"
  },
  {
   "slug": "wonder-boys",
   "title": "Wonder Boys",
   "author": "Michael Chabon",
   "publisher": "Villard / Random House",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with a complete descending number line ('9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2'); Villard imprint of Random House; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed price unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/wonder-boys"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-underground-railroad",
   "title": "The Underground Railroad",
   "author": "Colson Whitehead",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (US)",
   "year": "2016",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page reads 'FIRST EDITION' with the standard Doubleday number line '1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.' On the true first-issue jacket the Oprah's Book Club endorsement appears only as a separately applied adhesive sticker, not as part of the printed jacket design; later printings have the Oprah logo printed directly onto the jacket. Boards black with a white cloth spine; first-issue jacket unclipped with printed price intact.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-underground-railroad"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-nickel-boys",
   "title": "The Nickel Boys",
   "author": "Colson Whitehead",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (New York)",
   "year": "2019",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with a full number line including the 1; quarter-bound in black paper and cloth over boards with spine stamping; first-issue jacket priced with the printed price unclipped and dated '7/2019' on the rear flap. Whitehead's second Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2020).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-nickel-boys"
  },
  {
   "slug": "salvage-the-bones",
   "title": "Salvage the Bones",
   "author": "Jesmyn Ward",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury (US)",
   "year": "2011",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page reads 'First U.S. edition 2011' with a complete number line ending in 1; bound in white boards stamped in black with a green, black and white dust jacket carrying the printed price. Issued before Ward's wider fame; first printing modest.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/salvage-the-bones"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sing-unburied-sing",
   "title": "Sing, Unburied, Sing",
   "author": "Jesmyn Ward",
   "publisher": "Scribner (US)",
   "year": "2017",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page reads 'First Scribner hardcover edition September 2017' with a full number line to 1 and the Scribner colophon; quarter-bound in paper and cloth over boards with a stamped spine.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sing-unburied-sing"
  },
  {
   "slug": "love-medicine",
   "title": "Love Medicine",
   "author": "Louise Erdrich",
   "publisher": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with a full number line to 1; black cloth spine over blue boards with gilt spine lettering; dust jacket designed by Honi Werner with the printed price intact. Erdrich's debut novel in its original 1984 text, before the expanded 1993 edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/love-medicine"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-beet-queen",
   "title": "The Beet Queen",
   "author": "Louise Erdrich",
   "publisher": "Henry Holt and Company",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states First Edition with a complete number line descending to 1; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed retail price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-beet-queen"
  },
  {
   "slug": "everything-is-illuminated",
   "title": "Everything Is Illuminated",
   "author": "Jonathan Safran Foer",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page carries a complete number line descending to 1; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed retail price on the front flap. Foer's debut novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/everything-is-illuminated"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-stories-of-john-cheever",
   "title": "The Stories of John Cheever",
   "author": "John Cheever",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with no later-printing line. Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; first-state jacket priced on the front flap. 693 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-stories-of-john-cheever"
  },
  {
   "slug": "falconer",
   "title": "Falconer",
   "author": "John Cheever",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page of the true first; the first-state dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap. Be aware that some copies carry a 'Second printing before publication' notice on the copyright page and are not the first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/falconer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "will-you-please-be-quiet-please",
   "title": "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?",
   "author": "Raymond Carver",
   "publisher": "McGraw-Hill",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has a full number line descending to 1 on the copyright page and no later-printing statement. Issued in beige boards with a blue cloth spine, blue topstain and orange endpapers; the first-state jacket carries its printed price. Carver's first major story collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/will-you-please-be-quiet-please"
  },
  {
   "slug": "what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-love",
   "title": "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love",
   "author": "Raymond Carver",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page; the first-state jacket carries its printed price on the front flap. The Gordon Lish-edited minimalist collection; an uncorrected proof in printed wrappers also exists.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-love"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sabbaths-theater",
   "title": "Sabbath's Theater",
   "author": "Philip Roth",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Full number line descending to 1 on the copyright page; the first-state jacket (designed by Milton Glaser) carries its printed price on the front flap. Quarter black cloth over black boards with silver lettering and purple endpapers. National Book Award winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sabbaths-theater"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-human-stain",
   "title": "The Human Stain",
   "author": "Philip Roth",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has a complete number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; the trade dust jacket carries the printed retail price on the front flap. Third volume of Roth's American Trilogy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-human-stain"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-plot-against-america",
   "title": "The Plot Against America",
   "author": "Philip Roth",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has a full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; black boards with gilt spine lettering, and the trade jacket carries the printed retail price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-plot-against-america"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mr-sammlers-planet",
   "title": "Mr. Sammler's Planet",
   "author": "Saul Bellow",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Quarter blue cloth over blue paper boards, black lettering on front board and spine, blue topstain and endpapers; the copyright page reads 'First published in 1970' with no later-printing statement, and the first-issue jacket carries the printed retail price on the front flap. National Book Award winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mr-sammlers-planet"
  },
  {
   "slug": "humboldts-gift",
   "title": "Humboldt's Gift",
   "author": "Saul Bellow",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press (New York)",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page reads 'First published in 1975 by The Viking Press' with no later-printing statement; quarter cloth over boards in the first-issue printed jacket carrying the printed retail price on the front flap. 1976 Pulitzer winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/humboldts-gift"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rabbit-is-rich",
   "title": "Rabbit Is Rich",
   "author": "John Updike",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trade issue states 'First Edition' on the copyright page, with the dust jacket carrying the printed retail price on the front flap. A signed, numbered limited edition of 350 copies (slipcased, issued without jacket) was also published.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/rabbit-is-rich"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-names",
   "title": "The Names",
   "author": "Don DeLillo",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' (dealers also record 'First Edition, First Printing') with no notice of later printings; quarter cream cloth over light-brown boards, gilt spine lettering; first-issue jacket carries its printed flap price unclipped. 339 pp.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-names"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mao-ii",
   "title": "Mao II",
   "author": "Don DeLillo",
   "publisher": "Viking",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page carries the complete number line 1 through 10 (to '1'); charcoal/gray boards with black cloth backstrip, silver spine lettering; first-issue jacket (Warhol image, design by Michael Ian Kaye) carries its printed flap price unclipped. PEN/Faulkner Award winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mao-ii"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sportswriter",
   "title": "The Sportswriter",
   "author": "Richard Ford",
   "publisher": "Vintage Contemporaries (Vintage/Random House)",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "PAPERBACK ORIGINAL — no preceding hardcover. First printing has no printing history stated on the copyright page; ISBN 0-394-74325-3; cover carries its printed price; Rick Lovell cover illustration with Lorraine Louie series design; 375 pp. Frank Bascombe #1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sportswriter"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-thousand-acres",
   "title": "A Thousand Acres",
   "author": "Jane Smiley",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf first prints 'First Edition' on the copyright page (no number line, as was Knopf practice in this period). Navy cloth quarter-binding over beige boards, gilt spine titling, deckled fore-edge, in the first-issue dust jacket carrying the printed flap price. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-thousand-acres"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-shipping-news",
   "title": "The Shipping News",
   "author": "E. Annie Proulx",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Scribner first states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a complete number line descending to 1, the Scribner colophon present, and the first-issue jacket carrying the printed flap price. Bylined 'E. Annie Proulx,' a form she largely dropped on later books.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-shipping-news"
  },
  {
   "slug": "postcards",
   "title": "Postcards",
   "author": "E. Annie Proulx",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Scribner first states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a complete number line descending to 1, the Scribner colophon present, and the first-issue jacket carrying the printed flap price. Quarter cloth over beige paper boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/postcards"
  },
  {
   "slug": "middlesex-advance-galley-note-instead-the-marriage-plot",
   "title": "Middlesex (advance/galley note) — instead: The Marriage Plot",
   "author": "Jeffrey Eugenides",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York)",
   "year": "2011",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "FSG first states 'First edition, 2011' on the copyright page with a complete number line beginning with 1, the FSG colophon present, and the first-issue jacket carrying the printed flap price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/middlesex-advance-galley-note-instead-the-marriage-plot"
  },
  {
   "slug": "empire-falls",
   "title": "Empire Falls",
   "author": "Richard Russo",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf first states 'First Edition' on the copyright page, Borzoi colophon present, in the first-issue cloth and jacket carrying the printed flap price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/empire-falls"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hours",
   "title": "The Hours",
   "author": "Michael Cunningham",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York)",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "FSG first states 'First edition, 1998' on the copyright page with the FSG number line, in the first-issue jacket carrying the printed flap price. The first-issue jacket predates the awards and carries no Pulitzer or PEN/Faulkner mention.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hours"
  },
  {
   "slug": "freedom",
   "title": "Freedom",
   "author": "Jonathan Franzen",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has a complete number line ending in 1 on the copyright page and the Farrar, Straus and Giroux colophon. The dust jacket front flap carries the original printed price. ISBN 978-0-374-15846-0.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/freedom"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-confederacy-of-dunces-skip-covered-instead-bastard-out-of",
   "title": "A Confederacy of Dunces (skip — covered). Instead: Bastard Out of Carolina",
   "author": "Dorothy Allison",
   "publisher": "Dutton (Penguin)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing is identified by a stated first printing and a complete number line ending in 1 on the copyright page. Dutton hardcover with white quarter cloth, silver spine lettering, and pink endpapers; the dust jacket front flap carries the original printed price. The jacket photograph is by Dorothea Lange (Library of Congress collection). ISBN 0-525-93425-1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-confederacy-of-dunces-skip-covered-instead-bastard-out-of"
  },
  {
   "slug": "beloved-covered-instead-jazz",
   "title": "Beloved (covered). Instead: Jazz",
   "author": "Toni Morrison",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf trade first printing has the copyright page reading First Edition (some dealers describe it as the stated first trade edition), published April 7, 1992. Black cloth (or black paper over boards with black cloth spine) stamped in gold on front board and spine, 229 pages. First-state dust jacket carries the printed price at the top of the front flap with a 4/92 code at the foot of the rear flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/beloved-covered-instead-jazz"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-english-patient",
   "title": "The English Patient",
   "author": "Michael Ondaatje",
   "publisher": "McClelland & Stewart (Toronto)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Canadian McClelland & Stewart first printing, 1992, in green boards, 307 pages (ISBN 0771068867 / 9780771068867). Copyright page indicates the first printing with no later-printing notice. First-state dust jacket is unclipped with the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-english-patient"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-the-skin-of-a-lion",
   "title": "In the Skin of a Lion",
   "author": "Michael Ondaatje",
   "publisher": "McClelland & Stewart (Toronto)",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Canadian edition, McClelland & Stewart, 1987, with the copyright page showing the first printing and no later-printing line. First-state dust jacket unclipped with the price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-the-skin-of-a-lion"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cats-eye",
   "title": "Cat's Eye",
   "author": "Margaret Atwood",
   "publisher": "McClelland & Stewart (Toronto)",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Canadian McClelland & Stewart first printing, October 1988, in blue cloth boards lettered in silver on the spine, 421 pages (ISBN 0771008171 / 9780771008177). Copyright page shows the first printing with no later-printing line; first-state jacket unclipped with the price on the flap. Issued before the US Doubleday and UK editions of 1989.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cats-eye"
  },
  {
   "slug": "alias-grace",
   "title": "Alias Grace",
   "author": "Margaret Atwood",
   "publisher": "McClelland & Stewart (Toronto)",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Canadian McClelland & Stewart first printing, 1996, roughly 460 to 470 pages, with the copyright page showing the first printing and no further-printing line. First-state jacket unclipped with the price on the flap. US Doubleday and UK editions also appeared in 1996 but later.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/alias-grace"
  },
  {
   "slug": "waiting-for-the-barbarians",
   "title": "Waiting for the Barbarians",
   "author": "J. M. Coetzee",
   "publisher": "Secker & Warburg (London)",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First published 1980 by Secker & Warburg, London, so stated on the copyright page; black boards with gilt spine lettering and a laminated pictorial dust jacket priced in sterling, unclipped on first-issue jackets.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/waiting-for-the-barbarians"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-bend-in-the-river",
   "title": "A Bend in the River",
   "author": "V. S. Naipaul",
   "publisher": "André Deutsch (London)",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "States 'First published 1979' on the copyright page; cloth boards, dust jacket priced in sterling (ISBN 0 233 97140 8). The UK André Deutsch edition precedes the US Knopf 1979 edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-bend-in-the-river"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-house-for-mr-biswas",
   "title": "A House for Mr Biswas",
   "author": "V. S. Naipaul",
   "publisher": "André Deutsch (London)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: André Deutsch, 1961. States 'First published 1961' on the copyright page; bound in red cloth boards with gilt spine lettering, 531 pages. Dust jacket designed by Stephen Russ and priced 21s net (unclipped). The UK Deutsch precedes the US McGraw-Hill 1961 edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-house-for-mr-biswas"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-grass-is-singing",
   "title": "The Grass Is Singing",
   "author": "Doris Lessing",
   "publisher": "Michael Joseph (London)",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Michael Joseph, 1950. States 'First published … 1950'; original sepia/brown cloth, spine lettered in yellow, 256 pages. Pictorial dust jacket priced 9s6d in sterling. Lessing's debut novel. The UK Michael Joseph precedes the US Thomas Y. Crowell 1950 edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-grass-is-singing"
  },
  {
   "slug": "oscar-and-lucinda",
   "title": "Oscar and Lucinda",
   "author": "Peter Carey",
   "publisher": "University of Queensland Press (Australia)",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "St Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 1988, first edition, first impression in original dust wrapper. 'First published 1988 by University of Queensland Press' on the verso. The Australian UQP edition precedes the UK Faber and US Harper & Row editions. 1988 Booker winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/oscar-and-lucinda"
  },
  {
   "slug": "true-history-of-the-kelly-gang",
   "title": "True History of the Kelly Gang",
   "author": "Peter Carey",
   "publisher": "University of Queensland Press (Australia)",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "St Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 2000, first edition, first impression. 'First published 2000 by University of Queensland Press' on the verso (ISBN 0702231673). The UK Faber (2001) and US Knopf (2000) editions followed. 2001 Booker winner (Carey's second).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/true-history-of-the-kelly-gang"
  },
  {
   "slug": "flauberts-parrot",
   "title": "Flaubert's Parrot",
   "author": "Julian Barnes",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (UK)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Jonathan Cape, 1984. Boards with gilt spine; 'First published 1984,' first impression. Dust jacket illustrated by David Hockney, priced £8.50 net (unclipped). Booker-shortlisted 1984.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/flauberts-parrot"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sense-of-an-ending",
   "title": "The Sense of an Ending",
   "author": "Julian Barnes",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2011",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Jonathan Cape, 2011. 2011 Booker Prize winner. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt to spine, black endpapers; first-issue dust jacket priced at twelve pounds ninety-nine net. The first printing carries the full Cape number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sense-of-an-ending"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bring-up-the-bodies",
   "title": "Bring Up the Bodies",
   "author": "Hilary Mantel",
   "publisher": "Fourth Estate (London)",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Fourth Estate, London, 2012. Copyright page states first publication in Great Britain in 2012 by Fourth Estate, with the number line descending to 1 on the first printing; original boards and dust jacket. 2012 Booker Prize winner (Mantel's second; second volume of the Cromwell trilogy). A signed limited issue of 1,000 copies, signed on the title page, was also produced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bring-up-the-bodies"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-place-of-greater-safety",
   "title": "A Place of Greater Safety",
   "author": "Hilary Mantel",
   "publisher": "Viking (London)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Viking, 1992. Copyright page reads first published by Viking 1992, with an intact number line on the first impression; original black cloth lettered in silver to the spine. The UK Viking 1992 edition precedes the US Atheneum edition of 1993. Note that first-issue jackets appear with export prices in other currencies, so jacket currency is not a reliable point of issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-place-of-greater-safety"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nw",
   "title": "NW",
   "author": "Zadie Smith",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Hamish Hamilton, 2012. The UK first carries the British Penguin-convention number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 (note the included 10), not a descending line ending in 1; a line ending in 1, together with a US dollar price on the front flap, identifies the US Penguin Press edition. Copyright page states first publication in 2012 by Hamish Hamilton; original boards and sterling-priced unclipped dust jacket (verify the exact figure per copy). The UK Hamish Hamilton edition (27 August 2012) precedes the US Penguin Press First American Edition (4 September 2012).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nw"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-gathering",
   "title": "The Gathering",
   "author": "Anne Enright",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2007",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Jonathan Cape, 2007. Copyright page states first publication in 2007 by Jonathan Cape, with the Cape number line descending to 1 on the first printing; original black cloth lettered in silver to the spine, dark green endpapers, sterling-priced dust jacket. 2007 Booker Prize winner. The UK Cape hardcover (3 May 2007) precedes the US Grove/Black Cat paperback original (10 September 2007).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-gathering"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-blackwater-lightship",
   "title": "The Blackwater Lightship",
   "author": "Colm Tóibín",
   "publisher": "Picador (London)",
   "year": "1999",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK Picador hardcover, 1999. Copyright page carries the publisher's first-printing statement and a complete number line including 1; blue boards lettered in silver at the spine, dust jacket priced in sterling. Published September 1999. The UK Picador precedes the US Scribner edition of 2000.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-blackwater-lightship"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-master",
   "title": "The Master",
   "author": "Colm Tóibín",
   "publisher": "Picador (London)",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK Picador hardcover, 2004. Copyright page carries the publisher's first-printing statement and a complete number line including 1; jacket priced in sterling. Published spring 2004. The UK Picador precedes the US Scribner edition of 2004.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-master"
  },
  {
   "slug": "brooklyn",
   "title": "Brooklyn",
   "author": "Colm Tóibín",
   "publisher": "Viking (London)",
   "year": "2009",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK Viking hardcover, 2009 (an imprint of Penguin). Copyright page carries the publisher's first-printing statement and a complete number line including 1; jacket priced in sterling. The UK Viking precedes the US Scribner edition of 2009.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/brooklyn"
  },
  {
   "slug": "my-brilliant-friend",
   "title": "My Brilliant Friend",
   "author": "Elena Ferrante",
   "publisher": "Europa Editions (New York)",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English-language edition: Europa Editions trade paperback original, published 25 September 2012, translated by Ann Goldstein, ISBN 9781609450786. A paperback original with French flaps and no hardcover issued by the publisher; first printing identified by a complete number line including 1 on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/my-brilliant-friend"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-savage-detectives",
   "title": "The Savage Detectives",
   "author": "Roberto Bolaño",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York)",
   "year": "2007",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English-language edition: Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover, 2007, translated by Natasha Wimmer, published April 2007. First printing states 'First edition, 2007' on the copyright page with a complete number line (1 through 10); tan cloth-covered boards, 577 pages, jacket priced on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-savage-detectives"
  },
  {
   "slug": "2666",
   "title": "2666",
   "author": "Roberto Bolaño",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York)",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "English true first is the FSG 2008 one-volume hardcover, translated by Natasha Wimmer, with a complete number line including the numeral 1 indicating first printing. A separate three-volume paperback set in a pictorial slipcase was issued simultaneously and is a distinct first-printing state with a smaller print run; both states are correctly described.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/2666"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-unbearable-lightness-of-being",
   "title": "The Unbearable Lightness of Being",
   "author": "Milan Kundera",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row (New York)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "English true first is the Harper & Row 1984 hardcover, translated by Michael Henry Heim, with a complete number line including the numeral 1 indicating first printing. Jacket designed by Fred Marcellino and priced on the front flap. The UK Faber and Faber edition is also 1984.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-unbearable-lightness-of-being"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-book-of-laughter-and-forgetting",
   "title": "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting",
   "author": "Milan Kundera",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "English true first is the Alfred A. Knopf (New York) 1980 hardcover, translated by Michael Henry Heim, with 'First American Edition' stated on the copyright page under the Borzoi imprint (Knopf used the stated edition statement rather than a number line). Jacket by Fred Marcellino, priced on the front flap. The Knopf 1980 precedes the first UK edition (Faber and Faber, London, 1982) by two years; there was no Collins edition and no 1980 UK edition. Later Faber editions use the revised Aaron Asher translation, not the 1980 Heim text.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-book-of-laughter-and-forgetting"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-wild-sheep-chase",
   "title": "A Wild Sheep Chase",
   "author": "Haruki Murakami",
   "publisher": "Kodansha International (Tokyo/New York)",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "English true first is the Kodansha International 1989 hardcover, translated by Alfred Birnbaum (ISBN 0870119052), in purple paper-covered boards with quarter green cloth and silver spine lettering, in the blue dust jacket with the ram design by Shigeo Okamoto. Jacket priced on the flap. The first Murakami novel published in English for the trade and the earliest collectible Murakami in English.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-wild-sheep-chase"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-rings-of-saturn",
   "title": "The Rings of Saturn",
   "author": "W. G. Sebald",
   "publisher": "The Harvill Press (London)",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first English edition is the Harvill Press 1998 hardcover, translated by Michael Hulse, with the characteristic black-and-white photographs throughout. The hardback (ISBN 1860463983) was issued in a small library-oriented run alongside a simultaneous paperback (ISBN 1860463991), which makes the jacketed hardcover the scarce collecting form. The UK Harvill edition precedes the US New Directions 1998 edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-rings-of-saturn"
  },
  {
   "slug": "austerlitz",
   "title": "Austerlitz",
   "author": "W. G. Sebald",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first English edition is the Hamish Hamilton 2001 hardcover, translated by Anthea Bell, bound in maroon cloth with gold-stamped spine lettering and with photographs integrated in the text. The UK trade edition precedes the US Random House 2001 edition, which was bound in sepia-brown boards with a black-and-silver spine.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/austerlitz"
  },
  {
   "slug": "things-fall-apart",
   "title": "Things Fall Apart",
   "author": "Chinua Achebe",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the William Heinemann 1958 hardcover, published in London on 17 June 1958, bound in red cloth with the spine lettered in gilt and issued in a dust jacket priced 15s net. The first printing was small (about 2,000 copies), making a first edition in unclipped jacket genuinely scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/things-fall-apart"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-conservationist",
   "title": "The Conservationist",
   "author": "Nadine Gordimer",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first UK edition, Jonathan Cape 1974 (ISBN 0224010352), states 'First published 1974' on the verso with no later printing indicated, in original boards and dust jacket (jacket design by Craig Dodd). Some copies retain the elusive wrap-around band announcing it as joint winner of the 1974 Booker Prize. It was co-winner of the 1974 Booker with Stanley Middleton's 'Holiday'; Gordimer received the Nobel in 1991.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-conservationist"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sea",
   "title": "The Sea",
   "author": "John Banville",
   "publisher": "Picador (London)",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Picador (London) 2005. Copyright page reads 'First published 2005 by Picador' with the full staggered number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 (the presence of the 1 marks the first printing). Original boards in dust jacket priced 16.99 pounds (ISBN 0330483285 / 9780330483285). 2005 Booker Prize winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sea"
  },
  {
   "slug": "earthly-powers",
   "title": "Earthly Powers",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "Hutchinson (London)",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is Hutchinson (London), 1980, stating 'First published 1980'; cloth boards, dust jacket priced in sterling (an unclipped example is preferred). The UK Hutchinson edition precedes the US Simon & Schuster (New York) 1980 edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/earthly-powers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "last-orders",
   "title": "Last Orders",
   "author": "Graham Swift",
   "publisher": "Picador (London)",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Picador (London) 1996. Copyright page reads 'First published 1996 by Picador' with the full staggered number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 (the presence of the 1 marks the first printing). Dust jacket priced 15.99 pounds. The UK Picador hardcover (January 1996) precedes the US Knopf edition (April 1996). 1996 Booker Prize winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/last-orders"
  },
  {
   "slug": "waterland",
   "title": "Waterland",
   "author": "Graham Swift",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is William Heinemann (London), 1983, stating 'First published 1983'; cloth boards in a pictorial dust jacket priced 7.95 pounds (an unclipped, unfaded jacket is preferred). The UK Heinemann edition precedes the US Poseidon Press 1984 edition. Note a revised UK edition also exists; the 1983 Heinemann first impression is the true first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/waterland"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bone-people",
   "title": "The Bone People",
   "author": "Keri Hulme",
   "publisher": "Spiral / Hodder & Stoughton (Wellington/Auckland)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1984 Spiral collective edition (New Zealand), a small-press printing of about 2,000 copies issued in soft covers, published February 1984 and sold out within weeks. First impression has the author's name in a white band to the front wrap and no errata leaf to the verso of the contents. The 1985 UK Hodder & Stoughton (with Spiral) hardcover follows.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bone-people"
  },
  {
   "slug": "schindlers-ark",
   "title": "Schindler's Ark",
   "author": "Thomas Keneally",
   "publisher": "Hodder & Stoughton (London)",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Hodder & Stoughton 1982, titled Schindler's Ark (not Schindler's List), published in October 1982. 'First published 1982' on the verso; original boards with dust jacket. 1982 Booker winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/schindlers-ark"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-inheritance-of-loss",
   "title": "The Inheritance of Loss",
   "author": "Kiran Desai",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "2006",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Hamish Hamilton 2006. 'First published 2006' on the verso; original cloth boards with dust jacket. 2006 Booker winner. The US Atlantic Monthly Press edition also appeared in 2006; the UK Hamish Hamilton is the generally cited first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-inheritance-of-loss"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-white-tiger",
   "title": "The White Tiger",
   "author": "Aravind Adiga",
   "publisher": "Atlantic Books (London)",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Atlantic Books 2008 (hardback published March 2008). Copyright page reads 'First published in hardback in Great Britain in 2008 by Atlantic Books, an imprint of Grove Atlantic Ltd,' with a full number line down to 1 on the first printing; original boards with dust jacket. 2008 Booker winner (debut).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-white-tiger"
  },
  {
   "slug": "shuggie-bain",
   "title": "Shuggie Bain",
   "author": "Douglas Stuart",
   "publisher": "Grove Press / Picador (US/UK)",
   "year": "2020",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Grove Press first, published 11 February 2020: copyright page with Grove statement and a number line to 1; first-state jacket without a Booker seal. The UK Picador edition followed (open-market paperback February 2020; hardcover August 2020) and is the Booker-winning issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/shuggie-bain"
  },
  {
   "slug": "half-of-a-yellow-sun",
   "title": "Half of a Yellow Sun",
   "author": "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie",
   "publisher": "Fourth Estate (London)",
   "year": "2006",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Fourth Estate (an imprint of HarperCollins), London, 2006. This is the true first. A full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page is consistent with Fourth Estate house practice for a first printing, though the exact digits are not verbatim-confirmed from a primary scan; treat the number line as the printing indicator to check rather than as a quoted string. Confirm the Fourth Estate imprint and 2006 date against the later US Knopf printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/half-of-a-yellow-sun"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-ghost-road",
   "title": "The Ghost Road",
   "author": "Pat Barker",
   "publisher": "Viking (London)",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Viking (London), 1995, is the true first; third and final volume of the Regeneration trilogy and the 1995 Booker Prize winner. The UK Viking edition precedes the US edition. A Viking/Penguin-group number line ending in 1 indicates the first impression, and dealers do distinguish first impressions from later ones; the exact number-line digits and the verbatim copyright-page wording rest on house convention rather than a confirmed scan, so verify them on the copy in hand. The US first is Dutton (New York), 1995 (not 1996). The genuine UK first jacket is priced in pounds sterling only; beware the documented first Canadian issue (Viking) whose jacket carries both Canadian dollars and sterling, which marks the Canadian issue rather than the UK first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-ghost-road"
  },
  {
   "slug": "regeneration",
   "title": "Regeneration",
   "author": "Pat Barker",
   "publisher": "Viking (London)",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Viking (London), 1991, is the true first and the opening volume of the Regeneration trilogy. Bound in grey cloth boards with the spine lettered in red, white endpapers; a number line ending in 1 on the copyright page indicates the first impression. The dust jacket carries the Irene von Treskow illustration and is priced in pounds sterling. The US first is Dutton (A William Abrahams Book), New York, 1992.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/regeneration"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hotel-du-lac",
   "title": "Hotel du Lac",
   "author": "Anita Brookner",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Jonathan Cape, London, 1984. States First published 1984 on the verso with no later impression noted. Original boards; the unclipped first-state dust jacket is priced at seven pounds ninety-five pence. 1984 Booker Prize winner. The US Pantheon edition followed in 1985.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hotel-du-lac"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-gods-themselves",
   "title": "The Gods Themselves",
   "author": "Isaac Asimov",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (New York)",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday hardcover stating 'First Edition' on the copyright page with no number line; printed price present on the dust jacket front flap; publisher's boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-gods-themselves"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-end-of-eternity",
   "title": "The End of Eternity",
   "author": "Isaac Asimov",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page; printed price present on the dust jacket flap. Publisher's black cloth with red title stamping to the spine; 191 pages. Time-travel novel published August 1955.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-end-of-eternity"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rendezvous-with-rama",
   "title": "Rendezvous with Rama",
   "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
   "publisher": "Gollancz (London)",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "author-deep-5",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True world first is the UK Victor Gollancz 1973 edition (June 1973), in the characteristic yellow boards with Gollancz typographic jacket, price on the flap. The US Harcourt Brace Jovanovich edition followed in August 1973.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/rendezvous-with-rama"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-fountains-of-paradise",
   "title": "The Fountains of Paradise",
   "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz, London",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK Gollancz 1979 edition in the yellow jacket with price on the flap and no further-printing statement. (The first US Harcourt Brace Jovanovich edition states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with the printing code 'BCDE.') Won the 1979 Nebula and 1980 Hugo for Best Novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-fountains-of-paradise"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-door-into-summer",
   "title": "The Door into Summer",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with no later-printing statement. Publisher's red cloth, spine lettered in yellow; printed price on the front jacket flap. Time-travel and suspended-animation novel, preceded only by the 1956 magazine serialization.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-door-into-summer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "citizen-of-the-galaxy",
   "title": "Citizen of the Galaxy",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons, New York",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries the capital 'A' and the Scribner seal on the copyright page, with the dated printing code 'A-7.57' present. No later-printing statement; price on the front jacket flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/citizen-of-the-galaxy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "have-space-suit-will-travel",
   "title": "Have Space Suit—Will Travel",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons, New York",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing shows the capital 'A' with the Scribner seal on the copyright page, with the dated printing code 'A-9.58' present; price on the front jacket flap; cloth boards. Last of the Heinlein Scribner juveniles.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/have-space-suit-will-travel"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dhalgren",
   "title": "Dhalgren",
   "author": "Samuel R. Delany",
   "publisher": "Bantam Books, New York",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first edition is a Bantam mass-market paperback original (catalog code Q8554), with 'Bantam edition / January 1975' on the copyright page and a full number line ending in '1.' No hardcover preceded it.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dhalgren"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nova",
   "title": "Nova",
   "author": "Samuel R. Delany",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with no book-club gutter code. Quarter pink and black cloth with gilt spine lettering; price on the front jacket flap in the Russell FitzGerald illustrated wrapper. One of Delany's few first-appearance hardcovers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nova"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-fire-upon-the-deep",
   "title": "A Fire Upon the Deep",
   "author": "Vernor Vinge",
   "publisher": "Tor Books (New York)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Tor hardcover first printing with the 'First Edition' statement on the copyright page and a complete number line ending in 1. Priced dust jacket (price on the front flap); jacket art by Boris Vallejo, design by Carol Russo. Black cloth with silver spine lettering; publisher's boards. Locus SF Novel and Hugo winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-fire-upon-the-deep"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-deepness-in-the-sky",
   "title": "A Deepness in the Sky",
   "author": "Vernor Vinge",
   "publisher": "Tor Books (New York)",
   "year": "1999",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Tor hardcover first printing with the 'First Edition: March 1999' statement on the copyright page and a complete number line ending in 1. Priced dust jacket (price on the front flap); publisher's boards. Hugo, Campbell, and Locus SF Novel winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-deepness-in-the-sky"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-uplift-war",
   "title": "The Uplift War",
   "author": "David Brin",
   "publisher": "Phantasia Press, West Bloomfield, MI",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition is the Phantasia Press hardcover, issued in two states: a signed/numbered limited edition of 475 copies (limitation leaf stating the copies were numbered and signed by the author, in a specially bound and boxed/slipcased edition) and a trade hardcover. Won the 1988 Hugo Award for Best Novel. The Bantam Spectra mass-market paperback is a later issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-uplift-war"
  },
  {
   "slug": "blood-music",
   "title": "Blood Music",
   "author": "Greg Bear",
   "publisher": "Arbor House, New York",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Arbor House first edition states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with no later-printing indicators, and carries the printed price on the jacket flap. Expanded from Bear's Hugo- and Nebula-winning 1983 novelette.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/blood-music"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-wild-shore",
   "title": "The Wild Shore",
   "author": "Kim Stanley Robinson",
   "publisher": "Ace Books, New York",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition is the Ace Science Fiction Specials paperback original (1984), Robinson's first novel and the first title in the revived Ace Specials line edited by Terry Carr. Identified by the first-printing copyright statement and number line complete to 1, in pictorial wrappers; there was no prior hardcover. Won the 1985 Locus Award for Best First Novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-wild-shore"
  },
  {
   "slug": "kindred",
   "title": "Kindred",
   "author": "Octavia E. Butler",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Doubleday hardcover with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page; brown paper-covered boards over black spine cloth lettered in gilt; price present on the front jacket flap. Larry Schwinger jacket art.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/kindred"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dawn",
   "title": "Dawn",
   "author": "Octavia E. Butler",
   "publisher": "Warner Books, New York",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Warner Books hardcover with 'First Printing: May 1987' on the copyright page and a complete number line descending to 1; priced jacket on the front flap. Cover illustration by Enric, jacket design by Don Puckey. First of the Xenogenesis (Lilith's Brood) trilogy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dawn"
  },
  {
   "slug": "parable-of-the-sower",
   "title": "Parable of the Sower",
   "author": "Octavia E. Butler",
   "publisher": "Four Walls Eight Windows, New York",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First hardcover stating 'A Four Walls Eight Windows First Edition' on the copyright page with a complete number line descending to 1; priced jacket on the front flap; textured black paper-covered boards with gilt spine lettering and publisher's emblem.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/parable-of-the-sower"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dark-forest",
   "title": "The Dark Forest",
   "author": "Cixin Liu",
   "publisher": "Tor Books, New York",
   "year": "2015",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English-language edition, translated by Joel Martinsen, states 'First Edition: August 2015' on the copyright page with a full number line ending in 1. Cloth boards with the title and author stamped on the spine, in dust jacket with the printed price on the front flap. Book two of Remembrance of Earth's Past.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dark-forest"
  },
  {
   "slug": "deaths-end",
   "title": "Death's End",
   "author": "Cixin Liu",
   "publisher": "Tor Books, New York",
   "year": "2016",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English-language edition, translated by Ken Liu, states 'First Edition: September 2016' with a full number line ending in 1. Cloth boards with the spine stamped in blue foil, in dust jacket with the printed price on the front flap. Concludes the trilogy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/deaths-end"
  },
  {
   "slug": "count-zero",
   "title": "Count Zero",
   "author": "William Gibson",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz, London",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK Gollancz hardcover, 1986, in the characteristic yellow Gollancz jacket, with the printed price on the flap and no later-printing statement. Second Sprawl novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/count-zero"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-diamond-age",
   "title": "The Diamond Age",
   "author": "Neal Stephenson",
   "publisher": "Bantam Spectra (US)",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Bantam Spectra (Bantam Books) hardcover; first printing has the words 'First Edition' on the copyright page together with a complete number line ending in 1; priced dust jacket. Purple cloth spine over tan boards. Hugo and Locus SF Novel winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-diamond-age"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-player-of-games",
   "title": "The Player of Games",
   "author": "Iain M. Banks",
   "publisher": "Macmillan, London",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK Macmillan hardcover, 1988; pictorial dust jacket with the price on the flap; no later-printing statement. Second Culture novel. A signed/numbered limited issue also exists and is distinct from the trade first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-player-of-games"
  },
  {
   "slug": "more-than-human",
   "title": "More Than Human",
   "author": "Theodore Sturgeon",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Young, New York",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'First Printing, 1953' on the copyright page with no later-printing notice; priced dust jacket; Farrar, Straus and Young imprint (the firm's earlier name, not the later 'Farrar, Straus' style). International Fantasy Award winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/more-than-human"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-big-time",
   "title": "The Big Time",
   "author": "Fritz Leiber",
   "publisher": "Ace Books (New York)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace Double D-491, bound dos-a-dos (tete-beche) with Leiber's 'The Mind Spider and Other Stories'; thirty-five-cent cover price printed on the cover; Ed Emshwiller cover art. The first Ace printing carries the D-491 catalog code and bears no statement of a later printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-big-time"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-snow-queen",
   "title": "The Snow Queen",
   "author": "Joan D. Vinge",
   "publisher": "The Dial Press / James Wade, New York",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing so stated on the copyright page; price on the jacket flap; cloth-backed boards; jacket illustration by Leo and Diane Dillon. Hugo winner under the Dial Press / James Wade imprint.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-snow-queen"
  },
  {
   "slug": "timescape",
   "title": "Timescape",
   "author": "Gregory Benford",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster, New York",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the full Simon & Schuster number line '1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10' on the copyright page and the price on the jacket flap; cloth-backed boards. Nebula winner; the novel that gave its name to the Pocket/S&S 'Timescape' imprint.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/timescape"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dragon-waiting",
   "title": "The Dragon Waiting",
   "author": "John M. Ford",
   "publisher": "Timescape Books / Simon & Schuster, New York",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition under the Timescape Books / Simon & Schuster imprint, 1983 (full title 'The Dragon Waiting: A Masque of History'); copyright-page number line / first-printing statement; quarter crimson cloth over charcoal boards stamped in silver; price on the jacket flap. World Fantasy Award winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dragon-waiting"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cyteen",
   "title": "Cyteen",
   "author": "C. J. Cherryh",
   "publisher": "Warner Books / Questar (New York)",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First hardcover, Warner Books / Questar 1988; full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; priced dust jacket with Don Maitz cover art; quarter blue cloth over grey boards. No later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cyteen"
  },
  {
   "slug": "different-seasons",
   "title": "Different Seasons",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Viking",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First published in 1982 by The Viking Press' with NO number line. Bound in quarter blue cloth over two-toned blue paper boards (the true first has differently colored front boards). Dust jacket carries the printed price and should not be price-clipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/different-seasons"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cujo",
   "title": "Cujo",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Viking",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page reads 'First published in 1981 by The Viking Press' with no number line; dust jacket carries the printed price. Bound in black quarter cloth over textured brown boards with 'SK' stamped on the front.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cujo"
  },
  {
   "slug": "christine",
   "title": "Christine",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Viking",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First published in 1983 by The Viking Press' with no number line; dust jacket carries the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/christine"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dead-zone",
   "title": "The Dead Zone",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Viking",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First published in 1979 by The Viking Press' with no number line; dust jacket carries the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dead-zone"
  },
  {
   "slug": "books-of-blood-volumes-i-iii",
   "title": "Books of Blood, Volumes I–III",
   "author": "Clive Barker",
   "publisher": "Sphere (UK paperback originals) / Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK hardcover)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true textual firsts are the Sphere paperback originals, Volumes I, II and III, published in London in 1984 at 1.50 pounds, with Barker's own cover paintings. The Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardcovers followed in 1985. For the W&N hardcover firsts, look for the publisher's statement on the copyright page and the absence of any later-printing line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/books-of-blood-volumes-i-iii"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-outsider-and-others",
   "title": "The Outsider and Others",
   "author": "H. P. Lovecraft",
   "publisher": "Arkham House (Sauk City, Wisconsin)",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Arkham House's first book. Edition of 1,268 copies, black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, large octavo, xiv + 553 pp. Dust jacket a montage by Virgil Finlay, carrying the printed price unclipped. Printed by George Banta Co. Never reprinted in this form.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-outsider-and-others"
  },
  {
   "slug": "beyond-the-wall-of-sleep",
   "title": "Beyond the Wall of Sleep",
   "author": "H.P. Lovecraft",
   "publisher": "Arkham House",
   "year": "1943",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Second Arkham House Lovecraft omnibus and the fourth Arkham House book overall; edition of 1,217 copies, black cloth gilt-lettered on the spine, dust jacket carrying the printed price. Single printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/beyond-the-wall-of-sleep"
  },
  {
   "slug": "skull-face-and-others",
   "title": "Skull-Face and Others",
   "author": "Robert E. Howard",
   "publisher": "Arkham House",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First major Howard collection from Arkham House; edition of 3,004 copies, black cloth gilt-lettered on the spine, dust jacket by Hannes Bok carrying the printed price unclipped. Single printing. Collects twenty-three stories and a poem with appreciations by E. Hoffmann Price and H.P. Lovecraft.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/skull-face-and-others"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-eye-of-the-world",
   "title": "The Eye of the World",
   "author": "Robert Jordan",
   "publisher": "Tor Books",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first hardcover states \"First edition\" with the month (most copies January 1990; some note February) and carries a complete number line ending in 1 (0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Jacket carries the printed price. The hardcover first run was small, roughly 1,500 copies, largely distributed to libraries.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-eye-of-the-world"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-great-hunt",
   "title": "The Great Hunt",
   "author": "Robert Jordan",
   "publisher": "Tor Books",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Tor first hardcover with the copyright page stating \"First edition: November 1990\" and a complete number line ending in 1; jacket carries the printed retail price. Blue paper-covered boards lettered in gilt, cartographic endpapers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-great-hunt"
  },
  {
   "slug": "elantris",
   "title": "Elantris",
   "author": "Brandon Sanderson",
   "publisher": "Tor Books",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Tor first hardcover with a complete number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; jacket carries the printed price. Stephan Martiniere jacket art. Sanderson's debut novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/elantris"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mistborn-the-final-empire",
   "title": "Mistborn: The Final Empire",
   "author": "Brandon Sanderson",
   "publisher": "Tor Books",
   "year": "2006",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Tor first hardcover with a complete number line ending in 1; jacket carries the printed price; not remainder-marked; not a book-club edition. Navy cloth with red lettering and rules on the spine.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mistborn-the-final-empire"
  },
  {
   "slug": "neverwhere",
   "title": "Neverwhere",
   "author": "Neil Gaiman",
   "publisher": "BBC Books",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK BBC Books first hardcover with Dave McKean jacket; copyright page reads 'First published 1996 by BBC Books' with no later-printing line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/neverwhere"
  },
  {
   "slug": "stardust",
   "title": "Stardust",
   "author": "Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess",
   "publisher": "DC Comics / Vertigo",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first appearance was the four-issue prestige-format illustrated mini-series from DC/Vertigo (issues released 1997 into 1998), with prose and Vess illustration throughout; this was then gathered as the illustrated single-volume hardcover 'Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realm of Faerie' in 1998 (DC/Vertigo, with a trade paperback also issued).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/stardust"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-light-fantastic",
   "title": "The Light Fantastic",
   "author": "Terry Pratchett",
   "publisher": "Colin Smythe (Gerrards Cross)",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "author-deep-5",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the Colin Smythe Ltd hardcover, 1986, with the first-published statement on the copyright page and no reprint line. Full wrap-around dust-jacket art by Josh Kirby (his first Discworld cover). Second Discworld novel. Priced in pounds.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-light-fantastic"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mort",
   "title": "Mort",
   "author": "Terry Pratchett",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Gollancz first hardcover, 1987, with the first-published statement and no reprint line; Josh Kirby dust-jacket art; characteristic yellow Gollancz boards. Fourth Discworld novel and the first centered on Death.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mort"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dying-earth",
   "title": "The Dying Earth",
   "author": "Jack Vance",
   "publisher": "Hillman Periodicals",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition is the Hillman Periodicals paperback original, 1950, issued as Hillman Books number 41 with a 25-cent cover price; small octavo in pictorial wrappers. Vance's first book. No preceding hardcover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dying-earth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-anubis-gates",
   "title": "The Anubis Gates",
   "author": "Tim Powers",
   "publisher": "Ace Books",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first edition is the Ace mass-market paperback original (December 1983). It is a paperback original, so there is no contemporaneous hardcover. The first hardcover was the Mark V. Ziesing edition issued years later, illustrated, with 500 signed/numbered copies.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-anubis-gates"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-drawing-of-the-dark",
   "title": "The Drawing of the Dark",
   "author": "Tim Powers",
   "publisher": "Ballantine / Del Rey",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first edition is the Del Rey/Ballantine mass-market paperback original (first printing June 1979), cover art by Doug Beekman. It is a paperback original; the first hardcover came later from a specialty press.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-drawing-of-the-dark"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gloriana",
   "title": "Gloriana",
   "author": "Michael Moorcock",
   "publisher": "Allison & Busby",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Allison & Busby first hardcover, London 1978, 'First published 1978,' with no later printing line, cover art by Jill Riches. World Fantasy Award winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gloriana"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tehanu-the-last-book-of-earthsea",
   "title": "Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea",
   "author": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
   "publisher": "Atheneum / Macmillan",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The US Atheneum first printing carries the publisher's first-edition statement with a complete number line ending in 1 and a priced dust jacket. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. Fourth Earthsea book; winner of the Nebula Award for best novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tehanu-the-last-book-of-earthsea"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sword-of-shannara",
   "title": "The Sword of Shannara",
   "author": "Terry Brooks",
   "publisher": "Random House / Del Rey",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first printing follows Random House practice of the period: the words First Edition together with a descending number line, in an oversized format illustrated by the Brothers Hildebrandt (two full-page black-and-white plates plus a folding color plate), with the printed price present on the jacket. Quarter black cloth over papered boards with a stamped initial on the front board. Brooks's debut.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sword-of-shannara"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-worm-ouroboros",
   "title": "The Worm Ouroboros",
   "author": "E.R. Eddison",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape",
   "year": "1922",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The London Jonathan Cape first printing of 1922, illustrated and decorated throughout by Keith Henderson (frontispiece, two-color title-page decoration, decorated endpapers, plates, and tailpieces), in black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and a design on the front board. Confirm the Cape imprint and the 1922 date with no later printing line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-worm-ouroboros"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-doll-who-ate-his-mother",
   "title": "The Doll Who Ate His Mother",
   "author": "Ramsey Campbell",
   "publisher": "Bobbs-Merrill",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Bobbs-Merrill first hardcover (Campbell's first novel), Indianapolis, 1976, with a priced jacket and no later-printing line. The UK Millington hardcover followed in 1977.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-doll-who-ate-his-mother"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-wasp-factory",
   "title": "The Wasp Factory",
   "author": "Iain Banks",
   "publisher": "Macmillan",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Macmillan London first hardcover, published 16 February 1984, with 'First published 1984' on the copyright page and no later-printing statement; jacket priced. Bound in brown boards with gilt spine lettering.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-wasp-factory"
  },
  {
   "slug": "swan-song",
   "title": "Swan Song",
   "author": "Robert R. McCammon",
   "publisher": "Pocket Books (New York)",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Paperback original (PBO), June 1987, 956 pp, cover art by Rowena Morrill. The first printing carries a complete number line descending to 1 on the copyright page. Co-winner of the 1987 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/swan-song"
  },
  {
   "slug": "boys-life",
   "title": "Boy's Life",
   "author": "Robert R. McCammon",
   "publisher": "Pocket Books (New York)",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Pocket Books first hardcover, 1991, identified by a full number line descending to 1 on the copyright page. The dust jacket carries the original price, unclipped. Half-cloth over boards with gilt spine lettering; jacket art by Gerber Studio.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/boys-life"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-glass-key",
   "title": "The Glass Key",
   "author": "Dashiell Hammett",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (London)",
   "year": "1931",
   "genre": "Mystery, crime & thriller — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the London Knopf imprint, published 20 January 1931 (Knopf published in Britain for only a few years, in small editions). Issued in cloth with dust jacket. Later British issues bear the Cassell imprint rather than Knopf.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-glass-key"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lady-in-the-lake",
   "title": "The Lady in the Lake",
   "author": "Raymond Chandler",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1943",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf first, 1943; 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page (Borzoi practice). Printed on wartime-economy paper; first-issue jacket bears the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lady-in-the-lake"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-chill",
   "title": "The Chill",
   "author": "Ross Macdonald",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "Mystery, crime & thriller — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page (Borzoi). Quarter red cloth over light-blue paper-covered boards, gilt spine lettering; light-red top-stain. First-issue jacket bears the printed price with '1/64' at the base of the front flap; jacket design by Arthur Hawkins. Bruccoli A18.1.a.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-chill"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bride-wore-black",
   "title": "The Bride Wore Black",
   "author": "Cornell Woolrich",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "Mystery, crime & thriller — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in publisher's blue cloth, titling and decoration stamped in gilt on spine and front board, 'Inner Sanctum' device gilt-stamped on the front board; navy-blue top-stain. Pagination viii, 312. The first-issue dust jacket is the scarce element. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone title.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bride-wore-black"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-friends-of-eddie-coyle",
   "title": "The Friends of Eddie Coyle",
   "author": "George V. Higgins",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page (Borzoi). Octavo, 183 pp. First-issue jacket bears the printed price. Higgins's debut; landmark dialogue-driven crime novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-friends-of-eddie-coyle"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-last-good-kiss",
   "title": "The Last Good Kiss",
   "author": "James Crumley",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "Mystery, crime & thriller — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with the Random House number line whose lowest number is '2' (Random House practice: 'First Edition' stated together with '2' as the lowest figure in the line denotes the first printing). Quarter cloth over boards; first-issue jacket bears the printed price on the front flap. 259 pp.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-last-good-kiss"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-judgement-in-stone",
   "title": "A Judgement in Stone",
   "author": "Ruth Rendell",
   "publisher": "Hutchinson (London)",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Hutchinson first edition, 1977, in first-issue priced dust jacket; the copyright page carries a single first-published statement with no later-impression line. Opens with the celebrated line naming the murderer at the outset: Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-judgement-in-stone"
  },
  {
   "slug": "when-the-sacred-ginmill-closes",
   "title": "When the Sacred Ginmill Closes",
   "author": "Lawrence Block",
   "publisher": "Arbor House",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "Mystery, crime & thriller — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Arbor House first edition, 1986, 239 pages; the first printing is indicated by the full number line descending to 1 on the copyright page, consistent with Arbor House practice of the period, in a first-issue priced dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/when-the-sacred-ginmill-closes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "miami-blues",
   "title": "Miami Blues",
   "author": "Charles Willeford",
   "publisher": "St. Martin's Press",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "Mystery, crime & thriller — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US St. Martin's Press first edition, January 1984; first printing has the full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering; first-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap, jacket design by Walter Harper. Octavo, 191 pp. (Ahearn ref. APG 018a.)",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/miami-blues"
  },
  {
   "slug": "labrava",
   "title": "LaBrava",
   "author": "Elmore Leonard",
   "publisher": "Arbor House",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "Mystery, crime & thriller — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Arbor House first edition, 1983; first printing has the full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page. Black half cloth over red paper-covered boards, gilt spine lettering; grey-and-red dust jacket, first issue with the printed price intact on the front flap. 283 pp.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/labrava"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-black-dahlia",
   "title": "The Black Dahlia",
   "author": "James Ellroy",
   "publisher": "Mysterious Press",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "Mystery, crime & thriller — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Printing: September 1987' with the full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Black cloth backed lavender/purple boards, title stamped in metallic purple on spine; lavender endpapers. First-issue blood-red Dahlia jacket with the printed price on the flap. Octavo, 325 pp. ISBN 0-89296-206-2.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-black-dahlia"
  },
  {
   "slug": "la-confidential",
   "title": "L.A. Confidential",
   "author": "James Ellroy",
   "publisher": "Mysterious Press",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "Mystery, crime & thriller — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Printing: June 1990' with the number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Quarter black cloth over black boards, spine title stamped in silver; first-issue jacket illustrated by Stephen Peringer and designed by Paul Gamarello, with the printed price on the front flap. 496 pp. ISBN 0-89296-293-3.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/la-confidential"
  },
  {
   "slug": "killing-floor",
   "title": "Killing Floor",
   "author": "Lee Child",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "Mystery, crime & thriller — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Putnam first, dated 17 March 1997: 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with a complete Putnam number line ending in '1'. Bound in quarter red paper over white paper boards, black lettering to the spine, with black endpapers. First-issue jacket priced on the front flap and unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/killing-floor"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-poet",
   "title": "The Poet",
   "author": "Michael Connelly",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "Mystery, crime & thriller — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Little, Brown first: a complete number line ending in '1' on the copyright page (first printings show the full line). Quarter black paper over brown paper boards, red lettering to the spine; first-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap. 8vo, about 434 pp.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-poet"
  },
  {
   "slug": "winters-bone",
   "title": "Winter's Bone",
   "author": "Daniel Woodrell",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "2006",
   "genre": "Mystery, crime & thriller — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition: August 2006' accompanied by a complete number line ending in '1'. Bound in white and gray boards stamped in silver, with the matching first-issue jacket. About 193 pp.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/winters-bone"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-the-night-kitchen",
   "title": "In the Night Kitchen",
   "author": "Maurice Sendak",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First-issue dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap with the code '1070' at the lower front flap and exactly seven titles listed on the rear flap; no Caldecott Honor seal is printed on the jacket (added on later printings). Bound in cream cloth with the pictorial paste-on label to the front board.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-the-night-kitchen"
  },
  {
   "slug": "oh-the-places-youll-go",
   "title": "Oh, the Places You'll Go!",
   "author": "Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the complete number line on the copyright page reading 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0, with no 'Book Club Edition' notation. The dust jacket front flap carries the original printed price. It was Seuss's last book published in his lifetime. Authoritative identification follows the Younger and Hirsch bibliography points.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/oh-the-places-youll-go"
  },
  {
   "slug": "matilda",
   "title": "Matilda",
   "author": "Roald Dahl (illus. Quentin Blake)",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first states only 'First published 1988' on the copyright page with no later-printing line; publisher's red cloth with gilt spine lettering, plain endpapers, in an unclipped dust jacket priced £8.50 to the front flap. Quentin Blake ink-and-wash drawings throughout.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/matilda"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bfg",
   "title": "The BFG",
   "author": "Roald Dahl (illus. Quentin Blake)",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first states 'First published 1982' with no additional printing line on the copyright page; publisher's boards with gilt spine lettering and plain endpapers, in the first-issue Quentin Blake pictorial jacket with the original printed UK price (£6.50) to the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bfg"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-witches",
   "title": "The Witches",
   "author": "Roald Dahl (illus. Quentin Blake)",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first states 'First published 1983' only, with no reprint line; publisher's aquamarine boards with gilt spine lettering, in the first-issue Quentin Blake pictorial jacket with the original printed UK price (£6.50) to the front flap. Winner of the 1983 Whitbread Award for Children's Books.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-witches"
  },
  {
   "slug": "danny-the-champion-of-the-world",
   "title": "Danny, the Champion of the World",
   "author": "Roald Dahl (illus. Jill Bennett)",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1975 Jonathan Cape edition illustrated by Jill Bennett (not the later Quentin Blake reissue), with the copyright page stating 'First published in Great Britain 1975' and no later-printing line; publisher's terracotta (orange) cloth boards with gilt spine lettering, in the first-issue Bennett wraparound pictorial dust jacket with the original printed UK price to the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/danny-the-champion-of-the-world"
  },
  {
   "slug": "georges-marvellous-medicine",
   "title": "George's Marvellous Medicine",
   "author": "Roald Dahl (illus. Quentin Blake)",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The Jonathan Cape first carries a single 'First published 1981' statement with no later-printing dates added beneath; bound in light blue cloth-effect boards with gilt spine lettering, in the first-issue Quentin Blake jacket bearing the original UK price to the front flap. Uncorrected proofs carry a provisional price and a stated May 1981 publication date and are not the trade first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/georges-marvellous-medicine"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tales-of-a-fourth-grade-nothing",
   "title": "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing",
   "author": "Judy Blume (illus. Roy Doty)",
   "publisher": "E. P. Dutton",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The 1972 E. P. Dutton hardcover first, illustrated by Roy Doty with full-page black-and-white drawings, in orange boards with the spine stamped in black and a pictorial blind stamp to the front board; first-issue jacket with the original price to the front flap. Introduces the Hatcher family (Peter and Fudge).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tales-of-a-fourth-grade-nothing"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hunger-games",
   "title": "The Hunger Games",
   "author": "Suzanne Collins",
   "publisher": "Scholastic Press",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first printing copyright page states 'First edition, September 2008' and carries a full number line ending in 1 ('10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'). Gray boards with gilt spine title and a gilt mockingjay to the front board; first-issue jacket with the printed price and Tim O'Brien cover art.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hunger-games"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lightning-thief-percy-jackson-and-the-olympians-book-1",
   "title": "The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)",
   "author": "Rick Riordan",
   "publisher": "Miramax Books / Hyperion",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first printing copyright page carries the odd-then-even number line '1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2' under the Miramax Books/Hyperion imprint; gray cloth with silver detailing to the spine; first-issue jacket with the original price and the first-state cover art (boy before the Brooklyn Bridge), no movie tie-in.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lightning-thief-percy-jackson-and-the-olympians-book-1"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-velveteen-rabbit-or-how-toys-become-real",
   "title": "The Velveteen Rabbit, or How Toys Become Real",
   "author": "Margery Williams (illus. William Nicholson)",
   "publisher": "George H. Doran Company",
   "year": "1922",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition has pictorial paper-covered boards with Nicholson's rabbit and seven Nicholson color plates reproduced by lithography (lustrous color, not halftone). The leaves were printed in Great Britain, with a Printed in Great Britain notation present. Original glassine wrapper or jacket is extremely rare.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-velveteen-rabbit-or-how-toys-become-real"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dark-is-rising",
   "title": "The Dark Is Rising",
   "author": "Susan Cooper (illus. Alan E. Cober)",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Atheneum first printing dated 1973 on the copyright page with no later-printing statement, illustrations by Alan E. Cober, and a first-state jacket without the Newbery Honor seal and retaining the original price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dark-is-rising"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-grey-king",
   "title": "The Grey King",
   "author": "Susan Cooper (illus. Michael Heslop)",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Atheneum first printing dated 1975 on the copyright page with no later-printing statement, illustrations by Michael Heslop, and a first-state jacket without the Newbery Medal seal retaining the original price to the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-grey-king"
  },
  {
   "slug": "over-sea-under-stone",
   "title": "Over Sea, Under Stone",
   "author": "Susan Cooper",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1965 Jonathan Cape UK edition stating First published 1965, with textured paper-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, and illustrations by Margery Gill, in the first-issue pictorial jacket priced 16s net to the inside flap. Cooper's first novel and the first book of the Dark Is Rising sequence.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/over-sea-under-stone"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-book-of-three-the-chronicles-of-prydain-book-1",
   "title": "The Book of Three (The Chronicles of Prydain, Book 1)",
   "author": "Lloyd Alexander",
   "publisher": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing states First Edition on the copyright page (Holt convention) with no later-printing line, in original cloth with the first-issue jacket retaining the original price. First of the five Chronicles of Prydain.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-book-of-three-the-chronicles-of-prydain-book-1"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-high-king-the-chronicles-of-prydain-book-5",
   "title": "The High King (The Chronicles of Prydain, Book 5)",
   "author": "Lloyd Alexander",
   "publisher": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with no later-printing line. Pictorial hardcover boards. First-state jacket carries the original printed price and does NOT bear the gold Newbery Medal seal. Concludes the Prydain Chronicles.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-high-king-the-chronicles-of-prydain-book-5"
  },
  {
   "slug": "from-the-mixed-up-files-of-mrs-basil-e-frankweiler",
   "title": "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler",
   "author": "E. L. Konigsburg",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1967, Atheneum (New York). First printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page. Illustrated by the author, E. L. Konigsburg; pictorial cloth. First-state jacket retains the original printed price and lacks the Newbery Medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/from-the-mixed-up-files-of-mrs-basil-e-frankweiler"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mrs-frisby-and-the-rats-of-nimh",
   "title": "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH",
   "author": "Robert C. O'Brien (illus. Zena Bernstein)",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1971, Atheneum (New York), stated 'First Edition' on the copyright page with no later-printing line. Grey cloth with a purple mouse to the front board and purple spine lettering; in-text and full-page illustrations by Zena Bernstein. First-state jacket retains the original printed price on the front flap and does NOT bear the Newbery Medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mrs-frisby-and-the-rats-of-nimh"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tuck-everlasting",
   "title": "Tuck Everlasting",
   "author": "Natalie Babbitt",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing copyright page states 'First edition, 1975' with no later-printing line. Red cloth stamped in blind on the upper board with gilt spine lettering, top edge stained yellow. First-issue color pictorial jacket (Babbitt's own art) retains the original printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tuck-everlasting"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-wrinkle-in-time-signed-first-printing-distinction",
   "title": "A Wrinkle in Time (signed/first-printing distinction)",
   "author": "Madeleine L'Engle",
   "publisher": "Ariel Books / Farrar, Straus and Cudahy",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the 1962 Ariel Books edition (Ariel was the children's imprint of Farrar, Straus and Cudahy). The first printing states the 1962 date on the copyright page and is bound in quarter cloth over speckled paper boards. The defining point is the first-state dust jacket: it carries the original printed price on the front flap and does NOT bear the Newbery Medal seal. The pictorial jacket was designed by Ellen Raskin. A second-state jacket on the same first-printing sheets adds the gold Newbery Medal seal (the award came in 1963), so the seal alone marks a jacket as second state, not necessarily a later printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-wrinkle-in-time-signed-first-printing-distinction"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-westing-game",
   "title": "The Westing Game",
   "author": "Ellen Raskin",
   "publisher": "E. P. Dutton",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, E. P. Dutton (New York), 1978. The copyright page states 'First Edition' and carries the complete number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ending in 1. Octavo, roughly 185 pages, in pictorial cloth. The first-state jacket retains the original printed price on the flap and does NOT bear the Newbery Medal seal; the jacket was designed by the author, Ellen Raskin.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-westing-game"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sounder",
   "title": "Sounder",
   "author": "William H. Armstrong (illus. James Barkley)",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Harper & Row, 1969, with James Barkley illustrations. The copyright page bears the Harper first-printing alphanumeric code (an 'I-T' style code denoting 1969) and the 1969 copyright. The first-state jacket retains the original printed price on the flap and does NOT carry the Newbery Medal seal (the award came in 1970).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sounder"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-cricket-in-times-square",
   "title": "The Cricket in Times Square",
   "author": "George Selden (illus. Garth Williams)",
   "publisher": "Ariel Books / Farrar, Straus and Cudahy",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the 1960 edition issued under the Ariel Books imprint of Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, with Garth Williams illustrations, bound in light boards with the spine stamped in dark brown. The 'Farrar, Straus and Cudahy' imprint dates it (the firm became Farrar, Straus & Giroux only later). The first-state jacket retains the original printed price on the flap and does NOT bear the Newbery Honor seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-cricket-in-times-square"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-bear-called-paddington",
   "title": "A Bear Called Paddington",
   "author": "Michael Bond (illus. Peggy Fortnum)",
   "publisher": "Collins",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the 1958 Collins (London and Glasgow) edition with Peggy Fortnum line drawings, bound in original red cloth. The first impression states the 1958 date with no later impression statement. The first-issue dust jacket carries the original UK printed price of 8s.6d. net on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-bear-called-paddington"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-story-of-ferdinand",
   "title": "The Story of Ferdinand",
   "author": "Munro Leaf (illus. Robert Lawson)",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing has 'First published September 1936' on the copyright page with no later-printing statement, bound in pink/decorated paper-covered boards backed with a tan cloth spine (small octavo), pictorial endpapers, Robert Lawson illustrations; first-issue jacket carries the original price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-story-of-ferdinand"
  },
  {
   "slug": "stone-soup",
   "title": "Stone Soup",
   "author": "Marcia Brown",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries the Scribner capital 'A' on the copyright page, the firm's standard first-edition point for this era, with a first-state jacket lacking the Caldecott Honor seal and the original price intact to the flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/stone-soup"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-giver-first-printing-award-points",
   "title": "The Giver (first-printing/award points)",
   "author": "Lois Lowry",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has a full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page and a first-state jacket WITHOUT the Newbery Medal seal, in cloth-backed boards, with the printed price to the flap and the Carl Nelson photograph on the cover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-giver-first-printing-award-points"
  },
  {
   "slug": "maus-i-a-survivors-tale-my-father-bleeds-history",
   "title": "Maus I: A Survivor's Tale — My Father Bleeds History",
   "author": "Art Spiegelman",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Paperback original issued first; the trade hardcover came later. The copyright page must state 'First Edition', with the verso ending 'Manufactured in the U.S.A. // First Edition.' The genuine 1986 issue stands alone as 'Maus: A Survivor's Tale' without a 'Volume I' designation keyed to a second volume. Photographs and mouse-headed figures on the cover; original price to the flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/maus-i-a-survivors-tale-my-father-bleeds-history"
  },
  {
   "slug": "maus-ii-a-survivors-tale-and-here-my-troubles-began",
   "title": "Maus II: A Survivor's Tale — And Here My Troubles Began",
   "author": "Art Spiegelman",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page dated 1991 with 'First Edition' stated; issued in both softcover and hardcover. Cover shows the mouse couple beneath a guard tower with a cat motif. The hardcover features grey paper-covered boards over a black cloth spine, lettered in white.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/maus-ii-a-survivors-tale-and-here-my-troubles-began"
  },
  {
   "slug": "batman-the-dark-knight-returns",
   "title": "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns",
   "author": "Frank Miller (with Klaus Janson & Lynn Varley)",
   "publisher": "DC Comics",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Collected one-volume edition of the 1986 four-issue Prestige-format series. The DC softcover trade (1986), adding new material (new introduction, endpapers, chapter headings, sketchbook), is the first collected trade; identified by stated first printing, the printed price, and ISBN 0-930289-21-8. A hardcover trade edition and a Graphitti Designs signed/numbered slipcased hardcover (limited, with additional material) followed.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/batman-the-dark-knight-returns"
  },
  {
   "slug": "batman-the-dark-knight-returns-1-comic",
   "title": "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1 (comic)",
   "author": "Frank Miller (with Klaus Janson & Lynn Varley)",
   "publisher": "DC Comics",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Prestige format (squarebound, cardstock cover), cover-dated 1986, the printed price. The first printing carries no printing notation; later printings (DC ran several) state 'Second Printing,' 'Third Printing,' and so on, on the cover or in the indicia. First-print interior paper and cover gloss differ subtly from reprints.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/batman-the-dark-knight-returns-1-comic"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sandman-preludes-nocturnes",
   "title": "The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes",
   "author": "Neil Gaiman (Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III)",
   "publisher": "DC Comics",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade collection (Sandman #1-8). The true first printing (1991) contains an introduction by F. Paul Wilson and an afterword by Gaiman; identified by the printed price and ISBN 1-56389-011-9, with stated first printing and no later-printing line. Early states predate the Vertigo imprint logo.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sandman-preludes-nocturnes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sandman-1-comic",
   "title": "The Sandman #1 (comic)",
   "author": "Neil Gaiman (Sam Kieth & Mike Dringenberg)",
   "publisher": "DC Comics",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'Sleep of the Just,' cover-dated January 1989, the printed price, with a Dave McKean cover. The first print direct-market edition has the DC logo box; newsstand copies carry a UPC barcode. The first printing has no 'Second Printing' banner; a marked second printing exists.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sandman-1-comic"
  },
  {
   "slug": "persepolis-the-story-of-a-childhood",
   "title": "Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood",
   "author": "Marjane Satrapi",
   "publisher": "L'Association (Paris) / Pantheon (US)",
   "year": "2000 (French) / 2003 (English)",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "French true first: Persepolis tome 1, L'Association, Collection Ciboulette, Paris, 2000, softcover, 76 pp., ISBN 2-84414-058-6 (9782844140586). English first: Pantheon Books, New York, 2003, hardcover in jacket, 153 pp., translated by Mattias Ripa and Blake Ferris, ISBN 0-375-42230-7 (9780375422300); first-printing copies carry the Pantheon copyright-page printing line with no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/persepolis-the-story-of-a-childhood"
  },
  {
   "slug": "fun-home-a-family-tragicomic",
   "title": "Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic",
   "author": "Alison Bechdel",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "2006",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing hardcover, Houghton Mifflin, Boston and New York, June 8 2006, ISBN 0-618-47794-2 (978-0-618-47794-4). First printing carries the full descending number line ending in 1 (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1) on the copyright page with no later-printing statement. Bound in neon-orange decorative paper boards under a pictorial jacket showing the family house; price present on the jacket flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/fun-home-a-family-tragicomic"
  },
  {
   "slug": "jimmy-corrigan-the-smartest-kid-on-earth",
   "title": "Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth",
   "author": "Chris Ware",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First book edition (collecting the ACME Novelty Library serial), Pantheon, New York, September 2000, oversized hardcover with illustrated paper-covered boards and dust jacket, ISBN 0-375-40453-8 (9780375404535), 380 pp. Elaborately printed Ware design with a dense copyright page; first-printing copies retain the original Pantheon jacket with price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/jimmy-corrigan-the-smartest-kid-on-earth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "blankets",
   "title": "Blankets",
   "author": "Craig Thompson",
   "publisher": "Top Shelf Productions",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Top Shelf Productions, 2003, thick (approximately 582 pp.) softcover, ISBN 1-891830-43-0 (9781891830433). The key point of issue is the copyright page reading 'First Printing, July 2003' with the original Top Shelf imprint and price. First-printing copies predate the later Top Shelf reprintings and the 2011 anniversary hardcover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/blankets"
  },
  {
   "slug": "palestine",
   "title": "Palestine",
   "author": "Joe Sacco",
   "publisher": "Fantagraphics Books",
   "year": "1996 (two-part collected) / 1993 (serial)",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Serialized as Palestine issues 1 to 9 (Fantagraphics, 1993 to 1995). First collected book form: the two-part set Palestine: A Nation Occupied (collecting issues 1 to 5) and Palestine: In the Gaza Strip (collecting issues 6 to 9), Fantagraphics, 1996. The single-volume Palestine collection with Edward Said's introduction (Fantagraphics, 2001, ISBN 1-56097-432-X / 9781560974321) is the most cited collected book edition. Verify the Fantagraphics imprint and first-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/palestine"
  },
  {
   "slug": "black-hole",
   "title": "Black Hole",
   "author": "Charles Burns",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First collected hardcover edition, Pantheon Books, 2005, in dust jacket; stated first edition with a number line ending in 1. Collects the twelve-issue Black Hole comic series originally published by Kitchen Sink and then Fantagraphics, 1995 to 2005. Laminated boards with the original Burns jacket design; price present on the jacket flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/black-hole"
  },
  {
   "slug": "from-hell",
   "title": "From Hell",
   "author": "Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell",
   "publisher": "Eddie Campbell Comics / Top Shelf",
   "year": "1999 (collected)",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Serialized in the anthology Taboo and then in standalone issues from Mad Love, Tundra, and Kitchen Sink, 1991 to 1996, with the Dance of the Gull-Catchers appendix issued separately in 1998. First single-volume collected edition: Eddie Campbell Comics, November 1999, thick black-and-white softcover of roughly 572 pages, ISBN 0-9585783-4-6, incorporating the appendices. First printing stated; original Eddie Campbell Comics imprint.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/from-hell"
  },
  {
   "slug": "preacher-gone-to-texas-book-one",
   "title": "Preacher: Gone to Texas (Book One)",
   "author": "Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon",
   "publisher": "DC Comics (Vertigo)",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade collection, gathering Preacher issues one through seven, Vertigo, 1996, softcover, ISBN 1-56389-261-8, with a foreword by Joe R. Lansdale and a Glenn Fabry cover. Stated first printing. The first print predates the many later Vertigo reprints.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/preacher-gone-to-texas-book-one"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hellboy-seed-of-destruction",
   "title": "Hellboy: Seed of Destruction",
   "author": "Mike Mignola (with John Byrne)",
   "publisher": "Dark Horse Comics",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade collection of the debut four-issue Hellboy mini-series, Dark Horse, 1994, softcover, ISBN 1-56971-049-9, with the printed price. Conceived and drawn by Mignola and scripted by John Byrne. Stated first printing; original Mignola cover. The collection also gathers the early Hellboy short stories and a pin-up gallery.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hellboy-seed-of-destruction"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-walking-dead-1-comic",
   "title": "The Walking Dead #1 (comic)",
   "author": "Robert Kirkman & Tony Moore",
   "publisher": "Image Comics",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cover-dated October 2003, printed cover price, first print run of roughly 7,000 to 7,500 copies. The first print carries no printing notation on the cover and the indicia shows no 'printing' line (or states 'First Printing, October 2003'). The 'Walking Dead' logo red is the lighter first-print shade. The second print (December 2003) adds a 'Second Printing' notation near the Image logo at the bottom of the cover, the logo red is noticeably darker and almost black, and the indicia explicitly reads 'Second Printing, December 2003.' Later printings (third, fourth) are likewise cover-marked. A known first-print color error exists in which 'Mature Readers' prints in black on a minority of copies.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-walking-dead-1-comic"
  },
  {
   "slug": "saga-1-comic",
   "title": "Saga #1 (comic)",
   "author": "Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples",
   "publisher": "Image Comics",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cover-dated March 2012, printed cover price, Fiona Staples cover showing Alana breastfeeding the newborn Hazel. The first print has no reprint notation and the series title 'Saga' is lettered in orange. The second printing (April 2012) renders the 'Saga' title in black and adds the words 'Second Printing' directly below the price; subsequent printings are likewise marked. The first-print indicia is dated 2012.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/saga-1-comic"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-complete-calvin-and-hobbes",
   "title": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes",
   "author": "Bill Watterson",
   "publisher": "Andrews McMeel Publishing",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, three-volume hardcover boxed set, Andrews McMeel, 2005. First printing identified by the number line and the original slipcase/box. First-print sets predate the multiple later reprints of the boxed set. The much earlier first book collection, 'Calvin and Hobbes' (Andrews McMeel, 1987, a trade paperback), is the earliest book appearance and a separate collectible.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-complete-calvin-and-hobbes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-far-side-first-collection",
   "title": "The Far Side (first collection)",
   "author": "Gary Larson",
   "publisher": "Andrews and McMeel (Andrews, McMeel & Parker)",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first Far Side book collection, published by Andrews and McMeel, 1982, oversized paperback, ISBN 0-8362-1200-2, described on the back cover as the first collection of The Far Side. The true first is the 1982 paperback; later printings are common and identified by a number line. The two-volume boxed hardcover Complete Far Side (Andrews McMeel, 2003) is a separate omnibus first-thus, not the first collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-far-side-first-collection"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-adventures-of-tintin-english-language-firsts",
   "title": "The Adventures of Tintin (English-language firsts)",
   "author": "Hergé (Georges Remi)",
   "publisher": "Casterman (Belgium, original language) / Methuen (UK, first English)",
   "year": "varies (English-language Methuen albums from 1958)",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Casterman albums are the original-language true firsts. The first two English-language Methuen albums both appeared in 1958: The Crab with the Golden Claws and King Ottokar's Sceptre, translated by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner. Methuen firsts carry a First published in Great Britain statement and the original price. Casterman firsts are identified by the back-cover album list and the fourth-cover spine and dot codes; later reprints update those lists and codes.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-adventures-of-tintin-english-language-firsts"
  },
  {
   "slug": "marvels",
   "title": "Marvels",
   "author": "Kurt Busiek & Alex Ross",
   "publisher": "Marvel Comics (collected trade) / Graphitti Designs (signed limited hardcover)",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Serial: four-issue painted prestige limited series (issues 0 through 4), Marvel, 1994, with no printing notation on first-print issues. First collected book, Marvel, 1994. A signed and numbered slipcased hardcover with foldout dust jacket was published by Graphitti Designs in 1994, limited to about 8,500 copies, ISBN 0-936211-47-4, signed by Busiek and Ross. The collected first print states the first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/marvels"
  },
  {
   "slug": "kingdom-come",
   "title": "Kingdom Come",
   "author": "Mark Waid & Alex Ross",
   "publisher": "DC Comics (collected trade) / Graphitti Designs (signed limited hardcover)",
   "year": "1996 (serial) / 1997 (collected)",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Serial: four-issue prestige series, DC, 1996, with no printing line on first-print issues. First collected trade, DC, 1997, softcover; the first-print collected edition states the first printing. A signed and numbered two-volume slipcased hardcover (the main book plus a Revelations volume of additional story and developmental art) was co-published by DC and Graphitti Designs in 1997, foil-stamped with gilt edges and a signature page signed by Waid and Ross.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/kingdom-come"
  },
  {
   "slug": "300",
   "title": "300",
   "author": "Frank Miller & Lynn Varley",
   "publisher": "Dark Horse Comics",
   "year": "1998 (serial) / 1999 (collected)",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Serial: five-issue oversized limited series, Dark Horse, with the first issue dated May 1998 and the series running monthly through September 1998. First collected edition: oversized landscape hardcover, Dark Horse, 1999, ISBN 1-56971-402-8 (9781569714027), with each original two-page spread presented as a single page. The first-print collected edition states the first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/300"
  },
  {
   "slug": "asterix-the-gaul-english-first",
   "title": "Asterix the Gaul (English first)",
   "author": "René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo",
   "publisher": "Dargaud (France) / Brockhampton Press (UK English)",
   "year": "1961 (France) / 1969 (English)",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "French original-language true first: 'Asterix le Gaulois,' Dargaud, 1961, hardcover album. First English-language edition: Brockhampton Press (London), 1969, hardcover in glazed pictorial boards, translated by Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge, ISBN 0-340-04240-0, printed in Great Britain by Thomas Nelson, Edinburgh. The English first is identified by the Brockhampton imprint and 1969 date.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/asterix-the-gaul-english-first"
  },
  {
   "slug": "habibi",
   "title": "Habibi",
   "author": "Craig Thompson",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books",
   "year": "2011",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Pantheon Books, 2011, large hardcover with decorated boards and pictorial jacket, stated 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a complete number line ending in 1 (9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1), ISBN 978-0-375-42414-4. First printing predates later printings, which show shortened number lines.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/habibi"
  },
  {
   "slug": "daytripper",
   "title": "Daytripper",
   "author": "Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá",
   "publisher": "DC Comics (Vertigo)",
   "year": "2010 (serial) / 2011 (collected)",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Serial: ten-issue Vertigo limited series published February to November 2010. First collected edition: trade paperback, Vertigo/DC Comics, February 2011, 256 pages, ISBN 978-1-4012-2969-6. First printings of the individual issues carry no later-printing line; the first trade printing is identified by its first-printing indicia.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/daytripper"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-arrival",
   "title": "The Arrival",
   "author": "Shaun Tan",
   "publisher": "Lothian Books (Australia) / Arthur A. Levine–Scholastic (US)",
   "year": "2006 (Australia) / 2007 (US)",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Australian true first: Lothian Books (Hachette Livre Australia), Sydney, 2006, wordless sepia-toned graphic novel, hardcover, ISBN 978-0-7344-0694-1. First US edition: Arthur A. Levine Books (Scholastic), New York, 2007, hardcover, identified by a complete number line on the copyright page. The Australian first is identified by the Lothian imprint and 2006 date.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-arrival"
  },
  {
   "slug": "stitches-a-memoir",
   "title": "Stitches: A Memoir",
   "author": "David Small",
   "publisher": "W. W. Norton & Company",
   "year": "2009",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2009, hardcover in dust jacket, ISBN 978-0-393-06857-3. A first printing states First Edition on the copyright page with a complete number line that descends to 1; later printings remove the lowest digits. Original Norton jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/stitches-a-memoir"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lord-wearys-castle",
   "title": "Lord Weary's Castle",
   "author": "Robert Lowell",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Black cloth boards, gilt spine lettering, 69 pp., octavo. The title-page verso states 'first edition'. Pictorial dust jacket. The same-year second impression deletes the 'first edition' statement, carries the code [b.3.47] on the copyright page, was styled 'Second Edition' on the jacket flap, and silently revised four poems: 'The Exile's Return,' 'The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket,' 'The First Sunday in Lent,' and 'Where the Rainbow Ends.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lord-wearys-castle"
  },
  {
   "slug": "north-south",
   "title": "North & South",
   "author": "Elizabeth Bishop",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Bishop's first book; won the Houghton Mifflin Poetry/Literary Fellowship Award. First printing of 1,000 copies (a second printing of 500 followed). Blue cloth, lettering and a silver compass rose stamped to the upper board; dust jacket designed by Samuel Hanks Bryant; [viii], 54 pp., octavo. The first printing carries no statement of additional printings; the second printing (500 copies) is so noted.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/north-south"
  },
  {
   "slug": "poems-north-south-a-cold-spring",
   "title": "Poems: North & South — A Cold Spring",
   "author": "Elizabeth Bishop",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Combines the 1946 North & South with the new 'A Cold Spring' section (seventeen added poems). First printing of about 2,000 copies, so noted as a first printing on the copyright page. Won the 1956 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/poems-north-south-a-cold-spring"
  },
  {
   "slug": "geography-iii",
   "title": "Geography III",
   "author": "Elizabeth Bishop",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "FSG first edition, stated 'First printing, 1976' on the copyright page with no further printings indicated. Brown cloth, dust jacket. Contains 'One Art,' 'In the Waiting Room,' and 'The Moose.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/geography-iii"
  },
  {
   "slug": "for-the-union-dead",
   "title": "For the Union Dead",
   "author": "Robert Lowell",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "FSG first edition, with a stated first printing on the copyright page. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt to the spine, 72 pp., octavo; title-page drawing by Francis Parker; priced dust jacket. Contains the title elegy 'For the Union Dead' (the Colonel Shaw / Boston Common poem).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/for-the-union-dead"
  },
  {
   "slug": "to-bedlam-and-part-way-back",
   "title": "To Bedlam and Part Way Back",
   "author": "Anne Sexton",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Sexton's first book. Houghton Mifflin Boston first printing, identified by the 'First Printing' statement on the copyright page with no later-printing line. Slim octavo in quarter cloth with the white pictorial dust jacket; jacket priced on the front flap. The collection carries a blurb by Robert Lowell. A confessional debut that was a National Book Award finalist.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/to-bedlam-and-part-way-back"
  },
  {
   "slug": "all-my-pretty-ones",
   "title": "All My Pretty Ones",
   "author": "Anne Sexton",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Sexton's second book. Houghton Mifflin first printing, identified by the 'First Printing' statement on the copyright page. Opens with an epigraph drawn from a Kafka letter. Issued in decorated boards with the dust jacket priced on the flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/all-my-pretty-ones"
  },
  {
   "slug": "live-or-die",
   "title": "Live or Die",
   "author": "Anne Sexton",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Sexton's third book. Houghton Mifflin first printing, identified by the 'First Printing' statement on the copyright page. Won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Dust jacket priced on the flap; later states should be checked against the printing line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/live-or-die"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-change-of-world",
   "title": "A Change of World",
   "author": "Adrienne Rich",
   "publisher": "Yale University Press",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Rich's first book, selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets (volume 48) and carrying his five-page foreword. Yale University Press first printing in dust jacket; the Auden foreword is a defining feature.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-change-of-world"
  },
  {
   "slug": "diving-into-the-wreck",
   "title": "Diving into the Wreck",
   "author": "Adrienne Rich",
   "publisher": "W. W. Norton",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "W. W. Norton first edition (full title 'Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972'). Issued simultaneously in cloth and in wrappers; the clothbound issue in dust jacket is the collector's form and is the scarcer of the two. Contains the title poem 'Diving into the Wreck.' Won the 1974 National Book Award for Poetry, which Rich accepted jointly in the names of all women.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/diving-into-the-wreck"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-mask-for-janus",
   "title": "A Mask for Janus",
   "author": "W. S. Merwin",
   "publisher": "Yale University Press",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Merwin's first book, selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets (volume 49) with an Auden foreword. Yale University Press first edition in dust jacket; scarce in a fine jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-mask-for-janus"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lice",
   "title": "The Lice",
   "author": "W. S. Merwin",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Atheneum first edition with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page. Issued simultaneously in cloth (hardcover, dust jacket priced on the flap) and in paperbound wrappers; the cloth issue in jacket is the collected hardcover first. A landmark of Merwin's open-form period.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lice"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-carrier-of-ladders",
   "title": "The Carrier of Ladders",
   "author": "W. S. Merwin",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Atheneum first edition with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page. Issued simultaneously in cloth (hardcover, dust jacket priced on the flap) and in paperbound wrappers; the cloth issue in jacket is the collected hardcover first. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1971.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-carrier-of-ladders"
  },
  {
   "slug": "some-trees",
   "title": "Some Trees",
   "author": "John Ashbery",
   "publisher": "Yale University Press",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ashbery's first full-length book, chosen by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets (volume 52, Auden foreword). Yale University Press first printing in black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, in the printed yellow dust jacket. Scarce in fine condition with jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/some-trees"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-new-american-poetry-1945-1960",
   "title": "The New American Poetry 1945–1960",
   "author": "edited by Donald M. Allen",
   "publisher": "Grove Press",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Grove Press first, issued simultaneously in cloth hardcover (black cloth, spine and upper board lettered in gilt; the scarce collector's first) and as an Evergreen paperback (common). The foundational anthology of the Beats, Black Mountain, New York School, and San Francisco Renaissance, gathering 215 poems by 44 poets with a preface, statements on poetics, biographical notes, and bibliographies.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-new-american-poetry-1945-1960"
  },
  {
   "slug": "death-of-a-salesman",
   "title": "Death of a Salesman",
   "author": "Arthur Miller",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page reads 'Published by the Viking Press in March 1949' with no later printings listed. Broken/imperfect type in 'solid' on page 11 is the recognized first-issue typographic point. Orange cloth, spine and titles stamped in brown; Jo Mielziner stage-set pictorial endpapers. First-issue dust jacket designed by Joseph Hirsch, the printed price intact, with the jacket art positioned such that the 'S' of 'Salesman' aligns with the figure's elbow on the front panel, and the author photo on the rear flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/death-of-a-salesman"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-streetcar-named-desire",
   "title": "A Streetcar Named Desire",
   "author": "Tennessee Williams",
   "publisher": "New Directions",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First state has the textual error on page 161, line 17: 'Stella' printed for 'Blanche.' Issued in pink pictorial boards with Alvin Lustig's celebrated pink pictorial dust jacket echoing the board design; jacket with the printed price intact. 171 pp., with frontispiece. No statement of later printing on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-streetcar-named-desire"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-glass-menagerie",
   "title": "The Glass Menagerie",
   "author": "Tennessee Williams",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1945",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'FIRST PRINTING' (standard Random House practice). Approximately 5,000 copies. Frontispiece photograph from the original production. Issued in cloth binding color variants (rose-pink, brick/reddish-orange, dull red) with no established priority among them. Crandell A1.1.a.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-glass-menagerie"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof",
   "title": "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof",
   "author": "Tennessee Williams",
   "publisher": "New Directions",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has NO reference on the copyright page to the prior appearance of the preface in the New York Times, and NO Joseph Mielziner (and Lucinda Ballard) production credit on page xii; both are added in later printings (the key Crandell points). Contains two versions of Act Three (Williams' original plus the Broadway revision) with Williams' 'Note of Explanation.' Alvin Lustig-designed dust jacket, the printed price intact; brown cloth with black spine lettering.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof"
  },
  {
   "slug": "whos-afraid-of-virginia-woolf",
   "title": "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?",
   "author": "Edward Albee",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' (Atheneum's stated-first practice through the mid-1980s). Black cloth with the author's name blind-stamped on the front board, spine lettered in silver; top edge with a pinkish/red publisher's stain. Approx. 242 pp. White typographic dust jacket designed by Harry Ford, with the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/whos-afraid-of-virginia-woolf"
  },
  {
   "slug": "endgame",
   "title": "Endgame",
   "author": "Samuel Beckett",
   "publisher": "Grove Press",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English-language edition, translated by Beckett from his French 'Fin de partie' and published by Grove Press, New York, 1958, with the full title 'Endgame: A Play in One Act, Followed by Act Without Words: A Mime for One Player.' Issued in cloth and in wrappers; a small cloth issue was also done. The first printing shows no later-printing statement on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/endgame"
  },
  {
   "slug": "krapps-last-tape-and-other-dramatic-pieces",
   "title": "Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces",
   "author": "Samuel Beckett",
   "publisher": "Grove Press",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Grove Press, New York, 1960, first US edition of this gathering, which collects 'Krapp's Last Tape' with other short dramatic pieces (about 141 pages). Issued in cloth and in Evergreen wrappers. For the title play specifically, the first book appearance is the Faber and Faber edition of the prior year.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/krapps-last-tape-and-other-dramatic-pieces"
  },
  {
   "slug": "fences",
   "title": "Fences",
   "author": "August Wilson",
   "publisher": "Plume (New American Library / Dutton)",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition is the Plume trade-paperback original, 1986 (New American Library / Dutton), with an introduction by Lloyd Richards. There is no trade hardcover first edition. The first printing is identified by the lowest number in the printing line and the absence of any later-printing statement. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/fences"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ma-raineys-black-bottom",
   "title": "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom",
   "author": "August Wilson",
   "publisher": "Plume (New American Library / Dutton)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition was issued by Plume (New American Library / Dutton) as a trade-paperback original in 1985; there is no trade hardcover first. The Plume title and copyright pages identify the edition, and the first printing is identified by the lowest number in the printing line with no later-printing statement. This was Wilson's first major published play and his first book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ma-raineys-black-bottom"
  },
  {
   "slug": "death-of-a-naturalist-uk-true-first-note-distinct-from-exist",
   "title": "Death of a Naturalist (UK true-first note distinct from existing entry)",
   "author": "Seamus Heaney",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber and Faber, London, first edition, 1966, with the 'first published in 1966' statement and no later-impression line; bound in green cloth, lettered gilt on the spine, in the salmon-and-white dust jacket lettered in black (rear panel listing Faber poets such as Auden, Eliot, Hughes, Larkin, Lowell, MacNeice and Spender). Heaney's debut collection and the most collected of his books. Add only if the live entry lacks these Faber-specific points; otherwise treat as deeper precedence data.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/death-of-a-naturalist-uk-true-first-note-distinct-from-exist"
  },
  {
   "slug": "field-work",
   "title": "Field Work",
   "author": "Seamus Heaney",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber and Faber first edition, 'first published in 1979' so stated on the copyright page, with no later printing line. Issued simultaneously in cloth boards with a priced dust jacket and in stiff card wrappers; the casebound copy in jacket is the collector's first. Contains the Glanmore Sonnets and the Lowell elegy. Catalogued Brandes and Durkan A20a (boards) and A20b (wrappers).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/field-work"
  },
  {
   "slug": "omeros",
   "title": "Omeros",
   "author": "Derek Walcott",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux first edition, 1990, with the FSG first-edition statement on the copyright page; cloth in a dust jacket priced on the flap. Book-length Caribbean epic that helped secure his 1992 Nobel Prize.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/omeros"
  },
  {
   "slug": "american-primitive",
   "title": "American Primitive",
   "author": "Mary Oliver",
   "publisher": "Atlantic-Little, Brown / Atlantic Monthly Press",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition issued simultaneously in cloth (scarce) and in wrappers; the hardcover in jacket is the collector's first. Copyright page states the first edition/first printing. Won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/american-primitive"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dream-work",
   "title": "Dream Work",
   "author": "Mary Oliver",
   "publisher": "Atlantic Monthly Press",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Atlantic Monthly Press first edition, 1986, stated first printing; half-cloth hardcover in a dust jacket. Contains the first book appearance of 'Wild Geese' (along with 'The Journey,' 'Morning Poem,' and 'Starfish'). The hardcover first in jacket is scarce versus the common paperback.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dream-work"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-apple-that-astonished-paris",
   "title": "The Apple That Astonished Paris",
   "author": "Billy Collins",
   "publisher": "University of Arkansas Press",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Billy Collins's first full collection, University of Arkansas Press, 1988, first printing (no later-printing or additional-edition statement on the copyright page); issued in both cloth and wrappers. The hardcover first is genuinely scarce given the small pre-fame print run. Includes 'Introduction to Poetry' and other later-anthologized poems.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-apple-that-astonished-paris"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sailing-alone-around-the-room-new-and-selected-poems",
   "title": "Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems",
   "author": "Billy Collins",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House (New York) first edition, stated 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a complete number line ending in 1. Cloth in priced dust jacket. This is the breakout selected volume issued as Collins was named US Poet Laureate; it gathered new poems with selections from his earlier University of Pittsburgh Press collections.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sailing-alone-around-the-room-new-and-selected-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-colossus",
   "title": "The Colossus",
   "author": "Sylvia Plath",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Plath's only book of poems published in her lifetime under her own name and her first regularly published book. William Heinemann (London) first edition: green cloth lettered in dark green on the spine, in dust jacket. Titled simply 'The Colossus' (no 'and Other Poems' on the UK issue). Tabor A2a.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-colossus"
  },
  {
   "slug": "crossing-the-water",
   "title": "Crossing the Water",
   "author": "Sylvia Plath",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber and Faber (London) first edition, 'first published in 1971' so stated on the copyright page, hardcover (64 pages) in priced dust jacket. A posthumous 'transitional' collection of poems from the period between The Colossus and Ariel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/crossing-the-water"
  },
  {
   "slug": "winter-trees",
   "title": "Winter Trees",
   "author": "Sylvia Plath",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber and Faber (London) first edition, 'first published in 1971' so stated, in priced dust jacket. Posthumous collection: a prefatory note by Ted Hughes, twenty-four poems from the last months of Plath's life (the group from which the Ariel poems were drawn), and the verse play 'Three Women.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/winter-trees"
  },
  {
   "slug": "crow-from-the-life-and-songs-of-the-crow",
   "title": "Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow",
   "author": "Ted Hughes",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber and Faber (London) first edition, 'first published in 1970' so stated; black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in a cream dust jacket bearing a Leonard Baskin illustration printed in brick-red and black. The enlarged second edition (1972) adds seven poems; distinguish by contents and the title-page/copyright statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/crow-from-the-life-and-songs-of-the-crow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "things-of-this-world",
   "title": "Things of This World",
   "author": "Richard Wilbur",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Harcourt, Brace first edition with 'First edition' stated on the copyright page; light blue cloth, spine stamped in black; viii, 50 pages; in priced dust jacket. Won the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the 1957 National Book Award.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/things-of-this-world"
  },
  {
   "slug": "77-dream-songs",
   "title": "77 Dream Songs",
   "author": "John Berryman",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Company",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Farrar, Straus and Company first edition, first printing; blue cloth boards with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket designed by Marshall Lee. First printing imprint reads 'Farrar, Straus and Company' and the publisher address lacks a zip code; later printings show 'Farrar, Straus and Giroux.' Won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The first installment of The Dream Songs. Stefanik reference A11.1.a.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/77-dream-songs"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dream-songs",
   "title": "The Dream Songs",
   "author": "John Berryman",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux first edition, first printing; the first complete one-volume gathering of all 385 Dream Songs (combining 77 Dream Songs and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest); navy/black cloth with gilt spine titles, green endpapers; xx, 427 pages; pictorial dust jacket priced at the original price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dream-songs"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-far-field",
   "title": "The Far Field",
   "author": "Theodore Roethke",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday first edition with 'First Edition' stated; black cloth-backed boards, spine titled in gilt; in priced dust jacket. Posthumous collection (Roethke died in 1963); won the 1965 National Book Award for Poetry.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-far-field"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-waking-poems-1933-1953",
   "title": "The Waking: Poems 1933–1953",
   "author": "Theodore Roethke",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday & Company first edition, 1953, with the first-edition statement on the copyright page; cloth in dust jacket. Awarded the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-waking-poems-1933-1953"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bridge",
   "title": "The Bridge",
   "author": "Hart Crane",
   "publisher": "Black Sun Press",
   "year": "1930",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the Black Sun Press (Paris) limited edition, 1930, with three Walker Evans photogravures: 50 copies on Japan vellum signed by Crane and 200 numbered copies on Holland Van Gelder paper. The New York Liveright trade edition followed in 1930 as the first American trade issue (dark blue cloth, jacket with a Walker Evans photograph).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bridge"
  },
  {
   "slug": "harmonium",
   "title": "Harmonium",
   "author": "Wallace Stevens",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1923",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Stevens's first book; Knopf, 1923. First binding: 500 copies in quarter blue buckram with paper-covered patterned (Curwen-pattern, red/blue/yellow/white) boards, yellow paper spine label printed in red, top edge stained. Later binding states use plain blue cloth with the paper spine label. The patterned-boards first binding is the desirable issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/harmonium"
  },
  {
   "slug": "spring-and-all",
   "title": "Spring and All",
   "author": "William Carlos Williams",
   "publisher": "Contact Publishing Company",
   "year": "1923",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Contact Publishing Co. (Robert McAlmon's imprint), 1923, printed at Dijon by Maurice Darantière; an edition of about 300 copies in publisher's gray-blue wrappers. Contains 'The Red Wheelbarrow' (as poem XXII). Notoriously scarce, in part because many copies shipped to America were seized by US customs.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/spring-and-all"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-back-country",
   "title": "The Back Country",
   "author": "Gary Snyder",
   "publisher": "New Directions",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "New Directions first US edition, 1968, first printing so stated; issued in cloth and in wrappers. The London Fulcrum Press hardcover (1967, beige cloth) precedes it; the four-section structure (Western mountain country; Japan; India; return to the West) is the same, but the US New Directions edition adds further poems and a section of Miyazawa Kenji translations not in the Fulcrum text, so contents differ.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-back-country"
  },
  {
   "slug": "turtle-island",
   "title": "Turtle Island",
   "author": "Gary Snyder",
   "publisher": "New Directions",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "New Directions first edition, 1974, first printing so stated; issued simultaneously in cloth (chartreuse/green cloth boards, stamped spine) and as a New Directions Paperbook. Roughly 2,000 hardcover copies. Won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; copies predating the win lack any Pulitzer sticker. The cloth hardcover in dust jacket is the collector's first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/turtle-island"
  },
  {
   "slug": "for-love-poems-1950-1960",
   "title": "For Love: Poems 1950–1960",
   "author": "Robert Creeley",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Scribner's first edition, 1962, with the Scribner 'A' on the copyright page marking the first printing; cloth in priced dust jacket. Creeley's breakthrough Black Mountain collection and a National Book Award finalist.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/for-love-poems-1950-1960"
  },
  {
   "slug": "black-sun",
   "title": "Black Sun",
   "author": "Edward Abbey",
   "publisher": "Simon and Schuster",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Simon & Schuster first edition, 1971, with 'First printing' stated on the copyright page. Black cloth, spine stamped in yellow; dust jacket with the printed price on the front flap, unclipped. About 159 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/black-sun"
  },
  {
   "slug": "abbeys-road",
   "title": "Abbey's Road",
   "author": "Edward Abbey",
   "publisher": "E. P. Dutton",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries the full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on the copyright page, ending in 1. Dutton imprint on the title and copyright pages; jacket carries the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/abbeys-road"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-big-rock-candy-mountain",
   "title": "The Big Rock Candy Mountain",
   "author": "Wallace Stegner",
   "publisher": "Duell, Sloan and Pearce",
   "year": "1943",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries the Duell, Sloan and Pearce imprint with no statement of later printings on the copyright page. Wartime-economy paper and binding. First-issue dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap. Issued in cloth lettered in contrasting ink.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-big-rock-candy-mountain"
  },
  {
   "slug": "wolf-willow-a-history-a-story-and-a-memory-of-the-last-plain",
   "title": "Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier",
   "author": "Wallace Stegner",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page reads 'Published in 1962 by The Viking Press' with no later printings listed. Viking ship colophon. Map endpapers. Dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/wolf-willow-a-history-a-story-and-a-memory-of-the-last-plain"
  },
  {
   "slug": "horseman-pass-by",
   "title": "Horseman, Pass By",
   "author": "Larry McMurtry",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "McMurtry's first book (filmed as Hud). The true first states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page with the Harper date code 'D-L' beneath it (D = April, L = 1961). Black paper boards backed in mustard-yellow cloth with the circular 'H B' torch device on the upper cover. First-state dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap and the code 'No. 0184B' on the rear panel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/horseman-pass-by"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-last-picture-show",
   "title": "The Last Picture Show",
   "author": "Larry McMurtry",
   "publisher": "The Dial Press",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Dial Press, 1966. The first printing states 'First Printing' on the copyright page. Publisher's cloth (described by dealers variously as tan or gray) lettered in red on the spine; first-state dust jacket carries the original printed price on the front flap and is not price-clipped. Basis for the 1971 Bogdanovich film.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-last-picture-show"
  },
  {
   "slug": "holy-the-firm",
   "title": "Holy the Firm",
   "author": "Annie Dillard",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Harper & Row, 1977. The first printing states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page with no added-printing notice. Slim octavo of about 76 pages, tan paper-covered boards backed in brown cloth/linen with copper spine titling; dust jacket carries the printed price and the 'Phoenix' woodcut on the front panel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/holy-the-firm"
  },
  {
   "slug": "arctic-dreams-imagination-and-desire-in-a-northern-landscape",
   "title": "Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape",
   "author": "Barry Lopez",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Full number line present on the copyright page, the complete line ending in 1, under the Scribner imprint. Dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap. Octavo with illustrations and maps. Winner of the 1986 National Book Award.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/arctic-dreams-imagination-and-desire-in-a-northern-landscape"
  },
  {
   "slug": "refuge-an-unnatural-history-of-family-and-place",
   "title": "Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place",
   "author": "Terry Tempest Williams",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page together with a number line ending in 1, under the Pantheon imprint. Issued in quarter green cloth over tan boards with gilt spine lettering. Dust jacket carries the printed price on the flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/refuge-an-unnatural-history-of-family-and-place"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-crossing",
   "title": "The Crossing",
   "author": "Cormac McCarthy",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with the Borzoi/Knopf colophon. Black boards with gilt spine and cover lettering, deckled fore-edge, red top stain; octavo, 426 pp. Dust jacket (designed by Chip Kidd, sepia cattle-skull photograph) carries the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-crossing"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cities-of-the-plain",
   "title": "Cities of the Plain",
   "author": "Cormac McCarthy",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with the Borzoi/Knopf colophon. Cloth boards with gilt spine; octavo. Dust jacket carries the printed price. Concludes the Border Trilogy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cities-of-the-plain"
  },
  {
   "slug": "no-country-for-old-men",
   "title": "No Country for Old Men",
   "author": "Cormac McCarthy",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with the Borzoi/Knopf colophon. Dust jacket carries the printed price. First-issue jacket design predating any film tie-in.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/no-country-for-old-men"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dance-hall-of-the-dead",
   "title": "Dance Hall of the Dead",
   "author": "Tony Hillerman",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' with the number line ending in 1; issued in the Joan Kahn–Harper Novel of Suspense series; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap. Won the 1974 Edgar Award for Best Novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dance-hall-of-the-dead"
  },
  {
   "slug": "people-of-darkness",
   "title": "People of Darkness",
   "author": "Tony Hillerman",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' with the number line ending in 1; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap. First novel to feature Jim Chee.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/people-of-darkness"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-thief-of-time",
   "title": "A Thief of Time",
   "author": "Tony Hillerman",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row (New York)",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' with the full number line reading 88 89 90 91 92 HC 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1; first-issue jacket carries the printed price. A separate signed, numbered, slipcased limited issue of 250 copies also exists.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-thief-of-time"
  },
  {
   "slug": "house-made-of-dawn-harper-row-first-issue-points",
   "title": "House Made of Dawn (Harper & Row first-issue points)",
   "author": "N. Scott Momaday",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' and carries the Harper letter code 'D-S' (April 1968) for the first printing; first-issue dust jacket bears the '0668' code and the printed price on the front flap. Won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, so first-issue jackets predate any Pulitzer notice.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/house-made-of-dawn-harper-row-first-issue-points"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-names-a-memoir",
   "title": "The Names: A Memoir",
   "author": "N. Scott Momaday",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' with the number line ending in 1; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap, with jacket design by Gloria Adelson. Illustrated with family photographs.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-names-a-memoir"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ceremony",
   "title": "Ceremony",
   "author": "Leslie Marmon Silko",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page shows only the 1977 Viking date with no later printings listed; Viking ship colophon; dust jacket with a cover photograph by the author's father, Lee H. Marmon. The first-issue jacket rear flap reads 'Some comments on Leslie Silko'; the July-1977 reprint jacket rear flap substitutes 'Some Comments On: Ceremony.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ceremony"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-milagro-beanfield-war-signed-limited-and-trade-first-poi",
   "title": "The Milagro Beanfield War (signed/limited and trade first points)",
   "author": "John Nichols",
   "publisher": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Stated 'First Edition' on the copyright page; Holt, Rinehart and Winston imprint; black cloth boards with gilt spine; 445 pages, illustrated by Rini Templeton; dust jacket bearing the original printed price (first-issue art, pre-1988 film). First volume of the New Mexico Trilogy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-milagro-beanfield-war-signed-limited-and-trade-first-poi"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-magic-journey",
   "title": "The Magic Journey",
   "author": "John Nichols",
   "publisher": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Stated 'First Edition' on the copyright page with the number line printed down to 1; Holt, Rinehart and Winston imprint; orange cloth over yellow boards with gilt spine; dust jacket bearing the original printed price. Second volume of the New Mexico Trilogy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-magic-journey"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sterile-cuckoo",
   "title": "The Sterile Cuckoo",
   "author": "John Nichols",
   "publisher": "David McKay Company",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "David McKay imprint, 1965; copyright page shows '1965' with no additional dates or printing notices; purple cloth boards with gilt spine; jacket designed by Vivian Berger bearing the original printed price; first-issue art (pre-1969 film). Nichols's first novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sterile-cuckoo"
  },
  {
   "slug": "heart-of-aztl-n",
   "title": "Heart of Aztlán",
   "author": "Rudolfo A. Anaya",
   "publisher": "Editorial Justa Publications",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Editorial Justa Publications imprint (Berkeley), 1976; ISBN 0-915808-18-8. Issued both as a hardcover (red cloth boards, gilt lettering, 209 pages) and as a simultaneous softcover; small-press Chicano imprint with no later-printing statement. Anaya's second novel, after Bless Me, Ultima.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/heart-of-aztl-n"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tortuga",
   "title": "Tortuga",
   "author": "Rudolfo A. Anaya",
   "publisher": "Editorial Justa Publications",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Editorial Justa Publications imprint (Berkeley), 1979; ISBN 0-915808-34-X. Issued in original wrappers and in a scarce hardcover (blue cloth boards, gilt spine, 197 pages, dust jacket illustrated by Nancy Young); no later-printing statement. Third novel of Anaya's early New Mexico trilogy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tortuga"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sea-of-grass",
   "title": "The Sea of Grass",
   "author": "Conrad Richter",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1937",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page and carries the Borzoi/Knopf colophon. Brown buckram boards with stencil design by W. A. Dwiggins; first-issue priced dust jacket. New Mexico cattle-versus-homesteader classic; filmed in 1947. A separate signed presentation issue of 250 copies was distributed as a publisher's Christmas gift in 1937.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sea-of-grass"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-town",
   "title": "The Town",
   "author": "Conrad Richter",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page with the Borzoi colophon. Red cloth, blue lettering and grey decoration to front board and spine, grey top stain; first-issue priced dust jacket designed by John O'Hara Cosgrave II. Third volume of The Awakening Land trilogy; won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, so the first-issue jacket predates any Pulitzer notice.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-town"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-land-of-poco-tiempo",
   "title": "The Land of Poco Tiempo",
   "author": "Charles F. Lummis",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1893",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition bears the Charles Scribner's Sons imprint dated 1893; xii, 310 pages, illustrated from the author's own photographs. Bound in brown bead-grain cloth stamped in gold, black, and yellow on the front and spine, with the back board undecorated; no later-printing statement. Foundational New Mexico travel and Americana classic.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-land-of-poco-tiempo"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hondo-true-first-vs-paperback-original-confusion",
   "title": "Hondo (true-first vs. paperback-original confusion)",
   "author": "Louis L'Amour",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books (Fawcett)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first of Hondo is the Fawcett Gold Medal paperback original, number 511, 1953, published to coincide with the John Wayne film. It is a paperback original; no hardcover preceded it. The first Gold Medal printing carries the original twenty-five-cent cover price and no statement of additional printings on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hondo-true-first-vs-paperback-original-confusion"
  },
  {
   "slug": "run-river",
   "title": "Run River",
   "author": "Joan Didion",
   "publisher": "Ivan Obolensky",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing under the Ivan Obolensky imprint, 1963, with no later-printing statement on the copyright page. Publisher's cloth (teal/blue, stamped in white to the spine) in the original aqua dust jacket designed by Anthony Post, with a photograph of Didion on the rear panel. Didion's first novel, set in the Sacramento Valley.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/run-river"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-way-west",
   "title": "The Way West",
   "author": "A. B. Guthrie Jr.",
   "publisher": "William Sloane Associates",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing under the William Sloane Associates imprint, New York, 1949, with 'first edition' stated and no later-printing statement on the copyright page. Quarter cloth binding with maps of the Independence-to-Oregon route, in the original priced first-issue dust jacket. Sequel to The Big Sky.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-way-west"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-solace-of-open-spaces",
   "title": "The Solace of Open Spaces",
   "author": "Gretel Ehrlich",
   "publisher": "Viking",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing with the Viking imprint, 1985, with the number line on the copyright page ending in 1 and a priced first-issue dust jacket. A collection of Wyoming high-plains essays.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-solace-of-open-spaces"
  },
  {
   "slug": "prairyerth-a-deep-map",
   "title": "PrairyErth (a deep map)",
   "author": "William Least Heat-Moon",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing with the Houghton Mifflin imprint, Boston, 1991, with the full number line present on the copyright page and a priced first-issue dust jacket. Quarter-bound in black cloth over tan boards with gold spine lettering; maps of Chase County, Kansas, as chapter headings and endpapers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/prairyerth-a-deep-map"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-meadow",
   "title": "The Meadow",
   "author": "James Galvin",
   "publisher": "Henry Holt and Company",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries the Henry Holt imprint with the number line on the copyright page descending to 1; first-issue dust jacket retains the printed price on the front flap. Octavo bound in taupe cloth with burgundy paper boards, gilt spine lettering. A lyrical chronicle of a meadow on the Wyoming-Colorado line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-meadow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dragons-of-eden-speculations-on-the-evolution-of-human-i",
   "title": "The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence",
   "author": "Carl Sagan",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' AND retains the number line beginning at 2 (Random House convention: 'First Edition' present together with the lowest number being 2 indicates the first printing). Quarto in kelly-green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering and blindstamped author initials to the front cover; M.C. Escher-illustrated endpapers; 263 pp. First-issue dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap; cover painting by Don Davis.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dragons-of-eden-speculations-on-the-evolution-of-human-i"
  },
  {
   "slug": "angelas-ashes-a-memoir",
   "title": "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir",
   "author": "Frank McCourt",
   "publisher": "Scribner",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page carries a full descending number line ending in 1. Maroon cloth spine over maroon boards with gilt spine lettering; octavo, 364 pp; ISBN 0-684-87435-0. First-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/angelas-ashes-a-memoir"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-liars-club-a-memoir",
   "title": "The Liars' Club: A Memoir",
   "author": "Mary Karr",
   "publisher": "Viking (Viking Penguin)",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page indicates first publication in 1995 by Viking with a complete number line descending to 1. Hardcover bound in black cloth lettered in silver at the spine, with dust jacket; ISBN 0-670-85053-5; first-issue jacket carries the printed price. The first printing run was modest, on the order of 25,000 copies.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-liars-club-a-memoir"
  },
  {
   "slug": "wild-from-lost-to-found-on-the-pacific-crest-trail",
   "title": "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail",
   "author": "Cheryl Strayed",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with no later-printing statement. Reddish-orange paper-covered boards with gilt spine lettering; 315 pp; ISBN 0-307-59273-1. First-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap and the date code '3/2012' on the rear flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/wild-from-lost-to-found-on-the-pacific-crest-trail"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-guns-of-august",
   "title": "The Guns of August",
   "author": "Barbara W. Tuchman",
   "publisher": "The Macmillan Company",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Printing'. Black cloth with silver spine and front-panel lettering; cartographic (illustrated) endpapers; octavo, xii + 511 pp. First-state dust jacket carries the printed price; jacket design by Ellen Raskin. Published late January 1962.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-guns-of-august"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-rise-and-fall-of-the-third-reich-a-history-of-nazi-germa",
   "title": "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany",
   "author": "William L. Shirer",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Printing.' Gray cloth boards with black and gilt spine lettering; cartographic (map) endpapers; the top edge of the textblock is stained bright pink while the other edges and internal pages are untanned; xii plus 1245 pp. Thick octavo.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-third-reich-a-history-of-nazi-germa"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-best-and-the-brightest",
   "title": "The Best and the Brightest",
   "author": "David Halberstam",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering; 688 pp; ISBN 0-394-46163-0. Copyright page states 'First Edition' with a number line whose lowest number is 2, which is the Random House first-printing convention for this period. First-issue jacket with the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-best-and-the-brightest"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pale-blue-dot-a-vision-of-the-human-future-in-space",
   "title": "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space",
   "author": "Carl Sagan",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with a number line whose lowest number is 2, the Random House first-printing convention for this period. Black cloth with gilt spine; profusely illustrated with color plates; 429 pp; ISBN 0-679-43841-6. First-issue jacket with the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pale-blue-dot-a-vision-of-the-human-future-in-space"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-universe-from-nothing",
   "title": "A Universe from Nothing",
   "author": "Lawrence M. Krauss",
   "publisher": "Free Press (Simon & Schuster)",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Free Press hardcover edition January 2012' with a full number line descending to 1. ISBN 978-1-4516-2445-8; includes an afterword by Richard Dawkins. First-issue jacket with the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-universe-from-nothing"
  },
  {
   "slug": "collapse-how-societies-choose-to-fail-or-succeed",
   "title": "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed",
   "author": "Jared Diamond",
   "publisher": "Viking (Viking Penguin)",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page carries the Viking imprint with a full number line descending to 1. Black boards with dust jacket; ISBN 0-670-03337-5; first-issue jacket with the printed price. Maps and illustrations throughout.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/collapse-how-societies-choose-to-fail-or-succeed"
  },
  {
   "slug": "river-out-of-eden-a-darwinian-view-of-life",
   "title": "River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life",
   "author": "Richard Dawkins",
   "publisher": "Basic Books / Weidenfeld & Nicolson",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Weidenfeld & Nicolson edition: part of the 'Science Masters' series; jacket priced in pounds sterling. US Basic Books edition: copyright page reading 'First Edition' with a number line including the digit 1; jacket carries the printed price. Illustrated by Lalla Ward.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/river-out-of-eden-a-darwinian-view-of-life"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-fabric-of-the-cosmos-space-time-and-the-texture-of-reali",
   "title": "The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality",
   "author": "Brian Greene",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "A Borzoi Book; copyright page states 'First Edition' with no later-printing statement, per Knopf's convention of a stated 'First Edition' rather than a number line. ISBN 0-375-41288-3; illustrated; first-issue jacket carries the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-fabric-of-the-cosmos-space-time-and-the-texture-of-reali"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-elegant-universe-superstrings-hidden-dimensions-and-the",
   "title": "The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory",
   "author": "Brian Greene",
   "publisher": "W. W. Norton & Company",
   "year": "1999",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page carries a full Norton number line whose lowest digit is 1 (first printing). ISBN 0-393-04688-5; first-issue jacket carries the printed price; illustrated.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-elegant-universe-superstrings-hidden-dimensions-and-the"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-soul-of-a-new-machine",
   "title": "The Soul of a New Machine",
   "author": "Tracy Kidder",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' (Little, Brown convention of a stated 'First Edition' for the first printing). ISBN 0-316-49170-5; first-issue jacket carries the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-soul-of-a-new-machine"
  },
  {
   "slug": "common-ground-a-turbulent-decade-in-the-lives-of-three-ameri",
   "title": "Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families",
   "author": "J. Anthony Lukas",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' (Knopf convention). ISBN 0-394-41244-3; thick octavo; first-issue jacket carries the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/common-ground-a-turbulent-decade-in-the-lives-of-three-ameri"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-power-broker-see-deeper-note-robert-a-caro-master-of-the",
   "title": "The Power Broker — see deeper note (Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate)",
   "author": "Robert A. Caro",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, vol. 3): copyright page states 'First Edition' (Knopf uses the stated line, no number row). ISBN 0-394-52836-6; thick octavo of roughly 1167 pages; first-issue jacket carries the printed price unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-power-broker-see-deeper-note-robert-a-caro-master-of-the"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-bright-shining-lie-john-paul-vann-and-america-in-vietnam",
   "title": "A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam",
   "author": "Neil Sheehan",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with a Random House number line whose lowest figure is '2' (the line does not descend to 1). ISBN 0-394-48447-9; thick octavo of about 861 pages; first-issue jacket carries the printed price unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-bright-shining-lie-john-paul-vann-and-america-in-vietnam"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-year-of-magical-thinking",
   "title": "The Year of Magical Thinking",
   "author": "Joan Didion",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with no later-printing statement (Knopf stated-line convention, no number row). ISBN 1-4000-4314-X; paper-covered boards over green spine cloth lettered in gilt; first-issue jacket carries the printed price unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-year-of-magical-thinking"
  },
  {
   "slug": "into-the-wild",
   "title": "Into the Wild",
   "author": "Jon Krakauer",
   "publisher": "Villard (Random House)",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with the Random House/Villard number line whose lowest figure is '2' (does not descend to 1). ISBN 0-679-42850-X; first-issue jacket carries the printed price unclipped, with the 'magic bus' photograph.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/into-the-wild"
  },
  {
   "slug": "under-the-banner-of-heaven-a-story-of-violent-faith",
   "title": "Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith",
   "author": "Jon Krakauer",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with a full number line ending in 1. ISBN 0-385-50951-0; first-issue jacket carries the printed price unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/under-the-banner-of-heaven-a-story-of-violent-faith"
  },
  {
   "slug": "chaos-making-a-new-science",
   "title": "Chaos: Making a New Science",
   "author": "James Gleick",
   "publisher": "Viking (Viking Penguin)",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page carries the 'First published in 1987 by Viking' statement with a full number line ending in '1'. ISBN 0-670-81178-5. The first-issue jacket shows the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/chaos-making-a-new-science"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-demon-haunted-world-science-as-a-candle-in-the-dark",
   "title": "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark",
   "author": "Carl Sagan",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with the Random House number line beginning at '2' (the house convention of the period). ISBN 0-394-53512-X. The first-issue jacket shows the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-demon-haunted-world-science-as-a-candle-in-the-dark"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-devil-in-the-white-city-deeper-larson-in-the-garden-of-b",
   "title": "The Devil in the White City — deeper Larson: In the Garden of Beasts",
   "author": "Erik Larson",
   "publisher": "Crown (Random House)",
   "year": "2011",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with a full number line ending in 1. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-307-40884-6. First-issue jacket carries the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-devil-in-the-white-city-deeper-larson-in-the-garden-of-b"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-looming-tower-al-qaeda-and-the-road-to-9-11",
   "title": "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11",
   "author": "Lawrence Wright",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "2006",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with no later-printing statement (Knopf convention, which does not rely on a number line). ISBN 0-375-41486-X (978-0-375-41486-2). First-issue jacket carries the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-looming-tower-al-qaeda-and-the-road-to-9-11"
  },
  {
   "slug": "team-of-rivals-the-political-genius-of-abraham-lincoln",
   "title": "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln",
   "author": "Doris Kearns Goodwin",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page carries a full number line counting down to 1, identifying the first printing. ISBN 0-684-82490-6; thick octavo of roughly 900 pages in brown and black cloth; first-issue jacket retains the printed price unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/team-of-rivals-the-political-genius-of-abraham-lincoln"
  },
  {
   "slug": "john-adams",
   "title": "John Adams",
   "author": "David McCullough",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page carries a full number line counting down to 1, identifying the first printing. ISBN 0-684-81363-7; brown boards with black cloth spine; first-issue jacket retains the printed price unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/john-adams"
  },
  {
   "slug": "stiff-the-curious-lives-of-human-cadavers",
   "title": "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers",
   "author": "Mary Roach",
   "publisher": "W. W. Norton & Company",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page carries a full number line counting down to 1, identifying the first printing. ISBN 0-393-05093-9; red boards; first-issue jacket retains the printed price unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/stiff-the-curious-lives-of-human-cadavers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "coming-into-the-country-deeper-mcphee-annals-of-the-former-w",
   "title": "Coming into the Country — deeper McPhee: Annals of the Former World",
   "author": "John McPhee",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page carries the FSG first-edition statement with no later-printing notation. ISBN 0-374-10520-0; black cloth, roughly 700 pages; first-issue jacket retains the printed price unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/coming-into-the-country-deeper-mcphee-annals-of-the-former-w"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-glass-castle-a-memoir",
   "title": "The Glass Castle: A Memoir",
   "author": "Jeannette Walls",
   "publisher": "Scribner (Simon & Schuster)",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Scribner edition 2005' and carries a full number line counting down to 1, identifying the first printing. ISBN 0-7432-4753-1; first-issue jacket retains the printed price unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-glass-castle-a-memoir"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-heartbreaking-work-of-staggering-genius",
   "title": "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius",
   "author": "Dave Eggers",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states First Edition with a full number line ending in 1; ISBN 0-684-86347-8. First printing carries the original unrevised front matter and the elaborate copyright-page and preface jokes/acknowledgments. Binding is two-tone gray paper over boards with a maroon cloth-backed spine; the first-issue jacket carries the original printed price on the front flap and a scene from the text rather than conventional flap copy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-heartbreaking-work-of-staggering-genius"
  },
  {
   "slug": "all-the-light-we-cannot-see",
   "title": "All the Light We Cannot See",
   "author": "Anthony Doerr",
   "publisher": "Scribner (New York)",
   "year": "2014",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states First Scribner hardcover edition May 2014 with the full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 (including 1). First-issue cloth and jacket carry the original printed price on the front flap. Because the true first had a comparatively modest run before the book became a runaway bestseller, first printings are scarcer than the ubiquitous later printings.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/all-the-light-we-cannot-see"
  },
  {
   "slug": "where-the-crawdads-sing",
   "title": "Where the Crawdads Sing",
   "author": "Delia Owens",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons (US)",
   "year": "2018",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Number line must run to 1. First-issue points: no bestseller or NYT slug/blurb band printed on the front jacket panel, and pale light-blue endpapers. Quarter-bound in orange/red paper boards with a blue paper spine and copper spine lettering. First-issue jacket carries the original printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/where-the-crawdads-sing"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-little-life",
   "title": "A Little Life",
   "author": "Hanya Yanagihara",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (US)",
   "year": "2015",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page reads First Edition with the Doubleday number line including 1 (1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2). The jacket photograph is Peter Hujar's Orgasmic Man (The Peter Hujar Archive, 1987); roughly 720 pages. First-issue jacket carries the original printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-little-life"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-nightingale",
   "title": "The Nightingale",
   "author": "Kristin Hannah",
   "publisher": "St. Martin's Press (US)",
   "year": "2015",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page carries the St. Martin's Press statement and a full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ending in 1. This is the plain first trade printing (published Feb 3, 2015). Do not confuse it with the later deluxe edition, which is stated as a Deluxe Edition and adds a foil-and-embossed jacket, stenciled page edges, a ribbon marker, four-color endpapers, and a gold-foil case stamp.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-nightingale"
  },
  {
   "slug": "homegoing",
   "title": "Homegoing",
   "author": "Yaa Gyasi",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (US)",
   "year": "2016",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states First Edition with the Borzoi (Knopf) colophon; the true first also requires the number line to include 1, since Knopf retains the First Edition statement on later printings while dropping the 1. Octavo, about 305 pages; hardcover ISBN 9781101947135. First-issue jacket carries the original printed price on the front flap. The Powell's Indiespensable slipcased issue with author chapbook is a separate collectible variant, not the trade first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/homegoing"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-help",
   "title": "The Help",
   "author": "Kathryn Stockett",
   "publisher": "Amy Einhorn Books / G.P. Putnam's Sons (US)",
   "year": "2009",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page carries the number line \"1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.\" Cream paper boards with yellow cloth spine and gold spine lettering. First-state color pictorial jacket (Ellen Granter illustration) carries author review blurbs on the rear panel and LACKS any bestseller or deluxe-edition band.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-help"
  },
  {
   "slug": "normal-people",
   "title": "Normal People",
   "author": "Sally Rooney",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "2018",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Faber trade first: copyright page reads \"First published in 2018\" with a full number line down to 1, issued in a dust wrapper, and with NO Man Booker Prize longlist credit on the copyright page (later printings add it). ISBN 9780571334650. Do not confuse the standard jacketed trade first with the simultaneous Waterstones exclusive, which was issued without a dust jacket and in a different binding.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/normal-people"
  },
  {
   "slug": "conversations-with-friends",
   "title": "Conversations with Friends",
   "author": "Sally Rooney",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "2017",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Faber first (May 2017): \"First published in 2017 by Faber & Faber\" on the copyright page with a full number line down to 1. Yellow boards lettered in black to the spine, typographical endpapers, in dust jacket. ISBN 9780571333127. Rooney's debut, with a modest first printing before her breakout.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/conversations-with-friends"
  },
  {
   "slug": "little-fires-everywhere",
   "title": "Little Fires Everywhere",
   "author": "Celeste Ng",
   "publisher": "Penguin Press (US)",
   "year": "2017",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states \"First Edition\" with a full number line down to 1 and the Penguin Press colophon. Published September 12, 2017 (ISBN 9780735224292). First-state jacket without bestseller or Hulu-adaptation banding.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/little-fires-everywhere"
  },
  {
   "slug": "everything-i-never-told-you",
   "title": "Everything I Never Told You",
   "author": "Celeste Ng",
   "publisher": "Penguin Press (US)",
   "year": "2014",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states \"First Edition\" with a full number line down to 1 and the Penguin Press colophon. Ng's debut, published June 26, 2014 (ISBN 9781594205712), with a modest first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/everything-i-never-told-you"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-reluctant-fundamentalist",
   "title": "The Reluctant Fundamentalist",
   "author": "Mohsin Hamid",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (UK)",
   "year": "2007",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Hamish Hamilton first with the number line running down to 1. Issued before the film adaptation; first-state jacket without movie tie-in.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-reluctant-fundamentalist"
  },
  {
   "slug": "americanah",
   "title": "Americanah",
   "author": "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (US)",
   "year": "2013",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states First Edition with the Borzoi (Knopf) colophon and number line. First-state jacket without later award blurbs.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/americanah"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ready-player-one",
   "title": "Ready Player One",
   "author": "Ernest Cline",
   "publisher": "Crown Publishers (US)",
   "year": "2011",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states First Edition with the Crown colophon and a full number line ending in 1. Debut novel; first-state jacket without the New York Times bestseller stripe or any film tie-in.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ready-player-one"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo",
   "title": "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo",
   "author": "Stieg Larsson",
   "publisher": "MacLehose Press / Quercus (UK)",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first English-language edition is the UK MacLehose/Quercus 2008 hardcover (translated by Reg Keeland, a pseudonym of Steven T. Murray), with the number line ending in 1. This precedes the US Knopf edition (2009). UK first-state jacket without bestseller slugs.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo"
  },
  {
   "slug": "my-brilliant-friend-elena-ferrante",
   "title": "My Brilliant Friend",
   "author": "Elena Ferrante (trans. Ann Goldstein)",
   "publisher": "Europa Editions (US)",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition is the Europa Editions trade paperback (25 September 2012), translated by Ann Goldstein, with the edition statement on the copyright page. Europa published it as an original paperback, not a hardcover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/my-brilliant-friend-elena-ferrante"
  },
  {
   "slug": "my-struggle-book-1-a-death-in-the-family",
   "title": "My Struggle: Book 1 (A Death in the Family)",
   "author": "Karl Ove Knausgaard (trans. Don Bartlett)",
   "publisher": "Harvill Secker (UK)",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first English-language edition is the UK Harvill Secker hardcover of 2012, titled A Death in the Family, translated by Don Bartlett, with a full number line down to 1. It was a hardcover original. The US Archipelago edition, titled My Struggle: Book One, did not appear until 2014 and is a separate first-American printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/my-struggle-book-1-a-death-in-the-family"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pachinko",
   "title": "Pachinko",
   "author": "Min Jin Lee",
   "publisher": "Grand Central Publishing (US)",
   "year": "2017",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first printing carries the Grand Central Publishing imprint with a full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page (commonly noting First Edition: February 2017). First-state jacket is without National Book Award finalist or later television tie-in slugs.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pachinko"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sympathizer",
   "title": "The Sympathizer",
   "author": "Viet Thanh Nguyen",
   "publisher": "Grove Press (New York)",
   "year": "2015",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The Grove Press first printing has a full number line including 1 on the copyright page. First-issue binding is black boards with black cloth spine and gilt spine lettering, yellow endpapers, octavo, with the printed price on the jacket flap. Debut novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sympathizer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sellout",
   "title": "The Sellout",
   "author": "Paul Beatty",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York)",
   "year": "2015",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the US Farrar, Straus and Giroux edition of 2015, identified by a full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page. One-piece black binding with red spine lettering, ivory endpapers. First-issue jacket carries no Booker Prize award slug. The UK Oneworld edition (2016) followed.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sellout"
  },
  {
   "slug": "less",
   "title": "Less",
   "author": "Andrew Sean Greer",
   "publisher": "Lee Boudreaux Books / Little, Brown and Company (New York)",
   "year": "2017",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US first published under the Lee Boudreaux Books imprint of Little, Brown. The first printing has the copyright-page edition statement and a full descending number line that includes the 1. Blue paper spine over blue paper-covered boards; first-issue jacket carries the printed price. Published July 2017, before the 2018 Pulitzer.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/less"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-night-circus",
   "title": "The Night Circus",
   "author": "Erin Morgenstern",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (US)",
   "year": "2011",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Doubleday first printing: copyright page states First Edition and carries a number line that includes the 1. Distinctive black, white and red design; debut novel; first-issue jacket carries the printed price and lacks bestseller bands. Published September 2011.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-night-circus"
  },
  {
   "slug": "station-eleven",
   "title": "Station Eleven",
   "author": "Emily St. John Mandel",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (US)",
   "year": "2014",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Knopf first printing: copyright page states First Edition with the Borzoi colophon and a complete number line retaining the 1. Yellow boards with gilt title on a navy spine; this is a Borzoi book. First-issue jacket carries the printed price and lacks National Book Award finalist or television tie-in bands. Published September 2014.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/station-eleven"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cloud-cuckoo-land",
   "title": "Cloud Cuckoo Land",
   "author": "Anthony Doerr",
   "publisher": "Scribner (US)",
   "year": "2021",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Scribner first printing: copyright page reads First Scribner hardcover edition September 2021 with a full number line retaining the 1 and the Scribner colophon. First-issue jacket carries the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cloud-cuckoo-land"
  },
  {
   "slug": "klara-and-the-sun",
   "title": "Klara and the Sun",
   "author": "Kazuo Ishiguro",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "2021",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Faber first printing: copyright page reads First published in 2021 by Faber & Faber, with a number line retaining the 1. Reddish-pink paper-covered boards, spine stamped in black, black endpapers; issued in a Faber-designed dust jacket. Published 2 March 2021.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/klara-and-the-sun"
  },
  {
   "slug": "demon-copperhead",
   "title": "Demon Copperhead",
   "author": "Barbara Kingsolver",
   "publisher": "Harper / HarperCollins (New York)",
   "year": "2022",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Harper (HarperCollins) first: the copyright page states FIRST EDITION and carries a full number line descending to 1; first-issue cloth and jacket carry the printed price; published October 2022. Heavy reprinting followed the book's awards, so true first printings are less common than later states. The number line descending to 1 is the decisive tell.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/demon-copperhead"
  },
  {
   "slug": "trust",
   "title": "Trust",
   "author": "Hernan Diaz",
   "publisher": "Riverhead Books (New York)",
   "year": "2022",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Riverhead first: the copyright page states First Edition and carries a full number line descending to 1; first-issue cloth and jacket carry the printed price; published May 2022. The prize spike drove reprints, so confirm the number line ends in 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/trust"
  },
  {
   "slug": "there-there",
   "title": "There There",
   "author": "Tommy Orange",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (US)",
   "year": "2018",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Knopf first: the copyright page states First Edition and carries the Borzoi (Knopf) colophon with a number line. Debut novel published June 2018; first-state jacket lacks later award and bestseller slugs.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/there-there"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hamnet",
   "title": "Hamnet",
   "author": "Maggie O'Farrell",
   "publisher": "Tinder Press / Headline (UK)",
   "year": "2020",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Tinder Press (Headline) first: First published in 2020 on the copyright page with a number line descending to 1. First-issue jacket carries no Women's Prize seal, which was added after the 2020 win. Note that Waterstones and independent-bookseller exclusive issues exist alongside the standard trade first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hamnet"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-wolf-and-the-dove",
   "title": "The Wolf and the Dove",
   "author": "Kathleen E. Woodiwiss",
   "publisher": "Avon Books",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Avon mass-market paperback original (Woodiwiss's second novel, a Norman-conquest historical). The first Avon printing carries the original cover price and a copyright page with no later-printing statement. Identify the first printing by the absence of any 'Nth printing' line and the period Avon spine logo; later printings are numbered.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-wolf-and-the-dove"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sweet-savage-love",
   "title": "Sweet Savage Love",
   "author": "Rosemary Rogers",
   "publisher": "Avon Books",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Avon mass-market paperback original and Rogers's debut, which together with Woodiwiss's Avon originals launched the historical-romance paperback boom. The first printing shows the original cover price and no later-printing statement on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sweet-savage-love"
  },
  {
   "slug": "outlander",
   "title": "Outlander",
   "author": "Diana Gabaldon",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US first edition published by Delacorte Press, New York, June 1991. The true first printing has the complete number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on the copyright page and the original printed price on the dust-jacket front flap. Jacket art by Kinuko Y. Craft. Original first-printing run was roughly 25,000 copies. Many market copies are later printings with a shortened number line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/outlander"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cross-stitch",
   "title": "Cross Stitch",
   "author": "Diana Gabaldon",
   "publisher": "Century (UK)",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK first edition of the novel published in the US as Outlander. Century (London) hardcover, 1991, with a very small first print run of roughly 2,000 copies and no second printing. Identify by the Century imprint, the Cross Stitch title, the 1991 date with no later-printing statement, and a dust jacket carrying a UK pound price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cross-stitch"
  },
  {
   "slug": "whitney-my-love",
   "title": "Whitney, My Love",
   "author": "Judith McNaught",
   "publisher": "Pocket Books",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pocket Books mass-market paperback original, 1985; a landmark of the 1980s historical-romance revival. The first printing shows the original cover price and a clean copyright page with no later-printing line. The 1985 paperback original precedes the substantially revised later edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/whitney-my-love"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bride",
   "title": "The Bride",
   "author": "Julie Garwood",
   "publisher": "Pocket Books",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pocket Books mass-market paperback original, published 1989 (ISBN 0671670050). The first printing carries the original cover price and no statement of a later printing; Pocket Books (a Simon & Schuster imprint) prints printing-number lines and later-printing notices on subsequent printings, so a first printing shows the lowest number present and no second-printing notice. Among the most-reprinted historical romances, so unread firsts in fine condition are the scarce state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bride"
  },
  {
   "slug": "irish-thoroughbred",
   "title": "Irish Thoroughbred",
   "author": "Nora Roberts",
   "publisher": "Silhouette Books",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Nora Roberts's debut novel. Silhouette Romance #81, a category mass-market paperback original, 1981. The first printing is identified by the Silhouette Romance series number 81, the original cover price, and no later-printing statement. As a disposable category romance intended for roughly one month on sale, surviving fine first printings are genuinely scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/irish-thoroughbred"
  },
  {
   "slug": "frederica",
   "title": "Frederica",
   "author": "Georgette Heyer",
   "publisher": "The Bodley Head (UK)",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK first published by The Bodley Head, London, 1965 (issued September 1965). Identify by the Bodley Head imprint, the 1965 date with no later-impression statement, green cloth boards with gilt titles, and the original illustrated UK dust jacket. Heyer, who effectively founded the Regency romance, is collected in her Bodley Head firsts.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/frederica"
  },
  {
   "slug": "these-old-shades",
   "title": "These Old Shades",
   "author": "Georgette Heyer",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1926",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK first, William Heinemann, London, published 21 October 1926 (first printing of 4,500 copies) — the early Heyer Georgian romance that established her reputation. Identify by the Heinemann imprint, the 1926 date with no later-impression line, and the period binding and dust jacket; jacketed first impressions are very scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/these-old-shades"
  },
  {
   "slug": "westward-the-tide",
   "title": "Westward the Tide",
   "author": "Louis L'Amour",
   "publisher": "World's Work (UK)",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "L'Amour's first full-length novel under his own name, first published in England by World's Work (Kingswood) in 1950. Identify by the World's Work imprint, the 1950 date, and a UK hardcover with dust jacket and no later-impression statement. The novel did not appear in the US until decades later, so the UK hardcover precedes any American edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/westward-the-tide"
  },
  {
   "slug": "warlock",
   "title": "Warlock",
   "author": "Oakley Hall",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The Viking Press, 1958, a literary Western and Pulitzer finalist later championed by Thomas Pynchon. The first edition is bound in quarter white cloth over red paper-covered boards and carries the 1958 date with no later-printing statement. The first-state dust jacket was designed by Milton Glaser and carries its printed price. Identify by the 1958 Viking imprint, the binding, and the priced Glaser jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/warlock"
  },
  {
   "slug": "little-big-man",
   "title": "Little Big Man",
   "author": "Thomas Berger",
   "publisher": "The Dial Press",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The Dial Press, New York, 1964, the basis for the 1970 Arthur Penn and Dustin Hoffman film. The first printing carries the 1964 date with no later-printing statement on the copyright page, is bound in black cloth-backed patterned brown paper boards with map endpapers, and has a first-state dust jacket carrying its printed price. Identify by the 1964 Dial imprint, the absence of any later-printing notice, and the priced jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/little-big-man"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ball-four",
   "title": "Ball Four",
   "author": "Jim Bouton",
   "publisher": "World Publishing Company",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The landmark baseball memoir, edited by Leonard Shecter, published by The World Publishing Company in 1970. The first printing is identified by the statement First Printing dated May 1970 on the copyright page, bound in pale blue cloth with a white pictorial dust jacket carrying its printed price. Identify by the May 1970 first-printing statement and the priced first-state jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ball-four"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-natural",
   "title": "The Natural",
   "author": "Bernard Malamud",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Malamud's debut and a foundational baseball novel. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952, with 'first edition' stated on the copyright page. The book appears in three cloth binding variants (gray, blue, and red) with no established priority among them. First-state dust jacket carries the printed price and the original baseball-themed art. Basis for the 1984 Redford film.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-natural"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sweet-science",
   "title": "The Sweet Science",
   "author": "A. J. Liebling",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The Viking Press, 1956 - the most acclaimed boxing book, drawn largely from Liebling's New Yorker pieces. First edition is the 1956 Viking issue with the Viking colophon, no later-printing statement, and a first-state dust jacket carrying the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sweet-science"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-fans-notes",
   "title": "A Fan's Notes",
   "author": "Frederick Exley",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Harper & Row, 1968 - subtitled 'A Fictional Memoir' and centered on football fandom; the author's first book. The first printing has 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page; the Harper code '1-S' (copyright page) with '0968' on the jacket flap indicates September 1968. First-state jacket carries the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-fans-notes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "just-kids",
   "title": "Just Kids",
   "author": "Patti Smith",
   "publisher": "Ecco (HarperCollins)",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ecco (an imprint of HarperCollins), 2010. National Book Award winner. The first printing has 'FIRST EDITION' stated with the full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page and the printed price on the front jacket flap; publisher's blindstamped cloth with a photographic jacket designed by Allison Saltzman. Later printings break the number line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/just-kids"
  },
  {
   "slug": "easy-riders-raging-bulls",
   "title": "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls",
   "author": "Peter Biskind",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Simon & Schuster, New York, 1998 — the definitive New Hollywood history. First edition, first printing with the number line ending in 1 and the original priced dust jacket. A cornerstone collected film book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/easy-riders-raging-bulls"
  },
  {
   "slug": "picture",
   "title": "Picture",
   "author": "Lillian Ross",
   "publisher": "Rinehart & Company",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Rinehart & Company, 1952 — the pioneering fly-on-the-wall account of the making of John Huston's 'The Red Badge of Courage,' a landmark film/nonfiction book. First edition with the 1952 Rinehart imprint, no later-printing statement, and the original priced dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/picture"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hollywood-babylon",
   "title": "Hollywood Babylon",
   "author": "Kenneth Anger",
   "publisher": "J. J. Pauvert (Paris)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first was published in France by J. J. Pauvert, Paris, in 1959 in French (as 'Hollywood Babylone'), in plain wraps with a photo-illustrated jacket. The first English-language US edition (Associated Professional Services, 1965) was suppressed and withdrawn; the first authorized US edition did not appear until Straight Arrow Books, 1975. Identify the genuine true first by the 1959 Paris Pauvert imprint and French text.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hollywood-babylon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-devil-wears-prada",
   "title": "The Devil Wears Prada",
   "author": "Lauren Weisberger",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday, 2003. The first edition states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with the full number line ending in 1, and carries the original priced dust jacket. The author's debut and a defining commercial high spot.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-devil-wears-prada"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bridget-joness-diary",
   "title": "Bridget Jones's Diary",
   "author": "Helen Fielding",
   "publisher": "Picador (UK)",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK first edition by Picador, London, 1996, in hardcover (ISBN 0-330-33276-7). Identified by the Picador imprint, the full number line ending in 1, and the original UK priced dust jacket. The founding text of modern 'chick lit.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bridget-joness-diary"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-notebook",
   "title": "The Notebook",
   "author": "Nicholas Sparks",
   "publisher": "Warner Books",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Warner Books, 1996, Sparks's debut novel. The true first printing states 'First Printing: October 1996' on the copyright page with a full descending number line. First-state dust jacket carries the printed retail price on the front flap. Octavo, cream boards with gray cloth spine, 214 pages. Scarce in fine first printing, especially signed.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-notebook"
  },
  {
   "slug": "it-ends-with-us",
   "title": "It Ends with Us",
   "author": "Colleen Hoover",
   "publisher": "Atria Books (Simon & Schuster)",
   "year": "2016",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Atria Books, 2016, issued as a trade paperback original with no simultaneous hardcover at publication. The true first is the Atria trade paperback dated August 2, 2016, with the copyright page noting the first Atria paperback edition and a full number line ending in 1 (ISBN 9781501110368, 367 pages). The defining BookTok-era romance.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/it-ends-with-us"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-witching-hour",
   "title": "The Witching Hour",
   "author": "Anne Rice",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf, 1990, launch of the Lives of the Mayfair Witches. The first edition states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page with the Borzoi colophon. First-state dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap. Half black cloth, roughly 965 pages. (Rice's 'Interview with the Vampire' is a separate, already-indexed title.)",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-witching-hour"
  },
  {
   "slug": "outlander-signed-limited",
   "title": "Outlander (signed/limited)",
   "author": "Diana Gabaldon",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press (US) / Century (UK, as Cross Stitch)",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Gabaldon's debut appeared in 1991 under two titles: Delacorte issued it in the US as Outlander, while Century issued it in the UK (and Australia/New Zealand) as Cross Stitch in a small print run. Beyond the trade first, collectors track signed first printings and the scarce advance states: a US uncorrected proof / advance reading copy in printed wrappers, and a UK Cross Stitch uncorrected proof reported in a numbered limitation of about 250 copies. Proofs are wrappered, never jacketed hardcovers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/outlander-signed-limited"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-thorn-birds",
   "title": "The Thorn Birds",
   "author": "Colleen McCullough",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Harper & Row, New York, 1977 (published in May). The first edition carries Harper's 'FIRST EDITION' statement on the copyright page with no later-printing line, and the first-state dust jacket is price-clipped only if later altered, otherwise showing the original printed price. Heavily reprinted as a number-one bestseller.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-thorn-birds"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lonesome-dove-signed-limited-note",
   "title": "Lonesome Dove (signed/limited note)",
   "author": "Larry McMurtry",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trade first is Simon & Schuster, 1985, with 'First Edition' and a complete number line beginning at 1 on the copyright page and the original printed jacket price. The deeper collectible layer is the signed first printing and the scarce advance uncorrected proof, which is bound in bright yellow printed wrappers with the title on cover and spine. The text carries 'none' for 'done' at page 621, but because that reading persisted into much later printings it is not by itself a reliable first-edition point.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lonesome-dove-signed-limited-note"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lord-of-scoundrels",
   "title": "Lord of Scoundrels",
   "author": "Loretta Chase",
   "publisher": "Avon Books",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Avon mass-market paperback original, published January 1995. The first printing is identified by the original printed cover price and a clean copyright page with no later-printing statement, in the period Avon binding and spine logo of the mid-1990s.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lord-of-scoundrels"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-age-of-innocence",
   "title": "The Age of Innocence",
   "author": "Edith Wharton",
   "publisher": "D. Appleton and Company (New York)",
   "year": "1920",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Title page dated in Roman numerals MCMXX, copyright 1920. The definitive first-printing point is a parenthetical (1) printed before THE END on the last page of text, Appleton's house code for the first printing. A second, corroborating point appears on page 186, line 7: in first printings the wedding-service line reads 'Forasmuch as it hath please Almighty God'; later printings (as early as the fourth) change it to 'Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here.' Orange/red cloth; first-issue dust jacket shows a small Victorian child after the Reynolds painting.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-age-of-innocence"
  },
  {
   "slug": "years-of-grace",
   "title": "Years of Grace",
   "author": "Margaret Ayer Barnes",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston)",
   "year": "1930",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Houghton Mifflin first printing: title page dated 1930 with no later-printing statement on the copyright page. The absence of the 1930 date on the title page disqualifies a copy as a first printing. Cloth binding in a first-issue jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/years-of-grace"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-good-earth",
   "title": "The Good Earth",
   "author": "Pearl S. Buck",
   "publisher": "John Day Company (New York)",
   "year": "1931",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First issue has the misprint flees for fleas on page 100, line 17, present in the earliest printings before correction. Copyright page carries the John Day Company imprint with no later-printing reference, in a first-issue jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-good-earth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-yearling",
   "title": "The Yearling",
   "author": "Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1938",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The Scribner first printing carries the letter A on the copyright page with the Scribner seal beneath it; that A plus seal is the definitive point. Publisher's cream linen over boards, front cover decorated and titled in green, spine lettered in green. Chapter headings and title-page vignette by Edward Shenton. First-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-yearling"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dragons-teeth",
   "title": "Dragon's Teeth",
   "author": "Upton Sinclair",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press (New York)",
   "year": "1942",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The copyright page states First Published in January 1942 with no later printings indicated. Red cloth with silver lettering and a silver ship design on the front cover; viii plus 631 pages. First-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap. Second of the Lanny Budd series.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dragons-teeth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tales-of-the-south-pacific",
   "title": "Tales of the South Pacific",
   "author": "James A. Michener",
   "publisher": "The Macmillan Company (New York)",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Macmillan first printing with no statement of a later printing on the copyright page; first-issue cloth binding. The debut had a small first printing, making the true first and an intact first-issue dust jacket carrying the printed price genuinely scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tales-of-the-south-pacific"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-caine-mutiny",
   "title": "The Caine Mutiny",
   "author": "Herman Wouk",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company (Garden City, NY)",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday first states 'First Edition' on the copyright page (no number line in this era); the first edition, second impression lacks the 'First Edition' statement. Blue cloth with illustrated endpapers; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed price. A finer jacket point: the first-issue rear panel reads 'The City Boy' (an earlier Wouk title), while the later jacket state reads 'City Boy.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-caine-mutiny"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-fable",
   "title": "A Fable",
   "author": "William Faulkner",
   "publisher": "Random House (New York)",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "A signed, numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies (in publisher's blue cloth, dark blue top edge, slipcased) precedes the trade edition and is the true first issue. The trade first edition states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page (Random House practice in this era; the statement is removed on later printings) and is in blue cloth with crosses stamped on the boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-fable"
  },
  {
   "slug": "andersonville",
   "title": "Andersonville",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "The World Publishing Company (Cleveland and New York)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "World Publishing trade first: copyright page carries a 'FIRST EDITION' statement. Thick octavo of roughly 767 pages in cloth, in a first-issue jacket that carries the printed retail price on the front flap. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1956.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/andersonville"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-travels-of-jaimie-mcpheeters",
   "title": "The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters",
   "author": "Robert Lewis Taylor",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company (Garden City, NY)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday first: 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with no later-printing line. Cloth in a first-issue jacket carrying the printed price on the front flap; illustrated/map endpapers. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1959.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-travels-of-jaimie-mcpheeters"
  },
  {
   "slug": "advise-and-consent",
   "title": "Advise and Consent",
   "author": "Allen Drury",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company (Garden City, NY)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday first: 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with no later-printing line; an early gutter code (C6) appears on the last text page. Gray cloth stamped in gold and blue, in a first-issue jacket carrying the printed price and the Doubleday imprint on the spine. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/advise-and-consent"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-keepers-of-the-house",
   "title": "The Keepers of the House",
   "author": "Shirley Ann Grau",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf first edition has FIRST EDITION stated on the copyright page, with the Borzoi device. First-issue cloth and dust jacket. Won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-keepers-of-the-house"
  },
  {
   "slug": "collected-stories-of-katherine-anne-porter",
   "title": "Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter",
   "author": "Katherine Anne Porter",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace & World (New York)",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Harcourt, Brace & World first edition is identified by the publisher's first-edition letter code on the copyright page, in first-issue cloth and jacket. Won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A Jonathan Cape (London) edition appeared in 1964.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/collected-stories-of-katherine-anne-porter"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-fixer",
   "title": "The Fixer",
   "author": "Bernard Malamud",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York)",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "FSG first edition has 'First printing, 1966' stated on the copyright page with no later printings listed, in first-issue cloth and jacket bearing the printed price. Won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-fixer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-confessions-of-nat-turner",
   "title": "The Confessions of Nat Turner",
   "author": "William Styron",
   "publisher": "Random House (New York)",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House first edition has First Edition stated on the copyright page (Random House of this era used the statement without a number line), in first-issue cloth and jacket bearing the printed price with a 10/67 dating code on the front flap. A separate signed limited edition also exists. Won the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-confessions-of-nat-turner"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-collected-stories-of-jean-stafford",
   "title": "The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford",
   "author": "Jean Stafford",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York)",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "FSG first edition has 'First printing, 1969' stated on the copyright page, in first-issue purple cloth and first-issue jacket (jacket design by Guy Fleming) bearing the printed price. Won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-collected-stories-of-jean-stafford"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-optimists-daughter",
   "title": "The Optimist's Daughter",
   "author": "Eudora Welty",
   "publisher": "Random House (New York)",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House first edition has First Edition stated on the copyright page, in first-issue cloth and jacket bearing the printed price. A signed limited edition of 300 numbered copies (signed by Welty at the limitation, in a publisher's slipcase) was issued and precedes the trade. Won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-optimists-daughter"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-killer-angels",
   "title": "The Killer Angels",
   "author": "Michael Shaara",
   "publisher": "David McKay Company (New York)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "David McKay 1974 first printing: the copyright page carries no later-printing statement or number line indicating a subsequent printing. The first-issue dust jacket retains the original printed price on the front flap. A notoriously scarce true first; the first printing is genuinely uncommon, so confirm the copyright page shows no later-printing line and the jacket is the first-issue priced state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-killer-angels"
  },
  {
   "slug": "elbow-room",
   "title": "Elbow Room",
   "author": "James Alan McPherson",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company (Boston)",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Little, Brown 1977 first printing: copyright page states 'First Edition' with the 'Published' line dated 1977 and no number line (Little, Brown of this era used a stated-edition method, not a number line). First-issue green cloth in priced jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/elbow-room"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-summons-to-memphis",
   "title": "A Summons to Memphis",
   "author": "Peter Taylor",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf 1986 first printing: copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION'; Borzoi device present; first-issue pale-yellow boards quarter-bound in black cloth with gilt spine lettering and the author's gilt initials to the front board, in priced jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-summons-to-memphis"
  },
  {
   "slug": "breathing-lessons",
   "title": "Breathing Lessons",
   "author": "Anne Tyler",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf first printing: 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page with the Borzoi/Knopf device; issued in cloth-and-boards binding with the dust jacket carrying the printed retail price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/breathing-lessons"
  },
  {
   "slug": "olive-kitteridge",
   "title": "Olive Kitteridge",
   "author": "Elizabeth Strout",
   "publisher": "Random House (New York)",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House first printing has 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page together with a full descending number line ending in 1. The first-issue cloth and dust jacket carry the printed jacket price on the flap. The decisive tell is the combination of the 'First Edition' statement and the 1 in the number line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/olive-kitteridge"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-orphan-masters-son",
   "title": "The Orphan Master's Son",
   "author": "Adam Johnson",
   "publisher": "Random House (New York)",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House first printing has 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with a full descending number line ending in 1. The first-issue cloth and jacket carry the printed jacket price. The number line ending in 1 is the decisive point.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-orphan-masters-son"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-night-watchman",
   "title": "The Night Watchman",
   "author": "Louise Erdrich",
   "publisher": "Harper / HarperCollins (New York)",
   "year": "2020",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Harper (HarperCollins) first printing has 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page with a full number line ending in 1 (an 'LSC' printer code appears in the line). The first-issue jacket carries the printed price and, importantly, does NOT mention the Pulitzer Prize; jackets noting the Pulitzer are later printings. The number line ending in 1 plus a Pulitzer-free jacket are the decisive points.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-night-watchman"
  },
  {
   "slug": "night-watch",
   "title": "Night Watch",
   "author": "Jayne Anne Phillips",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "2023",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf first printing has 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page (Knopf firsts state the edition rather than carry a number line ending in 1). The Borzoi device is present and the first-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap. Published September 2023. The 'FIRST EDITION' statement is the decisive point.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/night-watch"
  },
  {
   "slug": "james",
   "title": "James",
   "author": "Percival Everett",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "2024",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with a full number line ending in '1'; ISBN 9780385550369; black paper-covered boards. First-issue dust jacket carries the printed price and no later-printing line. The book reprinted heavily and quickly, so true first printings are comparatively scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/james"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gravitys-rainbow-notable-pulitzer-finalist-no-1974-award",
   "title": "Gravity's Rainbow (notable Pulitzer finalist, no 1974 award)",
   "author": "Thomas Pynchon",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press (New York)",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Notable finalist: the 1974 Pulitzer fiction jury recommended 'Gravity's Rainbow' but the advisory board declined to make an award, so no Fiction Pulitzer was given for 1974. Viking issued the book simultaneously in 1973 as a hardcover (4,000 copies) and a Viking Compass trade paperback (16,000 copies). The first-issue hardcover dust jacket shows the printed price at upper right and the code '0273' at lower right of the front flap; the first paperback is Viking Compass C 374 with the printed price and 'SBN 670-00374-3' on the lower back cover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gravitys-rainbow-notable-pulitzer-finalist-no-1974-award"
  },
  {
   "slug": "something-to-answer-for",
   "title": "Something to Answer For",
   "author": "P. H. Newby",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Faber & Faber 1968. 'First published in mcmlxviii' (1968) on the verso with no later impression statement; original boards in dust jacket. Front-flap price of 30 shillings (£1.50). Won the inaugural Booker Prize (awarded 1969 for 1968 publication).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/something-to-answer-for"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-elected-member",
   "title": "The Elected Member",
   "author": "Bernice Rubens",
   "publisher": "Eyre & Spottiswoode (London)",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition 1969, Eyre & Spottiswoode. 'First published 1969' on the verso with no additional printings stated. Original cloth in dust jacket. Won the 1970 Booker Prize; Rubens was the first woman to win.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-elected-member"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-a-free-state",
   "title": "In a Free State",
   "author": "V. S. Naipaul",
   "publisher": "André Deutsch (London)",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, André Deutsch 1971. 'First published 1971' on the verso; original boards, dust jacket with price. Won the 1971 Booker Prize. Some first issues were supplied with a promotional wraparound band.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-a-free-state"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-siege-of-krishnapur",
   "title": "The Siege of Krishnapur",
   "author": "J. G. Farrell",
   "publisher": "Weidenfeld & Nicolson (London)",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1973. 'First published in Great Britain in 1973' on the verso, no later impression statement. Original cloth, dust jacket with price. Won the 1973 Booker Prize; the central volume of the Empire Trilogy and the most collected.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-siege-of-krishnapur"
  },
  {
   "slug": "holiday",
   "title": "Holiday",
   "author": "Stanley Middleton",
   "publisher": "Hutchinson (London)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Hutchinson, London, 1974. 'First published 1974' stated on the copyright page (verso of the title leaf), with no later impression line. Original boards in dust jacket. Co-winner of the 1974 Booker Prize, shared with Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/holiday"
  },
  {
   "slug": "heat-and-dust",
   "title": "Heat and Dust",
   "author": "Ruth Prawer Jhabvala",
   "publisher": "John Murray (London)",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, John Murray, London, 1975. 'First published 1975' stated on the copyright page, with no later impression line. Original cloth in dust jacket; some copies retain the Booker Prize promotional wraparound band. Winner of the 1975 Booker Prize.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/heat-and-dust"
  },
  {
   "slug": "saville",
   "title": "Saville",
   "author": "David Storey",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Jonathan Cape, London, 1976. 'First published 1976' stated on the copyright page. Original cloth-backed boards in dust jacket (jacket art by Tom Adams). Winner of the 1976 Booker Prize.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/saville"
  },
  {
   "slug": "staying-on",
   "title": "Staying On",
   "author": "Paul Scott",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, William Heinemann, London, 1977. 'First published 1977' stated on the copyright page, with no later impression line. Original boards in dust jacket. Winner of the 1977 Booker Prize; coda to the Raj Quartet.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/staying-on"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rites-of-passage",
   "title": "Rites of Passage",
   "author": "William Golding",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (London)",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Faber & Faber, London, 1980. 'First published in 1980' stated on the copyright page with no later impression line. Dark blue-green paper-covered boards, titles gilt on spine; first-issue dust jacket priced 5.95 net (unclipped). Winner of the 1980 Booker Prize.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/rites-of-passage"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-old-devils",
   "title": "The Old Devils",
   "author": "Kingsley Amis",
   "publisher": "Hutchinson (London)",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Hutchinson, London, 1986. 'First published 1986' on the verso of the title page with no later printings indicated. Original boards in dust jacket priced £9.95 net on the front flap. Won the 1986 Booker Prize.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-old-devils"
  },
  {
   "slug": "moon-tiger",
   "title": "Moon Tiger",
   "author": "Penelope Lively",
   "publisher": "André Deutsch (London)",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, André Deutsch, London, 1987. 'First published 1987' on the verso of the title page with no later impression noted. Publisher's blue cloth boards in dust jacket priced £9.95 on the front flap; jacket artwork by Jenny Tylden-Wright. Won the 1987 Booker Prize.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/moon-tiger"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sacred-hunger",
   "title": "Sacred Hunger",
   "author": "Barry Unsworth",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1992. 'First published 1992' on the verso of the title page. Original boards in dust jacket priced £14.99 on the front flap. Co-winner of the 1992 Booker Prize (shared with Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sacred-hunger"
  },
  {
   "slug": "how-late-it-was-how-late",
   "title": "How Late It Was, How Late",
   "author": "James Kelman",
   "publisher": "Secker & Warburg (London)",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Secker & Warburg, London, 1994. 'First published 1994' on the verso of the title page. Original boards in pictorial dust jacket priced £14.99 on the front flap; jacket designed by Colum Leith. Won the 1994 Booker Prize (a controversial decision).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/how-late-it-was-how-late"
  },
  {
   "slug": "vernon-god-little",
   "title": "Vernon God Little",
   "author": "DBC Pierre",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Faber and Faber, London, 2003. 'First published in 2003' on the verso of the title page with a full number line ending in 1 on the true first printing. Original boards in dust jacket priced £12.99 on the front flap. Author's debut novel; won the 2003 Booker Prize.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/vernon-god-little"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-line-of-beauty",
   "title": "The Line of Beauty",
   "author": "Alan Hollinghurst",
   "publisher": "Picador (London)",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Picador, London, 2004. 'First published 2004 by Picador' on the copyright page with a full number line descending to 1. Original boards in unclipped dust jacket priced 16.99 pounds. Winner of the 2004 Booker Prize.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-line-of-beauty"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-finkler-question",
   "title": "The Finkler Question",
   "author": "Howard Jacobson",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury (London)",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Bloomsbury, London, 2010. 'First published in Great Britain 2010' on the copyright page with a full number line descending to 1. Publisher's cloth in unclipped dust jacket priced 18.99 pounds. Winner of the 2010 Booker Prize.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-finkler-question"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-narrow-road-to-the-deep-north",
   "title": "The Narrow Road to the Deep North",
   "author": "Richard Flanagan",
   "publisher": "Vintage Australia / Random House Australia",
   "year": "2013",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the Australian edition (Vintage / Random House Australia), 2013, which preceded the 2014 UK Chatto & Windus and US Knopf editions. The Australian first appeared in 2013 ahead of the prize; the prize-publicised UK Chatto first of 2014 is also collected. Winner of the 2014 Booker Prize.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-narrow-road-to-the-deep-north"
  },
  {
   "slug": "milkman",
   "title": "Milkman",
   "author": "Anna Burns",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "2018",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Faber & Faber, London, 2018. 'First published in 2018 by Faber & Faber' on the copyright page with a number line descending to 1 on the first printing. Original boards in unclipped dust jacket priced 14.99 pounds; first-state jacket precedes the Booker win. Winner of the 2018 Booker Prize.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/milkman"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-testaments",
   "title": "The Testaments",
   "author": "Margaret Atwood",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (London) / McClelland & Stewart (Toronto)",
   "year": "2019",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Near-simultaneous worldwide release in September 2019: Canada (McClelland & Stewart), UK (Chatto & Windus), and US (Nan A. Talese / Doubleday). First printings carry a number line descending to 1 or a 'First Edition' statement as appropriate to the imprint. Co-winner of the 2019 Booker Prize, shared with Bernardine Evaristo. Signed and special launch editions were issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-testaments"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-seven-moons-of-maali-almeida",
   "title": "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida",
   "author": "Shehan Karunatilaka",
   "publisher": "Sort of Books (London)",
   "year": "2022",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Sort of Books, 4 August 2022, with 'First published by Sort of Books 2022' on the verso and a number line ending in 1 on the first printing; original boards in dust jacket. The US W. W. Norton edition followed in 2022. 2022 Booker winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-seven-moons-of-maali-almeida"
  },
  {
   "slug": "prophet-song",
   "title": "Prophet Song",
   "author": "Paul Lynch",
   "publisher": "Oneworld (London)",
   "year": "2023",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Oneworld Publications 2023, with 'First published in Great Britain by Oneworld Publications 2023' on the verso and a number line ending in 1 on the first printing; original boards in dust jacket, first-state jacket without a Booker band. 2023 Booker winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/prophet-song"
  },
  {
   "slug": "flesh",
   "title": "Flesh",
   "author": "David Szalay",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2025",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Jonathan Cape 2025, with 'First published by Jonathan Cape 2025' on the verso and a number line ending in 1 on the first printing; original boards in dust jacket, first-state jacket without a Booker band. The US Scribner edition appeared 1 April 2025; a Canadian McClelland & Stewart edition also appeared in 2025. 2025 Booker winner, announced 10 November 2025.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/flesh"
  },
  {
   "slug": "flights",
   "title": "Flights",
   "author": "Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Jennifer Croft)",
   "publisher": "Fitzcarraldo Editions (London)",
   "year": "2017",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, Fitzcarraldo Editions 2017 (Jennifer Croft's translation of 'Bieguni'), in Fitzcarraldo's signature blue flexible card wrappers with french-fold flaps (paperback original, no dust jacket), with 'First published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2017' on the verso. The US Riverhead hardcover followed in 2018. 2018 International Booker Prize winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/flights"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tomb-of-sand",
   "title": "Tomb of Sand",
   "author": "Geetanjali Shree (trans. Daisy Rockwell)",
   "publisher": "Tilted Axis Press (London)",
   "year": "2021",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, Tilted Axis Press, London, 26 August 2021 (translation of the Hindi 'Ret Samadhi'). Paperback original; the verso states 'First published in 2021 by Tilted Axis Press.' ISBN 9781911284611. Winner of the 2022 International Booker Prize — the first work translated from Hindi, and the first in any Indian language, to win.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tomb-of-sand"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-vegetarian",
   "title": "The Vegetarian",
   "author": "Han Kang (trans. Deborah Smith)",
   "publisher": "Portobello Books (London)",
   "year": "2015",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, Portobello Books, London, 2015 (translation of the Korean original). Issued in original boards with dust jacket; the verso carries the 'First published by Portobello Books 2015' statement. The US edition (Hogarth) followed in 2016. Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. Han Kang's 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature sharply raised demand.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-vegetarian"
  },
  {
   "slug": "kairos",
   "title": "Kairos",
   "author": "Jenny Erpenbeck (trans. Michael Hofmann)",
   "publisher": "Granta (London) / New Directions (New York)",
   "year": "2023",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition (translation of the German 'Kairos'): Granta, London, published 1 June 2023, narrowly preceding New Directions, New York, 6 June 2023. Both carry a dated 'first published 2023' verso statement. Winner of the 2024 International Booker Prize. Hofmann translation.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/kairos"
  },
  {
   "slug": "heart-lamp",
   "title": "Heart Lamp",
   "author": "Banu Mushtaq (trans. Deepa Bhasthi)",
   "publisher": "And Other Stories (Sheffield/London)",
   "year": "2025",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition of this English collection, full title 'Heart Lamp: Selected Stories,' And Other Stories, 2025 (twelve Kannada stories, Bhasthi translation). Paperback original; the verso carries the dated 'first published by And Other Stories 2025' statement. ISBN 9781916751163. Winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize — the first short-story collection and the first work translated from Kannada to win, and And Other Stories' first win.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/heart-lamp"
  },
  {
   "slug": "at-night-all-blood-is-black",
   "title": "At Night All Blood Is Black",
   "author": "David Diop (trans. Anna Moschovakis)",
   "publisher": "Pushkin Press (London) / Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York)",
   "year": "2020",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition (translation of the French 'Frere d'ame'): Pushkin Press, London, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, both 2020. Each carries a dated 'first published 2020' verso statement. Winner of the 2021 International Booker Prize; Moschovakis translation.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/at-night-all-blood-is-black"
  },
  {
   "slug": "time-shelter",
   "title": "Time Shelter",
   "author": "Georgi Gospodinov (trans. Angela Rodel)",
   "publisher": "Weidenfeld & Nicolson (London) / Liveright (New York)",
   "year": "2022",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition (translation of the Bulgarian 'Vremeubezhishte'): Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, and Liveright, New York, both May 2022. Each carries a dated 'first published 2022' verso statement. Winner of the 2023 International Booker Prize — the first Bulgarian-language work to win; Rodel translation.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/time-shelter"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-discomfort-of-evening",
   "title": "The Discomfort of Evening",
   "author": "Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (trans. Michele Hutchison)",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London) / Graywolf Press (Minneapolis)",
   "year": "2020",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, Faber and Faber (UK), published 5 March 2020, translating the Dutch 'De avond is ongemak'. Paperback original with full number line beginning 1 to the copyright page. A useful first-printing point: the true first printing has NO mention of the International Booker Prize on the front cover; later printings (same ISBN) add the prize reference. Winner of the 2020 International Booker Prize, shared by author and translator.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-discomfort-of-evening"
  },
  {
   "slug": "celestial-bodies",
   "title": "Celestial Bodies",
   "author": "Jokha Alharthi (trans. Marilyn Booth)",
   "publisher": "Sandstone Press (Dingwall, Scotland)",
   "year": "2018",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, Sandstone Press, June 2018, translating the Arabic 'Sayyidat al-Qamar'. Number line to 1; original wrappers. A first-printing point: the true first printing has no Man Booker International logo on the front cover (later printings add prize references). Winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize — the first Arabic-language work to win.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/celestial-bodies"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-remains-of-the-day-us-first-knopf",
   "title": "The Remains of the Day (US first, Knopf)",
   "author": "Kazuo Ishiguro",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US first edition, Alfred A. Knopf, published 4 October 1989. 'First American Edition' stated on the copyright page. Grey boards with blue cloth spine and silver foil lettering, top edge tinted red; dust jacket carries the printed front-flap price. This US printing FOLLOWS the UK Faber first edition (spring 1989) and is included so US-first copies are not mistaken for the true first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-remains-of-the-day-us-first-knopf"
  },
  {
   "slug": "waiting-for-godot-en-attendant-godot",
   "title": "Waiting for Godot (En attendant Godot)",
   "author": "Samuel Beckett",
   "publisher": "Les Editions de Minuit (Paris)",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "nobel-literature",
   "firstEditionPoints": "French first edition in printed wrappers, with the 'acheve d'imprimer' dated 1952 in plain Minuit typographic wrappers. This French original is the true world-first; do not conflate it with any English-language edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/waiting-for-godot-en-attendant-godot"
  },
  {
   "slug": "doktor-zhivago-doctor-zhivago",
   "title": "Doktor Zhivago (Doctor Zhivago)",
   "author": "Boris Pasternak",
   "publisher": "Feltrinelli (Milan)",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "nobel-literature",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True world-first is the Italian translation 'Il dottor Zivago', Feltrinelli, Milan, November 1957 — the first appearance anywhere, as the novel could not be published in the USSR. The first Russian-language printing is the 1958 Mouton (The Hague) edition, distinguished by a two-page preface dated 1 August 1958, a higher page count than the Milan edition, and varying paper stocks tied to its clandestine production.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/doktor-zhivago-doctor-zhivago"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-tin-drum-die-blechtrommel",
   "title": "The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel)",
   "author": "Günter Grass",
   "publisher": "Hermann Luchterhand Verlag (Neuwied/Berlin)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "nobel-literature",
   "firstEditionPoints": "German first edition, Luchterhand 1959, in publisher's cloth (beige cloth with red lettering) and the original dust jacket reproducing Grass's own drawing of the boy Oskar with his drum, a design Grass created himself. The first printing carries no later impression or 'Auflage' statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-tin-drum-die-blechtrommel"
  },
  {
   "slug": "blindness-ensaio-sobre-a-cegueira",
   "title": "Blindness (Ensaio sobre a cegueira)",
   "author": "José Saramago",
   "publisher": "Editorial Caminho (Lisbon)",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "nobel-literature",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Portuguese first edition, Editorial Caminho, Lisbon, 1995, in printed wrappers, stated as the first edition with a 1995 colophon and no later edition statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/blindness-ensaio-sobre-a-cegueira"
  },
  {
   "slug": "snow-country-yukiguni",
   "title": "Snow Country (Yukiguni)",
   "author": "Yasunari Kawabata",
   "publisher": "Sōgensha (Tokyo)",
   "year": "1937",
   "genre": "nobel-literature",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Japanese first edition in book form, Sōgensha, Tokyo, June 1937, collecting the work that had been serialized across literary journals from 1935 to 1937 (with Kawabata revising the journal texts for this 'complete' 1937 book). Identified by the 1937 colophon and original obi/slipcase where present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/snow-country-yukiguni"
  },
  {
   "slug": "one-day-in-the-life-of-ivan-denisovich-odin-den-ivana-deniso",
   "title": "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Odin den Ivana Denisovicha)",
   "author": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn",
   "publisher": "First in Novy Mir journal, No. 11 (Moscow); first separate book edition Sovetsky Pisatel (Moscow)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "nobel-literature",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first appearance is in the Soviet literary journal Novy Mir, No. 11, November 1962 (issue dated November 1962, released around November 20). The work appeared there before any separate book form; collectors prize that journal issue in its original printed wrappers. The first separate book edition followed from Sovetsky Pisatel in 1963.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/one-day-in-the-life-of-ivan-denisovich-odin-den-ivana-deniso"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-plague-la-peste",
   "title": "The Plague (La Peste)",
   "author": "Albert Camus",
   "publisher": "Éditions Gallimard (Paris)",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "nobel-literature",
   "firstEditionPoints": "French first, Gallimard, 1947, in printed wrappers, with the achevé d'imprimer dated May 1947. A tiered grand-papier issue precedes the ordinary trade copies: a small number on Japon imperial, then on Hollande, then 215 numbered copies on vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre, ahead of the much larger alfa Navarre printing. The ordinary trade copies carry the 1947 achevé d'imprimer with no later reprint statement; service de presse copies lack the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-plague-la-peste"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-buddenbrooks-buddenbrooks-verfall-einer-familie",
   "title": "The Buddenbrooks (Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie)",
   "author": "Thomas Mann",
   "publisher": "S. Fischer Verlag (Berlin)",
   "year": "1901",
   "genre": "nobel-literature",
   "firstEditionPoints": "German first edition, S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin, 1901, issued in two volumes (566 and 539 pages, text in Fraktur), in publisher's decorated cloth over beveled boards. The two-volume 1901 issue is the true first; Mann's debut novel and the work specifically cited by the Nobel committee. Referenced in the standard Mann bibliographies (Bürgin; Wilpert/Gühring).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-buddenbrooks-buddenbrooks-verfall-einer-familie"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gitanjali",
   "title": "Gitanjali",
   "author": "Rabindranath Tagore",
   "publisher": "The India Society (London)",
   "year": "1912",
   "genre": "nobel-literature",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first English edition: Gitanjali (Song Offerings), The India Society, London, 1912, printed at the Chiswick Press. A limited edition of 750 copies (of which 250 were for sale), the limitation so stated on the verso of the title page, with W. B. Yeats's introduction dated September 1912. Published November 1912, preceding the 1913 Macmillan trade edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gitanjali"
  },
  {
   "slug": "my-name-is-red-benim-ad-m-k-rm-z",
   "title": "My Name Is Red (Benim Adım Kırmızı)",
   "author": "Orhan Pamuk",
   "publisher": "İletişim Yayınları (Istanbul)",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "nobel-literature",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Turkish first edition, İletişim Yayınları, Istanbul, 1998, in printed wrappers. The first printing carries a '1. baskı' (first printing) statement in the colophon with no later printing ('baskı') number; Turkish trade books of this period are issued as paperbacks and reprints add successively higher baskı numbers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/my-name-is-red-benim-ad-m-k-rm-z"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-world-according-to-garp",
   "title": "The World According to Garp",
   "author": "John Irving",
   "publisher": "E.P. Dutton",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Full number line '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' present; navy cloth-backed boards with gilt spine; navy dust jacket printed in gold and red, carrying the printed price and '0478' on the rear panel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-world-according-to-garp"
  },
  {
   "slug": "plains-song-for-female-voices",
   "title": "Plains Song: For Female Voices",
   "author": "Wright Morris",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition stated on the copyright page with no later-printing indicator; Harper & Row imprint; dust jacket priced on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/plains-song-for-female-voices"
  },
  {
   "slug": "victory-over-japan-a-book-of-stories",
   "title": "Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories",
   "author": "Ellen Gilchrist",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition stated on the copyright page with the full number line present; Little, Brown imprint; dust jacket priced on the front flap. Some copies show a first-state jacket bearing praise for the author's previous work.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/victory-over-japan-a-book-of-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "worlds-fair",
   "title": "World's Fair",
   "author": "E. L. Doctorow",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Edition stated on the copyright page together with the Random House number line beginning with 2 (reading 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1); dust jacket carries the printed price. Removal of the First Edition statement indicates a later printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/worlds-fair"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pacos-story",
   "title": "Paco's Story",
   "author": "Larry Heinemann",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states the first edition and carries a number line with 1 as the lowest number, the Farrar, Straus and Giroux convention of the period; dust jacket priced on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pacos-story"
  },
  {
   "slug": "paris-trout",
   "title": "Paris Trout",
   "author": "Pete Dexter",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Edition stated on the copyright page together with the Random House number line beginning with 2 (reading 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1); dust jacket carries the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/paris-trout"
  },
  {
   "slug": "spartina",
   "title": "Spartina",
   "author": "John Casey",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Edition stated on the copyright page; Knopf borzoi imprint; dust jacket priced on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/spartina"
  },
  {
   "slug": "middle-passage",
   "title": "Middle Passage",
   "author": "Charles Johnson",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Edition stated on the copyright page above a full descending number line; Atheneum (New York) imprint; quarter black cloth over maroon paper boards, gilt spine lettering and blind stamping to the front board; first-issue dust jacket priced on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/middle-passage"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mating",
   "title": "Mating",
   "author": "Norman Rush",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Edition stated on the copyright page with no reference to a later printing (Knopf used the statement rather than a number line for this title); Borzoi/Knopf (New York) imprint; yellow cloth spine over beige boards, map endpapers; first-issue dust jacket priced on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mating"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ship-fever-and-other-stories",
   "title": "Ship Fever and Other Stories",
   "author": "Andrea Barrett",
   "publisher": "W. W. Norton",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Full descending number line present on the copyright page; W. W. Norton (New York) imprint; half white cloth over white boards with copper lettering; first-issue dust jacket priced on the front flap. Issued in cloth and in a simultaneous trade paperback; the cloth first is the collectible issue and is genuinely scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ship-fever-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "charming-billy",
   "title": "Charming Billy",
   "author": "Alice McDermott",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, 1998 stated on the copyright page, accompanied by the FSG-style number line; Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York) imprint; first-issue dust jacket priced on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/charming-billy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "waiting",
   "title": "Waiting",
   "author": "Ha Jin",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books",
   "year": "1999",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Edition stated on the copyright page above the number line 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1; Pantheon Books (New York) imprint; black boards with yellow spine lettering; first-issue dust jacket priced on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/waiting"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-america",
   "title": "In America",
   "author": "Susan Sontag",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing states 'First edition, 2000' on the copyright page and carries the standard FSG number line ending in 1. Issued in a printed-price dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-america"
  },
  {
   "slug": "three-junes",
   "title": "Three Junes",
   "author": "Julia Glass",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing states 'First Edition' with a full number line ending in 1 under the Pantheon imprint, in a printed-price dust jacket. Earliest jackets predate the later award and morning-show promotional blurbs.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/three-junes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-great-fire",
   "title": "The Great Fire",
   "author": "Shirley Hazzard",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing states 'First edition, 2003' with the FSG number line '1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2'. The earliest jacket state lacks the Today Show Book Club emblem and the later award/blurb additions, and retains the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-great-fire"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-echo-maker",
   "title": "The Echo Maker",
   "author": "Richard Powers",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "2006",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing states 'First edition, 2006' with the FSG number line '1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2', in a printed-price dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-echo-maker"
  },
  {
   "slug": "let-the-great-world-spin",
   "title": "Let the Great World Spin",
   "author": "Colum McCann",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "2009",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states First Edition with the Random House number line reading 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1. Dust jacket carries the original printed retail price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/let-the-great-world-spin"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lord-of-misrule",
   "title": "Lord of Misrule",
   "author": "Jaimy Gordon",
   "publisher": "McPherson & Company",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Small octavo hardcover from McPherson & Company, Kingston, with the number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 on the copyright page. First-state dust jacket has no National Book Award reference and carries the original printed price on the front flap. The pre-award first printing was very small before the award triggered reprints.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lord-of-misrule"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-good-lord-bird",
   "title": "The Good Lord Bird",
   "author": "James McBride",
   "publisher": "Riverhead Books",
   "year": "2013",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Riverhead Books hardcover with a number line ending in 1 and the Riverhead/Penguin imprint statement on the copyright page. First-state dust jacket has no National Book Award reference and carries the original printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-good-lord-bird"
  },
  {
   "slug": "redeployment",
   "title": "Redeployment",
   "author": "Phil Klay",
   "publisher": "Penguin Press",
   "year": "2014",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Penguin Press imprint on the title page; a complete number line including 1 on the copyright page identifies the first printing; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed retail price on the front flap. Debut story collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/redeployment"
  },
  {
   "slug": "fortune-smiles",
   "title": "Fortune Smiles",
   "author": "Adam Johnson",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "2015",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with the Random House number line 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed retail price. Story collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/fortune-smiles"
  },
  {
   "slug": "trust-exercise",
   "title": "Trust Exercise",
   "author": "Susan Choi",
   "publisher": "Henry Holt",
   "year": "2019",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition 2019' with a complete number line including 1; Henry Holt imprint; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed retail price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/trust-exercise"
  },
  {
   "slug": "interior-chinatown",
   "title": "Interior Chinatown",
   "author": "Charles Yu",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books",
   "year": "2020",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with a number line ending in 1; Pantheon (Knopf Doubleday) imprint; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed retail price. Screenplay-format text throughout.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/interior-chinatown"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hell-of-a-book",
   "title": "Hell of a Book",
   "author": "Jason Mott",
   "publisher": "Dutton",
   "year": "2021",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Dutton (Penguin) imprint; copyright page states 'First Edition' with a number line ending in 1; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed retail price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hell-of-a-book"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-rabbit-hutch",
   "title": "The Rabbit Hutch",
   "author": "Tess Gunty",
   "publisher": "Knopf",
   "year": "2022",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf borzoi imprint. True first carries 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with a number line ending in 1, and a dust jacket bearing the printed retail price on the front flap. Gunty's debut novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-rabbit-hutch"
  },
  {
   "slug": "blackouts",
   "title": "Blackouts",
   "author": "Justin Torres",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "2023",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux imprint. True first states 'First edition, 2023' on the copyright page with the FSG number line, and the heavily illustrated text block is integral to the first issue. Dust jacket carries the printed retail price on the flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/blackouts"
  },
  {
   "slug": "how-german-is-it-wie-deutsch-ist-es",
   "title": "How German Is It (Wie Deutsch Ist Es)",
   "author": "Walter Abish",
   "publisher": "New Directions",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "New Directions imprint, 1980. Issued simultaneously in clothbound and in pictorial printed wrappers (New Directions Paperbook). The cloth issue carries a dust jacket with the printed price on the flap; the wrappers issue is a printed-paper softcover. Confirm the New Directions printing statement on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/how-german-is-it-wie-deutsch-ist-es"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-old-forest-and-other-stories",
   "title": "The Old Forest and Other Stories",
   "author": "Peter Taylor",
   "publisher": "Dial Press / Doubleday",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The Dial Press/Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1985. True first is bound in black cloth over white boards with silver spine lettering and a deckled fore-edge, states the first printing on the copyright page, and carries a dust jacket priced on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-old-forest-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "soldiers-in-hiding",
   "title": "Soldiers in Hiding",
   "author": "Richard Wiley",
   "publisher": "Atlantic Monthly Press",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986. True first is bound in blue boards backed in red cloth, carries the publisher's first-printing statement on the copyright page, and has a Wendell Minor jacket priced on the flap. The white-paper jacket soils easily, so clean examples are uncommon. Wiley's debut, about 199 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/soldiers-in-hiding"
  },
  {
   "slug": "worlds-end",
   "title": "World's End",
   "author": "T. Coraghessan Boyle",
   "publisher": "Viking",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Viking imprint with the house number line ending 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap and is unclipped. Quarter brown cloth over light blue paper boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/worlds-end"
  },
  {
   "slug": "billy-bathgate",
   "title": "Billy Bathgate",
   "author": "E. L. Doctorow",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House states 'First Edition' on the copyright page together with a number line that begins with 2 (the house odd-descending/even-ascending form, ending 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1); first-issue dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap. A signed, numbered limited edition of 300 was also issued, and a Franklin Library signed edition preceded trade publication.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/billy-bathgate"
  },
  {
   "slug": "operation-shylock-a-confession",
   "title": "Operation Shylock: A Confession",
   "author": "Philip Roth",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Simon & Schuster imprint dated 1993 with the house number line ending 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap. A small number of advance copies were specially bound from proof sheets for booksellers and differ in binding.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/operation-shylock-a-confession"
  },
  {
   "slug": "women-in-their-beds",
   "title": "Women in Their Beds",
   "author": "Gina Berriault",
   "publisher": "Counterpoint",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Counterpoint hardcover, Washington 1996 (ISBN 1887178105). Subtitled New and Selected Stories; thirty-five stories, nine of them new. First printing has the Counterpoint imprint on the title page and a price on the dust jacket flap. Verify the first-printing statement and number line on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/women-in-their-beds"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bear-comes-home",
   "title": "The Bear Comes Home",
   "author": "Rafi Zabor",
   "publisher": "W. W. Norton",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "W. W. Norton hardcover, 1997 (ISBN 0393040372). First printing carries the Norton imprint and a complete number line on the copyright page, with the price printed on the dust jacket flap. The first printing was reportedly small.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bear-comes-home"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-caprices",
   "title": "The Caprices",
   "author": "Sabina Murray",
   "publisher": "Mariner / Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Mariner Books (Houghton Mifflin) trade paperback original, 2002 (ISBN 061809525X). Issued as a paperback original with no preceding hardcover; verify the Mariner imprint and the number line on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-caprices"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-early-stories-1953-1975",
   "title": "The Early Stories: 1953–1975",
   "author": "John Updike",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Alfred A. Knopf hardcover, 2003 (ISBN 1400040728), a thick volume of 103 stories. First trade printing states 'First Edition' under the Borzoi/Knopf colophon with a complete number line, and the dust jacket carries the printed price. A separate signed limited edition was also issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-early-stories-1953-1975"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-great-man",
   "title": "The Great Man",
   "author": "Kate Christensen",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "2007",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a number line ending in 1, under the Doubleday imprint; the dust jacket carries the printed price. Issued as a hardcover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-great-man"
  },
  {
   "slug": "war-dances",
   "title": "War Dances",
   "author": "Sherman Alexie",
   "publisher": "Grove Press",
   "year": "2009",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition carries the Grove Press imprint with a number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; the dust jacket shows the printed price. Issued as a hardcover with red paper-covered boards. A collection of stories and poems.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/war-dances"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-buddha-in-the-attic",
   "title": "The Buddha in the Attic",
   "author": "Julie Otsuka",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "2011",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a number line ending in 1, under the Knopf borzoi imprint; the dust jacket shows the printed price. A slim hardcover volume.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-buddha-in-the-attic"
  },
  {
   "slug": "we-are-all-completely-beside-ourselves",
   "title": "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves",
   "author": "Karen Joy Fowler",
   "publisher": "Marian Wood Book / G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "2013",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; Marian Wood Book / Putnam imprint; dust jacket with the printed price present (not clipped).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/we-are-all-completely-beside-ourselves"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bone",
   "title": "Bone",
   "author": "Fae Myenne Ng",
   "publisher": "Hyperion",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with a descending number line; Hyperion imprint; dust jacket with the printed price present. The author's debut novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bone"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-great-believers",
   "title": "The Great Believers",
   "author": "Rebecca Makkai",
   "publisher": "Viking",
   "year": "2018",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Full Penguin/Viking number line reading 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 on the copyright page; Viking imprint; dust jacket with the printed price present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-great-believers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "improvement",
   "title": "Improvement",
   "author": "Joan Silber",
   "publisher": "Counterpoint",
   "year": "2017",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Number line beginning with 1 on the copyright page; Counterpoint imprint; dust jacket with the printed price present on the flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/improvement"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-heaven-earth-grocery-store",
   "title": "The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store",
   "author": "James McBride",
   "publisher": "Riverhead Books",
   "year": "2023",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; Riverhead / Penguin imprint; dust jacket with the printed price present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-heaven-earth-grocery-store"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-voyages-of-doctor-dolittle",
   "title": "The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle",
   "author": "Hugh Lofting",
   "publisher": "Frederick A. Stokes Company",
   "year": "1922",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing August 1922. The copyright page carries no later-printing statement; later printings add a stated line (for example a Fifth Printing is noted as August 1923). Bound in grey boards with a color pictorial paste-on label and blue-and-yellow pictorial endpapers showing Dolittle as king of the island. Color frontispiece with captioned tissue guard, one color plate, and the author's black-and-white illustrations throughout.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-voyages-of-doctor-dolittle"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dark-frigate",
   "title": "The Dark Frigate",
   "author": "Charles Boardman Hawes",
   "publisher": "Atlantic Monthly Press",
   "year": "1923",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Atlantic Monthly Press (Boston), 1923, octavo, 247 pages. Title page dated 1923 with no added printing statement on the copyright verso. Yellow pictorial boards; color frontispiece by Anton Otto Fischer, with nine full-page illustrations.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dark-frigate"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tales-from-silver-lands",
   "title": "Tales from Silver Lands",
   "author": "Charles J. Finger",
   "publisher": "Doubleday, Page & Company",
   "year": "1924",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Doubleday, Page & Company (Garden City), 1924. Title-page date matches the copyright with no added printing line. Original black cloth stamped in yellow, with yellow pictorial endpapers. Nine full-page color woodcuts (yellow, blue, and green) plus numerous smaller black-and-white woodcuts, all by Paul Honoré.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tales-from-silver-lands"
  },
  {
   "slug": "smoky-the-cowhorse",
   "title": "Smoky the Cowhorse",
   "author": "Will James",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1926",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first published 1926 (Newbery Medal 1927). The title page is dated 1926 and the copyright page carries the Scribner seal/colophon with only three lines and no later-printing statement. A reliable text point: the typographical error 'hou gt' for 'thought' appears at the foot of page 44 in the first printing. Bound in green cloth with the title stamped in black and a horse head stamped in red on the front cover; illustrated by the author.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/smoky-the-cowhorse"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-trumpeter-of-krakow",
   "title": "The Trumpeter of Krakow",
   "author": "Eric P. Kelly",
   "publisher": "The Macmillan Company",
   "year": "1928",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1928, Macmillan (New York). The first printing carries the stated line 'Published, September, 1928' on the copyright page and lists no later printings. Author's first book; illustrations by Angela Pruszynska; textured blue cloth. Per the Macmillan convention, the absence of any 'Reprinted...' lines on the verso is the key first-printing point.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-trumpeter-of-krakow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-cat-who-went-to-heaven",
   "title": "The Cat Who Went to Heaven",
   "author": "Elizabeth Coatsworth",
   "publisher": "The Macmillan Company",
   "year": "1930",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1930, Macmillan (New York). The first printing carries the stated line 'Published August, 1930' on the copyright page with no reprint-history lines below it. Original red cloth; illustrations by Lynd Ward. Original pictorial dust jacket shows no Newbery Medal (the medal was awarded in 1931, after first publication).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-cat-who-went-to-heaven"
  },
  {
   "slug": "waterless-mountain",
   "title": "Waterless Mountain",
   "author": "Laura Adams Armer",
   "publisher": "Longmans, Green and Co.",
   "year": "1931",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1931, Longmans, Green and Co. (New York and Toronto). Title-page dated 1931 with no later-printing statement on the copyright page. Illustrations by Sidney Armer and Laura Adams Armer (frontispiece plus full-page plates); endpapers reproduce 'The Whirling Logs' sand painting from the Navajo Night Chant; cloth boards with title and illustration stamped on spine and front board. Original dust jacket notes the Longmans juvenile fiction prize.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/waterless-mountain"
  },
  {
   "slug": "young-fu-of-the-upper-yangtze",
   "title": "Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze",
   "author": "Elizabeth Foreman Lewis",
   "publisher": "The John C. Winston Company",
   "year": "1932",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1932, John C. Winston Company (Philadelphia). Copyright page dated 1932 with no added later-printing line. Thick octavo in black pictorial cloth stamped in gilt (title and illustration on front board and spine); illustrated by Kurt Wiese with black-and-white art plus color plates (frontispiece and additional plates) and toned/illustrated endpapers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/young-fu-of-the-upper-yangtze"
  },
  {
   "slug": "invincible-louisa",
   "title": "Invincible Louisa",
   "author": "Cornelia Meigs",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown & Company",
   "year": "1933",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1933, Little, Brown (Boston). On the Little, Brown convention the first printing carries the 1933 date and a 'Published [month] 1933' statement on the copyright page with no later-printing line; cloth binding. Beware copies dated to the 1934 printing that followed the Newbery announcement, which are not the true first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/invincible-louisa"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dobry",
   "title": "Dobry",
   "author": "Monica Shannon",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1934, Viking (NY). The first printing carries a 'Published [month] 1934' statement (the book was first published November 1934) with no list of subsequent printings on the copyright page. Illustrations by Atanas Katchamakoff; tan cloth with red lettering and a red design. A second printing followed in 1935.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dobry"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-white-stag",
   "title": "The White Stag",
   "author": "Kate Seredy",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1937",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1937, Viking (NY). The first printing was published November 1937 and the copyright page carries a single publication statement with no list of later printings. Author-illustrated by Kate Seredy, with a color frontispiece and black-and-white plates; cloth binding with a blind-stamped stag and color pictorial endpapers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-white-stag"
  },
  {
   "slug": "daniel-boone",
   "title": "Daniel Boone",
   "author": "James Daugherty",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1939, Viking (New York). First printing has 'First Published October 1939' (Viking convention) on the copyright page with no later printings listed. Author-illustrated by James Daugherty with lithographic illustrations; pictorial cloth with map endpapers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/daniel-boone"
  },
  {
   "slug": "call-it-courage",
   "title": "Call It Courage",
   "author": "Armstrong Sperry",
   "publisher": "The Macmillan Company",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1940, Macmillan (New York). First printing dated 1940 on the copyright page with no reprint-history list. Author-illustrated by Armstrong Sperry; earliest issue in pictorial cloth with first-state jacket lacking the Newbery Medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/call-it-courage"
  },
  {
   "slug": "adam-of-the-road",
   "title": "Adam of the Road",
   "author": "Elizabeth Janet Gray",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1942",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1942, Viking (New York). First printing carries the Viking 'First Published 1942' statement on the copyright page with no later printings listed. Illustrations by Robert Lawson; pictorial cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/adam-of-the-road"
  },
  {
   "slug": "johnny-tremain",
   "title": "Johnny Tremain",
   "author": "Esther Forbes",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin Company",
   "year": "1943",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1943, Houghton Mifflin (Boston). First printing has the title page dated 1943 and a copyright page without later-printing statements. Illustrations by Lynd Ward; color frontispiece and pictorial map endpapers; issued in cloth. Wartime paper.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/johnny-tremain"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rabbit-hill",
   "title": "Rabbit Hill",
   "author": "Robert Lawson",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1944",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1944, Viking (New York). First printing identified by 'First Published September 1944' on the copyright page with no further printings noted. Author-illustrated by Robert Lawson; pictorial cloth. First-state jacket lacks the Newbery Medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/rabbit-hill"
  },
  {
   "slug": "strawberry-girl",
   "title": "Strawberry Girl",
   "author": "Lois Lenski",
   "publisher": "J. B. Lippincott Company",
   "year": "1945",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1945, Lippincott (Philadelphia and New York). The first printing carries the stated First Edition wording on the copyright page with no later-printing line. Author-illustrated by Lois Lenski; green cloth with gilt lettering and pictorial strawberry endpapers. First-issue jacket bears no Newbery Medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/strawberry-girl"
  },
  {
   "slug": "miss-hickory",
   "title": "Miss Hickory",
   "author": "Carolyn Sherwin Bailey",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1946, Viking (New York), issued September 1946. The first printing carries the published-1946 statement on the copyright page with no later printings listed. Lithographs by Ruth Chrisman Gannett; cream cloth with orange lettering and motif, top edge stained orange. First-issue jacket bears no Newbery Medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/miss-hickory"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-door-in-the-wall",
   "title": "The Door in the Wall",
   "author": "Marguerite de Angeli",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1949, Doubleday (Garden City; imprint may read Junior Books, Doubleday & Company). The first printing states First Edition on the copyright page, per Doubleday's convention in this era. Author-illustrated by Marguerite de Angeli; blue cloth with silver spine lettering and a front-cover illustration. First-issue jacket bears no Newbery Medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-door-in-the-wall"
  },
  {
   "slug": "amos-fortune-free-man",
   "title": "Amos Fortune, Free Man",
   "author": "Elizabeth Yates",
   "publisher": "Aladdin Books (E. P. Dutton)",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1950, Aladdin Books, distributed by E. P. Dutton (New York), issued April 1950. The first printing is dated 1950 with no later-printing statement. Illustrations by Nora S. Unwin; cloth binding.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/amos-fortune-free-man"
  },
  {
   "slug": "carry-on-mr-bowditch",
   "title": "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch",
   "author": "Jean Lee Latham",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin Company",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1955, Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston). Houghton Mifflin of this period did not print a First Edition statement; the first printing is identified by the title-page date matching the copyright date (1955) with no later-printing statement on the copyright page. Illustrations by John O'Hara Cosgrave II; cloth binding.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/carry-on-mr-bowditch"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rifles-for-watie",
   "title": "Rifles for Watie",
   "author": "Harold Keith",
   "publisher": "Thomas Y. Crowell Company",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1957. Title page dated 1957 with no later printing statement on the copyright page. Red cloth boards with black stars on the front and spine; illustrated by Peter Burchard. First-issue jacket carries no Newbery Medal seal (the Medal was awarded in 1958).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/rifles-for-watie"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-witch-of-blackbird-pond",
   "title": "The Witch of Blackbird Pond",
   "author": "Elizabeth George Speare",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin Company",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1958. Date 1958 on both the title page and the copyright page, with no later printing statement. First-state dust jacket has no Newbery Medal seal and no evidence of its removal. Pictorial cloth with illustrated endpapers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-witch-of-blackbird-pond"
  },
  {
   "slug": "onion-john",
   "title": "Onion John",
   "author": "Joseph Krumgold",
   "publisher": "Thomas Y. Crowell Company",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1959. The first printing is stated First Printing on the copyright page, dated 1959. Cherry-red cloth lettered in black; full- and half-page line drawings by Symeon Shimin. First-issue jacket without the Newbery Medal seal (Medal awarded 1960).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/onion-john"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bronze-bow",
   "title": "The Bronze Bow",
   "author": "Elizabeth George Speare",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin Company",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1961. Date 1961 on the title page and copyright page, with no printing statement (first printings are not separately stated). First-state dust jacket lacks the Newbery Medal seal (Medal awarded 1962). Pictorial cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bronze-bow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "shadow-of-a-bull",
   "title": "Shadow of a Bull",
   "author": "Maia Wojciechowska",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Atheneum, New York, 1964. Per Atheneum convention the first printing states First Edition on the copyright page with no later printing line. Red cloth lettered in blind with gilt spine; illustrated by Alvin Smith. First-issue yellow pictorial dust jacket with no award seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/shadow-of-a-bull"
  },
  {
   "slug": "i-juan-de-pareja",
   "title": "I, Juan de Pareja",
   "author": "Elizabeth Borton de Treviño",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published 1965 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York (the title page sometimes also carries the Bell Books imprint line). The true first printing states First printing on the copyright page, with no later-printing statement. Pictorial cloth in a pictorial dust jacket; first-state jacket precedes the addition of the Newbery Medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/i-juan-de-pareja"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-high-king",
   "title": "The High King",
   "author": "Lloyd Alexander",
   "publisher": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published 1968 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York. The true first printing states First Edition on the copyright page. The fifth and final volume of the Chronicles of Prydain. Pictorial cloth with a pictorial dust jacket; first-state jacket precedes the Newbery seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-high-king"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sounder-william-h-arms",
   "title": "Sounder",
   "author": "William H. Armstrong",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published 1969 by Harper & Row, New York. The true first printing carries the Harper code on the copyright page with no later-printing statement and no ISBN. Illustrated by James Barkley; pictorial cloth in a pictorial dust jacket; first-state jacket lacks the Newbery Medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sounder-william-h-arms"
  },
  {
   "slug": "summer-of-the-swans",
   "title": "Summer of the Swans",
   "author": "Betsy Byars",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published 1970 by The Viking Press, New York. The true first printing states First published in 1970 by The Viking Press on the copyright page; some copies additionally show a number line ending in 1. Illustrated by Ted CoConis; cloth with swans stamped on the front board, in a pictorial dust jacket; first-state jacket lacks the Newbery seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/summer-of-the-swans"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mrs-frisby-and-the-rats-of-nimh-robert-c-obrie",
   "title": "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH",
   "author": "Robert C. O'Brien",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published 1971 by Atheneum, New York. The true first printing states First Edition on the copyright page. Illustrated by Zena Bernstein; pictorial cloth in a pictorial dust jacket; first-state jacket lacks the Newbery seal and retains the printed jacket price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mrs-frisby-and-the-rats-of-nimh-robert-c-obrie"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-slave-dancer",
   "title": "The Slave Dancer",
   "author": "Paula Fox",
   "publisher": "Bradbury Press",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published 1973 by Bradbury Press, Scarsdale, New York, with illustrations by Eros Keith. The first printing states First Printing on the copyright page. Bound in cloth with the author's initials blind-stamped on the front cover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-slave-dancer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "m-c-higgins-the-great",
   "title": "M. C. Higgins, the Great",
   "author": "Virginia Hamilton",
   "publisher": "Macmillan Publishing Company",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published 1974 by Macmillan, New York. The first printing carries no reprint-history list on the copyright page; dealer copies of firsts show a First Edition designation with a 1 to 10 number line and no later-printing notation. Cloth binding; first-issue dust jacket has the original price, illustration by James McMullan, and no Newbery Medal sticker.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/m-c-higgins-the-great"
  },
  {
   "slug": "jacob-have-i-loved",
   "title": "Jacob Have I Loved",
   "author": "Katherine Paterson",
   "publisher": "Thomas Y. Crowell Company",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published 1980 by Thomas Y. Crowell, New York. The first printing carries a 1 to 10 number line on the copyright page (a present 1 denotes the first printing). Red cloth-backed boards with dark endpapers; first-issue dust jacket carries the original price and no Newbery Award sticker.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/jacob-have-i-loved"
  },
  {
   "slug": "diceys-song",
   "title": "Dicey's Song",
   "author": "Cynthia Voigt",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published 1982 by Atheneum, New York. First printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page. Brown cloth with copper tree stamped on the front board and copper spine lettering; illustrated title page. First-state dust jacket without the Newbery seal. Part of the Tillerman cycle.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/diceys-song"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hero-and-the-crown",
   "title": "The Hero and the Crown",
   "author": "Robin McKinley",
   "publisher": "Greenwillow Books",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published 1984 by Greenwillow Books, New York. First printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a number line ending in 1 (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Green boards with white cloth spine; dust jacket art by David McCall Johnston.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hero-and-the-crown"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-whipping-boy",
   "title": "The Whipping Boy",
   "author": "Sid Fleischman",
   "publisher": "Greenwillow Books",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published 1986 by Greenwillow Books, New York. First printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a number line ending in 1 (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Quarter navy cloth over light blue boards with silver spine lettering; black-and-white illustrations by Peter Sis. First-state dust jacket without the Newbery seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-whipping-boy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "joyful-noise-poems-for-two-voices",
   "title": "Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices",
   "author": "Paul Fleischman",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1988, Harper & Row (New York). The first printing states 'First Edition' and carries the Harper code with a number line ending in 1. Illustrated by Eric Beddows; partial-cloth pictorial boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/joyful-noise-poems-for-two-voices"
  },
  {
   "slug": "maniac-magee",
   "title": "Maniac Magee",
   "author": "Jerry Spinelli",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown & Company",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1990, Little, Brown (Boston). The first printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a number line ending in 1; copyright 1990. Pictorial cloth; first-state jacket without the Newbery Medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/maniac-magee"
  },
  {
   "slug": "shiloh",
   "title": "Shiloh",
   "author": "Phyllis Reynolds Naylor",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1991, Atheneum (New York). The first printing states 'First Edition' with a number line ending in 1. Pictorial cloth; first-state jacket without the Newbery Medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/shiloh"
  },
  {
   "slug": "walk-two-moons",
   "title": "Walk Two Moons",
   "author": "Sharon Creech",
   "publisher": "HarperCollins",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1994, HarperCollins (New York). The first printing states 'First Edition' with a full number line ending in 1; copyright 1994. Laminated pictorial boards with matching jacket; first-state jacket without the Newbery Medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/walk-two-moons"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-midwifes-apprentice",
   "title": "The Midwife's Apprentice",
   "author": "Karen Cushman",
   "publisher": "Clarion Books (Houghton Mifflin)",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1995, Clarion Books, New York. Clarion of this period does not state 'First Edition'; the first printing is identified by a complete number line ending in 1 on the copyright page. Pictorial paper boards in a first-state dust jacket without the Newbery Medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-midwifes-apprentice"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-view-from-saturday",
   "title": "The View from Saturday",
   "author": "E. L. Konigsburg",
   "publisher": "Atheneum / Jean Karl Books",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1996, Atheneum (a Jean Karl Book), New York. The first printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a complete number line ending in 1. Pictorial boards in a first-state dust jacket without the Newbery Medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-view-from-saturday"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bud-not-buddy",
   "title": "Bud, Not Buddy",
   "author": "Christopher Paul Curtis",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press",
   "year": "1999",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1999, Delacorte Press, New York. The first printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a complete number line ending in 1; copyright 1999. Pictorial boards in a first-state dust jacket without the Newbery Medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bud-not-buddy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-year-down-yonder",
   "title": "A Year Down Yonder",
   "author": "Richard Peck",
   "publisher": "Dial Books for Young Readers",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 2000, Dial Books for Young Readers, New York. Dial of this period does not state 'First Edition'; the first printing is identified by a complete number line ending in 1; copyright 2000. Paper boards in a first-state dust jacket without the Newbery Medal seal. Sequel to A Long Way from Chicago.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-year-down-yonder"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-single-shard",
   "title": "A Single Shard",
   "author": "Linda Sue Park",
   "publisher": "Clarion Books (Houghton Mifflin)",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 2001, Clarion Books, New York. Clarion of this period does not state 'First Edition'; the first printing is identified by a complete number line ending in 1; copyright 2001. Paper boards in a first-state dust jacket (illustration by Jean and Mou-sien Tseng) without the Newbery Medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-single-shard"
  },
  {
   "slug": "crispin-the-cross-of-lead",
   "title": "Crispin: The Cross of Lead",
   "author": "Avi",
   "publisher": "Hyperion Books for Children",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 2002, Hyperion Books for Children (New York). First printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a complete number line ending in 1. Pictorial boards; first-state dust jacket has a round die-cut cutout on the front showing Crispin's face and carries no Newbery medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/crispin-the-cross-of-lead"
  },
  {
   "slug": "criss-cross",
   "title": "Criss Cross",
   "author": "Lynne Rae Perkins",
   "publisher": "Greenwillow Books / HarperCollins",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 2005, Greenwillow Books (an imprint of HarperCollins), New York. First printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a complete number line ending in 1; copyright 2005. Pictorial boards; first-state dust jacket has no Newbery seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/criss-cross"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-higher-power-of-lucky",
   "title": "The Higher Power of Lucky",
   "author": "Susan Patron",
   "publisher": "Atheneum / Richard Jackson Books",
   "year": "2006",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 2006, Atheneum Books for Young Readers / Richard Jackson Books (New York). First printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a complete number line ending in 1; copyright 2006. Illustrated by Matt Phelan; red boards; first-state color pictorial dust jacket has no Newbery seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-higher-power-of-lucky"
  },
  {
   "slug": "good-masters-sweet-ladies-voices-from-a-medieval-village",
   "title": "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village",
   "author": "Laura Amy Schlitz",
   "publisher": "Candlewick Press",
   "year": "2007",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 2007, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA). First printing states 'First edition 2007' on the copyright page with a complete number line ending in 1 (2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1). Illustrated by Robert Byrd; pictorial boards; first-state dust jacket has no Newbery seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/good-masters-sweet-ladies-voices-from-a-medieval-village"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-graveyard-book",
   "title": "The Graveyard Book",
   "author": "Neil Gaiman",
   "publisher": "HarperCollins (US) / Bloomsbury (UK)",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Two distinct 2008 firsts. US HarperCollins first printing: states First Edition with a complete number line ending in 1, Dave McKean cover and interior art, printed price on the jacket. UK Bloomsbury Children's first printing: Chris Riddell illustrations, number line ending in 1, priced UK jacket. Match the illustrator to the issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-graveyard-book"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-graveyard-book-uk-issue-note",
   "title": "The Graveyard Book (UK issue note)",
   "author": "Neil Gaiman",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Bloomsbury first edition, 2008, London. First printing marked as a first on the copyright page with a number line ending in 1; Chris Riddell illustrations; distinct UK jacket. A separate collectible state from the US HarperCollins first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-graveyard-book-uk-issue-note"
  },
  {
   "slug": "when-you-reach-me",
   "title": "When You Reach Me",
   "author": "Rebecca Stead",
   "publisher": "Wendy Lamb Books / Random House",
   "year": "2009",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 2009, Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House, New York (published July 2009). First printing states First Edition with a number line ending in 1; copyright 2009. Red and white boards; first-state pictorial jacket designed by Kate Gartner, without the Newbery seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/when-you-reach-me"
  },
  {
   "slug": "moon-over-manifest",
   "title": "Moon Over Manifest",
   "author": "Clare Vanderpool",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press / Random House",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 2010, Delacorte Press (Random House), New York. First printing states First Edition with a number line ending in 1; copyright 2010. Pictorial boards; first-state jacket without the Newbery seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/moon-over-manifest"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dead-end-in-norvelt",
   "title": "Dead End in Norvelt",
   "author": "Jack Gantos",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "2011",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 2011, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York. First printing identified by a complete number line ending in 1; copyright 2011. Note FSG does not print a First Edition statement, so identification rests on the number line. Pictorial boards; first-state jacket without the Newbery seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dead-end-in-norvelt"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-crossover",
   "title": "The Crossover",
   "author": "Kwame Alexander",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin Harcourt",
   "year": "2014",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Boston). First printing has a full number line ending in 1; copyright 2014. Publisher's pictorial boards; first-issue jacket without the Newbery Medal seal. A novel in verse. ISBN 9780544107717.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-crossover"
  },
  {
   "slug": "last-stop-on-market-street",
   "title": "Last Stop on Market Street",
   "author": "Matt de la Peña",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons / Penguin",
   "year": "2015",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published 2015 by G. P. Putnam's Sons (Penguin Young Readers Group), New York. First printing has a full number line ending in 1; copyright 2015. Illustrated by Christian Robinson; publisher's pictorial boards. A picture book — an unusual Newbery Medal subject. ISBN 9780399257742.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/last-stop-on-market-street"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-girl-who-drank-the-moon",
   "title": "The Girl Who Drank the Moon",
   "author": "Kelly Barnhill",
   "publisher": "Algonquin Young Readers",
   "year": "2016",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published 2016 by Algonquin Young Readers (Chapel Hill, NC). First printing has 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page together with a full number line ending in 1; copyright 2016. Publisher's pictorial boards; first-issue jacket without the Newbery Medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-girl-who-drank-the-moon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hello-universe",
   "title": "Hello, Universe",
   "author": "Erin Entrada Kelly",
   "publisher": "Greenwillow Books / HarperCollins",
   "year": "2017",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published 2017 by Greenwillow Books (HarperCollins), New York. First printing has 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page together with a number line ending in 1; copyright 2017. Illustrated by Isabel Roxas; publisher's pictorial boards. ISBN 9780062414151.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hello-universe"
  },
  {
   "slug": "when-you-trap-a-tiger",
   "title": "When You Trap a Tiger",
   "author": "Tae Keller",
   "publisher": "Random House Books for Young Readers",
   "year": "2020",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 2020, Random House Books for Young Readers (New York); ISBN 9781524715700, published January 28, 2020. First printing states 'First Edition' with a number line ending in 1 and a 2020 copyright. Pictorial boards; first-state jacket without the Newbery seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/when-you-trap-a-tiger"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-last-cuentista",
   "title": "The Last Cuentista",
   "author": "Donna Barba Higuera",
   "publisher": "Levine Querido",
   "year": "2021",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 2021, Levine Querido (Montclair, New Jersey); ISBN 9781646140893. First printing has a number line ending in 1 with a 2021 copyright. Pictorial boards; first-state jacket without the Newbery seal (blue spine, white lettering).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-last-cuentista"
  },
  {
   "slug": "freewater",
   "title": "Freewater",
   "author": "Amina Luqman-Dawson",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (James Patterson Presents / Jimmy Patterson Books)",
   "year": "2022",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 2022, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, James Patterson Presents imprint (New York); ISBN 9780316056618. First printing has a number line ending in 1 with a 2022 copyright. Pictorial boards; first-state jacket without the Newbery seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/freewater"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-eyes-and-the-impossible",
   "title": "The Eyes and the Impossible",
   "author": "Dave Eggers",
   "publisher": "Knopf Books for Young Readers / McSweeney's",
   "year": "2023",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 2023, illustrated by Shawn Harris. Two states were released simultaneously and are tracked separately: the standard Knopf Books for Young Readers trade hardcover (ISBN 9781524764203), and the deluxe McSweeney's edition bound in die-cut bamboo (solid front and back covers) with gilt page edges. On the Knopf trade edition the first printing carries a number line ending in 1 with a 2023 copyright; first-state jacket without the Newbery seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-eyes-and-the-impossible"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-first-state-of-being",
   "title": "The First State of Being",
   "author": "Erin Entrada Kelly",
   "publisher": "Greenwillow Books / HarperCollins",
   "year": "2024",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 2024, Greenwillow Books / HarperCollins (New York); ISBN 9780063337312, published March 5, 2024. Per HarperCollins practice the first printing states 'First Edition' with a number line ending in 1 and a 2024 copyright. Pictorial boards; first-state jacket without the Newbery seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-first-state-of-being"
  },
  {
   "slug": "prayer-for-a-child",
   "title": "Prayer for a Child",
   "author": "Rachel Field (text); Elizabeth Orton Jones (illustrations)",
   "publisher": "The Macmillan Company",
   "year": "1944",
   "genre": "caldecott",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The Macmillan Company imprint, copyright 1944. The first-printing copyright page carries both a 1944 Macmillan copyright and an earlier 1941 Macmillan copyright (the poem first appeared in 1941), with no notation of later printings. The first-state dust jacket bears no Caldecott seal, as the medal was awarded in 1945.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/prayer-for-a-child"
  },
  {
   "slug": "white-snow-bright-snow",
   "title": "White Snow, Bright Snow",
   "author": "Alvin Tresselt (text); Roger Duvoisin (illustrations)",
   "publisher": "Lothrop, Lee & Shepard",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "caldecott",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company imprint, New York, copyright 1947, with no later-printing notation, bound in pictorial boards. The first-issue dust jacket is unclipped, carries no Caldecott seal (the medal was awarded in 1948), and shows a rear-flap advertisement for the companion title 'Rain Drop Splash.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/white-snow-bright-snow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-big-snow",
   "title": "The Big Snow",
   "author": "Berta and Elmer Hader",
   "publisher": "The Macmillan Company",
   "year": "1948",
   "genre": "caldecott",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Title is properly 'The Big Snow.' Macmillan imprint with the title page dated 1948. The first-printing dust jacket has no Caldecott Medal emblem on the front panel (the medal was awarded in 1949), and the rear flap lists only earlier Hader titles.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-big-snow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "theyd-rather-be-right-aka-the-forever-machine",
   "title": "They'd Rather Be Right (aka The Forever Machine)",
   "author": "Mark Clifton & Frank Riley",
   "publisher": "Gnome Press (New York)",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with copyright 1957 by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley; Library of Congress card number 57-14670; 189 pp; printed in the U.S.A. by H. Wolff, New York. Approximately 5,000 copies printed. Serialized in Astounding Science Fiction, 1954.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/theyd-rather-be-right-aka-the-forever-machine"
  },
  {
   "slug": "and-call-me-conrad-aka-this-immortal",
   "title": "...And Call Me Conrad (aka This Immortal)",
   "author": "Roger Zelazny",
   "publisher": "Ace Books (New York)",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Paperback original, Ace F-393, 40 cents, titled 'This Immortal' (the book version, abridged from the F&SF serial '...And Call Me Conrad'); July 1966; 174 pp; cover art by Gray Morrow. First Ace printing has the F-393 code and no reprint statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/and-call-me-conrad-aka-this-immortal"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lord-of-light",
   "title": "Lord of Light",
   "author": "Roger Zelazny",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (New York)",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with no later-printing line. Bound in blue cloth with spine lettered in silver; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed cover price and is unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lord-of-light"
  },
  {
   "slug": "stand-on-zanzibar",
   "title": "Stand on Zanzibar",
   "author": "John Brunner",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (New York)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with no later-printing statement; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed cover price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/stand-on-zanzibar"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dreamsnake",
   "title": "Dreamsnake",
   "author": "Vonda N. McIntyre",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin (Boston)",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition carries the 'First Printing' statement with a complete 1-through-10 number line (the numeral 1 present); first-issue dust jacket carries the printed cover price. Expanded from the novelette 'Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand' (1973).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dreamsnake"
  },
  {
   "slug": "doomsday-book",
   "title": "Doomsday Book",
   "author": "Connie Willis",
   "publisher": "Bantam Books (Spectra)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Bantam hardcover, octavo, cloth-backed boards; the first printing carries the statement 'A Bantam Book / July 1992 / Published simultaneously in hardcover and trade paperback' with a full number line ending in 1, and a priced dust jacket. Issued simultaneously in hardcover and trade paperback; the hardcover with the full number line is the prize.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/doomsday-book"
  },
  {
   "slug": "green-mars",
   "title": "Green Mars",
   "author": "Kim Stanley Robinson",
   "publisher": "HarperCollins (London)",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK HarperCollins hardcover 1993, with a priced front flap and no number line. The US Bantam Spectra hardcover (1994) states 'First Edition' with a number line ending in 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/green-mars"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mirror-dance",
   "title": "Mirror Dance",
   "author": "Lois McMaster Bujold",
   "publisher": "Baen Books (New York)",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First hardcover from Baen, March 1994; first printing with the number line ending in 1; cover art by Gary Ruddell. Baen hardcovers of this title are scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mirror-dance"
  },
  {
   "slug": "blue-mars",
   "title": "Blue Mars",
   "author": "Kim Stanley Robinson",
   "publisher": "HarperCollins / Voyager (London)",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK HarperCollins/Voyager hardcover 1996, with a priced front flap and no number line. The US Bantam Spectra hardcover (1996) states 'First Edition' with a number line ending in 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/blue-mars"
  },
  {
   "slug": "forever-peace",
   "title": "Forever Peace",
   "author": "Joe Haldeman",
   "publisher": "Ace Books (New York)",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First hardcover from Ace Books, 1997; full number line ending in 1; priced dust jacket. No later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/forever-peace"
  },
  {
   "slug": "to-say-nothing-of-the-dog",
   "title": "To Say Nothing of the Dog",
   "author": "Connie Willis",
   "publisher": "Bantam Spectra (Bantam Books, New York)",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Bantam hardcover, 1998, with the full number line present on the copyright page (the line includes the 1). Priced dust jacket. Later printings drop the lower numbers of the line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/to-say-nothing-of-the-dog"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hominids",
   "title": "Hominids",
   "author": "Robert J. Sawyer",
   "publisher": "Tor Books (New York)",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Tor hardcover, 2002, with the number line on the copyright page descending to 1. Priced trade dust jacket. (Tor states 'First Edition' with the number line on first printings.)",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hominids"
  },
  {
   "slug": "paladin-of-souls",
   "title": "Paladin of Souls",
   "author": "Lois McMaster Bujold",
   "publisher": "Eos (HarperCollins, New York)",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Eos/HarperCollins hardcover, 2003, stating 'First Edition' on the copyright page with the number line descending to 1. Priced dust jacket; jacket art by David Bowers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/paladin-of-souls"
  },
  {
   "slug": "spin",
   "title": "Spin",
   "author": "Robert Charles Wilson",
   "publisher": "Tor Books / Tom Doherty Associates (New York)",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Tor hardcover, 2005, stating 'First Edition' with the full number line descending to 1 on the copyright page. Black cloth boards with pink spine lettering; priced black dust jacket. 364 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/spin"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rainbows-end",
   "title": "Rainbows End",
   "author": "Vernor Vinge",
   "publisher": "Tor Books (New York)",
   "year": "2006",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Tor hardcover, 2006 (ISBN 0-312-85684-7). 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with a full number line ending in 1; priced dust jacket. The title carries no apostrophe (Rainbows End).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/rainbows-end"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-yiddish-policemens-union",
   "title": "The Yiddish Policemen's Union",
   "author": "Michael Chabon",
   "publisher": "HarperCollins (New York)",
   "year": "2007",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US HarperCollins hardcover, 2007; states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a full number line ending in 1; priced dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-yiddish-policemens-union"
  },
  {
   "slug": "blackout-all-clear",
   "title": "Blackout/All Clear",
   "author": "Connie Willis",
   "publisher": "Spectra / Ballantine (New York)",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "A two-volume novel: 'Blackout' (February 2010) and 'All Clear' (October 2010), each a Spectra hardcover with a full number line ending in 1 and a priced dust jacket. The Hugo was awarded for the combined work.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/blackout-all-clear"
  },
  {
   "slug": "among-others",
   "title": "Among Others",
   "author": "Jo Walton",
   "publisher": "Tor Books (New York)",
   "year": "2011",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Tor hardcover, 2011; 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with a full number line ending in 1; priced dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/among-others"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ancillary-justice",
   "title": "Ancillary Justice",
   "author": "Ann Leckie",
   "publisher": "Orbit (US/UK)",
   "year": "2013",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition is the Orbit trade paperback original (US, October 2013), in wraps, first printing identified by a full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page, with the original printed cover price. The key point: there is no hardcover first edition — the true first is a trade paperback. The UK Orbit issue is likewise a trade paperback. Debut novel; won the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke, BSFA, and Locus Best First Novel awards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ancillary-justice"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-fifth-season",
   "title": "The Fifth Season",
   "author": "N. K. Jemisin",
   "publisher": "Orbit (US)",
   "year": "2015",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition is the Orbit trade paperback original (US, August 4, 2015), in wraps, first printing identified by a full number line ending in 1, with the original printed cover price. The first edition is a trade paperback, not a hardcover. Won the 2016 Hugo for Best Novel; first volume of the Broken Earth Trilogy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-fifth-season"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-obelisk-gate",
   "title": "The Obelisk Gate",
   "author": "N. K. Jemisin",
   "publisher": "Orbit (New York)",
   "year": "2016",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition is the Orbit trade paperback original (US, August 16, 2016), in wraps, first printing identified by a number line ending in 1, with the original printed cover price. Second volume of the Broken Earth Trilogy; won the 2017 Hugo for Best Novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-obelisk-gate"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-stone-sky",
   "title": "The Stone Sky",
   "author": "N. K. Jemisin",
   "publisher": "Orbit (US)",
   "year": "2017",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition is the Orbit trade paperback original (US, August 15, 2017), in wraps, first printing identified by a full number line ending in 1, with the original printed cover price. Like its predecessors, the first edition is a trade paperback. Won the 2017 Nebula and the 2018 Hugo (Jemisin's third consecutive Hugo for Best Novel); third volume of the Broken Earth Trilogy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-stone-sky"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-calculating-stars",
   "title": "The Calculating Stars",
   "author": "Mary Robinette Kowal",
   "publisher": "Tor Books (New York)",
   "year": "2018",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition is the Tor trade paperback original (US, July 3, 2018), in wraps, first printing identified by a number line ending in 1, with the original printed cover price. The first edition is a trade paperback, not a hardcover. Won the 2018 Nebula, 2019 Hugo, and 2019 Locus for Best Novel; first Lady Astronaut novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-calculating-stars"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-memory-called-empire",
   "title": "A Memory Called Empire",
   "author": "Arkady Martine",
   "publisher": "Tor Books (New York)",
   "year": "2019",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition is the Tor hardcover (US, March 26, 2019), first printing identified by a complete number line ending in 1, with a priced dust jacket; tan boards with gold spine lettering. Unlike the paperback-original SF titles in this group, this title had a true Tor hardcover first edition. Won the 2020 Hugo for Best Novel; first Teixcalaan novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-memory-called-empire"
  },
  {
   "slug": "network-effect",
   "title": "Network Effect",
   "author": "Martha Wells",
   "publisher": "Tordotcom / Tor.com (New York)",
   "year": "2020",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Tordotcom hardcover, May 2020 (ISBN 9781250229861). First printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a complete number line including 1, and carries the printed price on the dust jacket flap (unclipped). First full-length Murderbot novel; prior entries are novellas. Publisher's boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/network-effect"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-desolation-called-peace",
   "title": "A Desolation Called Peace",
   "author": "Arkady Martine",
   "publisher": "Tor Books (New York)",
   "year": "2021",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Tor hardcover, March 2021 (ISBN 9781250186461). First printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a complete number line including 1, and carries the printed price on the dust jacket flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-desolation-called-peace"
  },
  {
   "slug": "translation-state",
   "title": "Translation State",
   "author": "Ann Leckie",
   "publisher": "Orbit (New York)",
   "year": "2023",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Orbit (US) hardcover, June 6, 2023 (ISBN 9780316289719). First printing carries a complete number line including 1 on the copyright page (Orbit/Hachette also typically prints a 'First Edition' statement), and the dust jacket carries the printed price. Set in the Imperial Radch universe.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/translation-state"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-tainted-cup",
   "title": "The Tainted Cup",
   "author": "Robert Jackson Bennett",
   "publisher": "Del Rey / Random House (New York)",
   "year": "2024",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Del Rey hardcover, February 6, 2024 (ISBN 9781984820709). First printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a complete number line including 1, and the dust jacket carries the printed price. First in the Shadow of the Leviathan series.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-tainted-cup"
  },
  {
   "slug": "man-plus",
   "title": "Man Plus",
   "author": "Frederik Pohl",
   "publisher": "Random House (New York)",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House hardcover with 'First Edition' stated in small capitals on the copyright page, accompanied by a number line; first printings carry the stated 'First Edition' line, and the price appears on the dust jacket. Under the Random House convention adopted by 1976, the stated 'First Edition' marks the first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/man-plus"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-claw-of-the-conciliator",
   "title": "The Claw of the Conciliator",
   "author": "Gene Wolfe",
   "publisher": "Timescape / Simon & Schuster (New York)",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Timescape Books hardcover (a Simon & Schuster imprint); first printing carries a full number line descending to 1 on the copyright page and a priced, unclipped dust jacket. Second volume of The Book of the New Sun.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-claw-of-the-conciliator"
  },
  {
   "slug": "no-enemy-but-time",
   "title": "No Enemy But Time",
   "author": "Michael Bishop",
   "publisher": "Timescape Books (Simon & Schuster), New York",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Timescape/Simon & Schuster hardcover, cloth-backed boards, 397 pages; first printing identified by a complete number line descending to 1 (1 through 10) on the copyright page; priced dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/no-enemy-but-time"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-healers-war",
   "title": "The Healer's War",
   "author": "Elizabeth Ann Scarborough",
   "publisher": "Foundation / Doubleday, New York",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday (A Foundation Book) hardcover, cloth-backed boards, 303 pages; first edition identified by the 'First Edition' statement on the copyright page; priced dust jacket with art by Braldt Bralds.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-healers-war"
  },
  {
   "slug": "falling-free",
   "title": "Falling Free",
   "author": "Lois McMaster Bujold",
   "publisher": "Baen Books, New York",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Baen mass-market paperback original, wraps, 307 pages; first printing stated as 'First printing, April 1988' with a number line; original cover price on the front. Issued as a paperback original with no preceding US hardcover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/falling-free"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tehanu",
   "title": "Tehanu",
   "author": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
   "publisher": "Atheneum / Margaret K. McElderry Books, New York",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Atheneum (Margaret K. McElderry Books) hardcover, cloth-backed boards, 226 pages; first printing identified by the 'First Edition' statement together with a full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; priced dust jacket. The first-edition jacket and title carry the subtitle 'The Last Book of Earthsea.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tehanu"
  },
  {
   "slug": "stations-of-the-tide",
   "title": "Stations of the Tide",
   "author": "Michael Swanwick",
   "publisher": "William Morrow (New York)",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "William Morrow hardcover; first printing identified by the complete number line descending to 1 on the copyright page together with the 'First Edition' statement; priced dust jacket. Cloth-backed boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/stations-of-the-tide"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-terminal-experiment",
   "title": "The Terminal Experiment",
   "author": "Robert J. Sawyer",
   "publisher": "HarperPrism (US)",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First book publication was the HarperPrism mass-market paperback original (May 1995), in wraps, with a number line; original printed cover price. (Serialized in Analog as 'Hobson's Choice', December 1994 through March 1995.)",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-terminal-experiment"
  },
  {
   "slug": "slow-river",
   "title": "Slow River",
   "author": "Nicola Griffith",
   "publisher": "Del Rey / Ballantine (US)",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Del Rey (Ballantine) hardcover (1995); first printing with the 'First Edition' statement and a complete number line ending in 1; priced dust jacket. Publisher's boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/slow-river"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-moon-and-the-sun",
   "title": "The Moon and the Sun",
   "author": "Vonda N. McIntyre",
   "publisher": "Pocket Books (New York)",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pocket Books hardcover (September 1997); first printing with the complete number line and a priced dust jacket; publisher's boards. Dust jacket art by Gary Halsey.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-moon-and-the-sun"
  },
  {
   "slug": "darwins-radio",
   "title": "Darwin's Radio",
   "author": "Greg Bear",
   "publisher": "Del Rey / Ballantine (US)",
   "year": "1999",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Del Rey (Ballantine Books) hardcover, first printing. Copyright page carries a stated 'First Edition' line together with a full number line counting down to 1. Priced dust jacket; publisher's boards. ISBN 0-345-42333-X.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/darwins-radio"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-quantum-rose",
   "title": "The Quantum Rose",
   "author": "Catherine Asaro",
   "publisher": "Tor Books (New York)",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Tor Books hardcover, first printing. Copyright page states 'First Edition: December 2000' accompanied by a full number line counting down to 1. Priced dust jacket; black boards with gilt spine lettering. ISBN 0-312-89062-1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-quantum-rose"
  },
  {
   "slug": "camouflage",
   "title": "Camouflage",
   "author": "Joe Haldeman",
   "publisher": "Ace Books (New York)",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace Books hardcover, first printing (published August 2004). Copyright page carries a stated First Edition line with a full number line counting down to 1. Priced dust jacket; publisher's boards. ISBN 0-441-01161-6.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/camouflage"
  },
  {
   "slug": "seeker",
   "title": "Seeker",
   "author": "Jack McDevitt",
   "publisher": "Ace Books (New York)",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace Books hardcover, first printing (published November 2005). Copyright page carries a stated First Edition line with a full number line counting down to 1. Priced dust jacket; publisher's boards. ISBN 0-441-01329-5.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/seeker"
  },
  {
   "slug": "powers",
   "title": "Powers",
   "author": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
   "publisher": "Harcourt (US)",
   "year": "2007",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Harcourt hardcover, first printing. Copyright page carries a stated First Edition line with a full number line counting down to 1. Priced dust jacket; publisher's boards. Third book of the Annals of the Western Shore. ISBN 978-0-15-205770-1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/powers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "2312",
   "title": "2312",
   "author": "Kim Stanley Robinson",
   "publisher": "Orbit (US)",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Orbit (Hachette Book Group) hardcover, published May 2012. First printing has the full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page and a priced dust jacket. Publisher's boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/2312"
  },
  {
   "slug": "annihilation",
   "title": "Annihilation",
   "author": "Jeff VanderMeer",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG Originals, US)",
   "year": "2014",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "FSG Originals trade paperback original, published February 4, 2014, in wraps. First printing has the full number line ending in 1 and the printed cover price. The US first edition is a trade PAPERBACK, not a hardcover. Won the 2014 Nebula Award for Best Novel; first of the Southern Reach Trilogy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/annihilation"
  },
  {
   "slug": "uprooted",
   "title": "Uprooted",
   "author": "Naomi Novik",
   "publisher": "Del Rey / Ballantine (US)",
   "year": "2015",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Del Rey (Ballantine/Random House) hardcover, published May 2015. First printing carries the 'First Edition' statement and the full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page, with a priced dust jacket. Publisher's boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/uprooted"
  },
  {
   "slug": "all-the-birds-in-the-sky",
   "title": "All the Birds in the Sky",
   "author": "Charlie Jane Anders",
   "publisher": "Tor Books (New York)",
   "year": "2016",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Tor hardcover, published January 2016. First printing carries the 'First Edition' statement and the full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page, with a priced dust jacket. Publisher's boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/all-the-birds-in-the-sky"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-song-for-a-new-day",
   "title": "A Song for a New Day",
   "author": "Sarah Pinsker",
   "publisher": "Berkley (US)",
   "year": "2019",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Berkley (Penguin Random House) trade paperback original, published September 10, 2019, in wraps. First printing has the full number line ending in 1 and the printed cover price. The first edition is a trade PAPERBACK. Won the 2019 Nebula Award for Best Novel; the author's first novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-song-for-a-new-day"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-master-of-djinn",
   "title": "A Master of Djinn",
   "author": "P. Djèlí Clark",
   "publisher": "Tordotcom / Tor.com (New York)",
   "year": "2021",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Tordotcom (Tom Doherty Associates / Macmillan) hardcover, published May 2021. First printing carries the 'First Edition' statement and the full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page, with a priced dust jacket. Publisher's boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-master-of-djinn"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-saint-of-bright-doors",
   "title": "The Saint of Bright Doors",
   "author": "Vajra Chandrasekera",
   "publisher": "Tordotcom (New York)",
   "year": "2023",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Tordotcom (Tor Publishing) hardcover, first published July 2023, ISBN 9781250847386. As with standard Tor/Tordotcom practice, the first printing carries a 'First Edition' statement on the copyright page together with a complete descending number line ending in 1, and a priced dust jacket. Winner of the 2023 Nebula Award for Best Novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-saint-of-bright-doors"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hands-of-the-emperor",
   "title": "The Hands of the Emperor",
   "author": "Victoria Goddard",
   "publisher": "Underhill Books (self-published)",
   "year": "2019",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Self-published by the author under the Underhill Books imprint. First released as an ebook on 8 January 2019, with a print (paperback/hardcover) edition following in September 2019. As a self-published and largely print-on-demand title, it lacks the conventional number-line points of issue used to distinguish printings.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hands-of-the-emperor"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-city-the-city",
   "title": "The City & the City",
   "author": "China Miéville",
   "publisher": "Macmillan (UK) / Del Rey (US)",
   "year": "2009",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Macmillan hardcover, published 15 May 2009, is the true first: priced dust jacket, no later-printing statement. The US Del Rey hardcover (2009) is near-simultaneous and carries a full descending number line (9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Winner of the Hugo, Arthur C. Clarke, BSFA and Locus (Fantasy) awards. Signed UK first editions exist from launch.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-city-the-city"
  },
  {
   "slug": "perdido-street-station",
   "title": "Perdido Street Station",
   "author": "China Miéville",
   "publisher": "Macmillan (UK)",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Macmillan hardcover (2000, ISBN 0333781724) is the true first: priced dust jacket, no later-printing statement, publisher's boards. The first US edition (Del Rey, 2001) is a trade paperback original, not a hardcover, and is later. Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke and British Fantasy awards and a Locus Award.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/perdido-street-station"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-scar",
   "title": "The Scar",
   "author": "China Miéville",
   "publisher": "Macmillan (UK) / Del Rey (US)",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Macmillan hardcover (2002, ISBN 0333781740/9780333781746) is the true first: priced dust jacket, no later-printing statement, publisher's boards. The first US edition (Del Rey, 2002) is a trade paperback original with French flaps, and is later. Locus Award notable.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-scar"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gateway-note-pohl-1977-trilogy-first",
   "title": "Gateway (note: Pohl 1977 trilogy first)",
   "author": "Frederik Pohl",
   "publisher": "St. Martin's Press (New York)",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "St. Martin's Press hardcover, 1977, is the desired first. First printing in blue textured boards with Boris Vallejo jacket art; first-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap and shows no later-printing statement. Swept the major awards (Nebula, Hugo, Locus, and Campbell).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gateway-note-pohl-1977-trilogy-first"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-high-window",
   "title": "The High Window",
   "author": "Raymond Chandler",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1942",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf first, 1942; copyright page reads 'FIRST EDITION.' Bound in tan cloth; first-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap. Third Marlowe novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-high-window"
  },
  {
   "slug": "playback",
   "title": "Playback",
   "author": "Raymond Chandler",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The UK Hamish Hamilton edition (1958) precedes the US Houghton Mifflin edition (1958) by roughly three months and is the true first. First printing carries the printed price on the first-issue jacket and no later-printing statement. Chandler's last completed novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/playback"
  },
  {
   "slug": "double-indemnity",
   "title": "Double Indemnity",
   "author": "James M. Cain",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (in 'Three of a Kind') / Avon (Murder Mystery Monthly No. 17)",
   "year": "1936 (serial) / 1943 (book)",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First appeared serially in Liberty magazine (1936). The first true book appearance is within the Knopf collection 'Three of a Kind' (1943), alongside 'The Embezzler' and 'Career in C Major,' with 'FIRST EDITION' stated. The standalone Avon Murder Mystery Monthly No. 17 paperback (1943) is a separate early appearance.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/double-indemnity"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mildred-pierce",
   "title": "Mildred Pierce",
   "author": "James M. Cain",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1941",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page. Bound in green cloth, titles to spine in gilt, publisher's device blind-stamped to the front cover, top edge stained blue, fore-edge untrimmed. First-issue dust jacket carries the printed price to the upper inside front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mildred-pierce"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-moving-target",
   "title": "The Moving Target",
   "author": "Ross Macdonald (as John Macdonald)",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page. Published April 1949 under the byline 'John Macdonald' (not yet 'Ross Macdonald'). Brown cloth lettered and decorated in green; jacket designed by Bill English. First Lew Archer novel. First-issue jacket carries the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-moving-target"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-underground-man",
   "title": "The Underground Man",
   "author": "Ross Macdonald",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page. Published January 1971. Orange paper boards backed in black cloth, gilt spine lettering, blind-stamped 'RM' monogram to the front cover, top edge stained blue, deckled fore-edge. First-issue jacket carries the printed price. The book that returned Macdonald to wide critical attention (front-page New York Times Book Review).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-underground-man"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-price-of-salt",
   "title": "The Price of Salt",
   "author": "Patricia Highsmith (as Claire Morgan)",
   "publisher": "Coward-McCann",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Published under the pseudonym 'Claire Morgan.' Issued in a single Coward-McCann hardcover printing in 1952: quarter black cloth over green boards with red stamping; no later-printing statement; first-issue jacket carries the printed price. Later reissued as 'Carol.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-price-of-salt"
  },
  {
   "slug": "beast-in-view",
   "title": "Beast in View",
   "author": "Margaret Millar",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House first printing states 'FIRST PRINTING' on the copyright page with no later-printing notice. Light blue boards over black cloth spine, title stamped in orange on the spine, blind-stamped front cover, yellow top edge. First-state dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel (1956).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/beast-in-view"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-eighth-circle",
   "title": "The Eighth Circle",
   "author": "Stanley Ellin",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House first printing states 'FIRST PRINTING' on the copyright page with no later-printing notice. First-issue dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap. The novel introduces private investigator Murray Kirk. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel (1959).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-eighth-circle"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-light-of-day",
   "title": "The Light of Day",
   "author": "Eric Ambler",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The William Heinemann (London) edition of 1962 is the true first, with the printed price on the front jacket flap. Filmed in 1964 as 'Topkapi.' Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel (1964).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-light-of-day"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-laughing-policeman",
   "title": "The Laughing Policeman",
   "author": "Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo",
   "publisher": "Norstedts (Sweden, as 'Den skrattande polisen') / Pantheon (US)",
   "year": "1968 (Swedish) / 1970 (US English)",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The textual true first is the Swedish 'Den skrattande polisen' (Norstedts, 1968). The first English-language edition is the US Pantheon edition (1970), translated by Alan Blair, with the printed price on the jacket flap and no later-printing statement. Fourth of the ten Martin Beck novels. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel (1971).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-laughing-policeman"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-case-of-need",
   "title": "A Case of Need",
   "author": "Michael Crichton (as Jeffery Hudson)",
   "publisher": "World Publishing",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Published by The World Publishing Company (New York and Cleveland) in 1968 under the pseudonym 'Jeffery Hudson.' First printing has no later-printing statement; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed price on the flap. Crichton's award-winning debut novel. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel (1969).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-case-of-need"
  },
  {
   "slug": "promised-land",
   "title": "Promised Land",
   "author": "Robert B. Parker",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has a complete number line 1 through 10 on the copyright page. First-issue dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap and was designed by Paul Bacon. Fourth Spenser novel; winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel (1977).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/promised-land"
  },
  {
   "slug": "eye-of-the-needle",
   "title": "Eye of the Needle",
   "author": "Ken Follett",
   "publisher": "Arbor House (US) / Macdonald & Jane's (UK, as 'Storm Island')",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The US Arbor House issue (1978) under the title 'Eye of the Needle' has no later-printing statement and carries the printed price on the first-issue jacket. The UK issue (Macdonald & Jane's, 1978) appeared as 'Storm Island'. Follett's breakthrough; winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel (1979).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/eye-of-the-needle"
  },
  {
   "slug": "black-cherry-blues",
   "title": "Black Cherry Blues",
   "author": "James Lee Burke",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing stated on the copyright page with a complete number line down to 1. First-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap and was designed by Wendell Minor. Third Dave Robicheaux novel; winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel (1990).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/black-cherry-blues"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-dance-at-the-slaughterhouse",
   "title": "A Dance at the Slaughterhouse",
   "author": "Lawrence Block",
   "publisher": "William Morrow",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Morrow first edition stated on the copyright page with a complete number line down to 1. First-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap. Matthew Scudder novel; winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel (1992).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-dance-at-the-slaughterhouse"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sculptress",
   "title": "The Sculptress",
   "author": "Minette Walters",
   "publisher": "Macmillan (UK)",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Macmillan edition (1993): original red cloth with gilt spine titling, no later-printing statement, and the printed price on the first-issue jacket. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel (1994).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sculptress"
  },
  {
   "slug": "citizen-vince",
   "title": "Citizen Vince",
   "author": "Jess Walter",
   "publisher": "ReganBooks (HarperCollins)",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries 'First Edition' stated with a full number line ending in 1, and the first-issue jacket shows the printed retail price. Won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 2006 (for the 2005 book).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/citizen-vince"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bluebird-bluebird",
   "title": "Bluebird, Bluebird",
   "author": "Attica Locke",
   "publisher": "Mulholland Books (Little, Brown)",
   "year": "2017",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has 'First Edition' stated with a number line ending in 1, and the first-issue jacket shows the printed retail price. Won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 2018. Signed first printings exist.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bluebird-bluebird"
  },
  {
   "slug": "down-the-river-unto-the-sea",
   "title": "Down the River Unto the Sea",
   "author": "Walter Mosley",
   "publisher": "Mulholland Books (Little, Brown)",
   "year": "2018",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has 'First Edition' stated with a number line ending in 1, and the first-issue jacket shows the printed retail price. Won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 2019.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/down-the-river-unto-the-sea"
  },
  {
   "slug": "notes-on-an-execution",
   "title": "Notes on an Execution",
   "author": "Danya Kukafka",
   "publisher": "William Morrow",
   "year": "2022",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "William Morrow first edition (January 2022): number line ending in 1 with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page; first-issue jacket carries the printed price. Won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 2023.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/notes-on-an-execution"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-big-empty",
   "title": "The Big Empty",
   "author": "Robert Crais",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "2025",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "G.P. Putnam's Sons first edition (2025): number line ending in 1 with 'First Edition' stated; first-issue jacket carries the printed price. Twentieth Elvis Cole and Joe Pike novel. Won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 2026.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-big-empty"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde",
   "title": "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde",
   "author": "Robert Louis Stevenson",
   "publisher": "Longmans, Green & Co. (London) / Charles Scribner's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1886",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued in printed paper wrappers and in cloth. On wrappered copies the front-wrapper date was printed '1885' with the final figure altered by hand to '6' (publication was delayed from December 1885 to January 1886); this altered date is the key first-issue point. The Scribner US printing was about 3,000 copies, only roughly 1,250 of them in cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-picture-of-dorian-gray",
   "title": "The Picture of Dorian Gray",
   "author": "Oscar Wilde",
   "publisher": "Ward, Lock and Company (London)",
   "year": "1891",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First book edition (the expanded novel with six added chapters), April 1891. Trade first-issue point: on page 208, eight lines from the bottom, the word 'and' is misprinted 'nd.' A deluxe large-paper issue limited to 250 copies signed by Wilde was also produced; it corrects the typo.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-picture-of-dorian-gray"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ghost-stories-of-an-antiquary",
   "title": "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary",
   "author": "M. R. James",
   "publisher": "Edward Arnold (London)",
   "year": "1904",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Original oatmeal cloth ruled in red and lettered in black, with yapp (overhanging) fore-edges; issued without a dust wrapper. Four plates by James McBryde (he died in 1904 having completed only these four drawings, and James declined further illustration). A recognized first-impression text point is 'art museum' at page 55. An inserted 16-page publisher's catalogue dated November 1904 is cited by dealers as a first-issue point.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ghost-stories-of-an-antiquary"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-green-mile",
   "title": "The Green Mile",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Signet (New American Library / Penguin)",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Originally issued in 1996 as six serialized Signet mass-market paperback originals released about a month apart: 'The Two Dead Girls' (March 1996), 'The Mouse on the Mile,' 'Coffey's Hands,' 'The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix,' 'Night Journey,' and 'Coffey on the Mile' (August 1996). Each first printing carries a full number line beginning at 1; each is a paperback original priced at its printed cover price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-green-mile"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bag-of-bones",
   "title": "Bag of Bones",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Scribner (New York)",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Scribner edition 1998' with a full number line ending in 1 (1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2). First-state dust jacket carries the printed cover price. Scribner colophon present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bag-of-bones"
  },
  {
   "slug": "liseys-story",
   "title": "Lisey's Story",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Scribner (New York)",
   "year": "2006",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Scribner edition 2006' with a full number line ending in 1. First-state dust jacket carries the printed cover price. Scribner colophon present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/liseys-story"
  },
  {
   "slug": "duma-key",
   "title": "Duma Key",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Scribner (New York)",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Scribner hardcover edition January 2008' with a full number line ending in 1. First-state dust jacket carries the printed cover price. Scribner colophon present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/duma-key"
  },
  {
   "slug": "doctor-sleep",
   "title": "Doctor Sleep",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Scribner (New York)",
   "year": "2013",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Scribner hardcover edition September 2013' with a full number line including the 1 (the standard 1-through descending sequence). First-state dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap. Sequel to The Shining.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/doctor-sleep"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mine",
   "title": "Mine",
   "author": "Robert R. McCammon",
   "publisher": "Pocket Books (New York)",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First published as a Pocket Books hardcover in 1990. First printing identified by a complete number line including the 1 on the copyright page. Winner of the 1990 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mine"
  },
  {
   "slug": "carrion-comfort",
   "title": "Carrion Comfort",
   "author": "Dan Simmons",
   "publisher": "Dark Harvest (Arlington Heights, Illinois)",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Oversized 8vo, 636 pp, illustrated by Dan Simmons and Kathleen McNeil Sherman. Issued in three states: 26 lettered copies (signed), 450 numbered copies (signed by author and artist) plus a small number of publisher's copies marked P/C on the colophon leaf, and an unsigned trade issue (ISBN 0-913165-37-9). The limited states carry a limitation leaf; the trade does not.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/carrion-comfort"
  },
  {
   "slug": "carrion-comfort-novella-original-appearance",
   "title": "Carrion Comfort (novella, original appearance)",
   "author": "Dan Simmons",
   "publisher": "Omni magazine",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The original short-fiction 'Carrion Comfort' first appeared in the September/October 1983 issue of Omni magazine, before the expanded 1989 novel. This is a periodical appearance, not a book first edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/carrion-comfort-novella-original-appearance"
  },
  {
   "slug": "koko",
   "title": "Koko",
   "author": "Peter Straub",
   "publisher": "E. P. Dutton / Seymour Lawrence (New York)",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the copyright-page first-edition statement and a complete number line that includes the 1 (sequence 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2). First-state dust jacket priced as issued on the front flap. Won the 1989 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/koko"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-throat",
   "title": "The Throat",
   "author": "Peter Straub",
   "publisher": "Dutton (New York)",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the copyright-page first-edition statement and a full number line including the 1; first-state jacket priced as issued. Quarter cloth over boards, gilt spine lettering. Won the 1993 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. Third of the Blue Rose books.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-throat"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-head-full-of-ghosts",
   "title": "A Head Full of Ghosts",
   "author": "Paul Tremblay",
   "publisher": "William Morrow (New York)",
   "year": "2015",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover, published 2 June 2015, 287 pp, ISBN 9780062363237. The first printing carries the 'First Edition' statement together with a full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page, and a first-state dust jacket priced as issued. Won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel for 2015 (presented 2016).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-head-full-of-ghosts"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-cabin-at-the-end-of-the-world",
   "title": "The Cabin at the End of the World",
   "author": "Paul Tremblay",
   "publisher": "William Morrow (New York)",
   "year": "2018",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover, published 26 June 2018, ISBN 9780062679109. The first printing carries the 'First Edition' statement with a full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page, and a first-state dust jacket priced as issued. Won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel for 2018.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-cabin-at-the-end-of-the-world"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-only-good-indians",
   "title": "The Only Good Indians",
   "author": "Stephen Graham Jones",
   "publisher": "Saga Press (Simon & Schuster, New York)",
   "year": "2020",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover, published 14 July 2020, ISBN 9781982136451. The first printing shows a full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page (a line whose lowest digit is 3 indicates a third printing, and so on), with a first-state jacket priced as issued. Won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel for 2020.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-only-good-indians"
  },
  {
   "slug": "my-heart-is-a-chainsaw",
   "title": "My Heart Is a Chainsaw",
   "author": "Stephen Graham Jones",
   "publisher": "Saga Press (Simon & Schuster, New York)",
   "year": "2021",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover, published 31 August 2021, 405 pp, ISBN 9781982137632. The first printing shows a full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page, with a first-state jacket priced as issued. Won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel for 2021.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/my-heart-is-a-chainsaw"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-devil-takes-you-home",
   "title": "The Devil Takes You Home",
   "author": "Gabino Iglesias",
   "publisher": "Mulholland Books (Little, Brown, New York)",
   "year": "2022",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover, published 2 August 2022, ISBN 9780316426916. The first printing shows a full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page, with a first-state jacket priced as issued. Won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel for 2022; it also won the 2022 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-devil-takes-you-home"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-fisherman",
   "title": "The Fisherman",
   "author": "John Langan",
   "publisher": "Word Horde (Petaluma, California)",
   "year": "2016",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trade paperback original, Word Horde, 2016, cover art by Yves Tourigny. The first printing is so stated on the copyright page; a small-press print run. Won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel for 2016.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-fisherman"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-drowning-girl",
   "title": "The Drowning Girl",
   "author": "Caitlín R. Kiernan",
   "publisher": "Roc (Penguin)",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trade paperback original, Roc, March 2012; the first printing carries a full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page. Won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel for 2012 (presented 2013) and the James Tiptree Jr. Award.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-drowning-girl"
  },
  {
   "slug": "song-of-kali",
   "title": "Song of Kali",
   "author": "Dan Simmons",
   "publisher": "Bluejay Books (New York)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Bluejay Books hardcover, 1985, Simmons's first novel. The first printing states First Bluejay Printing: November, 1985 on the copyright page; black cloth with gilt spine titles, jacket priced as issued. Won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (presented 1986).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/song-of-kali"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lady-chatterleys-lover",
   "title": "Lady Chatterley's Lover",
   "author": "D. H. Lawrence",
   "publisher": "Privately printed (Tipografia Giuntina, Florence)",
   "year": "1928",
   "genre": "high-spots-modern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first: privately printed in Florence, 1928, limited to 1,000 numbered copies signed by Lawrence, in mulberry/terracotta paper-covered boards with the phoenix device on the front cover and a white paper spine label. Printed by the Tipografia Giuntina under the direction of Florentine bookseller Giuseppe (Pino) Orioli and issued by subscription. The unexpurgated text; signed and numbered on the limitation page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lady-chatterleys-lover"
  },
  {
   "slug": "prufrock-and-other-observations",
   "title": "Prufrock and Other Observations",
   "author": "T. S. Eliot",
   "publisher": "The Egoist Ltd. (London)",
   "year": "1917",
   "genre": "high-spots-modern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition (Gallup A1): Eliot's first book, The Egoist Ltd., London, 1917, limited to 500 copies in stiff printed buff/cream wrappers lettered in black; 40 pages, issued without a dust jacket. A notoriously fragile production and one of the scarcest twentieth-century poetry firsts.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/prufrock-and-other-observations"
  },
  {
   "slug": "goodbye-to-berlin",
   "title": "Goodbye to Berlin",
   "author": "Christopher Isherwood",
   "publisher": "The Hogarth Press (London)",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "high-spots-modern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: The Hogarth Press, London, 1939, in oatmeal/textured cloth lettered in red with red top edge, in a dust jacket designed by Humphrey Spender; copyright page without a later-printing notice. Collects six linked pieces including the 'Sally Bowles' material later adapted as Cabaret.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/goodbye-to-berlin"
  },
  {
   "slug": "darkness-at-noon",
   "title": "Darkness at Noon",
   "author": "Arthur Koestler",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "high-spots-modern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Jonathan Cape, London, 1940, an octavo in cloth and dust jacket, first impression without a later-printing notice; wartime paper and binding. Translated from Koestler's German by Daphne Hardy. Because the original German manuscript was lost during the 1940 flight from France, this English translation was the first form of the text to be published.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/darkness-at-noon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sun-also-rises-high-spots-note-grolier-standard-canon",
   "title": "The Sun Also Rises high spots note — Grolier/standard canon",
   "author": "(reference framing)",
   "publisher": "Grolier Club (New York)",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "high-spots-modern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Framing entry, not a collectible title. The Grolier Club's 'One Hundred Influential American Books Printed Before 1900' (exhibition 1946, catalogue published by the Grolier Club, New York, 1947) is a cornerstone collecting checklist. Most of its titles are pre-1900 (Franklin, Audubon, Whitman 'Leaves of Grass' 1855, Thoreau, Stowe 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', Melville 'Moby-Dick' 1851, Twain) and belong in the nineteenth-century Americana slices, not the modern slice. Modern overlap from Grolier-style canons is minimal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sun-also-rises-high-spots-note-grolier-standard-canon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "connolly-the-modern-movement-reference-framing",
   "title": "Connolly 'The Modern Movement' reference framing",
   "author": "Cyril Connolly",
   "publisher": "André Deutsch / Hamish Hamilton (UK); Atheneum (US)",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "high-spots-modern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Framing entry for the list itself, not a book to collect for points here. Connolly's 'The Modern Movement: One Hundred Key Books from England, France and America, 1880-1950' (1965) is the canonical modern-firsts checklist. The English-language high spots drawn from it and catalogued separately include James 'The Portrait of a Lady' (1881), Conrad 'Youth' (1902) and 'The Secret Agent' (1907), Joyce 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' (1916), 'Ulysses' (1922) and 'Finnegans Wake' (1939), Lawrence 'Sons and Lovers' (1913) and 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' (1928), Eliot 'Prufrock' (1917), 'The Waste Land' (1922) and 'Four Quartets', Forster 'A Passage to India' (1924), Woolf 'To the Lighthouse' (1927) and 'The Waves' (1931), Fitzgerald 'The Great Gatsby' (1925) and 'Tender Is the Night' (1934), Hemingway 'In Our Time' (1925), 'The Sun Also Rises' (1926) and 'A Farewell to Arms' (1929), Faulkner 'Sanctuary' (1931), Waugh 'Decline and Fall' (1928), Huxley 'Brave New World' (1932), Orwell 'Animal Farm' (1945) and 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' (1949), Greene 'The Power and the Glory' (1940) and Koestler 'Darkness at Noon' (1940). French titles (Proust, Gide, Camus, Sartre, Celine) belong in a French-firsts slice.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/connolly-the-modern-movement-reference-framing"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-waves",
   "title": "The Waves",
   "author": "Virginia Woolf",
   "publisher": "The Hogarth Press (London)",
   "year": "1931",
   "genre": "high-spots-modern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: The Hogarth Press, London, 1931, in purple cloth with the Vanessa Bell dust jacket; copyright page without a later-printing statement. Precedes the US Harcourt edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-waves"
  },
  {
   "slug": "four-quartets",
   "title": "Four Quartets",
   "author": "T. S. Eliot",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace (New York) / Faber & Faber (London)",
   "year": "1943",
   "genre": "high-spots-modern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in one volume: the US Harcourt, Brace edition (New York, 1943) precedes the UK Faber and Faber edition (1944) as the first collected printing of all four quartets together, dated 1943 with no later-printing notice. Note a first-state quirk: because of faulty wartime margins, most of the 1943 Harcourt sheets were destroyed and only a small number (about 788 copies, retained to secure copyright) survive, so the genuine 1943 first is scarce. The four quartets first appeared separately ('Burnt Norton' in 'Collected Poems 1909-1935', then 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding' as Faber pamphlets, 1940-42).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/four-quartets"
  },
  {
   "slug": "miss-lonelyhearts",
   "title": "Miss Lonelyhearts",
   "author": "Nathanael West",
   "publisher": "Liveright (New York)",
   "year": "1933",
   "genre": "high-spots-modern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Liveright, New York, 1933 (published 8 April 1933). Notorious issue history tied to Liveright's bankruptcy: about 2,200 copies were printed but only roughly 800 were shipped to bookshops before the collapse; copies bearing the Liveright imprint and 1933 date are the first issue. The withheld sheets (about 1,400 copies) were reissued in June 1933 by Harcourt, Brace under their own imprint as the second issue, and the title was remaindered by Greenberg in 1934 as the third issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/miss-lonelyhearts"
  },
  {
   "slug": "death-in-the-afternoon",
   "title": "Death in the Afternoon",
   "author": "Ernest Hemingway",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons, New York",
   "year": "1932",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the 'A' and the Scribner seal on the copyright page. Bound in black cloth stamped in gilt; color frontispiece by Juan Gris and numerous black-and-white photographic plates. Published September 1932 with a first-issue dust jacket carrying the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/death-in-the-afternoon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "winner-take-nothing",
   "title": "Winner Take Nothing",
   "author": "Ernest Hemingway",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons, New York",
   "year": "1933",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the 'A' and the Scribner seal on the copyright page. Bound in black cloth boards with gold-printed paper labels on the front board and spine; top edge stained red. Published October 1933 with a first-issue dust jacket carrying the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/winner-take-nothing"
  },
  {
   "slug": "green-hills-of-africa",
   "title": "Green Hills of Africa",
   "author": "Ernest Hemingway",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons, New York",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the Scribner seal with the letter A on the copyright page. Bound in green cloth with a black spine panel, lettered and stamped in gilt. Issued in a pictorial dust jacket bearing the printed price. Published October 25, 1935, after serialization in Scribner's Magazine.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/green-hills-of-africa"
  },
  {
   "slug": "to-have-and-have-not",
   "title": "To Have and Have Not",
   "author": "Ernest Hemingway",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons, New York",
   "year": "1937",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the Scribner seal with the letter A on the copyright page. Bound in black cloth lettered in red. Issued in a dust jacket bearing the printed price and a photograph of Hemingway. Published October 15, 1937.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/to-have-and-have-not"
  },
  {
   "slug": "flappers-and-philosophers",
   "title": "Flappers and Philosophers",
   "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons, New York",
   "year": "1920",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing (Bruccoli A6.1.a) has the Scribner seal and reads 'Published September, 1920' on the copyright page. Bound in dark green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine with a blind-stamped front board. First-issue dust jacket with no later-printing notices.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/flappers-and-philosophers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-beautiful-and-damned",
   "title": "The Beautiful and Damned",
   "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons, New York",
   "year": "1922",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has 'Published March, 1922' on the copyright page with the Scribner's seal. Bound in green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. First-issue dust jacket carries the illustration by W. E. Hill, whose figures of Anthony and Gloria were drawn to resemble Scott and Zelda. Far scarcer in the original jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-beautiful-and-damned"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-marble-faun",
   "title": "The Marble Faun",
   "author": "William Faulkner",
   "publisher": "The Four Seas Company, Boston",
   "year": "1924",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faulkner's first book, a poetry collection with a preface by Phil Stone. Issued in paper-covered (marbled/mottled) boards with printed paper labels on the front cover and spine, in a glassine and a green-printed dust wrapper. Edition of about 500 copies. Copyright page carries the 'Published, December, 1924' statement and the Four Seas imprint; publication was fixed at December 15, 1924.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-marble-faun"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mosquitoes",
   "title": "Mosquitoes",
   "author": "William Faulkner",
   "publisher": "Boni & Liveright, New York",
   "year": "1927",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faulkner's second novel. Binding: navy blue cloth lettered in yellow on the spine and front cover, with yellow top stain and yellow endpapers. The copyright page of the first printing carries no indication of a later printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mosquitoes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-wild-palms",
   "title": "The Wild Palms",
   "author": "William Faulkner",
   "publisher": "Random House, New York",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade edition states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page. Binding: beige (tan) cloth, with titling and rule stamped in green and gilt on spine and front panel, and a green top stain. Issued in a first-issue dust jacket with the printed price. A separate signed limited edition of 250 copies was also issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-wild-palms"
  },
  {
   "slug": "from-death-to-morning",
   "title": "From Death to Morning",
   "author": "Thomas Wolfe",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons, New York",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the 'A' together with the Scribner seal on the copyright page. Story collection bound in brown cloth lettered in gilt with a brown top stain. First-issue dust jacket carries the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/from-death-to-morning"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-story-of-a-novel",
   "title": "The Story of a Novel",
   "author": "Thomas Wolfe",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons, New York",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the 'A' together with the Scribner seal on the copyright page. A thin volume (the revised text of Wolfe's Boulder writers'-conference lecture), bound in reddish/orange cloth with titling in gilt on black panels. First-issue dust jacket carries the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-story-of-a-novel"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-custom-of-the-country",
   "title": "The Custom of the Country",
   "author": "Edith Wharton",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons, New York",
   "year": "1913",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First issue: 'Published October, 1913' on the copyright page with the Scribner seal; octavo of 594 pages in red cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Wharton bibliography reference Garrison A15. First-issue dust jacket extremely scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-custom-of-the-country"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nine-stories",
   "title": "Nine Stories",
   "author": "J.D. Salinger",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has no later-printing statement on the copyright page. Bound in black cloth with the spine stamped in gilt. First-issue dust jacket carries the printed price on the flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nine-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "slaughterhouse-five-or-the-childrens-crusade",
   "title": "Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First printing' stated on the copyright page. Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt with red and black, facsimile Vonnegut signature stamped in gilt on the front cover, black endpapers, 186 pp. First-issue jacket carries the printed price at the upper corner of the front flap with rear code 0369; jacket design by Paul Bacon.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/slaughterhouse-five-or-the-childrens-crusade"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sirens-of-titan",
   "title": "The Sirens of Titan",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin (hardcover)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first edition is the 1959 Dell paperback original (Dell First Edition B138), with 'First printing - October, 1959' stated on the copyright page and cover art by Richard Powers. The first hardcover is Houghton Mifflin 1961, identified by 'First Printing' on the copyright page, with the jacket carrying the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sirens-of-titan"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mother-night",
   "title": "Mother Night",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row (hardcover)",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first edition is the 1962 Fawcett Gold Medal paperback original (issued February 1962, printed wrappers). The first hardcover is Harper & Row 1966, which adds a new Introduction concluding with the dateline 'Iowa City, 1966'; first printing so stated, with the jacket carrying the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mother-night"
  },
  {
   "slug": "breakfast-of-champions-or-goodbye-blue-monday",
   "title": "Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page reads 'First printing-1973'. Bound in publisher's orange cloth, gilt and black spine lettering, yellow topstain. First-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap, jacket design by Bob Giusti.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/breakfast-of-champions-or-goodbye-blue-monday"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-poorhouse-fair",
   "title": "The Poorhouse Fair",
   "author": "John Updike",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Updike's first novel. 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page. Quarter orange cloth over blue paper-covered boards, spine lettered in silver and gilt, top edge orange, 185 pages. First-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap with a single paragraph of text on the rear flap; jacket design by Harry Ford.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-poorhouse-fair"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-centaur",
   "title": "The Centaur",
   "author": "John Updike",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page. Cloth-backed boards. First-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap and is coded 2/63 on the rear flap. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction (1964).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-centaur"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rabbit-redux",
   "title": "Rabbit Redux",
   "author": "John Updike",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page, with the Borzoi/Knopf colophon. First-issue trade jacket carries the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/rabbit-redux"
  },
  {
   "slug": "henderson-the-rain-king",
   "title": "Henderson the Rain King",
   "author": "Saul Bellow",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'Published in 1959 by The Viking Press' with no statement of a later printing. First issue has a yellow top-stain (top edge stained yellow), beige quarter linen spine with orange cloth boards. First-issue dust jacket (illustrated by Bill Preston) carries the printed price on the front flap and three blurbs about Saul Bellow as a novelist on the rear panel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/henderson-the-rain-king"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bullet-park",
   "title": "Bullet Park",
   "author": "John Cheever",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION'; the Borzoi colophon appears as Knopf's house device. First-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bullet-park"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-naked-and-the-dead",
   "title": "The Naked and the Dead",
   "author": "Norman Mailer",
   "publisher": "Rinehart & Company",
   "year": "1948",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Mailer's first book. First printing carries the Rinehart device (the script 'R' in a circle/colophon) on the copyright page with no statement of a later printing. Black cloth, 721 pp. First-issue jacket carries the printed price, Stanley Rinehart's 'A Word from the Publisher' running across the flaps, and a photo of the young Mailer on the rear panel; the more common later jacket replaces this with review blurbs.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-naked-and-the-dead"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-armies-of-the-night",
   "title": "The Armies of the Night",
   "author": "Norman Mailer",
   "publisher": "The New American Library",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page carries a stated 'First Printing' for the true first. First-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-armies-of-the-night"
  },
  {
   "slug": "advertisements-for-myself",
   "title": "Advertisements for Myself",
   "author": "Norman Mailer",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam imprint, New York 1959. First printing carries no statement of a later printing on the copyright page. Quarter cloth with Mailer's signature stamped on the front board. First-issue jacket bears the printed price on the front flap and the well-known photograph of Mailer in a yachting cap, with a selection of author photographs on the rear panel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/advertisements-for-myself"
  },
  {
   "slug": "other-voices-other-rooms",
   "title": "Other Voices, Other Rooms",
   "author": "Truman Capote",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1948",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Capote's first book. Copyright page states 'FIRST PRINTING' per Random House practice. Cloth with green top-stain. First-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap and the famous reclining-Capote author photograph (by Harold Halma) on the rear panel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/other-voices-other-rooms"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-grass-harp",
   "title": "The Grass Harp",
   "author": "Truman Capote",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'FIRST PRINTING' per Random House practice. Beige cloth with brown top-stain; jacket designed by Miriam Woods. First-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-grass-harp"
  },
  {
   "slug": "music-for-chameleons",
   "title": "Music for Chameleons",
   "author": "Truman Capote",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with a number line; for a first printing the line retains the low digit per Random House practice of the period. First-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/music-for-chameleons"
  },
  {
   "slug": "something-happened",
   "title": "Something Happened",
   "author": "Joseph Heller",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' per Knopf practice (a Borzoi book), with no later-printing notice. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering and yellow top-stain. First-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/something-happened"
  },
  {
   "slug": "good-as-gold",
   "title": "Good as Gold",
   "author": "Joseph Heller",
   "publisher": "Simon and Schuster",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "A full number line including the low digit on the copyright page indicates the first printing, with no later-printing notice. Jacket design by Paul Bacon; first-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/good-as-gold"
  },
  {
   "slug": "one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest",
   "title": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest",
   "author": "Ken Kesey",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Kesey's first novel. Copyright page reads 'Published in 1962 by The Viking Press, Inc.' with no later-printing statement. Bright green cloth lettered in yellow on the spine, top edge stained peach. First-state text points (removed in later printings after a lawsuit): the 'fool Red Cross woman' wording at page 9 and the 'Gwen-doe-lin' Red Cross-woman passage at pages 85-86. First-issue dust jacket carries the printed price (unclipped) and a Jack Kerouac blurb on the front panel; jacket designed by Paul Bacon.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest"
  },
  {
   "slug": "child-of-god",
   "title": "Child of God",
   "author": "Cormac McCarthy",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' is stated on the copyright page with no later-printing line. Publisher's red boards with a navy/blue cloth spine, gilt spine lettering and a blind-stamped 'CMcC' on the front board. First-issue dust jacket carries the printed price unclipped; the rear panel shows the author photo and no review blurbs.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/child-of-god"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sunset-limited-play",
   "title": "The Sunset Limited (play)",
   "author": "Cormac McCarthy",
   "publisher": "Vintage (Vintage International)",
   "year": "2006",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trade paperback original, subtitled \"A Novel in Dramatic Form,\" in glossy pictorial card wrappers. First printing carries the full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page. No preceding hardcover trade edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sunset-limited-play"
  },
  {
   "slug": "americana",
   "title": "Americana",
   "author": "Don DeLillo",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Printing\" stated on the copyright page (firsts also carry the \"W\" on the copyright page); quarter blue cloth over red paper boards, title stamped in blue; price-clipped-free dust jacket carries the original printed price on the front flap. Scarce first novel, roughly 4,500 copies.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/americana"
  },
  {
   "slug": "great-jones-street",
   "title": "Great Jones Street",
   "author": "Don DeLillo",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Printing\" stated on the copyright page; cloth-backed boards stamped in metallic red and purple, yellow topstain; illustrated dust jacket carrying the original printed price, with a \"0473\" date code on the flap. Author's third novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/great-jones-street"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ratners-star",
   "title": "Ratner's Star",
   "author": "Don DeLillo",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page with the Knopf colophon and the publisher's number line; natural linen and paper-covered boards with blue spine lettering and blue topstain; jacket (designed by Fred Marcellino) carries the original printed price. Dated June 1976.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ratners-star"
  },
  {
   "slug": "players",
   "title": "Players",
   "author": "Don DeLillo",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page with the Knopf number line ending in 1 (9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Trade jacket carries the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/players"
  },
  {
   "slug": "running-dog",
   "title": "Running Dog",
   "author": "Don DeLillo",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated with the Knopf number line ending in 1; trade dust jacket carries the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/running-dog"
  },
  {
   "slug": "slow-learner",
   "title": "Slow Learner",
   "author": "Thomas Pynchon",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated with the number line on the copyright page; collects five early stories with Pynchon's autobiographical introduction. Trade hardcover jacket carries the printed price. A simultaneous trade paperback original also exists; the hardcover is the collectible first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/slow-learner"
  },
  {
   "slug": "vineland",
   "title": "Vineland",
   "author": "Thomas Pynchon",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page with a full number line ending in 1; trade jacket carries the printed price. Pynchon's first novel in seventeen years.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/vineland"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mason-dixon",
   "title": "Mason & Dixon",
   "author": "Thomas Pynchon",
   "publisher": "Henry Holt",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated with the number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 on the copyright page; trade jacket carries the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mason-dixon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "against-the-day",
   "title": "Against the Day",
   "author": "Thomas Pynchon",
   "publisher": "The Penguin Press",
   "year": "2006",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states \"First Edition\" with a complete number line ending in 1. A very thick single volume of over a thousand pages; the dust jacket carries the printed retail price at the lower flap. A true first printing must show both the stated First Edition and the full number line retaining the 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/against-the-day"
  },
  {
   "slug": "inherent-vice",
   "title": "Inherent Vice",
   "author": "Thomas Pynchon",
   "publisher": "The Penguin Press",
   "year": "2009",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states \"First Edition\" with a complete number line ending in 1; the dust jacket carries the printed retail price. A true first printing shows both the stated First Edition and the full number line retaining the 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/inherent-vice"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tar-baby",
   "title": "Tar Baby",
   "author": "Toni Morrison",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states \"First Edition.\" Octavo in cream boards stamped in gilt with a purple top stain; the illustrated dust jacket carries the printed retail price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tar-baby"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hotel-new-hampshire",
   "title": "The Hotel New Hampshire",
   "author": "John Irving",
   "publisher": "E.P. Dutton",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Dutton first printing: full number line present ending in 1 with no later-printing statement; the unclipped jacket carries the printed price (jacket designed by Terry Fehr). A Franklin Library signed limited edition also exists separately.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hotel-new-hampshire"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-book-of-daniel",
   "title": "The Book of Daniel",
   "author": "E.L. Doctorow",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page; the first-issue dust jacket carries the printed price (6.95) and is unclipped. Doctorow's third novel and his breakthrough, a key collected title.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-book-of-daniel"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ragtime",
   "title": "Ragtime",
   "author": "E.L. Doctorow",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page with no added printing line; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed price and shows no review excerpt on the rear flap. From the first printing, 150 specially-bound, numbered copies signed by Doctorow were issued as presentation copies, a distinct and more desirable state (a larger unnumbered signed binding also exists; the 150 numbered copies are the priority).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ragtime"
  },
  {
   "slug": "loon-lake",
   "title": "Loon Lake",
   "author": "E.L. Doctorow",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page; brown cloth with a facsimile author signature in gilt on the front board; first-issue dust jacket (designed by Paul Bacon) carries the printed price. A special presentation edition, bound in black cloth and issued without dust jacket or slipcase \"for the friends of the author and publisher,\" precedes the trade issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/loon-lake"
  },
  {
   "slug": "city-of-glass",
   "title": "City of Glass",
   "author": "Paul Auster",
   "publisher": "Sun & Moon Press",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover bound in dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, issued in a printed dust jacket; \"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page with a full descending number line. Issued as New American Fiction #4. The first-state dust jacket lacks the publisher's imprint at the foot of the spine; Sun & Moon later produced small tipped-on/loosely-inserted paper imprints to remedy the omission, and a third-state jacket has the imprint printed in with added flap logos. A limited issue of 26 lettered copies signed by the author also exists.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/city-of-glass"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ghosts",
   "title": "Ghosts",
   "author": "Paul Auster",
   "publisher": "Sun & Moon Press",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover bound in blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, issued in a printed dust jacket; \"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page with a full descending number line. Second volume of The New York Trilogy. A limited issue of 26 lettered copies signed by the author also exists.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ghosts"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-locked-room",
   "title": "The Locked Room",
   "author": "Paul Auster",
   "publisher": "Sun & Moon Press",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by Sun & Moon Press, Los Angeles, 1986; the third and final volume of the New York Trilogy (after City of Glass, 1985, and Ghosts, 1986). Look for the first-edition statement on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-locked-room"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-the-country-of-last-things",
   "title": "In the Country of Last Things",
   "author": "Paul Auster",
   "publisher": "Viking",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing by The Viking Press, New York, 1987; quarter-cloth over papered boards in illustrated dust jacket, with the printed price present on the jacket flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-the-country-of-last-things"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-music-of-chance",
   "title": "The Music of Chance",
   "author": "Paul Auster",
   "publisher": "Viking",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing by Viking, New York, 1990, with a full number line on the copyright page; the printed price is present on the jacket flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-music-of-chance"
  },
  {
   "slug": "leviathan",
   "title": "Leviathan",
   "author": "Paul Auster",
   "publisher": "Viking",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing by Viking, New York, 1992, with a full number line on the copyright page; the printed price is present on the jacket flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/leviathan"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rock-springs",
   "title": "Rock Springs",
   "author": "Richard Ford",
   "publisher": "Atlantic Monthly Press",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing by The Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1987, identified by the words First Edition and First Printing on the copyright page; a collection of ten stories. The printed price is present on the jacket flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/rock-springs"
  },
  {
   "slug": "wildlife",
   "title": "Wildlife",
   "author": "Richard Ford",
   "publisher": "Atlantic Monthly Press",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing by The Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1990, identified by the First Edition / First Printing statement on the copyright page; the printed price is present on the jacket flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/wildlife"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lay-of-the-land",
   "title": "The Lay of the Land",
   "author": "Richard Ford",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "2006",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has \"FIRST EDITION\" stated on the copyright page with a complete number line ending in 1; dust jacket carries the printed publisher's price, unclipped. Third novel in the Frank Bascombe sequence, following The Sportswriter and Independence Day.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lay-of-the-land"
  },
  {
   "slug": "postcards-annie-proulx",
   "title": "Postcards",
   "author": "Annie Proulx",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons (Scribner)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing with the Scribner number line and no later-printing statement; quarter brown cloth over speckled beige paper boards, spine lettered in gilt; 308 pp.; illustrated dust jacket bearing the printed price, unclipped. Proulx's first novel (after the story collection Heart Songs) and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/postcards-annie-proulx"
  },
  {
   "slug": "heart-songs-and-other-stories",
   "title": "Heart Songs and Other Stories",
   "author": "Annie Proulx",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons (Scribner)",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing with the Scribner number line and no later-printing statement; collection of nine stories; dust jacket bearing the printed price, unclipped, with jacket photography by Ben Shahn. Proulx's scarce first book and her most sought-after first edition. Byline \"E. Annie Proulx.\"",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/heart-songs-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-shipping-news-annie-proulx",
   "title": "The Shipping News",
   "author": "Annie Proulx",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons (Scribner)",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing with the Scribner number line and no later-printing statement; dust jacket bearing the printed price, unclipped. Won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; the first-state jacket carries no award stickers or printed award text. Byline \"E. Annie Proulx.\"",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-shipping-news-annie-proulx"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-death-of-adam-essays-on-modern-thought",
   "title": "The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought",
   "author": "Marilynne Robinson",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing is the Houghton Mifflin edition stating \"First Edition\" on the copyright page with a number line including the numeral 1. Robinson's first essay collection; the dust jacket carries the original printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-death-of-adam-essays-on-modern-thought"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-gunslinger-the-dark-tower-i",
   "title": "The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower I)",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Donald M. Grant",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Donald M. Grant first edition: brown cloth boards lettered in gilt, illustrated by Michael Whelan in color and black-and-white, in a pictorial dust jacket. The trade issue ran 10,000 copies. A separate limited issue of 500 copies, signed by King and Whelan on the limitation page and housed in a slipcase, is the prized state. The copyright page carries the Grant imprint without a later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-gunslinger-the-dark-tower-i"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-tommyknockers",
   "title": "The Tommyknockers",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the Putnam trade hardcover with the printed jacket price present and a full number line reading 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 on the copyright page (the numeral 1 present marks the first printing). Green cloth boards with King's embossed signature; two simultaneous jacket states exist with the author's name in red or in gold, neither having precedence.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-tommyknockers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dark-half",
   "title": "The Dark Half",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Viking",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the Viking trade hardcover with the printed jacket price present and a complete number line beginning with 1 on the copyright page. Black boards with gilt spine lettering and purple endpapers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dark-half"
  },
  {
   "slug": "strangers",
   "title": "Strangers",
   "author": "Dean Koontz",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam hardcover first, with a full number line counting down to 1 on the copyright page and the printed price present on the jacket front flap. Koontz's breakthrough hardcover bestseller.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/strangers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "watchers",
   "title": "Watchers",
   "author": "Dean Koontz",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam hardcover first, with a full number line counting down to 1 on the copyright page and the printed price present on the jacket front flap. One of Koontz's most collected titles.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/watchers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lightning",
   "title": "Lightning",
   "author": "Dean Koontz",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam hardcover first, with a full number line counting down to 1 on the copyright page and the printed price present on the jacket front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lightning"
  },
  {
   "slug": "midnight",
   "title": "Midnight",
   "author": "Dean Koontz",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam hardcover first, with a full number line counting down to 1 on the copyright page and the printed price present on the jacket front flap. Koontz's first number-one New York Times hardcover bestseller.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/midnight"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-feast-of-all-saints",
   "title": "The Feast of All Saints",
   "author": "Anne Rice",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Simon & Schuster hardcover first. First printing identified by the complete number line ending in 1 on the copyright page, in an unclipped jacket designed by Paul Bacon. Quarter red cloth over speckled cream boards with red endpapers. Rice's second book and her first non-vampire historical novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-feast-of-all-saints"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-mummy-or-ramses-the-damned",
   "title": "The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned",
   "author": "Anne Rice",
   "publisher": "Ballantine",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Ballantine Books trade paperback original, 1989, identified by the first-printing statement and full number line on the copyright page. There was no US hardcover first edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-mummy-or-ramses-the-damned"
  },
  {
   "slug": "books-of-blood-volumes-1-3",
   "title": "Books of Blood, Volumes 1-3",
   "author": "Clive Barker",
   "publisher": "Sphere Books (UK)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Sphere paperback originals (1984), priced 1.50 net. The earliest state carries the photographic covers; the same first edition was later reissued with covers using Barker's own artwork, so the photo-cover state is the true earliest. As paperback originals, the first printings carry no later-printing statement or number line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/books-of-blood-volumes-1-3"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-andromeda-strain",
   "title": "The Andromeda Strain",
   "author": "Michael Crichton",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf (Borzoi) first edition: quarter-bound in white/cream cloth spine over black boards, with the title in black on the spine and the number embossed on the front panel; black endpapers; Paul Bacon jacket. The first printing has the code 5/69 printed at the bottom of the rear jacket flap, the unclipped 5.95 price on the front flap, and First Edition stated on the copyright page with no later-printing statement. 295 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-andromeda-strain"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-terminal-man",
   "title": "The Terminal Man",
   "author": "Michael Crichton",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf (Borzoi) first edition: copyright page states Published May 1, 1972 / First and Second Printings Before Publication with First Edition and no later-printing statement; the unclipped jacket carries the 6.95 front-flap price and the code 5/72 at the rear flap. Butterscotch cloth spine with silver lettering over light brown boards with a repeating title strip; brown endpapers with cutaway brain drawings; Paul Bacon jacket. 247 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-terminal-man"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rising-sun",
   "title": "Rising Sun",
   "author": "Michael Crichton",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf (Borzoi) first issue, identified by \"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page (stated as a first trade edition), with the original price-printed dust jacket. By 1992 Knopf firsts also commonly carry a complete number line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/rising-sun"
  },
  {
   "slug": "clear-and-present-danger",
   "title": "Clear and Present Danger",
   "author": "Tom Clancy",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam first printing has a full number line on the copyright page descending to 1. The dust jacket carries the printed cover price and is not clipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/clear-and-present-danger"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hobbit-or-there-and-back-again",
   "title": "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again",
   "author": "J.R.R. Tolkien",
   "publisher": "George Allen & Unwin (London)",
   "year": "1937",
   "genre": "author-deep-5",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First impression of 1,500 copies, published 21 September 1937, with black-and-white illustrations only and no color plates. The rear jacket flap blurb misspells the artist's surname as Dodgeson, with the stray e struck through in black ink by the publisher. Tolkien's runic dust jacket is priced 7/6 net on the front flap. Top edge stained green. Frontispiece is the line drawing The Hill: Hobbiton-across-the-Water.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hobbit-or-there-and-back-again"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-fellowship-of-the-ring",
   "title": "The Fellowship of the Ring",
   "author": "J.R.R. Tolkien",
   "publisher": "George Allen & Unwin (London)",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "author-deep-5",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First impression of 3,000 copies (Hammond and Anderson), published 29 July 1954. The dust jacket is priced 21s net. On the rear flap blurb the ascender of the d in Frodo is clipped and the following o is not nicked. The bottom edge of Tolkien's portrait on the rear panel is trimmed straight rather than in a V. The folding map is present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-fellowship-of-the-ring"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-two-towers",
   "title": "The Two Towers",
   "author": "J.R.R. Tolkien",
   "publisher": "George Allen & Unwin (London)",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "author-deep-5",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First impression of 3,250 copies, published 11 November 1954. The copyright page states First published in 1954 with no later impression notice, and the year appears on the title page. A signature mark 4 is present at the foot of the final gathering. The dust jacket shows a small nick in the right side of the r in Towers and is priced 21s net. The folding map is present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-two-towers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "out-of-the-silent-planet",
   "title": "Out of the Silent Planet",
   "author": "C.S. Lewis",
   "publisher": "John Lane The Bodley Head (London)",
   "year": "1938",
   "genre": "author-deep-5",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1938. Copyright page reads 'First published in 1938' with no later reprint history. Octavo bound in brick-red cloth, title in gilt on spine, top edge stained. First volume of the Ransom (Space) Trilogy. Genuine firsts are scarce in the original dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/out-of-the-silent-planet"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-screwtape-letters",
   "title": "The Screwtape Letters",
   "author": "C.S. Lewis",
   "publisher": "Geoffrey Bles (London)",
   "year": "1942",
   "genre": "author-deep-5",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Geoffrey Bles: The Centenary Press, February 1942. The first impression copyright page reads 'First published February 1942' with NO subsequent reprint dates; the title sold rapidly and reprints (March, April, May, June, August 1942) were issued the same year, so any copy listing later dates is a later impression. Original cloth in dust jacket. The text grew out of the 1941 Guardian serialization.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-screwtape-letters"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lathe-of-heaven",
   "title": "The Lathe of Heaven",
   "author": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "author-deep-5",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. The first printing carries the Scribner 'A' point on the copyright page (the code 'A-10.71 [C]') together with the Scribner seal, the standard Scribner first-printing identifier of this period. Bound in green boards with blue cloth backstrip and gilt spine lettering; price-clipped jackets weaken a copy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lathe-of-heaven"
  },
  {
   "slug": "children-of-dune",
   "title": "Children of Dune",
   "author": "Frank Herbert",
   "publisher": "Berkley/Putnam (New York)",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "author-deep-5",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, published by Berkley Publishing and distributed by G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1976. First printing has a first-printing statement on the copyright page and a priced dust jacket. The text was first serialized in Analog earlier in 1976.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/children-of-dune"
  },
  {
   "slug": "foundation-and-empire",
   "title": "Foundation and Empire",
   "author": "Isaac Asimov",
   "publisher": "Gnome Press (New York)",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "author-deep-5",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Gnome Press, 1952 (Currey A1A). First-state points: red boards lettered in black with the nebula/Galaxy device on the front board and Edd Cartier jacket art; the first-state dust jacket lists 26 titles on the rear panel. Confirm the binding and jacket states against Currey on each copy, as multiple binding and jacket states exist.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/foundation-and-empire"
  },
  {
   "slug": "second-foundation",
   "title": "Second Foundation",
   "author": "Isaac Asimov",
   "publisher": "Gnome Press (New York)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "author-deep-5",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition stated 'First Edition' on the copyright page. Binding has a priority state (blue cloth lettered in brown is generally cited as earliest; a green-cloth variant also exists). Jacket by Ric Binkley, priced on the front flap. Confirm against Currey for state precedence.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/second-foundation"
  },
  {
   "slug": "2001-a-space-odyssey",
   "title": "2001: A Space Odyssey",
   "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
   "publisher": "New American Library (New York)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "author-deep-5",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing has 'FIRST PRINTING' stated on the copyright page (no later printings listed). Black spine over sky-blue boards, silver and blue spine lettering; pictorial film-still dust jacket, priced. Developed alongside the Kubrick film.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/2001-a-space-odyssey"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-illustrated-man",
   "title": "The Illustrated Man",
   "author": "Ray Bradbury",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (New York)",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "author-deep-5",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'First Edition' on the copyright page. Beige buckram cloth, red pictorial dust jacket priced on the flap. Doubleday gutter/printing code present on the final text page consistent with the first impression.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-illustrated-man"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ubik",
   "title": "Ubik",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (New York)",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "author-deep-5",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with '1969' on the title page, and carries a Doubleday gutter/printing code on the final text page consistent with the first printing. Jacket priced on the flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ubik"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-scanner-darkly",
   "title": "A Scanner Darkly",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (New York)",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "author-deep-5",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a Doubleday gutter/printing code on the final text page consistent with the first printing. Jacket priced on the flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-scanner-darkly"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane",
   "title": "The Ocean at the End of the Lane",
   "author": "Neil Gaiman",
   "publisher": "William Morrow (New York)",
   "year": "2013",
   "genre": "author-deep-5",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US trade edition: William Morrow, 2013 (published 18 June 2013), with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page and a complete number line ending in 1. The jacket carries the printed retail price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane"
  },
  {
   "slug": "guards-guards",
   "title": "Guards! Guards!",
   "author": "Terry Pratchett",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz (London)",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "author-deep-5",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Victor Gollancz, London, 1989 (published 9 November 1989), copyright page indicating the first printing, Josh Kirby jacket art, jacket priced in pounds. The first City Watch Discworld novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/guards-guards"
  },
  {
   "slug": "small-gods",
   "title": "Small Gods",
   "author": "Terry Pratchett",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz (London)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "author-deep-5",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Victor Gollancz, London, 1992, copyright page indicating the first printing, Josh Kirby jacket art, jacket priced in pounds on the front flap. A standalone-favourite Discworld novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/small-gods"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-abc-murders",
   "title": "The A.B.C. Murders",
   "author": "Agatha Christie",
   "publisher": "William Collins Sons / Crime Club (London)",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Collins Crime Club first edition, published 6 January 1936, retailing at 7/6, orange cloth, first-issue jacket priced 7/6. The copyright/printing statement should show no later-impression note.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-abc-murders"
  },
  {
   "slug": "death-on-the-nile",
   "title": "Death on the Nile",
   "author": "Agatha Christie",
   "publisher": "Collins Crime Club (London)",
   "year": "1937",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Collins Crime Club first, published 1 November 1937, priced 7s 6d. Orange cloth lettered in black. Copyright page reads Copyright 1937 with no later-printing notice. First-state jacket (design by Robin Macartney) carries reviews for the immediately preceding titles to the rear flap and generic review matter to the rear panel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/death-on-the-nile"
  },
  {
   "slug": "thunderball",
   "title": "Thunderball",
   "author": "Ian Fleming",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cape first, published 1961 (Gilbert A9a); dark brown/black cloth, gilt spine, with a skeletal hand embossed on the front board. First-issue Richard Chopping jacket priced 15s net; the first-state jacket shows the misprint 'Sidney' for 'Sydney' on the rear flap. Verso carries a single 'First published 1961' line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/thunderball"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-man-with-the-golden-gun",
   "title": "The Man with the Golden Gun",
   "author": "Ian Fleming",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cape first edition, 1965 (Gilbert A15a). First-state point: a small early portion of the print run (in the region of 900-odd copies, per the publisher's production records, before the costly large foil block was abandoned) was issued with a gun device blocked in gilt on the front board. This gilt-gun state is the scarce first state; the far commoner state lacks the gilt gun device. First-issue Chopping jacket priced 18s net.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-man-with-the-golden-gun"
  },
  {
   "slug": "call-for-the-dead",
   "title": "Call for the Dead",
   "author": "John le Carré",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz (London)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Gollancz first edition, 1961; publisher's red cloth with gilt spine lettering (Gollancz house style). First-issue dust jacket in the typical yellow Gollancz typographic design, priced 13s 6d net to the inside flap. Verso lacks any reprint/impression statement; confirm there is no later-impression line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/call-for-the-dead"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-murder-of-quality",
   "title": "A Murder of Quality",
   "author": "John le Carré",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz (London)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Gollancz first edition, 1962; publisher's red cloth with gilt spine lettering. First-issue yellow Gollancz typographic jacket priced 13s 6d net to the inside flap. Verso without a later-impression line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-murder-of-quality"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-honourable-schoolboy",
   "title": "The Honourable Schoolboy",
   "author": "John le Carré",
   "publisher": "Hodder & Stoughton (London)",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hodder & Stoughton first edition, 1977; first-issue jacket priced £4.95 net on the front flap; verso carries a single 'First printed 1977' line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-honourable-schoolboy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "from-doon-with-death",
   "title": "From Doon with Death",
   "author": "Ruth Rendell",
   "publisher": "John Long (London)",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "John Long (Hutchinson group) first, 1964; publisher's green cloth boards lettered in gilt; first-issue dust jacket designed by William Randell and priced 15s net on the front flap (unclipped). Copyright page carries a single first-published statement with no later impression line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/from-doon-with-death"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-new-lease-of-death-us-sins-of-the-fathers",
   "title": "A New Lease of Death (US: Sins of the Fathers)",
   "author": "Ruth Rendell",
   "publisher": "John Long (London)",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "John Long first, 1967, under the UK title 'A New Lease of Death'; publisher's boards with gilt spine titles; first-issue dust jacket illustrated by William Randell and priced 21s net. Copyright page carries a single first-published statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-new-lease-of-death-us-sins-of-the-fathers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-demon-in-my-view",
   "title": "A Demon in My View",
   "author": "Ruth Rendell",
   "publisher": "Hutchinson (London)",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hutchinson first, 1976; first-issue dust jacket priced on the front flap; copyright page carries a single first-published statement with no later impression line. Won the CWA Gold Dagger.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-demon-in-my-view"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-dark-adapted-eye",
   "title": "A Dark-Adapted Eye",
   "author": "Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)",
   "publisher": "Viking (London)",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Viking first, 1986, published under the pseudonym 'Barbara Vine'; first-issue dust jacket priced on the front flap; copyright page carries a single first-published statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-dark-adapted-eye"
  },
  {
   "slug": "fifty-two-pickup",
   "title": "Fifty-Two Pickup",
   "author": "Elmore Leonard",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press (New York)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Delacorte Press first, 1974; designated a 'Delacorte Suspense Novel of the Year'; copyright page states 'First printing' (Delacorte of this period used a stated 'First printing,' not a number line). First-issue black dust jacket lettered in red with the gun-and-film-reel graphic and the printed flap price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/fifty-two-pickup"
  },
  {
   "slug": "swag-also-as-ryans-rules",
   "title": "Swag (also as Ryan's Rules)",
   "author": "Elmore Leonard",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press (New York)",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Delacorte Press first, 1976, hardcover under the title 'Swag'; copyright page states 'First printing' (stated first printing rather than a number line); first-issue dust jacket with printed flap price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/swag-also-as-ryans-rules"
  },
  {
   "slug": "glitz",
   "title": "Glitz",
   "author": "Elmore Leonard",
   "publisher": "Arbor House (New York)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Arbor House first, 1985; copyright page carries the publisher's number line counting down to 1; first-issue dust jacket priced and unclipped. Leonard's breakout bestseller.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/glitz"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rum-punch",
   "title": "Rum Punch",
   "author": "Elmore Leonard",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press (New York)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Delacorte Press first, 1992; copyright page carries the full number line counting down to 1; first-issue dust jacket priced. Basis for the film 'Jackie Brown.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/rum-punch"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-fly-on-the-wall",
   "title": "The Fly on the Wall",
   "author": "Tony Hillerman",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row (New York)",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Harper & Row first, 1971; copyright page stated 'FIRST EDITION' with the Harper number line; first-issue dust jacket priced on the front flap. A non-Navajo political thriller.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-fly-on-the-wall"
  },
  {
   "slug": "listening-woman",
   "title": "Listening Woman",
   "author": "Tony Hillerman",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row (New York)",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Harper & Row first, 1978; copyright page stated 'FIRST EDITION' with the Harper number line ending in 1; first-issue dust jacket priced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/listening-woman"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dark-wind",
   "title": "The Dark Wind",
   "author": "Tony Hillerman",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row (New York)",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Harper & Row first, 1982; copyright page stated 'FIRST EDITION' with the Harper number line ending in 1; first-issue dust jacket priced on the front flap. Jim Chee novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dark-wind"
  },
  {
   "slug": "skinwalkers",
   "title": "Skinwalkers",
   "author": "Tony Hillerman",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row (New York)",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "New York: Harper & Row, 1986. Copyright page carries the 'FIRST EDITION' statement with the publisher's number line. Quarter red cloth over white paper boards, gilt spine lettering; 216 pages; cover art by Peter Thorpe. First-issue dust jacket is price-printed and unclipped. This is the first of Hillerman's Navajo novels to bring Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee together, and the book that lifted him to bestseller status.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/skinwalkers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "our-man-in-havana",
   "title": "Our Man in Havana",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Heinemann, 1958. 'First published 1958' on the verso. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the first-issue pictorial dust jacket (purple ground, designed by Donald Green).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/our-man-in-havana"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-comedians",
   "title": "The Comedians",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "The Bodley Head (UK)",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: The Bodley Head, 1966 (Greene had moved from Heinemann to The Bodley Head). 'First published 1966' on the copyright page. Dark green cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the first-issue pictorial dust jacket designed by Ivan Lapper, priced 25s net to the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-comedians"
  },
  {
   "slug": "vile-bodies",
   "title": "Vile Bodies",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall (UK)",
   "year": "1930",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Chapman & Hall, 1930. The verso of the title leaf carries 'First published 1930' with no later impression statement. Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First-issue dust jacket priced 7/6 to the spine, with the rear-panel list of titles ending at Jeffery's 'Second Choice'; jackets are scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/vile-bodies"
  },
  {
   "slug": "scoop",
   "title": "Scoop",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall (UK)",
   "year": "1938",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Chapman & Hall, 1938. 'First published 1938' on the title verso. Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First-state text has 'as' as the last word on page 88. The dust jacket exists in two first-impression states: the trompe-l'oeil newspaper masthead originally read in part 'aily Beas' (echoing the Daily Express); after Lord Beaverbrook objected, the masthead was restruck blank.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/scoop"
  },
  {
   "slug": "burmese-days",
   "title": "Burmese Days",
   "author": "George Orwell",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers (US)",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "New York: Harper & Brothers, 1934. Published 25 October 1934 in an edition of about 2,000 copies. This US edition is the true first; for libel reasons Gollancz declined the manuscript and the English edition was delayed and altered.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/burmese-days"
  },
  {
   "slug": "keep-the-aspidistra-flying",
   "title": "Keep the Aspidistra Flying",
   "author": "George Orwell",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz (UK)",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Victor Gollancz, 20 April 1936, in a printing of about 3,000 copies (only some 2,000 sold). Gollancz required libel-driven textual changes before publication, so the published first already incorporates them. Cloth binding with first-issue dust jacket; title page dated 1936 with no later impression statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/keep-the-aspidistra-flying"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bell",
   "title": "The Bell",
   "author": "Iris Murdoch",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (UK)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Chatto & Windus, 1958 (Murdoch's fourth novel). Green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; first-issue dust jacket designed by Charles Mozley and priced 15s on the front flap. First edition, first impression.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bell"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-severed-head",
   "title": "A Severed Head",
   "author": "Iris Murdoch",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (UK)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Chatto & Windus, 1961 (Murdoch's fifth novel). Brown cloth/boards with gilt spine lettering; first-issue dust jacket designed by John Woodcock and priced 18s on the flap. First edition, first impression.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-severed-head"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-comforters",
   "title": "The Comforters",
   "author": "Muriel Spark",
   "publisher": "Macmillan (UK)",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Macmillan, 1957 (published February 1957). Spark's first novel. Cloth binding; first-issue dust jacket bearing Evelyn Waugh's advance praise and priced to the flap, unclipped. Copyright page states 'First published 1957' with no later impression line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-comforters"
  },
  {
   "slug": "memento-mori",
   "title": "Memento Mori",
   "author": "Muriel Spark",
   "publisher": "Macmillan (UK)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Macmillan & Co., 1959. Publisher's pale blue boards with gilt spine lettering; first-issue dust jacket priced to the flap, unclipped. Copyright page states 'First published 1959'.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/memento-mori"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-prime-of-miss-jean-brodie",
   "title": "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie",
   "author": "Muriel Spark",
   "publisher": "Macmillan (UK)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Macmillan, 1961. Publisher's green cloth with gilt spine titles; dust jacket illustrated by Victor Reinganum, priced 13s 6d (13/6), unclipped. Copyright page states 'First published 1961'.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-prime-of-miss-jean-brodie"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-girls-of-slender-means",
   "title": "The Girls of Slender Means",
   "author": "Muriel Spark",
   "publisher": "Macmillan (UK)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Macmillan & Co., 1963. Cloth binding; first-issue dust jacket priced to the flap, unclipped. Copyright page states 'First published 1963'.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-girls-of-slender-means"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-inheritors",
   "title": "The Inheritors",
   "author": "William Golding",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Faber & Faber, 1955. Cloth binding; first-issue dust jacket with a drawing by Anthony Gross, priced 12s 6d, unclipped (some copies retain the scarce wraparound review band). Copyright page states 'First published in mcmlv' (Faber used Roman-numeral years before 1968).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-inheritors"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pincher-martin",
   "title": "Pincher Martin",
   "author": "William Golding",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Faber & Faber, 1956. Cloth binding; first-issue dust jacket with art by Anthony Gross, priced to the flap, unclipped. Copyright page states 'First published in mcmlvi' (Faber used Roman-numeral years before 1968). The US edition was retitled 'The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin' (Harcourt, Brace, 1957) — a separate, later issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pincher-martin"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-unconsoled",
   "title": "The Unconsoled",
   "author": "Kazuo Ishiguro",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London and Boston: Faber & Faber, 1995. Boards with gilt spine titles; first-issue dust jacket priced £15.99 net to the flap, unclipped. Copyright page reads 'First published in 1995' with a complete descending number line; the lowest digit '1' present indicates a first impression.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-unconsoled"
  },
  {
   "slug": "first-love-last-rites",
   "title": "First Love, Last Rites",
   "author": "Ian McEwan",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (UK)",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. McEwan's first book, a collection of short stories. Publisher's black cloth, gilt spine titles; dust jacket designed by Bill Botten, priced £2.50 net to the flap, unclipped. Copyright page reads 'First published 1975'. The collection won the Somerset Maugham Award for 1976.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/first-love-last-rites"
  },
  {
   "slug": "shame",
   "title": "Shame",
   "author": "Salman Rushdie",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (UK)",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Jonathan Cape, 1983. Rushdie's third novel. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine; textured-paper dust jacket designed by Mon Mohan, priced to the flap and unclipped. Title page states 'First published 1983'. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/shame"
  },
  {
   "slug": "metroland",
   "title": "Metroland",
   "author": "Julian Barnes",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (UK)",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. Barnes's first novel. Blue-grey boards, silver-blocked spine, grey endpapers; black dust jacket lettered in silver and white with a Jerry Bauer author photograph to the lower panel, priced to the flap and unclipped. Title page states 'First published 1980'. The novel later won the Somerset Maugham Award. Scarce as the debut.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/metroland"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-boys-will",
   "title": "A Boy's Will",
   "author": "Robert Frost",
   "publisher": "David Nutt (London)",
   "year": "1913",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Frost's first book, published in London in April 1913. About 1,000 sets of sheets were bound over roughly three decades in four variant bindings owing to the publisher's later bankruptcy. The genuine first issue is Binding A: the publisher's original bronzed brown pebble-grain cloth, bound by the Leighton-Straker Bindery, comprising no more than about 350 copies (perhaps as few as 284). Diagnostic points are the cloth and the stamping/decorative-device details. The dedication reads 'TO E.W.F.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-boys-will"
  },
  {
   "slug": "new-hampshire",
   "title": "New Hampshire",
   "author": "Robert Frost",
   "publisher": "Henry Holt",
   "year": "1923",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "New York: Henry Holt, 1923. Won the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and contains 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' and 'Fire and Ice'. The precedence first is the signed limited edition of 350 numbered copies, signed by Frost on the limitation leaf, illustrated with four woodcuts by J. J. Lankes, on rough paper in green-grey linen cloth with tan-mottled endpapers. The trade edition followed about three months later.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/new-hampshire"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-auroras-of-autumn",
   "title": "The Auroras of Autumn",
   "author": "Wallace Stevens",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, one of 3,000 copies, with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page beneath the Borzoi device and no additional printing noted. Issued in dark blue cloth lettered in gilt, in a dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-auroras-of-autumn"
  },
  {
   "slug": "collected-poems",
   "title": "Collected Poems",
   "author": "Wallace Stevens",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the 1955 National Book Award. First printing carries 'First Edition' on the copyright page beneath the Borzoi device. Published 1 October 1954 to mark Stevens's seventy-fifth birthday; rushed into print, the first printing is noted for containing numerous textual errors.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/collected-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "another-time",
   "title": "Another Time",
   "author": "W. H. Auden",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Contains the first book appearances of September 1, 1939 and Musee des Beaux Arts. The US Random House issue appeared in February 1940, ahead of the UK Faber issue (June 1940), so the Random House printing is the true first. First printing carries the Random House imprint with no later-printing or added-printing statement on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/another-time"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-age-of-anxiety",
   "title": "The Age of Anxiety",
   "author": "W. H. Auden",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The US Random House issue (1947) precedes the UK Faber issue (1948). First printing carries the Random House imprint with no later-printing statement; green boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Bloomfield and Mendelson A29; the first printing comprised 3,500 copies.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-age-of-anxiety"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-collected-poems",
   "title": "The Collected Poems",
   "author": "Sylvia Plath",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Edited by Ted Hughes; won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (awarded posthumously). The US Harper & Row first printing (1981) states FIRST EDITION on the copyright page, accompanied by a complete descending number line. The concurrent UK Faber edition is also 1981.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-collected-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "now-and-then-poems-1976-1978",
   "title": "Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978",
   "author": "Robert Penn Warren",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. First printing: Random House, New York, 1978, with 'First Edition' stated and the Random House number line ending in '2' on the copyright page, in dust jacket. A signed/numbered limited issue also exists.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/now-and-then-poems-1976-1978"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-spirit-level",
   "title": "The Spirit Level",
   "author": "Seamus Heaney",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Heaney's first collection after his 1995 Nobel Prize; won the 1996 Whitbread Poetry Award. UK Faber & Faber first printing, 1996: 'First published in 1996' with a full descending number line on the copyright page; dark green cloth boards lettered in gilt to spine, in dust jacket. US Farrar, Straus & Giroux is the first American printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-spirit-level"
  },
  {
   "slug": "observations",
   "title": "Observations",
   "author": "Marianne Moore",
   "publisher": "The Dial Press",
   "year": "1924",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Moore's first authorized American book, gathering the 1921 poems plus roughly thirty additional pieces. First printing: Dial Press, 1924, a small edition; carries no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/observations"
  },
  {
   "slug": "new-and-collected-poems",
   "title": "New and Collected Poems",
   "author": "Richard Wilbur",
   "publisher": "Harcourt Brace Jovanovich",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Wilbur's second. First printing: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988, stating 'First edition' with a number line, in dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/new-and-collected-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dream-songs-77-dream-songs",
   "title": "The Dream Songs (77 Dream Songs)",
   "author": "John Berryman",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Company",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'77 Dream Songs' won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. First printing: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1964, with the first-printing line stated on the copyright page; in dust jacket designed by Marshall Lee. Bibliographic reference Stefanik A11.1.a.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dream-songs-77-dream-songs"
  },
  {
   "slug": "selected-poems",
   "title": "Selected Poems",
   "author": "Donald Justice",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. First printing: Atheneum, New York, 1979, with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page, consistent with Atheneum's house practice of the period; issued in cloth with dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/selected-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-flying-change",
   "title": "The Flying Change",
   "author": "Henry Taylor",
   "publisher": "Louisiana State University Press",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. First printing: Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1985, issued simultaneously in cloth and in paper wrappers. The clothbound issue is the collector's first; both share the 1985 first-printing setting.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-flying-change"
  },
  {
   "slug": "thomas-and-beulah",
   "title": "Thomas and Beulah",
   "author": "Rita Dove",
   "publisher": "Carnegie Mellon University Press",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Dove was the second African American poet to win. First printing: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1986, issued simultaneously in cloth and in trade paper wrappers. The clothbound issue is the collector's first. A later dust-jacket state adds a Pulitzer notice to the front panel, so a jacket without that notice is consistent with early issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/thomas-and-beulah"
  },
  {
   "slug": "near-changes",
   "title": "Near Changes",
   "author": "Mona Van Duyn",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The true first is the Knopf (Borzoi) hardcover of 1990, identified by 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page together with the Borzoi colophon, issued in a dust jacket. Van Duyn was the first woman to hold the title of US Poet Laureate (1992-1993).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/near-changes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-simple-truth",
   "title": "The Simple Truth",
   "author": "Philip Levine",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The true first is the Knopf (Borzoi) hardcover of 1994, identified by 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page together with the Borzoi colophon, issued in a dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-simple-truth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dream-of-the-unified-field-selected-poems-1974-1994",
   "title": "The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994",
   "author": "Jorie Graham",
   "publisher": "The Ecco Press",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The first edition was published by Ecco (Hopewell, New Jersey) in 1995 in quarter cloth over boards with a pictorial dust jacket designed by Michael Ian Kaye. First printings carry the Ecco first-edition statement with an unadvanced number line and the original unclipped jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dream-of-the-unified-field-selected-poems-1974-1994"
  },
  {
   "slug": "alive-together-new-and-selected-poems",
   "title": "Alive Together: New and Selected Poems",
   "author": "Lisel Mueller",
   "publisher": "Louisiana State University Press",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The first edition was published by Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge) in 1996, issued in both cloth and paper. First printings carry the LSU Press first-edition statement with an unadvanced number line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/alive-together-new-and-selected-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "black-zodiac",
   "title": "Black Zodiac",
   "author": "Charles Wright",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The first edition was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York) in 1997 in hardcover with an illustrated dust jacket, carrying the FSG first-edition / first-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/black-zodiac"
  },
  {
   "slug": "blizzard-of-one",
   "title": "Blizzard of One",
   "author": "Mark Strand",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The first edition was published by Alfred A. Knopf (New York) in 1998 in hardcover with dust jacket, carrying the Knopf first-edition statement together with the Borzoi colophon.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/blizzard-of-one"
  },
  {
   "slug": "practical-gods",
   "title": "Practical Gods",
   "author": "Carl Dennis",
   "publisher": "Penguin (Penguin Poets)",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The first edition was published by Penguin in the Penguin Poets series in 2001 as a trade-paperback original; there was no preceding hardcover. First printings carry the first-edition statement with an unadvanced number line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/practical-gods"
  },
  {
   "slug": "moy-sand-and-gravel",
   "title": "Moy Sand and Gravel",
   "author": "Paul Muldoon",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The US first edition was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2002, with the words First edition, 2002 stated on the copyright page; issued in cloth with dust jacket. A Faber and Faber edition also appeared in the United Kingdom in 2002.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/moy-sand-and-gravel"
  },
  {
   "slug": "time-and-materials",
   "title": "Time and Materials",
   "author": "Robert Hass",
   "publisher": "Ecco / HarperCollins",
   "year": "2007",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the 2007 National Book Award for Poetry. Full title Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005. The first edition was published by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins, in 2007 (ISBN 9780061349607), with the publisher's first-edition conventions on the copyright page; issued in paper-covered boards with dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/time-and-materials"
  },
  {
   "slug": "versed",
   "title": "Versed",
   "author": "Rae Armantrout",
   "publisher": "Wesleyan University Press",
   "year": "2009",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award. The Wesleyan University Press first edition (2009, distributed by University Press of New England) appeared in both a clothbound issue and a simultaneous paperback in the Wesleyan Poetry Series; the cloth issue is the collector's first. Confirm the first printing by the number line on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/versed"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-best-of-it-new-and-selected-poems",
   "title": "The Best of It: New and Selected Poems",
   "author": "Kay Ryan",
   "publisher": "Grove Press",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (Ryan was sixteenth US Poet Laureate). The Grove Press first edition (New York, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8021-1914-8) is a clothbound hardcover with dust jacket, paper over boards. Confirm the first printing by the stated edition and number line on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-best-of-it-new-and-selected-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "life-on-mars",
   "title": "Life on Mars",
   "author": "Tracy K. Smith",
   "publisher": "Graywolf Press",
   "year": "2011",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (Smith later served as US Poet Laureate). The Graywolf Press first edition (Minneapolis, 2011, ISBN 978-1-55597-584-5) is a trade paperback original in printed wrappers. Confirm the first printing by the first-printing indicia and full number line on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/life-on-mars"
  },
  {
   "slug": "stags-leap",
   "title": "Stag's Leap",
   "author": "Sharon Olds",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. The Knopf first edition (New York, 2012, ISBN 978-0-375-71225-8) is a clothbound hardcover with dust jacket designed by Chip Kidd; per Knopf practice the copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' accompanied by the Borzoi colophon. Later printings remove the 'FIRST EDITION' line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/stags-leap"
  },
  {
   "slug": "3-sections",
   "title": "3 Sections",
   "author": "Vijay Seshadri",
   "publisher": "Graywolf Press",
   "year": "2013",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The Graywolf Press first edition (Minneapolis, 2013, ISBN 978-1-55597-662-0) is a trade paperback original in printed wrappers. Confirm the first printing by the first-printing indicia and full number line on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/3-sections"
  },
  {
   "slug": "digest",
   "title": "Digest",
   "author": "Gregory Pardlo",
   "publisher": "Four Way Books",
   "year": "2014",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by Four Way Books in 2014, a paperback original (ISBN 9781935536505), 76 pages. Won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The true first is the first printing of this Four Way paperback.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/digest"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ozone-journal",
   "title": "Ozone Journal",
   "author": "Peter Balakian",
   "publisher": "University of Chicago Press",
   "year": "2015",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by the University of Chicago Press in 2015 in the Phoenix Poets series, issued in both cloth (ISBN 9780226207032 paper; a cloth issue also exists) and paper. Won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ozone-journal"
  },
  {
   "slug": "olio",
   "title": "Olio",
   "author": "Tyehimba Jess",
   "publisher": "Wave Books",
   "year": "2016",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by Wave Books (Seattle) in 2016, a paperback original (ISBN 9781940696201) with the distinctive interactive design: perforated pages, foldouts, photos, drawings, and tables. Won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/olio"
  },
  {
   "slug": "half-light-collected-poems-1965-2016",
   "title": "Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016",
   "author": "Frank Bidart",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux",
   "year": "2017",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2017 (ISBN 9780374125950), with 'First edition, 2017' stated; issued in cloth with dust jacket. Won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/half-light-collected-poems-1965-2016"
  },
  {
   "slug": "be-with",
   "title": "Be With",
   "author": "Forrest Gander",
   "publisher": "New Directions",
   "year": "2018",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by New Directions in 2018, a paperback original with first-printing number line. Won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; also longlisted for the National Book Award.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/be-with"
  },
  {
   "slug": "postcolonial-love-poem",
   "title": "Postcolonial Love Poem",
   "author": "Natalie Diaz",
   "publisher": "Graywolf Press",
   "year": "2020",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Diaz's second collection, published by Graywolf Press in 2020 as a trade paperback original. Won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and was a National Book Award finalist. The true first is the 2020 Graywolf trade paperback; the first printing carries the publisher's copyright-page indicia with no statement of a prior edition or later printing. Later printings advance the printing line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/postcolonial-love-poem"
  },
  {
   "slug": "frank-sonnets",
   "title": "frank: sonnets",
   "author": "Diane Seuss",
   "publisher": "Graywolf Press",
   "year": "2021",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Published by Graywolf Press in 2021 as a trade paperback original; a sequence of 156 sonnets. Won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The true first is the 2021 Graywolf trade paperback, the first printing of which carries the publisher's copyright-page indicia with no later-printing line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/frank-sonnets"
  },
  {
   "slug": "then-the-war-and-selected-poems-2007-2020",
   "title": "Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020",
   "author": "Carl Phillips",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "2022",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2022 as a hardcover in dust jacket. Won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The true first is the 2022 FSG hardcover, which states 'First edition, 2022' on the copyright page per standard FSG practice. A later trade paperback exists but is not the first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/then-the-war-and-selected-poems-2007-2020"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tripas-poems",
   "title": "Tripas: Poems",
   "author": "Brandon Som",
   "publisher": "Georgia Review Books / University of Georgia Press",
   "year": "2023",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Published in 2023 by Georgia Review Books, an imprint copublished by The Georgia Review and the University of Georgia Press; paperback. Won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and was a 2023 National Book Award finalist. The true first is the 2023 Georgia Review Books paperback, the first printing of which carries the press's copyright-page indicia with no later-printing line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tripas-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ariel-the-restored-edition",
   "title": "Ariel: The Restored Edition",
   "author": "Sylvia Plath",
   "publisher": "HarperCollins / Faber",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Not a first edition of Ariel. This 2004 volume restores Plath's original manuscript selection and arrangement, with a foreword by her daughter Frieda Hughes and facsimile pages of the manuscript and the working drafts of the title poem. Published in the US by HarperCollins (Harper hardcover, November 2004) and in the UK by Faber & Faber (November 2004). Catalogue strictly as 'first thus' for the restored text.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ariel-the-restored-edition"
  },
  {
   "slug": "collected-poems-1909-1962",
   "title": "Collected Poems 1909-1962",
   "author": "T. S. Eliot",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Published by Faber & Faber in 1963 as a hardcover in dust jacket; the last collected volume of Eliot's poetry published in his lifetime. Gallup A74. The first printing states first publication in 1963 with no later-printing line. A near-concurrent US first was issued by Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, in 1963. This is a 'first thus' collected volume gathering work first published earlier.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/collected-poems-1909-1962"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-less-deceived",
   "title": "The Less Deceived",
   "author": "Philip Larkin",
   "publisher": "The Marvell Press (Hessle, East Yorkshire)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The Marvell Press first edition, 1955, carries the Hessle, East Yorkshire imprint. First-issue points: a flat (not rounded) spine; the misprint 'floor' for 'sea' in the first line of 'Absences'; the dust jacket priced 6s with the rear panel printed in black only; and a printed list of subscribers on the unnumbered pages 44 and 45. The first 300 copies were bound with a flat spine for late-1955 distribution; the remaining copies were later bound with a rounded spine.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-less-deceived"
  },
  {
   "slug": "high-windows",
   "title": "High Windows",
   "author": "Philip Larkin",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Larkin's last full collection. UK Faber first edition, first impression, published 3 June 1974 in an edition of about 6,142 copies. Demy octavo, 42 pages, bound in pale grey cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, with a glossy white dust jacket printed in grey (UK price 1.40 on the flap). The copyright page reads 'first published in 1974'; first impressions carry no later-printing line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/high-windows"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-crucible",
   "title": "The Crucible",
   "author": "Arthur Miller",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'Published by the Viking Press in April 1953' with no further printings listed. Octavo, bound in pin-stripe paper-covered boards over a grey cloth backstrip (nervy vertical red and yellow lines on a pale grey ground), spine lettered in red, top edge stained red. Dust jacket photograph by Gjon Mili.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-crucible"
  },
  {
   "slug": "all-my-sons",
   "title": "All My Sons",
   "author": "Arthur Miller",
   "publisher": "Reynal & Hitchcock",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Miller's first published play in book form, 83 pages. Issued in pale green cloth boards (also a gray cloth variant, no priority), spine lettered in navy blue, in a dust jacket priced 2.00. Dedicated to Elia Kazan, who directed the 1947 Coronet Theatre production. First printing has no statement of later printings on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/all-my-sons"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-view-from-the-bridge",
   "title": "A View from the Bridge",
   "author": "Arthur Miller",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition contains the original one-act verse version, paired with 'A Memory of Two Mondays,' distinct from Miller's later two-act revision. The pairing matches the 29 September 1955 Coronet Theatre double bill. Copyright page carries the dated Viking first-printing statement with no later printings listed.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-view-from-the-bridge"
  },
  {
   "slug": "long-days-journey-into-night",
   "title": "Long Day's Journey Into Night",
   "author": "Eugene O'Neill",
   "publisher": "Yale University Press",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition'; 176 pp. Issued both clothbound (quarter cloth over boards, spine blocked black and titled in gilt, with a black-and-white photographic dust jacket) and in printed wrappers, the wrappers issue also stated 'First Edition' and issued simultaneously. Multiple printings appeared rapidly; later printings are stated 'Second Printing,' 'Third Printing,' etc. on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/long-days-journey-into-night"
  },
  {
   "slug": "strange-interlude",
   "title": "Strange Interlude",
   "author": "Eugene O'Neill",
   "publisher": "Boni & Liveright",
   "year": "1928",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First published by Boni & Liveright, New York, 1928. A signed limited edition of 775 copies was also issued, a quarto bound in vellum on all-rag watermarked paper and printed in two colors, with the play's interior 'spoken thoughts' asides set in blue ink and the rest of the text in black; issued in a publisher's box. The trade first printing carries no later-printing statement on the copyright page; the play's experimental asides run through the text.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/strange-interlude"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-delicate-balance",
   "title": "A Delicate Balance",
   "author": "Edward Albee",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The copyright page states 'First Edition' (Atheneum's practice for its true firsts). Black cloth with gilt spine lettering; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap. Winner of the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-delicate-balance"
  },
  {
   "slug": "en-attendant-godot",
   "title": "En attendant Godot",
   "author": "Samuel Beckett",
   "publisher": "Les Éditions de Minuit",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true world first edition of the play, in French, in printed wrappers. A limited issue of 35 numbered large-paper copies precedes the trade run of approximately 2,500 copies, with the justification leaf and achevé d'imprimer identifying the issue. Published 1952, before the January 1953 stage premiere.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/en-attendant-godot"
  },
  {
   "slug": "krapps-last-tape-and-embers",
   "title": "Krapp's Last Tape and Embers",
   "author": "Samuel Beckett",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First book edition of Krapp's Last Tape (with Embers), Faber and Faber, London, 1959 (Federman and Fletcher 37.1). Faber copyright page states 'First published in mcmlix' with no later impressions listed. The play first appeared in periodical form in Evergreen Review 2.5, Summer 1958.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/krapps-last-tape-and-embers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-caretaker",
   "title": "The Caretaker",
   "author": "Harold Pinter",
   "publisher": "Encore Publishing Co. / Methuen",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first edition is the Encore Publishing Co. paperback in stapled card wrappers (London, 1960), which precedes the Methuen issue of the same year by a few months. The Methuen 1960 hardback is the first hardcover, stating 'First published 1960' with no later-impression line; Methuen also issued the title in wrappers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-caretaker"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-homecoming",
   "title": "The Homecoming",
   "author": "Harold Pinter",
   "publisher": "Methuen",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition Methuen & Co., London, 1965. Copyright page states 'First published 1965' (later impressions add impression lines). Issued in black cloth with gilt spine titles in a pictorial dust jacket, and also in the Methuen Modern Plays wrappers; the cloth in jacket is the preferred state. 83 pp.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-homecoming"
  },
  {
   "slug": "betrayal",
   "title": "Betrayal",
   "author": "Harold Pinter",
   "publisher": "Eyre Methuen",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition Eyre Methuen, London, 1978 (Methuen Modern Plays). Copyright page states 'First published in 1978' with no later-impression line. Issued in printed wrappers and in cloth with dust jacket; verify the state by binding. A signed limited edition of 150 numbered copies (Karnac in association with Eyre Methuen) appeared simultaneously in 1978 as the premium state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/betrayal"
  },
  {
   "slug": "jumpers",
   "title": "Jumpers",
   "author": "Tom Stoppard",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Faber and Faber, London, 1972. Issued simultaneously in publisher's scarlet (some copies orange) cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, in a typographic dust jacket printed in orange and black and priced 1.50 net, and in paper wraps with French flaps. Copyright page reads 'First published in 1972' with no later-impression statement. Baker & Wachs A8.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/jumpers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "travesties",
   "title": "Travesties",
   "author": "Tom Stoppard",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Faber and Faber, London, 1975. Publisher's green boards lettered in gilt on the spine, in a pictorial dust wrapper priced 2.50 net showing photographs of John Wood as Henry Carr and Beth Morris as Cecily. Copyright page reads 'First published in 1975' with no later-impression statement. (Play premiered 1974; book published 1975.)",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/travesties"
  },
  {
   "slug": "arcadia",
   "title": "Arcadia",
   "author": "Tom Stoppard",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Faber and Faber, London, 1993, a paperback original in printed wrappers (green and black). There was no simultaneous trade hardback for the general issue. The first impression is identified by the copyright-page statement 'First published in 1993' with no later-impression statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/arcadia"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-raisin-in-the-sun",
   "title": "A Raisin in the Sun",
   "author": "Lorraine Hansberry",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in publisher's tan half-cloth with paper-covered boards bearing a mounted photograph of Sidney Poitier; [xii], 142 pp. The true first printing has no 'B 987' code on the copyright page; the second printing is identified by the presence of 'B 987'.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-raisin-in-the-sun"
  },
  {
   "slug": "joe-turners-come-and-gone",
   "title": "Joe Turner's Come and Gone",
   "author": "August Wilson",
   "publisher": "Plume (New American Library / Dutton)",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade edition is the Plume trade-paperback original, 1988 (New American Library). The first printing is identified by a complete number line ending in 1. New York Drama Critics' Circle best play, 1987-88.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/joe-turners-come-and-gone"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-house-at-pooh-corner",
   "title": "The House at Pooh Corner",
   "author": "A. A. Milne (illustrated by E. H. Shepard)",
   "publisher": "Methuen & Co. (London)",
   "year": "1928",
   "genre": "childrens-classics",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK first edition, Methuen, October 1928, pink cloth with gilt ruling and stamping, top edge gilt, illustrated pink endpapers. Introduces Tigger. The recognized first-state point is on the dust jacket front flap, which reads '179th thousand'; the second-state jacket reads '189th thousand'. A deluxe leather-bound issue was also produced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-house-at-pooh-corner"
  },
  {
   "slug": "now-we-are-six",
   "title": "Now We Are Six",
   "author": "A. A. Milne (illustrated by E. H. Shepard)",
   "publisher": "Methuen & Co. (London)",
   "year": "1927",
   "genre": "childrens-classics",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK first edition, Methuen, October 1927. The standard trade issue is maroon cloth with gilt vignette and lettering, top edge gilt. First printing carries no later-impression notation on the verso. A deluxe limp-leather issue (the special blue sheep binding among them) and a small signed limited issue on Japanese vellum were also produced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/now-we-are-six"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-runaway-bunny",
   "title": "The Runaway Bunny",
   "author": "Margaret Wise Brown (illustrated by Clement Hurd)",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers (New York)",
   "year": "1942",
   "genre": "childrens-classics",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page with the Harper code 'M-Q'. Bound in green cloth with lettering on the upper board. The first-state dust jacket advertises 'The Runaway Bunny' on the front flap and carries 'When the Wind Blew' and a 'Little Fur Family' advertisement on the rear flap, with the rear-panel imprint reading 'Harper & Brothers, New York & London'.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-runaway-bunny"
  },
  {
   "slug": "prince-caspian",
   "title": "Prince Caspian",
   "author": "C. S. Lewis (illustrated by Pauline Baynes)",
   "publisher": "Geoffrey Bles (London)",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "childrens-classics",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK first: Geoffrey Bles, London, 1951, illustrated by Pauline Baynes. The true first is identified by the absence of any reprint or impression notation on the verso of the title page (this period uses no number line; the dated title page plus a clean verso indicates the first printing). First-issue jacket advertises only the Narnia titles published to date.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/prince-caspian"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-voyage-of-the-dawn-treader",
   "title": "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader",
   "author": "C. S. Lewis (illustrated by Pauline Baynes)",
   "publisher": "Geoffrey Bles (London)",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "childrens-classics",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK first: Geoffrey Bles, London, 1952, illustrated by Pauline Baynes. The true first shows no impression or reprint statement on the verso of the title page (no number line in this era; dated title page with a clean verso indicates first printing). First-issue jacket lists only the Narnia titles published to that point.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-voyage-of-the-dawn-treader"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-silver-chair",
   "title": "The Silver Chair",
   "author": "C. S. Lewis (illustrated by Pauline Baynes)",
   "publisher": "Geoffrey Bles (London)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "childrens-classics",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK first: Geoffrey Bles, London, 1953, illustrated by Pauline Baynes. The true first has no impression or reprint statement on the verso of the title page (no number line in this period; dated title page with a clean verso indicates the first printing).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-silver-chair"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-horse-and-his-boy",
   "title": "The Horse and His Boy",
   "author": "C. S. Lewis (illustrated by Pauline Baynes)",
   "publisher": "Geoffrey Bles (London)",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "childrens-classics",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK first: Geoffrey Bles, London, 1954, illustrated by Pauline Baynes. This was the last Narnia title issued by Geoffrey Bles. The true first has no impression or reprint statement on the verso of the title page (no number line in this era; dated title page with a clean verso indicates the first printing).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-horse-and-his-boy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-magicians-nephew",
   "title": "The Magician's Nephew",
   "author": "C. S. Lewis (illustrated by Pauline Baynes)",
   "publisher": "The Bodley Head (London)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "childrens-classics",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK first: The Bodley Head, London, 1955, illustrated by Pauline Baynes. For the sixth and seventh Narnia titles the UK imprint changed from Geoffrey Bles to The Bodley Head, so a genuine first of this title carries the Bodley Head imprint, not Bles. The true first shows no impression or reprint statement on the verso of the title page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-magicians-nephew"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-last-battle",
   "title": "The Last Battle",
   "author": "C. S. Lewis (illustrated by Pauline Baynes)",
   "publisher": "The Bodley Head (London)",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "childrens-classics",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK first: The Bodley Head, London, 1956, illustrated by Pauline Baynes; the seventh and final Narnia title, published under the Bodley Head imprint (not Geoffrey Bles). The true first shows no impression or reprint statement on the verso of the title page, and the first-issue jacket carries no Carnegie Medal notation, since the award was announced after publication.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-last-battle"
  },
  {
   "slug": "harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone-us-first-american-editi",
   "title": "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (US first American edition)",
   "author": "J. K. Rowling (illustrated by Mary GrandPré)",
   "publisher": "Scholastic / Arthur A. Levine Books (New York)",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "childrens-classics",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First American edition, first printing (October 1998). Copyright page reads 'First American edition, October 1998', with the number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 and the code 'Printed in the U.S.A. 23'. First-state dust jacket: original printed price intact on the front flap, a quote from The Guardian on the rear panel, and NO numeral '1' at the head of the jacket spine (later printings add the '1'). Red spine over purple boards with 'J. K. Rowling' at the head of the spine. Illustrated by Mary GrandPré (not Thomas Taylor, who illustrated the UK edition). A small first run.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone-us-first-american-editi"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sackett",
   "title": "Sackett",
   "author": "Louis L'Amour",
   "publisher": "Bantam Books",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "Collectible genre deeper: westerns (L'Amour, Grey, McMurtry), thrillers (Ludlum, Forsyth, Follett), plus notable signed/limited modern genre firsts with points of issue.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Paperback original, Bantam catalog number A2236, 1961. First-printing identified by the original catalog code and period price on the wrappers with no later-printing statement or raised price. Introduces William Tell Sackett; collectors complete the saga as a matched run.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sackett"
  },
  {
   "slug": "last-of-the-breed",
   "title": "Last of the Breed",
   "author": "Louis L'Amour",
   "publisher": "Bantam Books",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "Collectible genre deeper: westerns (L'Amour, Grey, McMurtry), thrillers (Ludlum, Forsyth, Follett), plus notable signed/limited modern genre firsts with points of issue.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover first edition, Bantam Books, July 1986, 358 pages. The true first shows the full number line 1 through 10 (ending in 1) on the copyright page and carries the original printed jacket price and Bantam hardcover jacket art.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/last-of-the-breed"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lone-star-ranger",
   "title": "The Lone Star Ranger",
   "author": "Zane Grey",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers",
   "year": "1915",
   "genre": "Collectible genre deeper: westerns (L'Amour, Grey, McMurtry), thrillers (Ludlum, Forsyth, Follett), plus notable signed/limited modern genre firsts with points of issue.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Harper & Brothers first, 1915, original Harper cloth, illustrated. The copyright page carries the Harper printing code in which the second letter P denotes the year 1915 (first letter = month, second letter = year); the first printing shows the matching code with no added later-printing indications.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lone-star-ranger"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-scarlatti-inheritance",
   "title": "The Scarlatti Inheritance",
   "author": "Robert Ludlum",
   "publisher": "The World Publishing Company",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "Collectible genre deeper: westerns (L'Amour, Grey, McMurtry), thrillers (Ludlum, Forsyth, Follett), plus notable signed/limited modern genre firsts with points of issue.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with no later-printing statement, 358 pages, red boards. Issued in a fragile clear acetate dust jacket with a printed front-flap price; first printings retain the acetate, which is easily lost or damaged.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-scarlatti-inheritance"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dogs-of-war",
   "title": "The Dogs of War",
   "author": "Frederick Forsyth",
   "publisher": "Hutchinson (London)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "Collectible genre deeper: westerns (L'Amour, Grey, McMurtry), thrillers (Ludlum, Forsyth, Follett), plus notable signed/limited modern genre firsts with points of issue.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Hutchinson first, 1974: black paper-covered boards with gilt-lettered spine, grey endpapers, 384 pages, in the original unclipped dust jacket. First impression identified by the Hutchinson 1974 publication statement with no later-impression line on the copyright page. Forsyth's third novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dogs-of-war"
  },
  {
   "slug": "eye-of-the-needle-uk-title-storm-island",
   "title": "Eye of the Needle (UK title: Storm Island)",
   "author": "Ken Follett",
   "publisher": "Macdonald & Jane's (London) / Arbor House (New York)",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "Collectible genre deeper: westerns (L'Amour, Grey, McMurtry), thrillers (Ludlum, Forsyth, Follett), plus notable signed/limited modern genre firsts with points of issue.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the UK edition titled Storm Island (Macdonald & Jane's, London, 1978), 322 pp, with a first-printing copyright statement. The original first-issue dust jacket exists in two accepted states: priced for the UK market and unpriced on export copies; both are recognized as first-issue. The US Eye of the Needle (Arbor House, 1978) is the first American edition under the retitled, better-known name.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/eye-of-the-needle-uk-title-storm-island"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-key-to-rebecca",
   "title": "The Key to Rebecca",
   "author": "Ken Follett",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London) / William Morrow (New York)",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "Collectible genre deeper: westerns (L'Amour, Grey, McMurtry), thrillers (Ludlum, Forsyth, Follett), plus notable signed/limited modern genre firsts with points of issue.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The UK Hamish Hamilton edition (London, 1980) is the true first, identified by the 'First published 1980' statement on the copyright page in original cloth with a first-state jacket. The US William Morrow edition (New York, 1980) is the first American edition. Verify the first-printing copyright statement and an unclipped jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-key-to-rebecca"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tenth-of-december",
   "title": "Tenth of December",
   "author": "George Saunders",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "2013",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states First Edition with a complete number line descending to 1 (for example 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1); first-issue dust jacket carries the printed retail price. The first printing was small, so true firsts retaining the 1 are scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tenth-of-december"
  },
  {
   "slug": "civilwarland-in-bad-decline",
   "title": "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline",
   "author": "George Saunders",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states First Edition with a Random House number line whose lowest number is 2 (for example 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9). For Random House in this era, a line ending in 2 together with the First Edition statement marks the first printing; the loss of the First Edition statement, leaving the 2, indicates a later printing. First-issue jacket carries the printed retail price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/civilwarland-in-bad-decline"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lincoln-in-the-bardo",
   "title": "Lincoln in the Bardo",
   "author": "George Saunders",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "2017",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states First Edition with the Random House colophon and a complete number line descending to 1. The true first jacket carries no Booker Prize award seal, because the book was published in February 2017 and the prize was awarded that October; any award banner or seal therefore indicates a later state or printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lincoln-in-the-bardo"
  },
  {
   "slug": "extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close",
   "title": "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close",
   "author": "Jonathan Safran Foer",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page carries a complete number line descending to 1; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed retail price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-wapshot-chronicle",
   "title": "The Wapshot Chronicle",
   "author": "John Cheever",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries the Harper two-letter code on the copyright page reading B-G, which denotes February 1957 (first letter = month, second letter = year, with G = 1957), and shows no statement of a later printing. Issued in green cloth boards backed in dark blue cloth, 307 numbered pages. Cheever's first novel; won the 1958 National Book Award.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-wapshot-chronicle"
  },
  {
   "slug": "seize-the-day",
   "title": "Seize the Day",
   "author": "Saul Bellow",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Yellow cloth and black paper boards, titles stamped in black on the spine and blind on the front cover, yellow topstain; the copyright page states publication in 1956 with no later-printing statement, and the first-issue jacket carries the printed retail price on the front flap. Contains the title novella plus three short stories and a one-act play.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/seize-the-day"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rabbit-at-rest",
   "title": "Rabbit at Rest",
   "author": "John Updike",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf trade copyright page states 'First Trade Edition' (NOT plain 'First Edition'); Borzoi device. First-issue dust jacket unclipped reflecting its printed flap price and a 10/90 date code. The Franklin Library signed limited edition precedes the trade issue. (1991 Pulitzer winner; final Rabbit novel.)",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/rabbit-at-rest"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-wind-up-bird-chronicle",
   "title": "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle",
   "author": "Haruki Murakami",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first English-language edition is the Knopf 1997 hardcover (translated by Jay Rubin). The first printing is identified by the stated 'First American Edition' on the copyright page with no notice of later printings; Borzoi colophon; first-issue jacket carries its printed flap price. The English text is condensed relative to the Japanese original.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-wind-up-bird-chronicle"
  },
  {
   "slug": "independence-day",
   "title": "Independence Day",
   "author": "Richard Ford",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with the Knopf colophon. The first-printing text point is the omission of the word 'with' in line 21 of page 289 (corrected in later printings). Navy quarter cloth over orange/light-brown boards, gilt spine lettering; first-issue jacket carries its printed flap price unclipped and bears no award stickers/text. Frank Bascombe #2 — won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/independence-day"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-corrections-advance-proof-instead-strong-motion",
   "title": "The Corrections (advance proof) — instead: Strong Motion",
   "author": "Jonathan Franzen",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing is identified by a complete number line ending in 1 on the copyright page and the Farrar, Straus and Giroux imprint. The dust jacket front flap carries the original printed price, and the rear panel bears a blurb by David Foster Wallace, which is characteristic of the first issue. Half red cloth over black boards with gilt spine lettering. ISBN 0-374-27105-4.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-corrections-advance-proof-instead-strong-motion"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-twenty-seventh-city",
   "title": "The Twenty-Seventh City",
   "author": "Jonathan Franzen",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing is identified by 'First Edition, 1988' stated on the copyright page (the primary point for this title). The dust jacket front flap carries the original printed price. Franzen's debut novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-twenty-seventh-city"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-known-world",
   "title": "The Known World",
   "author": "Edward P. Jones",
   "publisher": "Amistad / HarperCollins",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page together with a complete HarperCollins number line ending in 1. Amistad imprint; quarter cloth over yellow boards with orange spine lettering; the dust jacket front flap carries the original printed price. ISBN 0-06-055754-0.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-known-world"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cold-mountain",
   "title": "Cold Mountain",
   "author": "Charles Frazier",
   "publisher": "Atlantic Monthly Press",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (US) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with a number line ending in a low number (a date line plus number line). The genuine first-state textual point is the uncorrected reading 'man-woman' on page 25 (line 16), later corrected to 'mad-woman'. Atlantic Monthly Press imprint; quarter black cloth over blue cloth with orange spine lettering; the dust jacket front flap carries the original printed price. Frazier's debut and the 1997 National Book Award winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cold-mountain"
  },
  {
   "slug": "oryx-and-crake",
   "title": "Oryx and Crake",
   "author": "Margaret Atwood",
   "publisher": "McClelland & Stewart (Toronto)",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Identify the Canadian first printing by the number line, not by printed words. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2003 (ISBN 0771008686 / 9780771008689), grey boards with gilt spine lettering, around 378 pages. The first printing carries a complete number line beginning with 1 (dealers cite the full line 1 2 3 4 5, that is, including the 1). The first-state dust jacket is unclipped with the price on the front flap. Do not rely on a stated First Edition line: M&S hardcovers of this era are generally identified by the number line rather than printed words.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/oryx-and-crake"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lives-of-girls-and-women",
   "title": "Lives of Girls and Women",
   "author": "Alice Munro",
   "publisher": "McGraw-Hill Ryerson (Toronto)",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the Canadian McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited edition (Toronto; title page also lists Montreal, New York, London), 1971 - Munro's only novel. Bound in cream/white cloth, spine lettered in green, white endpapers, about 254 pages, issued in a dust jacket. The first printing is identified by the date and the number line descending to 1 on the copyright page, not by an explicit printed 'First Edition' statement; no reliable source confirms an explicit 'First Edition' line, so do not rely on one. Copies are commonly toned along the top edge. This Canadian 1971 edition precedes the first US edition (McGraw-Hill, New York, January 1972).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lives-of-girls-and-women"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dance-of-the-happy-shades",
   "title": "Dance of the Happy Shades",
   "author": "Alice Munro",
   "publisher": "Ryerson Press (Toronto)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1968 - Munro's debut and first story collection, which won the 1968 Governor General's Award for English-language Fiction. Bound in green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering, issued in a dust jacket, and includes a foreword by Hugh Garner. The 1968 first printing is not reliably identified by an explicit printed 'First Edition' statement; dealers establish it by date and points rather than a self-declared edition line. Key point of issue is the dust jacket state: the true first-issue jacket has NO gold 'Winner of Governor General's Award' sticker on the lower-right front panel. The award was won the same year as publication, so the prize sticker was added afterward; sticker'd copies are a later state (catalogued by some as first edition, second printing). Seek the first-issue jacket without the sticker, priced rather than clipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dance-of-the-happy-shades"
  },
  {
   "slug": "life-times-of-michael-k",
   "title": "Life & Times of Michael K",
   "author": "J. M. Coetzee",
   "publisher": "Ravan Press (Johannesburg)",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the South African edition: Ravan Press, Johannesburg, 1983 (ISBN 086975159X), which multiple specialist dealers identify as the genuine first edition of Coetzee's first Booker Prize-winning novel; it was printed and bound in Britain for the South African publisher. The UK Secker & Warburg 1983 edition (black boards, gilt spine, laminated pictorial dust wrapper, jacket priced in sterling, ISBN 0436102978) is a near-simultaneous issue but is treated as secondary to the Ravan printing. Both 1983 editions precede the US Viking edition of 1984.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/life-times-of-michael-k"
  },
  {
   "slug": "foe",
   "title": "Foe",
   "author": "J. M. Coetzee",
   "publisher": "Ravan Press (Johannesburg)",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Two 1986 editions exist and priority is contested. The South African edition - Ravan Press, Johannesburg, 1986 (dark brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine, dust jacket, about 157 pages) - is identified by many specialist dealers as the true first edition. The UK trade edition (Secker & Warburg, London, 1986) appeared the same year: brown boards/cloth-backed boards with gilt spine lettering, green top-stain as issued, octavo, about 157-160 pages, pictorial dust jacket priced in sterling and unclipped on first issue. Standard bibliographies list the title as London: Secker & Warburg, 1986; Johannesburg: Ravan, 1986; New York: Viking, 1987. Both 1986 editions precede the US Viking edition of 1987.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/foe"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-golden-notebook",
   "title": "The Golden Notebook",
   "author": "Doris Lessing",
   "publisher": "Michael Joseph (London)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Michael Joseph, 1962. States 'First published … 1962'; black boards with gilt spine lettering, 568 pages. First-issue typographic dust jacket priced 30s net, with a photograph of Lessing on the rear panel; the jacket is notably thin and fragile. The UK Michael Joseph precedes the US Simon & Schuster 1962 edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-golden-notebook"
  },
  {
   "slug": "on-beauty",
   "title": "On Beauty",
   "author": "Zadie Smith",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Hamish Hamilton, 2005. Copyright page states first publication in 2005 by Hamish Hamilton, with the full publisher number line present on the first impression. Original boards and dust jacket. Orange Prize winner; Booker-shortlisted. The UK Hamish Hamilton edition precedes the US Penguin Press edition of 2005.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/on-beauty"
  },
  {
   "slug": "my-struggle-book-one-a-death-in-the-family",
   "title": "My Struggle: Book One (A Death in the Family)",
   "author": "Karl Ove Knausgaard",
   "publisher": "Archipelago Books (New York) / Harvill Secker (London)",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Two competing 2012 English-language firsts, both translated by Don Bartlett. UK Harvill Secker issued the volume as 'A Death in the Family' in hardcover, published 9 April 2012. US Archipelago Books issued it as 'My Struggle: Book One' as a trade paperback original, published 1 May 2012. The later 2014 Archipelago hardcover is explicitly marked 'Second Edition' on its copyright page because the 2012 Archipelago paperback preceded it.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/my-struggle-book-one-a-death-in-the-family"
  },
  {
   "slug": "blindness",
   "title": "Blindness",
   "author": "José Saramago",
   "publisher": "The Harvill Press (London)",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "English true first is the 1997 hardcover translated by Giovanni Pontiero and published by The Harvill Press, London (ISBN 1860462979). Confirm the 'First published 1997' statement on the copyright page; Harvill of this period typically used no number line, so rely on the dated statement and imprint. The first American edition is Harcourt Brace & Company, New York, 1998 (ISBN 0151002517), a year later, identified by the complete letter line 'ACEFDB'. The Harvill UK 1997 unambiguously precedes Harcourt and is the true first; the two were not simultaneous.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/blindness"
  },
  {
   "slug": "kafka-on-the-shore",
   "title": "Kafka on the Shore",
   "author": "Haruki Murakami",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "English true first is the Alfred A. Knopf (New York) 2005 hardcover, translated by Philip Gabriel (ISBN 1400043662). 'First American Edition' is stated on the copyright page — Knopf's convention for a title previously published abroad — under the 'a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf' colophon. First printing shows the complete number line including the numeral 1 (typically reading 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2); the identifying point is the presence of the numeral 1, not a line 'ending in 1.' Jacket priced on the front flap. The US Knopf edition (January 2005) precedes the first UK edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/kafka-on-the-shore"
  },
  {
   "slug": "my-name-is-red",
   "title": "My Name Is Red",
   "author": "Orhan Pamuk",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York) / Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Both English editions appeared in 2001, in different formats, so format matters. The US Knopf edition is a hardcover (Borzoi Books) stating 'First Edition' with the Borzoi colophon; translated by Erdag Goknar. The UK Faber edition of the same translation was issued in 2001 as a paperback original, not a hardback. Collectors seeking a first English hardcover therefore look to the Knopf printing; those treating earliest English appearance as paramount must weigh the Faber paperback original.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/my-name-is-red"
  },
  {
   "slug": "snow",
   "title": "Snow",
   "author": "Orhan Pamuk",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first English edition is the UK Faber and Faber hardback, published 6 May 2004 (ISBN 057121830X), translated by Maureen Freely. The US Alfred A. Knopf edition (Borzoi Books), translated by the same Maureen Freely, was published roughly three months later in August 2004 and states 'First American Edition' on the copyright page, with a Chip Kidd jacket and red boards quarter-bound in black cloth (ISBN 0375406972). By Knopf's own convention, the wording 'First American Edition' rather than 'First Edition' signals that the book had already been published abroad, confirming that the UK Faber edition precedes it.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/snow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-book-of-evidence",
   "title": "The Book of Evidence",
   "author": "John Banville",
   "publisher": "Secker & Warburg (London)",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd (London), 1989. Copyright page states 'First published in Great Britain in 1989' by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, London (ISBN 0436032678 / 9780436032677). Dark cloth boards with gilt spine titles; dust jacket priced 10.95 pounds (an unclipped jacket retaining the price is preferred). The UK Secker edition precedes the US first edition, which is Charles Scribner's Sons (Scribner), New York, also 1989 (ISBN 0684191806 / 9780684191805) — not a 1990 edition, and there is no Godine edition of this title.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-book-of-evidence"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-famished-road",
   "title": "The Famished Road",
   "author": "Ben Okri",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Jonathan Cape (London) 1991, stating 'First published 1991'. Olive/green cloth with gilt spine lettering in a pictorial dust jacket priced 13.99 pounds (an unclipped jacket retaining the price is preferred). 1991 Booker Prize winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-famished-road"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-luminaries",
   "title": "The Luminaries",
   "author": "Eleanor Catton",
   "publisher": "Victoria University Press (Wellington, New Zealand)",
   "year": "2013",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the New Zealand Victoria University Press edition, published August 2013, preceding the UK and US trade editions. The UK Granta edition and US Little, Brown edition followed later in 2013. On the Granta first, the verso reads 'First published in Great Britain by Granta Books 2013' with a number line to 1; first printings of each issue are told by their respective imprint and number line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-luminaries"
  },
  {
   "slug": "amsterdam",
   "title": "Amsterdam",
   "author": "Ian McEwan",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Jonathan Cape, 1 December 1998. Booker Prize winner. Bound in original black cloth boards with the title lettered in silver to the spine, crimson endpapers (not gilt-lettered boards). A number line ending in 1 on the copyright page indicates the first printing. The first-state dust jacket is priced at fourteen pounds ninety-nine pence net and does NOT mention the Booker Prize on the front panel, since the win was announced after publication; later-state jackets add the Booker reference.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/amsterdam"
  },
  {
   "slug": "g",
   "title": "G.",
   "author": "John Berger",
   "publisher": "Weidenfeld & Nicolson (London)",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "Literary fiction (UK & world) — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1972, is the true first and precedes the American edition. Bound in patterned paper-covered boards (described as green marble-patterned, or tan), the spine lettered in red and black; this is NOT cloth. The red dust jacket is notoriously prone to spine fading, with the spine panel commonly fading toward white, a well-documented point. The UK jacket is priced in pounds sterling, though the exact figure was not independently confirmed. The copyright-page wording First published 1972 is plausible per house practice but was not verbatim-confirmed, so verify on the copy in hand. The US first is Viking Press, New York, 1972 (not Pantheon).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/g"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-caves-of-steel",
   "title": "The Caves of Steel",
   "author": "Isaac Asimov",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition stated 'First Edition' on the copyright page with no later-printing indication. First-issue dust jacket carries the printed price (2.95) on the front flap. Binding is publisher's dark blue leatherette/cloth with the spine lettered in red and red topstain (per Currey). Jacket art by Ruth Ray. First book in Asimov's Robot series; expanded from the Galaxy serialization.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-caves-of-steel"
  },
  {
   "slug": "imperial-earth",
   "title": "Imperial Earth",
   "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz, London",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK Gollancz 1975 edition in the characteristic yellow jacket with price on the flap and no later-printing notice.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/imperial-earth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "babel-17",
   "title": "Babel-17",
   "author": "Samuel R. Delany",
   "publisher": "Ace Books, New York",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first edition is the Ace paperback original (catalog code F-388), 1966, a Nebula co-winner. The first printing carries the statement 'first book publication' on the cover. Paperback original.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/babel-17"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dying-inside",
   "title": "Dying Inside",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons, New York",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first printing carries the capital 'A' on the copyright page, which is Scribner's standard first-edition marker for this era, typically accompanied by a manufacturer/date code (for example a line such as 'A-2.72[V]'). Priced dust jacket with the price printed on the front flap; cloth-backed boards. Widely regarded as among Silverberg's finest novels.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dying-inside"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-book-of-skulls",
   "title": "The Book of Skulls",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons, New York",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first printing carries the capital 'A' on the copyright page, Scribner's first-edition marker for this period, typically with a manufacturer/date code line (for example 'A-12.71[C]'). Price printed on the front jacket flap. Issued the same year as Dying Inside.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-book-of-skulls"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lord-valentines-castle",
   "title": "Lord Valentine's Castle",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row, New York",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The trade first edition states 'First Edition' on the copyright page together with a complete number line ending in 1. First US printing, 1980 (ISBN 0-06-014026-7). Price printed on the front jacket flap. Dust jacket art by Ron Walotsky; quarter cloth over boards. A separate signed/numbered limited edition was issued by Harper & Row itself, limited to 250 copies in the publisher's slipcase. Underwood-Miller did NOT publish this title; the related Majipoor novella The Desert of Stolen Dreams was a separate Underwood-Miller work and is sometimes confused with it.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lord-valentines-castle"
  },
  {
   "slug": "startide-rising",
   "title": "Startide Rising",
   "author": "David Brin",
   "publisher": "Bantam Books, New York",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first edition is the Bantam Spectra mass-market paperback original, May 1983, with the number line ending in 1 and 'Bantam edition / May 1983' on the copyright page. There was no preceding hardcover. Hugo and Nebula winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/startide-rising"
  },
  {
   "slug": "eon",
   "title": "Eon",
   "author": "Greg Bear",
   "publisher": "Bluejay Books, New York",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is identified by the statement 'First Bluejay printing: August 1985' on the copyright page. This dated printing statement is the single reliable point. There is no descending number line on the genuine first, so do not look for one. The jacket carries a printed price (copies are described as not price-clipped), but the price is a secondary indicator, not a defining point. Issued as a 'Bluejay International Edition'; Locus- and Arthur C. Clarke Award-nominated.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/eon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "red-mars",
   "title": "Red Mars",
   "author": "Kim Stanley Robinson",
   "publisher": "HarperCollins/Voyager, London (true first); Bantam Spectra, New York (first US)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The UK HarperCollins/Voyager hardcover (September 1992) is the true first: red cloth boards, priced jacket, no later-printing indicators. The first US edition is the Bantam Spectra hardcover (1993), identified by the number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 — it is a hardcover, not a paperback original, and is a year later than the UK first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/red-mars"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-years-of-rice-and-salt",
   "title": "The Years of Rice and Salt",
   "author": "Kim Stanley Robinson",
   "publisher": "Bantam Books, New York",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition (Bantam Books, March 2002; ISBN 0553109200). The true first printing is identified by a complete number line ending in 1 (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1, typically prefixed 'BVG') together with the 'A Bantam Book / March 2002' line on the copyright page. The jacket carries the printed price. The number line to 1 is the point of issue — there is no printed 'First Edition' statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-years-of-rice-and-salt"
  },
  {
   "slug": "wild-seed",
   "title": "Wild Seed",
   "author": "Octavia E. Butler",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Doubleday hardcover with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page; original burgundy boards stamped in lavender; priced jacket on the front flap. A gutter/printing code (such as K23) appears at the foot of the final text page on the trade first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/wild-seed"
  },
  {
   "slug": "revelation-space",
   "title": "Revelation Space",
   "author": "Alastair Reynolds",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz, London",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK Gollancz hardcover stating 'First published in Great Britain in 2000 by Victor Gollancz' on the copyright page with no later-impression statement; a complete number line descending to 1 confirms the first impression; priced jacket on the front flap. Reynolds's debut novel; reportedly a small hardcover print run.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/revelation-space"
  },
  {
   "slug": "chasm-city",
   "title": "Chasm City",
   "author": "Alastair Reynolds",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz, London",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK Gollancz hardcover stating 'First published in Great Britain in 2001 by Victor Gollancz' on the copyright page with no later-impression statement; a complete number line descending to 1 confirms the first impression; priced jacket on the front flap. BSFA Award winner; a standalone set in the Revelation Space universe.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/chasm-city"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mona-lisa-overdrive",
   "title": "Mona Lisa Overdrive",
   "author": "William Gibson",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz, London",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK Gollancz hardcover, June 1988, in the characteristic yellow Gollancz jacket with the printed price on the flap. Concludes the Sprawl trilogy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mona-lisa-overdrive"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-difference-engine",
   "title": "The Difference Engine",
   "author": "William Gibson and Bruce Sterling",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz, London",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK Gollancz hardcover, 1990, in the yellow Gollancz jacket with the printed price on the flap. Foundational steampunk collaboration.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-difference-engine"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cryptonomicon",
   "title": "Cryptonomicon",
   "author": "Neal Stephenson",
   "publisher": "Avon Books, New York",
   "year": "1999",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing states 'First Avon Books Printing: May 1999' on the copyright page with a complete number line ending in 1. Black paper boards with gilt spine lettering, in dust jacket with the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cryptonomicon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "use-of-weapons",
   "title": "Use of Weapons",
   "author": "Iain M. Banks",
   "publisher": "Orbit (Macdonald / Little, Brown), London",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK Orbit hardcover, 1990; dust jacket priced on the flap (jacket art by Keith Scaife); copyright page reads as a first edition with no later-printing or additional-impression statement. Identification rests on the 'first published 1990' / first-impression copyright page, not a number line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/use-of-weapons"
  },
  {
   "slug": "consider-phlebas",
   "title": "Consider Phlebas",
   "author": "Iain M. Banks",
   "publisher": "Macmillan, London",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK Macmillan hardcover, 1987: yellow cloth boards, dust jacket priced at the net price on the flap. First Culture novel and Banks's first SF under the 'M.' byline.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/consider-phlebas"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-demolished-man",
   "title": "The Demolished Man",
   "author": "Alfred Bester",
   "publisher": "Shasta Publishers (Chicago)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Blue quarter-cloth spine lettered in gilt over dark red paper-covered boards lettered in white, with black topstain; copyright page states 'First Edition'; 250 pp; priced dust jacket with art by Martin Herbstman; printed by H. Wolff. No statement of a later printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-demolished-man"
  },
  {
   "slug": "way-station",
   "title": "Way Station",
   "author": "Clifford D. Simak",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page AND the Doubleday code 'E 33' present at the foot of the last text page (page 210); dust jacket with price on the front flap; pale grey-green cloth. Hugo winner (serialized as 'Here Gather the Stars').",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/way-station"
  },
  {
   "slug": "downbelow-station",
   "title": "Downbelow Station",
   "author": "C. J. Cherryh",
   "publisher": "DAW Books (New York)",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Paperback original, DAW Book Collectors No. 420 (order code UE1594), with the printed cover price; first printing dated 1981 with no later-printing statement. Cover art by David B. Mattingly.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/downbelow-station"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-canticle-for-leibowitz-note-companion-firsts",
   "title": "A Canticle for Leibowitz (note: companion firsts)",
   "author": "Walter M. Miller Jr.",
   "publisher": "J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "Science fiction — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition explicitly stated 'First Edition' on the copyright page, with the copyright dated 1959 and '1960' printed on the title page; issued in cloth-backed boards. First-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap, with art by George Sottung. Assembled from three previously published novellas.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-canticle-for-leibowitz-note-companion-firsts"
  },
  {
   "slug": "firestarter",
   "title": "Firestarter",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Viking",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trade first states \"First published in 1980 by The Viking Press\" on the copyright page with no number line, and has a priced jacket. The deluxe true first is the Phantasia Press signed/limited (Huntington Woods, Michigan, 1980): 725 numbered copies in dust jacket and slipcase, plus 26 lettered copies (A-Z) bound in aluminum-coated cloth, the latter nicknamed the \"asbestos\" Firestarter. Both Phantasia issues are signed by King; cover art by Michael Whelan.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/firestarter"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-talisman",
   "title": "The Talisman",
   "author": "Stephen King & Peter Straub",
   "publisher": "Viking / G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trade first co-published by Viking and Putnam in 1984, with a priced jacket and a number line. The collectible deluxe issue is the Donald M. Grant signed/limited (Boston, 1984): 1,200 numbered copies in a two-volume slipcased set, cream buckram bindings, signed by both King and Straub on the limitation page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-talisman"
  },
  {
   "slug": "skeleton-crew",
   "title": "Skeleton Crew",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam trade first (June 1985) states \"First Edition\" on the copyright page with no further number line. The deluxe issue is the Scream/Press signed/limited (October 1985): 1,000 copies, illustrated by J.K. Potter, signed by both King and Potter on a dedication page, with a fold-out color poster laid in and a matching slipcase. The Scream/Press edition also adds the story \"The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson.\"",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/skeleton-crew"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-eyes-of-the-dragon-philtrum-limited",
   "title": "The Eyes of the Dragon (Philtrum limited)",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Philtrum Press",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the Philtrum Press limited (Bangor, fall 1984), illustrated by Kenneth R. Linkhauser: 1,250 oversize copies, all in a matching slipcase. Of these, 1,000 copies were for sale and numbered in black ink (1-1000), and 250 copies were reserved for private distribution and numbered in red ink (1-250). Sold only by mail.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-eyes-of-the-dragon-philtrum-limited"
  },
  {
   "slug": "night-shift",
   "title": "Night Shift",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first states \"First Edition\" on the copyright page and carries the gutter code S52 (lower margin, near the end of the text block). The S52 code reflects Doubleday's year/week printing scheme. Introduction by John D. MacDonald.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/night-shift"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-damnation-game",
   "title": "The Damnation Game",
   "author": "Clive Barker",
   "publisher": "Weidenfeld & Nicolson",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK first (London, 1985, roughly 3,000-copy trade run) states first publication by George Weidenfeld and Nicolson. A signed, numbered limited of 250 copies also exists, bound in black cloth, issued without a dust jacket in a black cloth slipcase.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-damnation-game"
  },
  {
   "slug": "weaveworld",
   "title": "Weaveworld",
   "author": "Clive Barker",
   "publisher": "Collins (UK) / Poseidon Press (US)",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Both the UK Collins hardcover (10.95 pounds) and the US Poseidon Press hardcover (18.95 dollars) appeared in 1987. The Collins first carries the publisher's 1987 statement with no later-printing line and Barker's jacket art; the Poseidon first likewise has no added printing line. Signed, numbered, boxed limited editions exist from both Collins (500 copies) and Poseidon (500 copies), plus small lettered states.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/weaveworld"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ghost-story",
   "title": "Ghost Story",
   "author": "Peter Straub",
   "publisher": "Coward, McCann & Geoghegan",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Coward, McCann & Geoghegan hardcover, 1979. Coward-McCann firsts of this period are identified by the absence of any later-printing statement on the copyright page rather than by a printed number line, so a true first shows no added printing notice. The dust jacket carries its printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ghost-story"
  },
  {
   "slug": "shadowland",
   "title": "Shadowland",
   "author": "Peter Straub",
   "publisher": "Coward, McCann & Geoghegan",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Coward, McCann & Geoghegan hardcover, 1980 (the title appears on the book as 'Shadow Land,' two words). The first is identified by the absence of any later-printing statement on the copyright page; Coward-McCann did not consistently print a stated 'First American Edition' line for this title. The dust jacket is priced 12.95 dollars on the front flap. Boards are blue cloth-backed with silver spine lettering.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/shadowland"
  },
  {
   "slug": "floating-dragon",
   "title": "Floating Dragon",
   "author": "Peter Straub",
   "publisher": "Underwood-Miller (limited) / G. P. Putnam's Sons (trade)",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the Underwood-Miller signed limited edition, published November 1982: 500 numbered copies signed on a special limitation leaf by Straub and by the artists Leo and Diane Dillon. The G. P. Putnam's Sons trade edition followed in February 1983 with its printed jacket price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/floating-dragon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "whispers",
   "title": "Whispers",
   "author": "Dean R. Koontz",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover, 1980. The first printing is identified by no statement of printing on the copyright page (Putnam did not print a 'First Edition' line for this title); the absence of any printing statement is the point. First printing was about 7,000 copies. The dust jacket is priced 12.95 dollars.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/whispers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "strangers-dean-r-koontz",
   "title": "Strangers",
   "author": "Dean R. Koontz",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first states \"First Edition\" on the copyright page AND carries a complete number line ending in 1 (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Black quarter-bound boards with silver lettering to the spine and red endpapers; jacket carries the printed retail price unclipped. The original record's claim of \"no number line\" is incorrect — a full number line is present on a genuine first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/strangers-dean-r-koontz"
  },
  {
   "slug": "phantoms",
   "title": "Phantoms",
   "author": "Dean R. Koontz",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "This earlier-era Putnam title is identified from the dust jacket rather than a copyright-page number line: the lower front jacket flap bears the date code \"8303,\" the front flap carries the printed retail price, and the rear jacket shows the ISBN 0-399-12655-4 in a white rectangle. A copyright-page number line is not the identifying point for this 1983 printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/phantoms"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-name-of-the-wind",
   "title": "The Name of the Wind",
   "author": "Patrick Rothfuss",
   "publisher": "DAW Books",
   "year": "2007",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First hardcover states \"First Hardcover Printing, April 2007\" with a number line present. Jacket carries the printed US price and Canadian price. The first printing appeared with Donato Giancola jacket art; both the stone 'green man/gargoyle' jacket and the figure-of-Kvothe ('Fabio') jacket are legitimate first-state variants, so neither one alone identifies the first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-name-of-the-wind"
  },
  {
   "slug": "smoke-and-mirrors",
   "title": "Smoke and Mirrors",
   "author": "Neil Gaiman",
   "publisher": "Avon Books",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The US Avon Books hardcover (November 1998) is the true first. The first printing carries a stated 'First Edition' on the copyright page together with a full number line counting down to 1, and the unclipped jacket shows the printed first-issue price. Dust-jacket photograph by J. K. Potter. Gaiman's first major solo story collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/smoke-and-mirrors"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-color-of-magic",
   "title": "The Color of Magic",
   "author": "Terry Pratchett",
   "publisher": "Colin Smythe",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the Colin Smythe Ltd hardcover, 1983 (the title is spelled 'The Colour of Magic'), with a first-printing of only about 506 copies. The dust-jacket illustration is by Alan Smith, NOT Josh Kirby. A first-issue jacket carries the original publisher blurb; a printed correction label (overlay) was later pasted over an inaccurate blurb, creating a second jacket state. Verify the Colin Smythe imprint and the first-published statement with no reprint line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-color-of-magic"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-eyes-of-the-overworld",
   "title": "The Eyes of the Overworld",
   "author": "Jack Vance",
   "publisher": "Ace Books",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition is the Ace paperback original, catalog number Ace M-149 (NOT F-377), 1966, with a 45-cent cover price and cover art by Jack Gaughan. Paperback original with no preceding hardcover. The Cugel the Clever sequel in the Dying Earth sequence.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-eyes-of-the-overworld"
  },
  {
   "slug": "little-big",
   "title": "Little, Big",
   "author": "John Crowley",
   "publisher": "Bantam Books (New York)",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The 1981 Bantam edition was a trade-paperback original, not a hardcover. There was no simultaneous Bantam hardcover. The first printing is identified on the copyright page; the wrappers and cover art are as issued. Won the 1982 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/little-big"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-tombs-of-atuan",
   "title": "The Tombs of Atuan",
   "author": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The US Atheneum first carries 'Atheneum 1971 New York' on the title page and a publisher's date-cancel label mounted over the printed copyright statement; illustrated by Gail Garraty; first-issue jacket priced and unclipped with no later silver award sticker. Earthsea Book 2.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-tombs-of-atuan"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-farthest-shore",
   "title": "The Farthest Shore",
   "author": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The US Atheneum first is identified by Currey's first-issue binding — black cloth in which the pictorial stamping is NOT identical to the dust jacket (the second issue matches the jacket) — illustrated by Gail Garraty, with the first-state priced, unclipped jacket. Earthsea Book 3. Won the 1973 National Book Award (Children's Books).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-farthest-shore"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lord-fouls-bane",
   "title": "Lord Foul's Bane",
   "author": "Stephen R. Donaldson",
   "publisher": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston (first trade) / Science Fiction Book Club, Nelson Doubleday (precedence first)",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The Holt, Rinehart and Winston trade printing states First Edition on the copyright page and carries a priced jacket; it is the first trade edition and the form most collectors seek. Note, however, that it does not have precedence: the Science Fiction Book Club edition (Nelson Doubleday) appeared several months earlier in 1977 and is the actual first printing of the text in book form, identifiable by its smaller format, a blind gutter code on the rear board, and an unpriced jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lord-fouls-bane"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-king-of-elflands-daughter",
   "title": "The King of Elfland's Daughter",
   "author": "Lord Dunsany",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons, London (UK first) and G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York (US first)",
   "year": "1924",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Both the UK and US firsts appeared in 1924 from Putnam, with a frontispiece by S.H. Sime. The UK has precedence: a signed limited edition of 250 numbered copies issued in May 1924, followed by the UK trade edition in June; the New York Putnam edition followed in October. Distinguish UK from US by the title-page imprint (the London and New York imprint denotes the UK issue; the imprint beginning with New York denotes the US issue), and confirm the 1924 date with no later printing line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-king-of-elflands-daughter"
  },
  {
   "slug": "conjure-wife",
   "title": "Conjure Wife",
   "author": "Fritz Leiber",
   "publisher": "Twayne (in Witches Three) / Lion Books",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First magazine appearance was the April 1943 issue of Unknown Worlds. The first book appearance was in the hardcover anthology Witches Three (Twayne, 1952), where an expanded and revised text led the volume alongside stories by Blish and Pratt. The first standalone book was the Lion Books paperback original of 1953; a standalone hardcover did not follow until the Gregg Press edition of 1977.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/conjure-wife"
  },
  {
   "slug": "our-lady-of-darkness",
   "title": "Our Lady of Darkness",
   "author": "Fritz Leiber",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Putnam first hardcover, 1977, with a 1977 copyright and no later-printing statement or reprint line. Dealer-confirmed first printings carry the original price on the jacket. World Fantasy Award winner (1978).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/our-lady-of-darkness"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-ceremonies",
   "title": "The Ceremonies",
   "author": "T.E.D. Klein",
   "publisher": "Viking",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "Fantasy & horror (deeper)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Viking first hardcover, published June 1984, with the 'First published in 1984 by The Viking Press' statement and no later-printing line; jacket priced. Klein's only novel; it expands his novella 'The Events at Poroth Farm.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-ceremonies"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-talented-mr-ripley-ripleys-game",
   "title": "The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley's Game)",
   "author": "Patricia Highsmith",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "Mystery, crime & thriller — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "This entry is for RIPLEY'S GAME, the third Tom Ripley novel, not The Talented Mr. Ripley. The true first is the UK William Heinemann hardback, published 11 March 1974. The first US edition, Alfred A. Knopf, followed in May 1974 with text lightly Americanised. On a Heinemann first impression the copyright page carries only the first-published statement with no later-impression line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-talented-mr-ripley-ripleys-game"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-odessa-file",
   "title": "The Odessa File",
   "author": "Frederick Forsyth",
   "publisher": "Hutchinson (London)",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "Mystery, crime & thriller — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Hutchinson first edition, first impression, 1972, octavo, in publisher's cloth with first-issue dust jacket; collation is ix plus 309 pages. The copyright page of a first impression carries the first-published-1972 statement with no later-impression line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-odessa-file"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-taste-for-death",
   "title": "A Taste for Death",
   "author": "P. D. James",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (London)",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "Mystery, crime & thriller — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Faber & Faber first edition, 1986, in first-issue priced dust jacket. A first impression has no later-printing statement on the copyright page. Seventh Adam Dalgliesh novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-taste-for-death"
  },
  {
   "slug": "indemnity-only",
   "title": "Indemnity Only",
   "author": "Sara Paretsky",
   "publisher": "The Dial Press",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "Mystery, crime & thriller — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Dial Press first edition, 1982, in first-issue dust jacket. The first printing is identified by the words First Printing stated on the copyright page (rather than a number line). Paretsky's debut and the first V. I. Warshawski novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/indemnity-only"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-blessing-way",
   "title": "The Blessing Way",
   "author": "Tony Hillerman",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row (New York)",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Harper & Row first, 1970. Copyright page (p. [iv]) states 'FIRST EDITION'; the descending number line '70 71 72 73 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' is printed on the LAST printed page (p. [202]), not on the copyright page. Both the 'FIRST EDITION' statement and the rear number line ending in 1 must be present. Binding: half fuchsia cloth with purple paper over boards, 201 pp. Issued in Harper's Joan Kahn 'Novel of Suspense' series; first-issue jacket carries the printed price on the upper front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-blessing-way"
  },
  {
   "slug": "postmortem",
   "title": "Postmortem",
   "author": "Patricia Cornwell",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "Mystery, crime & thriller — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Scribner's first edition: copyright page dated 1990 with the full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Quarter black cloth over red paper-covered boards, gilt spine lettering; first-issue jacket with the printed price on the front flap. 293 pp.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/postmortem"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-the-woods",
   "title": "In the Woods",
   "author": "Tana French",
   "publisher": "Hodder Headline Ireland (Dublin)",
   "year": "2007",
   "genre": "Mystery, crime & thriller — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The world first is the Irish trade-paperback original from Hodder Headline Ireland, 2007 (ISBN 9780340937969); no hardcover preceded it. It shows the number '1' in the printing line on the copyright page. The UK Hodder & Stoughton hardcover and the US Viking hardcover (both 2007) are the first hardcover editions and follow the Irish paperback; each carries a number line including '1' on first printings.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-the-woods"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-time-to-kill",
   "title": "A Time to Kill",
   "author": "John Grisham",
   "publisher": "Wynwood Press",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "Mystery, crime & thriller — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first: Wynwood Press, 1989, a small printing of about 5,000 copies. Points: jacket carries the subtitle 'A Novel of Retribution' and the printed price on the front flap, unclipped; no later Grisham titles are mentioned (he had none yet). Bound in ocher (tan) paper-covered boards over a maroon cloth spine lettered in gilt. Distinct from the later, far more common Doubleday edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-time-to-kill"
  },
  {
   "slug": "higglety-pigglety-pop-or-there-must-be-more-to-life",
   "title": "Higglety Pigglety Pop! or, There Must Be More to Life",
   "author": "Maurice Sendak",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has 1967 on the copyright page with no statement of a later printing, no 'First Edition' slug, and no number line on the final leaf (Harper & Row did not begin adding number lines until 1969). First-issue jacket carries the original price and the early, short list of Sendak titles on the rear flap; longer title lists indicate later printings. Brown cloth with a color pictorial pastedown label of Jennie the terrier on the front board, gilt spine title, and red-stained top edges.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/higglety-pigglety-pop-or-there-must-be-more-to-life"
  },
  {
   "slug": "outside-over-there",
   "title": "Outside Over There",
   "author": "Maurice Sendak",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has NO printing number on the copyright page; later printings add a small numeral (a '(2)' on the copyright page marks the second printing). First-issue jacket retains the original price. Red cloth boards with gilt titling to the front board and spine, oblong format, unpaginated. Completes Sendak's picture-book trilogy with Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/outside-over-there"
  },
  {
   "slug": "how-the-grinch-stole-christmas",
   "title": "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!",
   "author": "Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Because the text was reprinted from unchanged plates, identification rests on the first-issue dust jacket. First-issue jacket is priced 250/250 on the front flap, lists fourteen Seuss titles on the rear flap, and carries the advertisement for The Cat in the Hat priced at 2.00 on the rear panel. Glossy pictorial paper-over-boards with illustrated endpapers; copyright page bears no statement of a later printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/how-the-grinch-stole-christmas"
  },
  {
   "slug": "horton-hears-a-who",
   "title": "Horton Hears a Who!",
   "author": "Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page shows 1954 only, with no later dates and no list of other Seuss titles on the copyright page (in the true first the title list appears only on the recto of the rear endpaper). First-issue dust jacket is priced 250/250 on the front flap. The first-state rear panel shows Horton's full ear (not cropped by the quotation), a cloud in the upper left, and a five-branch tree in the upper right; later states crop the ear, drop the cloud, and reduce the tree to two branches. Pictorial boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/horton-hears-a-who"
  },
  {
   "slug": "and-to-think-that-i-saw-it-on-mulberry-street",
   "title": "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street",
   "author": "Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)",
   "publisher": "Vanguard Press (New York)",
   "year": "1937",
   "genre": "childrens-classics",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Dr. Seuss's first children's book. First edition, first issue: Vanguard Press, 1937 on both the title and copyright pages, with no later printings listed. The defining first-issue point is the boy Marco shown in WHITE shorts on the front cover and on the jacket; a later second state corrects the shorts to blue. First-issue jacket is priced 1.00 on the lower front flap. Pictorial boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/and-to-think-that-i-saw-it-on-mulberry-street"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-500-hats-of-bartholomew-cubbins",
   "title": "The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins",
   "author": "Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)",
   "publisher": "Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1938",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1938 Vanguard Press edition with the Vanguard imprint and no later printings stated. Red cloth-backed spine with illustrated black paper boards, illustrated endpapers, interior in black and white with Bartholomew's hat in red. First-issue jacket is priced 1.50 on the front flap and advertises Mulberry Street at 1.00 at the foot of the rear flap, with a single hat on the back panel. Endpaper states are noted by collectors (large versus small hats on the pastedowns).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-500-hats-of-bartholomew-cubbins"
  },
  {
   "slug": "fantastic-mr-fox",
   "title": "Fantastic Mr Fox",
   "author": "Roald Dahl (illus. Donald Chaffin)",
   "publisher": "George Allen & Unwin",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The 1970 George Allen & Unwin edition is illustrated by Donald Chaffin (not the later Tony Ross or Quentin Blake reissues) and uses the publisher's standard statement, 'First published in Great Britain in 1970,' with no later-printing line. It was issued in laminated colour-pictorial glazed boards and WITHOUT a dust jacket, and the boards carry no printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/fantastic-mr-fox"
  },
  {
   "slug": "are-you-there-god-its-me-margaret",
   "title": "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.",
   "author": "Judy Blume",
   "publisher": "Bradbury Press",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The 1970 Bradbury Press first printing is identified by the copyright page stating 'first printing' (not by an absence of any printing statement). Bound in light blue cloth stamped in yellow; first-issue jacket designed by Eros Keith with the original price to the front flap. Genuinely uncommon in first printing because early copies were heavily read.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/are-you-there-god-its-me-margaret"
  },
  {
   "slug": "twilight",
   "title": "Twilight",
   "author": "Stephenie Meyer",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Little, Brown and Company (Megan Tingley Books imprint), 2005. The first printing states 'First Edition' and shows a full number line ending in 1 ('10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1') on the copyright page; first-issue jacket with the printed price and the red-apple cover. The author's debut novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/twilight"
  },
  {
   "slug": "diary-of-a-wimpy-kid",
   "title": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid",
   "author": "Jeff Kinney",
   "publisher": "Amulet Books / Abrams",
   "year": "2007",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has a complete number line reading 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 (ending in 1) on the copyright page, under the Amulet Books / Abrams imprint. Issued as a pictorial laminated hardcover with no dust jacket, as issued. The small first printing (reported at about 25,000 copies) makes a true first scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/diary-of-a-wimpy-kid"
  },
  {
   "slug": "island-of-the-blue-dolphins",
   "title": "Island of the Blue Dolphins",
   "author": "Scott O'Dell",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin Company",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1960, Houghton Mifflin (Boston). First printing: title page and copyright page both dated 1960 with no later-printing statement. Binding is tan/beige cloth stamped in brown and turquoise (jacket art by Evaline Ness). First-state jacket retains the original printed price on the flap, shows no photographer credit on the rear panel, and does NOT bear the Newbery Medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/island-of-the-blue-dolphins"
  },
  {
   "slug": "julie-of-the-wolves",
   "title": "Julie of the Wolves",
   "author": "Jean Craighead George (illus. John Schoenherr)",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page with no later-printing statement. Color pictorial boards; illustrations by John Schoenherr. First-state jacket retains the original printed price on the flap and does NOT bear the Newbery Medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/julie-of-the-wolves"
  },
  {
   "slug": "harold-and-the-purple-crayon",
   "title": "Harold and the Purple Crayon",
   "author": "Crockett Johnson",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the 1955 Harper & Brothers edition. The copyright page reads 'Harper & Brothers' (not the later 'Harper & Row' or 'HarperCollins'), with copyright 1955 and Library of Congress catalog card number 55-7683. The first-issue dust jacket carries the original printed price and the publisher flap codes (a 'No. 5671A'-style code at the foot of the front flap and a corresponding code on the rear flap). The book has no free endpapers: the half-title is the first leaf and the page where Harold falls asleep is the last.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/harold-and-the-purple-crayon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "goodnight-moon-first-issue-dust-jacket-points",
   "title": "Goodnight Moon (first-issue dust-jacket points)",
   "author": "Margaret Wise Brown (illus. Clement Hurd)",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "There is no reliable copyright-page point: the 1947 Harper & Brothers first edition carries no printing statement, so the firmest identifiers are the title-page imprint and the dust jacket. The title page must read 'Harper & Brothers' (not 'Harper & Row', which indicates a later printing), with a green cloth spine over flat (non-glossy) boards. The first-state jacket shows the imprint 'HARPER & BROTHERS - NEW YORK & LONDON' on the rear panel (later jackets drop '& LONDON') and carries an advertisement for 'Little Fur Family' on the rear flap (later jackets advertise 'Little Chicken'). Jacket price points remain debated and unconfirmed, so they should not be relied upon.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/goodnight-moon-first-issue-dust-jacket-points"
  },
  {
   "slug": "strega-nona",
   "title": "Strega Nona",
   "author": "Tomie dePaola",
   "publisher": "Prentice-Hall",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing copyright page carries no later-printing statement. A genuine text-state point: the early-printing title page and jacket give the subtitle as 'an old tale retold and illustrated by Tomie dePaola'; later printings change this to 'an original tale written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola'. Original cloth-backed boards with the price present on the jacket flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/strega-nona"
  },
  {
   "slug": "owl-moon",
   "title": "Owl Moon",
   "author": "Jane Yolen (illus. John Schoenherr)",
   "publisher": "Philomel Books",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has 'First Impression' stated on the copyright page (the Philomel convention) and a first-state jacket WITHOUT the Caldecott Medal seal; John Schoenherr watercolors, with the price present on the jacket flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/owl-moon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "jumanji",
   "title": "Jumanji",
   "author": "Chris Van Allsburg",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the publication date on the title page and a full number line down to 1 on the copyright page, bound in green cloth with copper/gold spine titling; first-state jacket WITHOUT the Caldecott Medal seal, oblong large format, with the price present on the flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/jumanji"
  },
  {
   "slug": "blueberries-for-sal",
   "title": "Blueberries for Sal",
   "author": "Robert McCloskey",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1948",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing states 'First published by the Viking Press in September, 1948' on the copyright page with no later-printing reference; oblong format, full tan cloth with the blue Sal illustration matching the jacket, blue duotone illustrations, with the original price present on the jacket flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/blueberries-for-sal"
  },
  {
   "slug": "where-the-red-fern-grows",
   "title": "Where the Red Fern Grows",
   "author": "Wilson Rawls",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "Children's & YA — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1961 Doubleday edition with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page; first-state jacket with the original price present on the front flap and NO ISBN on the rear flap (the absence of an ISBN distinguishes it from the 1971 reissue). Red cloth, title stamped in white on the spine.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/where-the-red-fern-grows"
  },
  {
   "slug": "watchmen",
   "title": "Watchmen",
   "author": "Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons",
   "publisher": "DC Comics",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the DC softcover trade (collecting the 1986–87 twelve-issue maxi-series), with the printed cover price, ISBN 0-930289-23-4, the 'bloody smiley / broken window' cover, and a stated first printing with a number line ending in 1. Early printings carry no UPC barcode block. 448 pages, full color.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/watchmen"
  },
  {
   "slug": "watchmen-1-comic",
   "title": "Watchmen #1 (comic)",
   "author": "Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons",
   "publisher": "DC Comics",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First issue of the twelve-part maxi-series, cover-dated September 1986, with a $1.50 cover price (not 75 cents). The first print direct-market edition carries the DC logo box in the lower-left cover corner; newsstand copies carry a UPC barcode instead. The indicia shows no reprint or later-printing notation. As a direct-market maxi-series of this era, the original single issues were generally not reprinted as floppies during the initial run, so most surviving copies are first printings.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/watchmen-1-comic"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bone-1-comic",
   "title": "Bone #1 (comic)",
   "author": "Jeff Smith",
   "publisher": "Cartoon Books",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Self-published black-and-white first issue, July 1991, the printed price. The decisive identifier of the true first printing is the RED Bone logo on the cover (later printings use other logo colors); the first printing carries the Cartoon Books indicia with the 1991 date and no printing notation. Later printings (more than a dozen exist, including tenth-anniversary, Wizard, and Image editions) are explicitly marked and far more common. The first printing had a very low print run.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bone-1-comic"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ghost-world",
   "title": "Ghost World",
   "author": "Daniel Clowes",
   "publisher": "Fantagraphics Books",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First collected edition, Fantagraphics, 1997, a limited signed and numbered HARDCOVER of 2,500 copies, approximately 80 pp., with Clowes's wraparound cover art and the green-and-black interior color scheme. This 1997 limited hardcover is the true first book edition; the trade softcover did not appear until 1998. Confirm the 1997 hardcover and its numbering rather than the later softcover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ghost-world"
  },
  {
   "slug": "v-for-vendetta",
   "title": "V for Vendetta",
   "author": "Alan Moore & David Lloyd",
   "publisher": "DC Comics",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First complete collected edition, DC Comics, June 1990, softcover trade paperback in cardstock wrappers, ISBN 0-930289-52-8, with the printed cover price. Collects the ten chapters of the completed work in full color, with additional art by Tony Weare. Stated first printing; original Lloyd mask cover without any film imagery.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/v-for-vendetta"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sin-city-the-hard-goodbye",
   "title": "Sin City (The Hard Goodbye)",
   "author": "Frank Miller",
   "publisher": "Dark Horse Comics",
   "year": "1992/1993 (collected)",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Originally serialized by Frank Miller in Dark Horse Presents, beginning with episode one in the Dark Horse Presents Fifth Anniversary Special, April 1991, and continuing in Dark Horse Presents issues fifty-one through sixty-two, June 1991 to June 1992. First collected edition titled simply Sin City, Dark Horse, softcover, black and white with spot red, around 208 pages; sources date the first collected printing to 1992, with the subtitle The Hard Goodbye added in January 1993. Stated first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sin-city-the-hard-goodbye"
  },
  {
   "slug": "y-the-last-man-1-comic",
   "title": "Y: The Last Man #1 (comic)",
   "author": "Brian K. Vaughan & Pia Guerra",
   "publisher": "DC Comics (Vertigo)",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cover-dated September 2002 (on sale July 17, 2002), printed cover price, J.G. Jones cover. First print is the direct edition with no printing notation; the indicia is dated 2002. A marked second printing exists. Note that the on-sale month was July while the cover date is September, so a bare 'July 2002' can be misleading.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/y-the-last-man-1-comic"
  },
  {
   "slug": "akira-english-collected-epic-comics",
   "title": "Akira (English collected, Epic Comics)",
   "author": "Katsuhiro Otomo",
   "publisher": "Marvel/Epic Comics (US) / Kodansha (Japan)",
   "year": "1988 (US color) / 1984 (Japan tankobon)",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US first English edition: the Epic Comics colorized floppy series, Akira #1 cover-dated August 1988, colored by Steve Oliff (an early showcase of computer coloring). First prints carry the 1988 Epic indicia and no later-printing line. Japanese original: serialized in Kodansha's Young Magazine from December 1982, then collected in six tankobon volumes beginning with volume one in September 1984, printed in black and white and read right to left.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/akira-english-collected-epic-comics"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-contract-with-god-and-other-tenement-stories",
   "title": "A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories",
   "author": "Will Eisner",
   "publisher": "Baronet Books",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Baronet Publishing/Baronet Books, New York, October 1978, stating 'First printing, October 1978.' Issued in two simultaneous formats: a hardcover and a trade softcover. The hardcover was a limited issue of 1,500 copies, signed and numbered by Eisner on the front free endpaper, bound in cloth with gilt stamping and issued WITHOUT a dust jacket. The softcover was issued in illustrated wraps and is the more commonly encountered first issue. Widely credited with popularizing the term 'graphic novel.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-contract-with-god-and-other-tenement-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "understanding-comics-the-invisible-art",
   "title": "Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art",
   "author": "Scott McCloud",
   "publisher": "Tundra Publishing (Northampton, MA)",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first edition published by Tundra Publishing in 1993, softcover, 216 pages, black and white, ISBN 1-56862-019-5. The Tundra imprint on the title and copyright pages is the key point. Kitchen Sink Press printings followed after Kitchen Sink absorbed Tundra in 1993, and the HarperPerennial paperback editions (from 1994) are later still.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/understanding-comics-the-invisible-art"
  },
  {
   "slug": "epileptic-lascension-du-haut-mal",
   "title": "Epileptic (L'Ascension du Haut Mal)",
   "author": "David B. (Pierre-François Beauchard)",
   "publisher": "L'Association (France) / Pantheon (US)",
   "year": "1996–2004 (France) / 2005 (US single-volume)",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "French original-language true first: 'L'Ascension du Haut Mal,' L'Association, six volumes published 1996–2004. First complete English edition: single-volume 'Epileptic,' Pantheon Books, 2005, hardcover in jacket, translated by Kim Thompson, ISBN 978-0-375-42318-5. The Pantheon volume gathers all six French volumes for the first time in English.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/epileptic-lascension-du-haut-mal"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hark-a-vagrant",
   "title": "Hark! A Vagrant",
   "author": "Kate Beaton",
   "publisher": "Drawn & Quarterly",
   "year": "2011",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Drawn & Quarterly, Montreal, 2011, hardcover in illustrated paper-covered boards, 168 pages, ISBN 978-1-77046-060-5, published September 2011. The first printing carries no later-printing notice in the indicia; later printings add a printing statement or shortened number line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hark-a-vagrant"
  },
  {
   "slug": "american-born-chinese",
   "title": "American Born Chinese",
   "author": "Gene Luen Yang",
   "publisher": "First Second (Roaring Brook Press)",
   "year": "2006",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, First Second, 2006. The trade issue was a paperback original (ISBN 978-1-59643-152-2), issued together with a scarce limited hardcover collector's state available mainly through comic shops and conventions. Identify a first printing by the First Second imprint, the 2006 date, and a first-printing number line. The hardcover state adds cloth-and-board binding with a black silk ribbon marker.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/american-born-chinese"
  },
  {
   "slug": "we3",
   "title": "We3",
   "author": "Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely",
   "publisher": "DC Comics (Vertigo)",
   "year": "2004 (serial) / 2005 (collected)",
   "genre": "Comics & graphic novels",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Serial first: three-issue Vertigo mini-series, 2004; a first-print issue #1 carries no later-printing notation in the indicia. First collected edition: Vertigo trade paperback, 2005. A separate expanded deluxe hardcover followed in 2011 and is a later first-thus, not the original collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/we3"
  },
  {
   "slug": "questions-of-travel",
   "title": "Questions of Travel",
   "author": "Elizabeth Bishop",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "FSG first edition, so stated on the copyright page with no additional printings indicated. Blue cloth, spine lettering, 95 pp., octavo; dust jacket. Contains the title poem 'Questions of Travel' and the Brazil poems.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/questions-of-travel"
  },
  {
   "slug": "self-portrait-in-a-convex-mirror",
   "title": "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror",
   "author": "John Ashbery",
   "publisher": "Viking Press",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Viking Press first edition, 1975, in quarter blue cloth over olive/greenish-brown paper-covered boards lettered in green on the spine, in dust jacket priced on the front flap. The cloth hardcover is the true first; reportedly about 3,500 copies. Swept the 1976 Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award (the rare triple).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/self-portrait-in-a-convex-mirror"
  },
  {
   "slug": "meditations-in-an-emergency",
   "title": "Meditations in an Emergency",
   "author": "Frank O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Grove Press",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Grove Press first edition, 1957. The standard trade issue is in stiff paper wrappers (Evergreen, roughly 900 copies). The hardcover is a signed, numbered limited issue in green cloth (75 copies signed by O'Hara), preceded by a special issue of 15 copies that adds a frontispiece drawing by Grace Hartigan. Contains the title poem and 'To the Harbormaster.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/meditations-in-an-emergency"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-collected-poems-of-frank-ohara",
   "title": "The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara",
   "author": "Frank O'Hara (ed. Donald Allen)",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf first edition with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page and the Borzoi colophon. Edited by Donald Allen, introduction by John Ashbery. The first-issue dust jacket reproduces Larry Rivers' nude portrait of O'Hara; it was withdrawn after objections from the O'Hara family and replaced by a typographic (plain) second-issue jacket. Large dust-jacketed volume of about 586 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-collected-poems-of-frank-ohara"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rosencrantz-and-guildenstern-are-dead",
   "title": "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead",
   "author": "Tom Stoppard",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Faber and Faber, London, 1967. Issued simultaneously in a hardback bound in cloth (small print run) with a dust jacket priced 18s net, and in the more common wrappers state with French flaps. The copyright page carries the Faber 'First published in 1967' statement with no later-impression line. The cloth hardback in the priced jacket is the preferred and scarcer state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/rosencrantz-and-guildenstern-are-dead"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-a-green-night-poems-1948-1960",
   "title": "In a Green Night: Poems 1948–1960",
   "author": "Derek Walcott",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Jonathan Cape (London) first edition, first impression, 'first published 1962' so stated; quarter cloth over patterned paper boards with a priced dust jacket, around 79 pages. Walcott's first collection issued by a major international publisher.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-a-green-night-poems-1948-1960"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hawk-in-the-rain",
   "title": "The Hawk in the Rain",
   "author": "Ted Hughes",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hughes's first book, the winner of the inaugural New York Poetry Center First Publication competition (judges W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Marianne Moore). Faber and Faber (London) first edition, first impression, September 1957: 'first published in mcmlvii' on the copyright page, in a dust jacket priced 10s 6d net. The US Harper & Brothers edition (1957) is the first American edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hawk-in-the-rain"
  },
  {
   "slug": "howl-and-other-poems-deeper-printing-state-note",
   "title": "Howl and Other Poems (deeper printing-state note)",
   "author": "Allen Ginsberg",
   "publisher": "City Lights Books (Pocket Poets Series No. 4)",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "City Lights Pocket Poets No. 4, issued only in stapled black printed wrappers with a separate white wrap-around label (never issued in cloth), introduction by William Carlos Williams, price 75 cents on the rear wrapper. The true first printing of 1,000 copies was letterpress-printed in England at Villiers Publications, Holloway, London. The two crucial first-printing points are the dedication, which names Lucien Carr (his name was removed at his request in later printings), and the period after 'Harlem' on the rear wrapper. First printing carries no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/howl-and-other-poems-deeper-printing-state-note"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-mind-reader",
   "title": "The Mind-Reader",
   "author": "Richard Wilbur",
   "publisher": "Harcourt Brace Jovanovich",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Harcourt Brace Jovanovich first edition, 'First edition' so stated, first printing; cloth in priced dust jacket; 67 pages. Subtitled 'New Poems.' Later printings (a stated second printing exists) drop or advance the first-edition statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-mind-reader"
  },
  {
   "slug": "white-buildings",
   "title": "White Buildings",
   "author": "Hart Crane",
   "publisher": "Boni & Liveright",
   "year": "1926",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Boni & Liveright first edition, 1926, foreword by Allen Tate; cloth in dust jacket. Edition of 500 copies. The recognized first-issue point is the title-page misprint reading 'Allan Tate' (instead of 'Allen'); only a small portion of the run (roughly the review copies) carries the misspelling, which was corrected during the run. Crane's first book; the original jacket is scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/white-buildings"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pictures-from-brueghel-and-other-poems",
   "title": "Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems",
   "author": "William Carlos Williams",
   "publisher": "New Directions",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "New Directions first edition, 1962, first printing so stated, issued as a New Directions Paperbook in wrappers (NDP118). The wrappers issue is the true first form; there was no simultaneous New Directions cloth first. Won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, awarded posthumously (Williams died March 1963).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pictures-from-brueghel-and-other-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-maximus-poems",
   "title": "The Maximus Poems",
   "author": "Charles Olson",
   "publisher": "Jargon / Corinth Books",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "Beat, poetry & drama — deeper",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Jargon/Corinth Books first collected edition, 1960 (Jonathan Williams's Jargon Society in association with Corinth), first printing. Issued primarily in decorated wrappers with a map design; a small hardcover binding was also done (about 75 numbered copies, plus 26 lettered-and-signed copies). It gathers and revises material first issued piecemeal: The Maximus Poems / 1-10 (Jargon 7, 1953) and The Maximus Poems / 11-22 (Jargon 9, 1956).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-maximus-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-brave-cowboy-an-old-tale-in-a-new-time",
   "title": "The Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale in a New Time",
   "author": "Edward Abbey",
   "publisher": "Dodd, Mead & Company",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Dodd, Mead first edition, 1956; per Dodd, Mead practice the first printing carries no later-printing notice on the copyright page. Bound in half black cloth over tan boards, spine lettered in red. Single printing of about 5,000 copies, the scarcest of Abbey's novels. The original dust jacket carries no film tie-in to 'Lonely Are the Brave' (1962); any film-related jacket is a later issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-brave-cowboy-an-old-tale-in-a-new-time"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-fools-progress-an-honest-novel",
   "title": "The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel",
   "author": "Edward Abbey",
   "publisher": "Henry Holt and Company",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries the full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page, with the Henry Holt imprint. Dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap. Later trade printings show a shortened number line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-fools-progress-an-honest-novel"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-spectator-bird",
   "title": "The Spectator Bird",
   "author": "Wallace Stegner",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "For this title the Doubleday trade first does NOT state 'First Edition' on the copyright page. The first trade printing is identified by the Doubleday gutter code (reported as R10) printed vertically at the foot of the last text page, with the price present on the dust jacket front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-spectator-bird"
  },
  {
   "slug": "crossing-to-safety",
   "title": "Crossing to Safety",
   "author": "Wallace Stegner",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House trade first carries 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page together with the number line ending in 1, plus the Random House house colophon. Dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/crossing-to-safety"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-a-narrow-grave-essays-on-texas",
   "title": "In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas",
   "author": "Larry McMurtry",
   "publisher": "Encino Press",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the Encino Press (Austin; publisher William D. Wittliff) printing of 1968, identified by the notorious misprint 'skycrapers' (for 'skyscrapers') on page 105, line 12. The book was badly copyedited and the bulk of the printing was destroyed once the errors were found, so surviving 'skycrapers' copies are the prized first. Identified by the Encino Press colophon together with the 'skycrapers' point.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-a-narrow-grave-essays-on-texas"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pilgrim-at-tinker-creek-signed-limited-and-trade-first-point",
   "title": "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (signed/limited and trade first points)",
   "author": "Annie Dillard",
   "publisher": "Harper's Magazine Press / Harper & Row",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trade first: Harper's Magazine Press (distributed by Harper & Row), 1974. The true first printing has the complete number line at the foot of the last page of text reading '74 75 76 77 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' and the code 0374 on the inner jacket flap, with the printed price on the jacket. The copyright page is dated 1974 only. Dillard's first prose book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pilgrim-at-tinker-creek-signed-limited-and-trade-first-point"
  },
  {
   "slug": "an-american-childhood",
   "title": "An American Childhood",
   "author": "Annie Dillard",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Harper & Row, 1987. The trade first edition is identified by 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page, with the printed price present on the dust jacket front flap. Dillard's memoir of her Pittsburgh childhood. A separate signed limited edition of 250 numbered copies also exists.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/an-american-childhood"
  },
  {
   "slug": "of-wolves-and-men",
   "title": "Of Wolves and Men",
   "author": "Barry Lopez",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Charles Scribner's Sons imprint with the 1978 copyright and no later-printing or additional-printing notice on the copyright page. By the late 1970s Scribner had moved to a number-line convention, so a first printing shows the printer/number-line sequence for the first state rather than any later-printing line. Dust jacket carries the printed price on the flap. Illustrated octavo.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/of-wolves-and-men"
  },
  {
   "slug": "storyteller",
   "title": "Storyteller",
   "author": "Leslie Marmon Silko",
   "publisher": "Seaver Books (distributed by Grove Press)",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Seaver Books imprint, 1981. Issued simultaneously in trade paperback wrappers (stating 'First Edition' on the copyright page) and in a clothbound hardcover. Unusual oblong octavo format combining poetry, prose, and family photographs. The true first carries the Seaver imprint with no later-printing notice.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/storyteller"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-professors-house",
   "title": "The Professor's House",
   "author": "Willa Cather",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1925",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Two issues. The signed limited edition comprises 225 copies signed by Cather, of which 40 are bound in Imperial Japan vellum (gilt, slipcased) and the remainder on Borzoi all-rag paper. The first trade issue is bound in orange linen cloth with a blue cloth spine and orange top stain, carries the Knopf imprint and Borzoi colophon, and has no later-printing statement. Published September 4, 1925. Cather's Southwest-infused novel containing 'Tom Outland's Story' set on the mesa.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-professors-house"
  },
  {
   "slug": "death-comes-for-the-archbishop-signed-limited-and-trade-firs",
   "title": "Death Comes for the Archbishop (signed/limited and trade first points)",
   "author": "Willa Cather",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1927",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Three issues. The signed limited edition comprises 50 copies on Japan vellum and 175 numbered copies signed by Cather on Borzoi all-rag paper, bound in marbled paper-covered boards over a green cloth spine with a gilt-stamped black morocco label; the trade issue (about 20,000 copies) carries the Knopf imprint and Borzoi colophon with no later-printing statement. Crane bibliography A16. New Mexico classic.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/death-comes-for-the-archbishop-signed-limited-and-trade-firs"
  },
  {
   "slug": "desert-solitaire-true-first-state-and-proof-points",
   "title": "Desert Solitaire (true-first state and proof points)",
   "author": "Edward Abbey",
   "publisher": "McGraw-Hill",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing is identified by 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page (McGraw-Hill of this period used a stated 'First Edition,' not a number line). Bound in brown cloth with white and tan spine lettering; collation xiv, [2], 269 pages, with the author's four-page introduction and nineteen chapter-head illustrations that appear only in this edition. First-issue dust jacket is priced on the front flap with no later-printing notice.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/desert-solitaire-true-first-state-and-proof-points"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-way-to-rainy-mountain-illustrated-first-issue-points",
   "title": "The Way to Rainy Mountain (illustrated first-issue points)",
   "author": "N. Scott Momaday",
   "publisher": "University of New Mexico Press",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "Nature, Western, Americana & Southwest",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First University of New Mexico Press edition, 1969, with line drawings by Al Momaday. The first printing is in the original cloth binding with a priced first-issue dust jacket and no later-printing statement on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-way-to-rainy-mountain-illustrated-first-issue-points"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-mismeasure-of-man",
   "title": "The Mismeasure of Man",
   "author": "Stephen Jay Gould",
   "publisher": "W. W. Norton & Company",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' together with a full number line descending to 1. Quarter red cloth backstrip over gray boards, spine titled in gilt and silver; 352 pp. Pictorial first-issue jacket designed by Jay J. Smith with the printed price intact at the head of the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-mismeasure-of-man"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-third-chimpanzee-the-evolution-and-future-of-the-human-a",
   "title": "The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal",
   "author": "Jared Diamond",
   "publisher": "HarperCollins",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First American edition: copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' with the HarperCollins number line including the digit 1; first-issue jacket carries the printed price. ISBN 0-06-018307-1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-third-chimpanzee-the-evolution-and-future-of-the-human-a"
  },
  {
   "slug": "slouching-towards-bethlehem-deeper-didion-the-white-album",
   "title": "Slouching Towards Bethlehem — deeper Didion: The White Album",
   "author": "Joan Didion",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The White Album: copyright page carries a complete descending number line ending in 1 (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10); Simon & Schuster does not print a 'First Edition' or 'First printing' statement here, so identification rests on the full number line plus the unclipped jacket showing the printed price. ISBN 0-671-22685-1; quarter black cloth over red boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/slouching-towards-bethlehem-deeper-didion-the-white-album"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-beak-of-the-finch-a-story-of-evolution-in-our-time",
   "title": "The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time",
   "author": "Jonathan Weiner",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' and, in the Knopf convention of the period, carries a number line. ISBN 0-679-40003-6. The first-issue jacket shows the printed price in the upper corner of the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-beak-of-the-finch-a-story-of-evolution-in-our-time"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-making-of-the-atomic-bomb",
   "title": "The Making of the Atomic Bomb",
   "author": "Richard Rhodes",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page carries a full number line ending in '1'. ISBN 0-671-44133-7; thick octavo of 886 pp in black cloth. The first-issue jacket shows the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-making-of-the-atomic-bomb"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-brief-history-of-time-deeper-hawking-the-universe-in-a-nut",
   "title": "A Brief History of Time — deeper Hawking: The Universe in a Nutshell",
   "author": "Stephen Hawking",
   "publisher": "Bantam",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page carries a full number line descending to '1'. ISBN 0-553-80202-X; heavily illustrated in color, black cloth with gilt spine lettering. The first-issue jacket shows the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-brief-history-of-time-deeper-hawking-the-universe-in-a-nut"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-brief-history-of-time-deeper-hawking-black-holes-and-baby",
   "title": "A Brief History of Time — deeper Hawking: Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays",
   "author": "Stephen Hawking",
   "publisher": "Bantam",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page carries a full number line descending to '1'. ISBN 0-553-09523-9. The first-issue jacket shows the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-brief-history-of-time-deeper-hawking-black-holes-and-baby"
  },
  {
   "slug": "longitude-deeper-sobel-galileos-daughter",
   "title": "Longitude — deeper Sobel: Galileo's Daughter",
   "author": "Dava Sobel",
   "publisher": "Walker & Company",
   "year": "1999",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Walker hardcover, ISBN 0-8027-1343-2. Walker trade editions of this era are identified by the absence of any later-printing statement, typically together with a number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; later printings add a higher printing statement or advance the number line. First-issue jacket carries the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/longitude-deeper-sobel-galileos-daughter"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-tipping-point-deeper-gladwell-blink-the-power-of-thinkin",
   "title": "The Tipping Point — deeper Gladwell: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking",
   "author": "Malcolm Gladwell",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' AND carries a full number line ending in 1. ISBN 0-316-17232-4. First-issue jacket carries the printed price. Later printings advance the number line and/or drop the 'First Edition' statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-tipping-point-deeper-gladwell-blink-the-power-of-thinkin"
  },
  {
   "slug": "outliers-the-story-of-success",
   "title": "Outliers: The Story of Success",
   "author": "Malcolm Gladwell",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' AND carries a full number line ending in 1. ISBN 978-0-316-01792-3. First-issue jacket carries the printed price. Later printings advance the number line and/or drop the 'First Edition' statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/outliers-the-story-of-success"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dispatches-deeper-vietnam-tim-obrien-if-i-die-in-a-combat-zo",
   "title": "Dispatches — deeper Vietnam: Tim O'Brien, If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home (memoir)",
   "author": "Tim O'Brien",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence hardcover, 1973, with a stated 'First printing' on the copyright page. First-issue dust jacket carries the printed price. Later printings drop the 'First printing' statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dispatches-deeper-vietnam-tim-obrien-if-i-die-in-a-combat-zo"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-power-broker-adjacent-landmark-biography-walter-isaacson",
   "title": "The Power Broker — adjacent landmark biography: Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs",
   "author": "Walter Isaacson",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "2011",
   "genre": "Nonfiction, science, history & memoir",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition November 2011' and carries the number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 (odd numbers ascending then even numbers descending — it does not end in 1). ISBN 978-1-4516-4853-9; first-issue jacket with the black-and-white portrait retains the printed price unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-power-broker-adjacent-landmark-biography-walter-isaacson"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-girl-on-the-train",
   "title": "The Girl on the Train",
   "author": "Paula Hawkins",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (UK / Transworld)",
   "year": "2015",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The standard UK Doubleday true first (January 2015) is a CONVENTIONAL JACKETED hardcover: black/dark-grey boards with silver spine lettering, issued in the Claire Ward pictorial dust jacket (net price on the unclipped flap), with the number line running down to 1. The jacketless black-boards version with silver print directly on the cloth, jet-black endpapers, a silver ribbon marker, and red-stained edges is the separately issued Doubleday SPECIAL DELUXE (luxury) edition, NOT the standard trade first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-girl-on-the-train"
  },
  {
   "slug": "exit-west",
   "title": "Exit West",
   "author": "Mohsin Hamid",
   "publisher": "Riverhead Books (US)",
   "year": "2017",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "On the US Riverhead issue, the copyright page reads First Edition with a full number line ending in 1. First-state jacket without later Booker-shortlist blurbs.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/exit-west"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-vanishing-half",
   "title": "The Vanishing Half",
   "author": "Brit Bennett",
   "publisher": "Riverhead Books (US)",
   "year": "2020",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The Riverhead first printing is an UNSTATED first edition: the copyright page does not print the words First Edition. The point of issue is a complete number line ending in 1. First-state jacket is without later bestseller bands. Blue paper-covered boards with red/orange spine lettering.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-vanishing-half"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-brief-history-of-seven-killings",
   "title": "A Brief History of Seven Killings",
   "author": "Marlon James",
   "publisher": "Riverhead Books (New York)",
   "year": "2014",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The US Riverhead edition was published in September 2014; the UK Oneworld edition followed in October 2014 (not 2015). The Riverhead first thus precedes the UK by about a month. First printing is told by a full number line ending in 1 (US Riverhead). The UK Oneworld first is identified by its imprint and 2014 verso statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-brief-history-of-seven-killings"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-overstory",
   "title": "The Overstory",
   "author": "Richard Powers",
   "publisher": "W. W. Norton & Company (New York)",
   "year": "2018",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US W. W. Norton first printing: copyright page carries the full number line 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. The defining point is the presence of the 1; later printings begin the line at a higher number (e.g. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10). Brown boards with metallic copper spine lettering; first-issue jacket carries the printed price. Published April 2018.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-overstory"
  },
  {
   "slug": "beautiful-world-where-are-you",
   "title": "Beautiful World, Where Are You",
   "author": "Sally Rooney",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "2021",
   "genre": "21st-century modern firsts",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Faber trade first: First published in 2021 on the copyright page with a number line descending to 1. Faber also issued limited signed and special editions (including a yellow-jacketed issue); distinguish the trade first from those by the edition or limitation statement rather than treating any decorated copy as the trade first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/beautiful-world-where-are-you"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-flame-and-the-flower",
   "title": "The Flame and the Flower",
   "author": "Kathleen E. Woodiwiss",
   "publisher": "Avon Books",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Paperback original, not a hardcover, and widely cited as the first full-length single-title historical romance issued first in paperback. Avon mass-market original published April 1972 with an initial print run of about 500,000 copies. A true first printing shows no statement of a later printing on the copyright page (no second printing or higher number). Because the print run was large, the scarce element is a crisp, unread first printing rather than the printing itself.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-flame-and-the-flower"
  },
  {
   "slug": "shanna",
   "title": "Shanna",
   "author": "Kathleen E. Woodiwiss",
   "publisher": "Avon Books",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Avon mass-market paperback original, one of the early 'big book' Avon romance originals. The first printing is identified by the original cover price and a clean copyright page with no later-printing line. The much-cited fold-out island map insert is associated with the title but is documented chiefly in later printings, so its presence is not a reliable first-printing point.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/shanna"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hot-ice",
   "title": "Hot Ice",
   "author": "Nora Roberts",
   "publisher": "Bantam Books",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Bantam mass-market paperback original, August 1987 (ISBN 0553264613). The first printing is identified by the original cover price and the lowest printing number present in the number line, with no later-printing notice. This marks Roberts's move from category romance into single-title romantic suspense.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hot-ice"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-heritage-of-the-desert",
   "title": "The Heritage of the Desert",
   "author": "Zane Grey",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers",
   "year": "1910",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Grey's first commercially successful Western. Harper & Brothers, 1910. The first edition has 1910 on the title page and 'Published September, 1910' on the copyright page (this predates Harper's letter-code system, so no code letter). It includes a black-and-white frontispiece, 'Hare Rode with Mescal,' protected by a tissue guard.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-heritage-of-the-desert"
  },
  {
   "slug": "smoke-from-this-altar",
   "title": "Smoke from This Altar",
   "author": "Louis L'Amour",
   "publisher": "Lusk Publishing Company",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "L'Amour's first published book and his only poetry collection, issued by Lusk Publishing Company, Oklahoma City, in 1939. The first edition states First Edition at the foot of the title page. Bound in grey cloth lettered in black, sixty-two pages. The dust jacket is rare in any condition. Identify by the Lusk imprint, the 1939 date, and the stated First Edition on the title page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/smoke-from-this-altar"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-searchers",
   "title": "The Searchers",
   "author": "Alan Le May",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Harper & Brothers, 1954, the source novel for the 1956 John Ford and John Wayne film. The first edition carries the Harper letter-date code H-D on the copyright page, where H corresponds to August and D to 1954, beneath the first-edition designation. First-state jacket carries its printed price. Identify by the H-D code together with the 1954 Harper imprint.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-searchers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-boys-of-summer",
   "title": "The Boys of Summer",
   "author": "Roger Kahn",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Harper & Row, 1972. The first printing has 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page together with the full number line printed at the foot of the last page ending in 1 (the Harper & Row convention of this era placed the number line on the final page, not the copyright page). First-state dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap. The classic Brooklyn Dodgers elegy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-boys-of-summer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "chronicles-volume-one",
   "title": "Chronicles: Volume One",
   "author": "Bob Dylan",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Simon & Schuster, 2004 (published October 2004). The true first printing has 'First Edition' stated and a complete descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page, with the printed price on the jacket. Later printings break the line from the low end. Signed copies are prized; collectors should be cautious of inscriptions not in Dylan's hand.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/chronicles-volume-one"
  },
  {
   "slug": "please-kill-me-the-uncensored-oral-history-of-punk",
   "title": "Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk",
   "author": "Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain",
   "publisher": "Grove Press",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Grove Press, New York, 1996. First edition, first printing in hardcover with the original priced dust jacket. The definitive punk oral history, collected as a music high spot.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/please-kill-me-the-uncensored-oral-history-of-punk"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-court-of-thorns-and-roses",
   "title": "A Court of Thorns and Roses",
   "author": "Sarah J. Maas",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury",
   "year": "2015",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Bloomsbury, published May 5, 2015. The US first (Bloomsbury USA Childrens, ISBN 9781619634442) and the UK first (Bloomsbury, ISBN 9781408857861) appeared simultaneously, each a true first of its market. The true first hardcover has a full number line ending in 1 and a priced first-state jacket. Cornerstone of the modern romantasy boom and Maas's most-collected series opener.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-court-of-thorns-and-roses"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-princess-bride",
   "title": "The Princess Bride",
   "author": "William Goldman",
   "publisher": "Harcourt Brace Jovanovich",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973, the genre-blending romance/adventure 'good parts version.' The true first states 'First edition' on the copyright page together with the Harcourt letter line beginning with B (the sequence B C D E). First-state dust jacket priced on the front flap; jacket art by Wendell Minor. Octavo, gray cloth, about 308 pages. The text is framed as an abridgement of 'S. Morgenstern.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-princess-bride"
  },
  {
   "slug": "forever-amber",
   "title": "Forever Amber",
   "author": "Kathleen Winsor",
   "publisher": "The Macmillan Company",
   "year": "1944",
   "genre": "Romance, genre & specialty",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The Macmillan Company, 1944, the scandalous historical romance bestseller that prefigured the bodice-ripper. The true first states 'first printing' on the copyright page (Macmillan did not use a number line for this title at the time). Thick octavo, green cloth, about 972 pages, with map endpapers. First-state jacket priced on the front flap, with noted jacket variants (one printed in black, one in blue). Banned in several states, which fueled sales.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/forever-amber"
  },
  {
   "slug": "his-family",
   "title": "His Family",
   "author": "Ernest Poole",
   "publisher": "The Macmillan Company (New York)",
   "year": "1917",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (awarded 1918). Published May 1917. Cloth boards with title in gilt on the spine; title page and copyright page both dated 1917, with the copyright statement reading 'Set up and electrotyped. Published May, 1917' and no later-printing line. Earliest copies have the publisher's advertisements at the rear.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/his-family"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-magnificent-ambersons",
   "title": "The Magnificent Ambersons",
   "author": "Booth Tarkington",
   "publisher": "Doubleday, Page & Company (Garden City, NY)",
   "year": "1918",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Reddish-brown cloth lettered in black; illustrated by Arthur William Brown. Title page and copyright page dated 1918 with no later-printing or code statement, and the Country Life Press colophon at the rear. The documented first-issue text point is the transposed reading at page 419, line 14, 'I can't see you why don't,' corrected in later issues to 'I can't see why you don't.' The first-state dust jacket carries the lower original price on the spine; later jackets obscure that price and overprint a higher one.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-magnificent-ambersons"
  },
  {
   "slug": "alice-adams",
   "title": "Alice Adams",
   "author": "Booth Tarkington",
   "publisher": "Doubleday, Page & Company (Garden City, NY)",
   "year": "1921",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Title page and copyright page both dated 1921 with no later-printing statement. The first state has a textual point on page 419, line 14, where 'you' and 'why' are transposed, reading 'I can't see you why don't wear more colour'; this was corrected in later states. Blue cloth, 434 pages. The first-issue dust jacket shows a caricature of Tarkington on the back panel; a later jacket state replaces it with 'Unanimous!' praise.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/alice-adams"
  },
  {
   "slug": "one-of-ours",
   "title": "One of Ours",
   "author": "Willa Cather",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1922",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the signed limited edition of 345 copies: 35 copies on Imperial Japan vellum bound in ivory boards with gilt lettering, and 310 copies on Perusia handmade Italian paper in decorative paper boards with a quarter cream-cloth spine and slipcase. All limited copies are signed on a hand-numbered limitation page and the copyright page reads 'Published, September, 1922.' The first trade edition is technically the second printing: its copyright page reads 'Second Printings, September, 1922,' bound in brown cloth with orange titles and a gilt design on the front, with an orange top stain.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/one-of-ours"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-able-mclaughlins",
   "title": "The Able McLaughlins",
   "author": "Margaret Wilson",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers (New York)",
   "year": "1923",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Harper first printings of this era state 'First Edition' on the copyright page and carry Harper's two-letter month-year code, where the second letter denotes the year (X = 1923). So the copyright page should read 'First Edition' with a code ending in X. Title page dated 1923.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-able-mclaughlins"
  },
  {
   "slug": "so-big",
   "title": "So Big",
   "author": "Edna Ferber",
   "publisher": "Doubleday, Page & Company (Garden City, NY)",
   "year": "1924",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printings state 'First Edition' by itself on its own line at the very bottom of the copyright page. Binding is blue cloth with a gold-stamped design carrying the title and author on the front. Two title-page states exist with no established priority: in State 1 the 'Y' in DOUBLEDAY sits below the 'T' in GARDEN CITY, while in State 2 the 'Y' sits below the 'TY' in GARDEN CITY. Title page dated 1924.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/so-big"
  },
  {
   "slug": "arrowsmith",
   "title": "Arrowsmith",
   "author": "Sinclair Lewis",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace & Company (New York)",
   "year": "1925",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the signed limited edition, numbered and limited to 500 copies on handmade paper, signed by the author, quarter-bound in white buckram and blue boards with a paper spine label, top edges gilt, with an extra spine label tipped in, issued in glassine within a blue cardboard slipcase. The first trade edition is the second printing: it is so identified on the copyright page and was issued in orange lettering on blue boards in a dust jacket. Lewis declined the Pulitzer for this novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/arrowsmith"
  },
  {
   "slug": "early-autumn",
   "title": "Early Autumn",
   "author": "Louis Bromfield",
   "publisher": "Frederick A. Stokes Company (New York)",
   "year": "1926",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Stokes first printings of this period carry no printing statement. The first printing shows 1926 on both the title page and the copyright page with no mention of later printings. First-issue cloth is blind-ruled green lettered in gilt, in a first-issue dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/early-autumn"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bridge-of-san-luis-rey",
   "title": "The Bridge of San Luis Rey",
   "author": "Thornton Wilder",
   "publisher": "Albert & Charles Boni (New York)",
   "year": "1927",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade edition: title page printed in green and black, copyright page reading Copyright, 1927, by Albert & Charles Boni, Inc. with no later-printing statement, illustrated in Art Deco style by Amy Drevenstedt. First-issue jacket. Later printings add a printing line beneath the copyright (for example Thirteenth Printing, April, 1928).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bridge-of-san-luis-rey"
  },
  {
   "slug": "scarlet-sister-mary",
   "title": "Scarlet Sister Mary",
   "author": "Julia Peterkin",
   "publisher": "Bobbs-Merrill Company (Indianapolis)",
   "year": "1928",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Bobbs-Merrill first issue of this title has First Edition stated on the copyright page, title page dated 1928, bound in publisher's black cloth, in a first-issue jacket. Later trade printings add Second printing and similar statements.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/scarlet-sister-mary"
  },
  {
   "slug": "laughing-boy",
   "title": "Laughing Boy",
   "author": "Oliver La Farge",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston)",
   "year": "1929",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has 1929 on both the title page and the copyright page, no mention of any prize anywhere in the book, and the Riverside Press pan-and-dolphin colophon printed in red rather than black. Decorated cloth with a rust-red top stain, in a first-issue jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/laughing-boy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-store",
   "title": "The Store",
   "author": "T. S. Stribling",
   "publisher": "Doubleday, Doran & Company (Garden City, NY)",
   "year": "1932",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first prints the words FIRST EDITION on the copyright page. Bound in publisher's black cloth with paper labels on the spine and front cover. The first-issue dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap. A useful distinguisher: the second printing drops the FIRST EDITION statement and carries the year 1932 in Roman numerals on the title page, and some second-printing jackets read 2nd Edition on the inner flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-store"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-late-george-apley",
   "title": "The Late George Apley",
   "author": "John P. Marquand",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company (Boston)",
   "year": "1937",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first printing is identified by the text point Lovely Pearl on the first line of page 19. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt. First-issue jacket (art by F. M. Rines) carries the printed price on the front flap and no later-printing slug. Pages often show faint vertical streaks from a printer malfunction common to this title.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-late-george-apley"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-this-our-life",
   "title": "In This Our Life",
   "author": "Ellen Glasgow",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company (New York)",
   "year": "1941",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first edition prints the words First Edition on the copyright page. Black cloth binding, 467 pages. The first-issue dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-this-our-life"
  },
  {
   "slug": "journey-in-the-dark",
   "title": "Journey in the Dark",
   "author": "Martin Flavin",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers (New York)",
   "year": "1943",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first printing carries the Harper house date code I-S on the last line of the copyright page, where the first letter denotes the month (I equals September) and the second letter denotes the year (S equals 1943); Harper also printed First Edition on the copyright page in this period. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. First-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap. Won the 1943 Harper Prize and the 1944 Pulitzer.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/journey-in-the-dark"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-bell-for-adano",
   "title": "A Bell for Adano",
   "author": "John Hersey",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1944",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page with no later-printing notation. First-issue binding is olive (some copies grey) cloth with lettering and decoration in black and red; Borzoi device present. First-issue dust jacket carries the printed net price on the front panel, with jacket art credited to John Salter.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-bell-for-adano"
  },
  {
   "slug": "all-the-kings-men",
   "title": "All the King's Men",
   "author": "Robert Penn Warren",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company (New York)",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition has 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page (Harcourt's 1940s practice; no number line in this era, the statement is removed on later printings). Binding is red cloth. First-issue dust jacket carries the printed price and a Sinclair Lewis blurb on the rear panel; a later jacket state omits the Sinclair Lewis text from the rear panel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/all-the-kings-men"
  },
  {
   "slug": "guard-of-honor",
   "title": "Guard of Honor",
   "author": "James Gould Cozzens",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company (New York)",
   "year": "1948",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition has 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page (Harcourt's 1940s practice; the statement is removed on later printings, no number line in this era). Binding is grey cloth stamped in dark blue at the spine; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed price and is unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/guard-of-honor"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-death-in-the-family",
   "title": "A Death in the Family",
   "author": "James Agee",
   "publisher": "McDowell, Obolensky (New York)",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "McDowell, Obolensky first, first printing: the title page is printed in blue ink, and the text reads 'walking' for 'waking' on page 80 (the first-issue error). Blue cloth lettered in silver, with a green top-stain; first-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap. Published posthumously; awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1958.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-death-in-the-family"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-edge-of-sadness",
   "title": "The Edge of Sadness",
   "author": "Edwin O'Connor",
   "publisher": "Atlantic Monthly Press / Little, Brown and Company (Boston)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade edition under the Atlantic Monthly Press / Little, Brown imprint: copyright page carries the publisher's first-printing statement with the 'Published [month] 1961' line and no later-printing notice. Gray cloth, octavo of about 460 pages, in a first-issue jacket. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-edge-of-sadness"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-reivers",
   "title": "The Reivers",
   "author": "William Faulkner",
   "publisher": "Random House (New York)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House trade first: the copyright page states 'FIRST PRINTING' (Random House's first-printing convention for this period, accompanied by the house code letter), not 'First Edition.' Red cloth lettered in gilt, red top-stain, octavo of about 305 pages, in a first-issue jacket carrying the printed price and a 6/62 date code on the front flap. A signed, numbered limited edition of 500 copies, specially bound, precedes the trade printing. Faulkner's last novel; awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1963.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-reivers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-executioners-song",
   "title": "The Executioner's Song",
   "author": "Norman Mailer",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company (Boston)",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Little, Brown 1979 first printing: copyright page states 'First Edition' (no number line, per Little, Brown practice of the period); first-issue blue cloth boards with gold spine lettering and priced jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-executioners-song"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ironweed",
   "title": "Ironweed",
   "author": "William Kennedy",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press (New York)",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Viking 1983 first printing: copyright page reads 'First published in 1983 by The Viking Press' with no later-printing line. First-state text point: on page 205 'perceived' is misprinted as 'perceivced' (corrected in later printings). First-issue quarter grey cloth over black boards, priced jacket designed by Neil Stuart. Ahearn APG 006b.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ironweed"
  },
  {
   "slug": "foreign-affairs",
   "title": "Foreign Affairs",
   "author": "Alison Lurie",
   "publisher": "Random House (New York)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House 1984 first printing: copyright page states 'First Edition' together with a number line whose lowest number is 2 (reading 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9), per Random House practice of this period. First-issue cloth with priced jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/foreign-affairs"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-mambo-kings-play-songs-of-love",
   "title": "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love",
   "author": "Oscar Hijuelos",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York)",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "FSG first printing: 'First edition, 1989' stated on the copyright page. Issued in red cloth with two small gilt crowns on the front board and gilt spine lettering; first-issue dust jacket (design by Fred Marcellino) carries the printed retail price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-mambo-kings-play-songs-of-love"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-good-scent-from-a-strange-mountain",
   "title": "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain",
   "author": "Robert Olen Butler",
   "publisher": "Henry Holt and Company (New York)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Henry Holt first printing: 'First Edition--1992' stated on the copyright page together with the full number line '1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2' (the 1 present). Story collection; first-issue cloth binding with the dust jacket carrying the printed retail price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-good-scent-from-a-strange-mountain"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-stone-diaries",
   "title": "The Stone Diaries",
   "author": "Carol Shields",
   "publisher": "Random House of Canada (Toronto)",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House of Canada first printing (1993): the copyright page carries NO edition statement and NO number line; first printings are identified by the absence of any later-printing notation (later printings are noted). The US Viking edition is dated 1994 and is the Pulitzer-cited printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-stone-diaries"
  },
  {
   "slug": "martin-dressler-the-tale-of-an-american-dreamer",
   "title": "Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer",
   "author": "Steven Millhauser",
   "publisher": "Crown Publishers (New York)",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Crown first printing: 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page together with the descending number line '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' (the 1 present). First-issue cloth binding with the dust jacket carrying the printed retail price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/martin-dressler-the-tale-of-an-american-dreamer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "march",
   "title": "March",
   "author": "Geraldine Brooks",
   "publisher": "Viking (New York)",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Viking first printing: full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page (a complete number line down to 1). Issued in quarter-cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed retail price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/march"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tinkers",
   "title": "Tinkers",
   "author": "Paul Harding",
   "publisher": "Bellevue Literary Press (New York)",
   "year": "2009",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Bellevue Literary Press issued Tinkers in 2009. The true first is the scarce hardcover trade issue (a small printing). A simultaneous trade paperback original was also issued and is far more common; the first-printing paperback shows 'First Edition' with a full number line ending in 1 and carries the printed price on the rear cover. There is also a separate signed limited hardcover of 750 copies done for Powell's Indiespensable subscribers, which should not be confused with the trade hardcover. For any format, a number line ending in 1 indicates a first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tinkers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-netanyahus",
   "title": "The Netanyahus",
   "author": "Joshua Cohen",
   "publisher": "Fitzcarraldo Editions (London)",
   "year": "2021",
   "genre": "pulitzer-fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the UK Fitzcarraldo Editions trade paperback original (the typical Fitzcarraldo blue wrappers), published May 2021, with a full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page. The US New York Review Books trade paperback original (ISBN 978-1-68137-607-3) followed in June 2021 and is a separate, later edition; its first printing also shows a number line ending in 1. Neither edition was issued as a hardcover trade first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-netanyahus"
  },
  {
   "slug": "offshore",
   "title": "Offshore",
   "author": "Penelope Fitzgerald",
   "publisher": "William Collins (London)",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, William Collins, London, 1979. 'First published 1979' stated on the copyright page. Original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; a genuinely slim novel, and firsts in fine jacketed state are scarce. Winner of the 1979 Booker Prize.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/offshore"
  },
  {
   "slug": "paddy-clarke-ha-ha-ha",
   "title": "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha",
   "author": "Roddy Doyle",
   "publisher": "Secker & Warburg (London)",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Secker & Warburg, London, 1993. 'First published 1993' on the verso of the title page with no later impression noted. Original boards in dust jacket priced £12.99 on the front flap (the jacket also carries a Canadian price of CN $24.99). Won the 1993 Booker Prize.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/paddy-clarke-ha-ha-ha"
  },
  {
   "slug": "girl-woman-other",
   "title": "Girl, Woman, Other",
   "author": "Bernardine Evaristo",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "2019",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), London, 2019. 'First published 2019' on the copyright page with a number line descending to 1 on the first printing. Original boards in unclipped dust jacket priced 16.99 pounds. Co-winner of the 2019 Booker Prize, shared with Margaret Atwood's The Testaments.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/girl-woman-other"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-promise",
   "title": "The Promise",
   "author": "Damon Galgut",
   "publisher": "Umuzi (Penguin Random House South Africa) / Chatto & Windus (London)",
   "year": "2021",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Published 2021 in three territories. The South African Umuzi edition (an imprint of Penguin Random House SA) appeared 13 May 2021 as a paperback original with integral french-flap wrappers, no separate hardcover; the UK Chatto & Windus hardcover followed 17 June 2021 with 'First published by Chatto & Windus 2021' on the verso and a full number line ending in 1. The US Europa Editions appeared 2021. 2021 Booker winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-promise"
  },
  {
   "slug": "orbital",
   "title": "Orbital",
   "author": "Samantha Harvey",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2023",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Jonathan Cape, 2 November 2023, with 'First published by Jonathan Cape 2023' on the verso and a number line ending in 1 on the first printing; original boards in dust jacket, first-state jacket without a Booker band. The US edition (Atlantic Monthly Press / Grove Atlantic) followed 5 December 2023. 2024 Booker winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/orbital"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-testament-of-mary",
   "title": "The Testament of Mary",
   "author": "Colm Tóibín",
   "publisher": "Viking (Penguin), London",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "Booker Prize + International Booker — winners and notable shortlisted titles, with UK true-first points (and US/Canada firsts where they preceded). All Booker (1969–2025) winners covered plus major International Booker winners and a selection of high-collectibility shortlisted titles. Points of issue drawn from standard collecting references (Ahearn \"Collected Books,\" author bibliographies, Firsts magazine) and dealer/auction records; precedence (UK vs US vs Canada) flagged per title. Where a title's true first is non-UK (e.g., Ondaatje Canada, Roy IndiaInk), that is noted.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Viking (Penguin), 2012. Slim hardcover, roughly 104 pages, in original boards with dust jacket; 'First published 2012' on the verso with a number line to 1. Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-testament-of-mary"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cien-a-os-de-soledad-one-hundred-years-of-solitude",
   "title": "Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude)",
   "author": "Gabriel García Márquez",
   "publisher": "Editorial Sudamericana (Buenos Aires)",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "nobel-literature",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, Editorial Sudamericana, May 1967 (first print run of about 8,000 copies). The true first bears the galleon ('galeón') cover illustration — a blue Spanish galleon set in a spectral jungle with yellow/orange lilies, executed by Iris Alba because the intended Vicente Rojo design did not arrive in time. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, roughly 351 pages. The first edition is known to carry uncorrected typographical errata that later editions amended.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cien-a-os-de-soledad-one-hundred-years-of-solitude"
  },
  {
   "slug": "death-in-venice-der-tod-in-venedig",
   "title": "Death in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig)",
   "author": "Thomas Mann",
   "publisher": "Hans von Weber, Hyperionverlag (Munich), limited edition; trade edition S. Fischer Verlag (Berlin)",
   "year": "1912",
   "genre": "nobel-literature",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first appearance in book form is the deluxe Hans von Weber Hyperion edition (Munich, 1912), issued in 100 numbered copies as one of von Weber's Hundertdrucke and printed on special paper. This limited issue appeared shortly after the text completed its serial run. The ordinary S. Fischer trade edition followed in 1913, not 1912.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/death-in-venice-der-tod-in-venedig"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bluest-eye",
   "title": "The Bluest Eye",
   "author": "Toni Morrison",
   "publisher": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston (New York)",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "nobel-literature",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Morrison's first novel. The first printing is identified by the words First Edition stated on the copyright page, with no later-printing notation. The binding is blue quarter cloth, the spine lettered in silver, over grey paper-covered sides. The dust jacket reproduces the opening paragraphs of the first chapter on the front panel. The first printing was small, making it markedly scarcer in jacket than Beloved.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bluest-eye"
  },
  {
   "slug": "independent-people-sj-lfst-tt-f-lk",
   "title": "Independent People (Sjálfstætt fólk)",
   "author": "Halldór Laxness",
   "publisher": "Reykjavík (Icelandic first edition, 1934-1935)",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "nobel-literature",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Icelandic first edition, published in Reykjavík in two parts: Part I (Sjálfstætt fólk: Landnámsmaður Íslands) in 1934 and Part II (Erfiðir tímar) in 1935. The true first is the original two-part Icelandic issue in publisher's wrappers/cloth bearing the 1934 and 1935 imprints.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/independent-people-sj-lfst-tt-f-lk"
  },
  {
   "slug": "steppenwolf-der-steppenwolf",
   "title": "Steppenwolf (Der Steppenwolf)",
   "author": "Hermann Hesse",
   "publisher": "S. Fischer Verlag (Berlin)",
   "year": "1927",
   "genre": "nobel-literature",
   "firstEditionPoints": "German first edition, S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin, 1927. The first printing is identified by the statement '1.-15. Auflage' (1. bis 15. Auflage) on the copyright page (and repeated on the front jacket panel), and by the separately paginated booklet 'Tractat vom Steppenwolf' bound in between pages 64 and 65 with its own (yellow) wrappers. Issued in pale blue linen with the gilt 'hh' monogram on the front board. Original dust jacket is scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/steppenwolf-der-steppenwolf"
  },
  {
   "slug": "doctor-faustus-doktor-faustus",
   "title": "Doctor Faustus (Doktor Faustus)",
   "author": "Thomas Mann",
   "publisher": "Bermann-Fischer Verlag (Stockholm)",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "nobel-literature",
   "firstEditionPoints": "German first edition, Bermann-Fischer Verlag, Stockholm, 1947 (full title: Doktor Faustus: Das Leben des deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverkühn, erzählt von einem Freunde), issued as part of the Stockholmer Gesamtausgabe of Mann's works. The first printing is identified by the 1947 Stockholm imprint, in publisher's cloth (brown cloth with gilt spine in the collected-edition format).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/doctor-faustus-doktor-faustus"
  },
  {
   "slug": "going-after-cacciato",
   "title": "Going After Cacciato",
   "author": "Tim O'Brien",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Printing' stated on the copyright page; issued under the Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence imprint, New York, 1978. Light green cloth boards with the author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt at the foot of the front board; dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/going-after-cacciato"
  },
  {
   "slug": "j-r",
   "title": "J R",
   "author": "William Gaddis",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page; black cloth boards titled in gilt on the spine and in blind on the upper board, top edge stained rose/pink, fore-edge untrimmed; dust jacket carries the printed price. Issued simultaneously in hardcover and trade wrappers; the cloth first is scarce, with reportedly as few as about 2,000 hardcover copies.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/j-r"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sophies-choice",
   "title": "Sophie's Choice",
   "author": "William Styron",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Trade Edition' (not 'First Edition') with a Random House number line ending in 2 — i.e. '9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2', the descending 2 being Random House's first-printing indicator of the period; the copyright page also notes that a limited edition was privately printed. Maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering and the author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on the front board; orange endpapers; dust jacket carries the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sophies-choice"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-frolic-of-his-own",
   "title": "A Frolic of His Own",
   "author": "William Gaddis",
   "publisher": "Poseidon Press",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Number line reading 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 on the copyright page is the key identifier; Poseidon Press (a Simon and Schuster imprint), New York; first-issue dust jacket priced on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-frolic-of-his-own"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-news-from-paraguay",
   "title": "The News from Paraguay",
   "author": "Lily Tuck",
   "publisher": "HarperCollins",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a complete number line ending in 1, in a printed-price dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-news-from-paraguay"
  },
  {
   "slug": "europe-central",
   "title": "Europe Central",
   "author": "William T. Vollmann",
   "publisher": "Viking",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries a complete number line ending in 1 on the copyright page under the Viking imprint, in a printed-price dust jacket. The book is a thick single volume.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/europe-central"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tree-of-smoke",
   "title": "Tree of Smoke",
   "author": "Denis Johnson",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "2007",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states First Edition with the year 2007 and carries a complete FSG number line that includes the digit 1. Dust jacket bears the original printed retail price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tree-of-smoke"
  },
  {
   "slug": "shadow-country",
   "title": "Shadow Country",
   "author": "Peter Matthiessen",
   "publisher": "Modern Library (Random House)",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Identified by the number line on the copyright page rather than by a printed First Edition slug. The true first printing carries a complete number line whose lowest number is 1; a later printing drops the line so it ends at 3. Grey cloth hardcover with the original printed price on the front jacket flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/shadow-country"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-round-house",
   "title": "The Round House",
   "author": "Louise Erdrich",
   "publisher": "Harper (HarperCollins)",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states First Edition with a complete number line ending in 1. First-state dust jacket has no silver or gold award emblem and carries the original printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-round-house"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-friend",
   "title": "The Friend",
   "author": "Sigrid Nunez",
   "publisher": "Riverhead Books",
   "year": "2018",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Riverhead Books (Penguin) imprint with a number line including 1 on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed retail price. Small first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-friend"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-barracks-thief",
   "title": "The Barracks Thief",
   "author": "Tobias Wolff",
   "publisher": "Ecco Press",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ecco Press, New York, 1984. The true first is the clothbound hardcover in quarter black cloth over red boards with red spine lettering, 'first edition' stated on the copyright page, in an illustrated dust jacket priced on the flap. A slim volume of about 101 pages; Wolff's first book-length fiction.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-barracks-thief"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dusk-and-other-stories",
   "title": "Dusk and Other Stories",
   "author": "James Salter",
   "publisher": "North Point Press",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "North Point Press (Berkeley) imprint dated 1988; deep apricot boards with silver spine lettering, small octavo, roughly 157 pages; pictorial dust jacket with the printed price on the front flap. North Point first printings are identified by the imprint and date rather than a publisher number line, so do not expect one.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dusk-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "philadelphia-fire",
   "title": "Philadelphia Fire",
   "author": "John Edgar Wideman",
   "publisher": "Henry Holt",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Henry Holt and Company imprint dated 1990, with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page; paper-covered boards with cloth spine, roughly 199 pages; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/philadelphia-fire"
  },
  {
   "slug": "snow-falling-on-cedars",
   "title": "Snow Falling on Cedars",
   "author": "David Guterson",
   "publisher": "Harcourt Brace",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page reads 'First Edition' followed by the letter line A B C D E. The decisive textual point: the first printing misspells the protagonist's surname as 'Miyomoto' throughout the text and on the jacket, corrected to 'Miyamoto' in later printings. Gray paper over boards quarter-bound in white cloth with silver spine lettering; first-issue jacket carries the printed price and makes no award mention.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/snow-falling-on-cedars"
  },
  {
   "slug": "war-trash",
   "title": "War Trash",
   "author": "Ha Jin",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pantheon Books hardcover, 2004 (ISBN 0375422765). First printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a complete Random House/Pantheon number line, and the dust jacket carries the printed price. Pantheon is a Random House imprint, so the line follows the post-2002 Random House style.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/war-trash"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-march",
   "title": "The March",
   "author": "E. L. Doctorow",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House hardcover, 2005 (ISBN 0375506713). First printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with the post-2002 Random House number line (the descending line that ends in 1), and the dust jacket carries the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-march"
  },
  {
   "slug": "netherland",
   "title": "Netherland",
   "author": "Joseph O'Neill",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First American edition is stated on the copyright page under the Pantheon Books imprint and carries a complete number line; the dust jacket shows the printed price. Issued as a hardcover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/netherland"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-collected-stories-of-deborah-eisenberg",
   "title": "The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg",
   "author": "Deborah Eisenberg",
   "publisher": "Picador",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued by Picador (the Farrar, Straus and Giroux trade-paperback imprint) as a paperback original; the first printing is identified by a number line ending in 1 on the copyright page. No simultaneous Picador cloth edition is documented.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-collected-stories-of-deborah-eisenberg"
  },
  {
   "slug": "billy-lynns-long-halftime-walk",
   "title": "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk",
   "author": "Ben Fountain",
   "publisher": "Ecco / HarperCollins",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "nba-penfaulkner-nbcc",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'First Edition' with a HarperCollins number line ending in 1 on the copyright page, under the Ecco imprint; the dust jacket shows the printed price. Issued as a hardcover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/billy-lynns-long-halftime-walk"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-story-of-mankind",
   "title": "The Story of Mankind",
   "author": "Hendrik Willem van Loon",
   "publisher": "Boni & Liveright",
   "year": "1921",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of 1921 with no printing or edition notice on the copyright page beyond the initial copyright; later printings add a 'Second printing' (and so on) notice. Written and profusely illustrated by van Loon himself with pen-and-ink drawings, maps, and color plates. Issued in publisher's pictorial cloth with a paste-on cover illustration. Octavo.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-story-of-mankind"
  },
  {
   "slug": "shen-of-the-sea",
   "title": "Shen of the Sea",
   "author": "Arthur Bowie Chrisman",
   "publisher": "E. P. Dutton & Company",
   "year": "1925",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, E. P. Dutton (New York), 1925. The first printing has no date on the title page and no further-printing statement on the copyright verso. Octavo of about 252 pages bound in olive cloth lettered in black on the spine, with no mention of the Newbery on the binding. Illustrated with silhouette decorations by Else Hasselriis.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/shen-of-the-sea"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gay-neck-the-story-of-a-pigeon",
   "title": "Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon",
   "author": "Dhan Gopal Mukerji",
   "publisher": "E. P. Dutton & Company",
   "year": "1927",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, E. P. Dutton (New York), 1927. Title page dated 1927 with no added printing line on the copyright verso. The trade first printing is bound in purple/fuchsia cloth pictorially stamped in gilt, with the top edge sometimes stained light blue. Illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff with double-page black-and-white spreads, chapter headings, and tailpieces.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gay-neck-the-story-of-a-pigeon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hitty-her-first-hundred-years",
   "title": "Hitty, Her First Hundred Years",
   "author": "Rachel Field",
   "publisher": "The Macmillan Company",
   "year": "1929",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published 1929, Macmillan (New York); first printing October 1929. First printing: title-page dated 1929 with no list of later printings on the copyright-page verso. Bound in full decorated/patterned cloth over boards with a small pictorial paper onlay (label) on the front board; color frontispiece plus additional illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop (about 23 illustrations, including color). Original dust jacket mirrors the board design and is scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hitty-her-first-hundred-years"
  },
  {
   "slug": "caddie-woodlawn",
   "title": "Caddie Woodlawn",
   "author": "Carol Ryrie Brink",
   "publisher": "The Macmillan Company",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1935, Macmillan (NY). The first printing copyright page reads 'Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1935' with no later reprint-history list, and the book carries an Author's Note dated February 22, 1935. Original green cloth; twelve black-and-white illustrations by Kate Seredy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/caddie-woodlawn"
  },
  {
   "slug": "roller-skates",
   "title": "Roller Skates",
   "author": "Ruth Sawyer",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1936, Viking (NY). The first printing copyright page reads 'First Published October 1936' with no later printing notices. Illustrations by Valenti Angelo. Note that a Junior Literary Guild issue appeared concurrently and is generally treated as a separate issue from the Viking trade first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/roller-skates"
  },
  {
   "slug": "thimble-summer",
   "title": "Thimble Summer",
   "author": "Elizabeth Enright",
   "publisher": "Farrar & Rinehart",
   "year": "1938",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1938, Farrar & Rinehart (NY). The first printing carries the same 1938 date on the title page and copyright page with no later-printing line. A useful issue test is the author's list of works: very early copies list only 'Kintu' and 'Thimble Summer'; later printings add titles such as 'The Sea Is All Around' (1940) and 'The Saturdays' (1941). Author-illustrated; blue cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/thimble-summer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-matchlock-gun",
   "title": "The Matchlock Gun",
   "author": "Walter D. Edmonds",
   "publisher": "Dodd, Mead & Company",
   "year": "1941",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1941, Dodd, Mead (New York). First printing states 'First Edition' on the title page and corresponds to the September 1941 printing (the October 1941 printing is the second). Illustrations by Paul Lantz; pictorial endpapers, double-page color spreads; beige buckram cloth stamped in brown.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-matchlock-gun"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-twenty-one-balloons",
   "title": "The Twenty-One Balloons",
   "author": "William Pène du Bois",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1947, Viking (New York). The copyright page reads First Published by the Viking Press in April 1947, with no further printings or number line present. Author-illustrated by William Pène du Bois; first-issue jacket bears no Newbery Medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-twenty-one-balloons"
  },
  {
   "slug": "king-of-the-wind",
   "title": "King of the Wind",
   "author": "Marguerite Henry",
   "publisher": "Rand McNally & Company",
   "year": "1948",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1948, Rand McNally (Chicago). The first printing is identified by the letter A on the copyright page (Rand McNally's first-printing code) together with the 1948 date and no later-printing statement. Color and black-and-white illustrations by Wesley Dennis; red cloth with gilt spine and front-cover decoration, illustrated endpapers. First-issue copies have no Newbery seal on the cover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/king-of-the-wind"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ginger-pye",
   "title": "Ginger Pye",
   "author": "Eleanor Estes",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace & Company",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1951, Harcourt, Brace and Company (New York), title page dated 1951. The first printing is identified by the words First Edition stated on the copyright page, with no later-printing notice. Black-and-white illustrations by the author, original cloth boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ginger-pye"
  },
  {
   "slug": "secret-of-the-andes",
   "title": "Secret of the Andes",
   "author": "Ann Nolan Clark",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1952, The Viking Press (New York). The first printing states on the copyright page: First Published by The Viking Press in March 1952, with no additional printing listed. Illustrations by Jean Charlot; cloth binding.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/secret-of-the-andes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "and-now-miguel",
   "title": "...And Now Miguel",
   "author": "Joseph Krumgold",
   "publisher": "Thomas Y. Crowell Company",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1953, Thomas Y. Crowell Company (New York), title page dated 1953. The first printing carries no later-printing statement on the copyright page. Illustrations by Jean Charlot; cloth binding with color pictorial endpapers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/and-now-miguel"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-wheel-on-the-school",
   "title": "The Wheel on the School",
   "author": "Meindert DeJong",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1954, Harper & Brothers (New York), title page dated 1954. The first printing is identified by the words First Edition on the copyright page with no later-printing statement. Illustrations by Maurice Sendak; cloth binding.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-wheel-on-the-school"
  },
  {
   "slug": "miracles-on-maple-hill",
   "title": "Miracles on Maple Hill",
   "author": "Virginia Sorensen",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace & Company",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1956, Harcourt, Brace and Company (New York), title page dated 1956. The first printing is identified by the words First Edition stated on the copyright page, with no later-printing notice. Illustrations by Beth and Joe Krush; cloth binding.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/miracles-on-maple-hill"
  },
  {
   "slug": "its-like-this-cat",
   "title": "It's Like This, Cat",
   "author": "Emily Cheney Neville",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Harper & Row, New York, 1963. The primary point is the words FIRST EDITION printed on the copyright page. Harper of this era also carries a two-letter code on the copyright page in which the second letter denotes the year of printing (the year letter for 1963 is N); on a true first this code corresponds to 1963. Illustrated by Emil Weiss. Copyright 1963 by Emily Neville.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/its-like-this-cat"
  },
  {
   "slug": "up-a-road-slowly",
   "title": "Up a Road Slowly",
   "author": "Irene Hunt",
   "publisher": "Follett Publishing Company",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published 1966 by Follett Publishing Company, Chicago. The true first printing STATES First Printing on the copyright page. Later printings are explicitly marked Second Printing, Fifth Printing, Seventh Printing, and so on, all still within the first edition. Pictorial dust jacket over cloth boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/up-a-road-slowly"
  },
  {
   "slug": "julie-of-the-wolves-jean-craighead",
   "title": "Julie of the Wolves",
   "author": "Jean Craighead George",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published 1972 by Harper & Row, New York, with black-and-white illustrations by John Schoenherr. The reliable first-printing point is the words First Edition stated on the copyright page. In this era Harper & Row also placed a printer's code (letter/number row) near the foot of the final text page; collectors treat the stated First Edition on the copyright page as the primary indicator. Illustrated paper-covered boards. First-issue dust jacket carries the original price and does not show the Newbery Medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/julie-of-the-wolves-jean-craighead"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-grey-king-susan-cooper",
   "title": "The Grey King",
   "author": "Susan Cooper",
   "publisher": "Atheneum / Margaret K. McElderry Books",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published 1975 by Atheneum (Margaret K. McElderry Books), New York, with illustrations by Michael Heslop; the fourth book in The Dark Is Rising sequence. The first printing states First Edition on the copyright page. Cloth binding; first-issue dust jacket carries the original price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-grey-king-susan-cooper"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-gathering-of-days-a-new-england-girls-journal",
   "title": "A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal",
   "author": "Joan W. Blos",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published 1979 by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. By the later 1970s Scribner had moved away from the lone letter A first-printing code toward a number line, so the first printing is identified by a number line including the 1 on the copyright page rather than by an A code. Cloth binding with original-price dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-gathering-of-days-a-new-england-girls-journal"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-visit-to-william-blakes-inn-poems-for-innocent-and-experie",
   "title": "A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers",
   "author": "Nancy Willard",
   "publisher": "Harcourt Brace Jovanovich",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published 1981 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York. First printing is identified by 'First edition' stated on the copyright page together with the full Harcourt letter line (the line of letters; a first printing retains the complete sequence including the earliest letter). Illustrations by Alice and Martin Provensen; pictorial cloth. First-state dust jacket carries no award seal or medal sticker.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-visit-to-william-blakes-inn-poems-for-innocent-and-experie"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dear-mr-henshaw",
   "title": "Dear Mr. Henshaw",
   "author": "Beverly Cleary",
   "publisher": "William Morrow / Morrow Junior Books",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published 1983 by William Morrow (Morrow Junior Books), New York. First printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page AND carries a complete number line ending in 1; the number line is the decisive point. White cloth spine lettered in dark blue over blue boards. Illustrations by Paul O. Zelinsky. First-state dust jacket without the Newbery seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dear-mr-henshaw"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sarah-plain-and-tall",
   "title": "Sarah, Plain and Tall",
   "author": "Patricia MacLachlan",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published 1985 by Harper & Row, New York. First printing carries a complete number line ending in 1 on the copyright page (often alongside a 'First Edition' statement); the number line is the decisive point. First-state dust jacket without the Newbery seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sarah-plain-and-tall"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lincoln-a-photobiography",
   "title": "Lincoln: A Photobiography",
   "author": "Russell Freedman",
   "publisher": "Clarion Books (Houghton Mifflin)",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1987, Clarion Books, a Houghton Mifflin imprint (New York/Boston). The first printing carries a complete descending number line ending in 1 (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1) on the copyright page, per the Houghton Mifflin practice in use since the 1970s. Photo-illustrated; pictorial cloth; first-state jacket without the Newbery Medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lincoln-a-photobiography"
  },
  {
   "slug": "missing-may",
   "title": "Missing May",
   "author": "Cynthia Rylant",
   "publisher": "Orchard Books",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1992, Orchard Books (New York). The first printing has a full number line including 1 on the copyright page; copyright 1992. Quarter-cloth binding; first-state jacket without the Newbery Medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/missing-may"
  },
  {
   "slug": "out-of-the-dust",
   "title": "Out of the Dust",
   "author": "Karen Hesse",
   "publisher": "Scholastic Press",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1997, Scholastic Press, New York. The first printing carries a complete number line ending in 1 and a 'First edition' statement on the copyright page; copyright 1997. Pictorial boards in a first-state dust jacket without the Newbery Medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/out-of-the-dust"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-tale-of-despereaux",
   "title": "The Tale of Despereaux",
   "author": "Kate DiCamillo",
   "publisher": "Candlewick Press",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 2003, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA). First printing states 'First edition 2003' on the copyright page and carries a complete number line ending in 1 (Candlewick convention 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1). Illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering; pictorial paper-covered boards; first-state dust jacket has no Newbery seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-tale-of-despereaux"
  },
  {
   "slug": "kira-kira",
   "title": "Kira-Kira",
   "author": "Cynthia Kadohata",
   "publisher": "Atheneum Books for Young Readers",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 2004, Atheneum Books for Young Readers (New York). First printing states 'First edition' on the copyright page with a complete number line ending in 1 (2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1). Pictorial boards; first-state dust jacket has no Newbery seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/kira-kira"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-one-and-only-ivan",
   "title": "The One and Only Ivan",
   "author": "Katherine Applegate",
   "publisher": "HarperCollins",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 2012, HarperCollins, New York (published January 17, 2012). First printing states First Edition with a number line ending in 1; copyright 2012. Illustrations by Patricia Castelao; pictorial boards; first-state jacket without the Newbery seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-one-and-only-ivan"
  },
  {
   "slug": "flora-ulysses-the-illuminated-adventures",
   "title": "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures",
   "author": "Kate DiCamillo",
   "publisher": "Candlewick Press",
   "year": "2013",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published 2013 by Candlewick Press (Somerville, MA). First printing has 'First edition' stated on the copyright page together with a full descending number line ending in 1 (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Illustrated by K. G. Campbell; publisher's pictorial boards in pictorial dust jacket. ISBN 9780763660406.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/flora-ulysses-the-illuminated-adventures"
  },
  {
   "slug": "merci-su-rez-changes-gears",
   "title": "Merci Suárez Changes Gears",
   "author": "Meg Medina",
   "publisher": "Candlewick Press",
   "year": "2018",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published 2018 by Candlewick Press (Somerville, MA). First printing has 'First edition' stated on the copyright page together with a full descending number line ending in 1; copyright 2018. Publisher's pictorial boards; first-issue jacket without the Newbery Medal seal. ISBN 9780763690496.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/merci-su-rez-changes-gears"
  },
  {
   "slug": "new-kid",
   "title": "New Kid",
   "author": "Jerry Craft",
   "publisher": "HarperCollins (Harper / Balzer + Bray)",
   "year": "2019",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 2019, HarperCollins Children's Books (New York); ISBN 9780062691200. First printing has a complete number line ending in 1 with a 2019 copyright. A graphic novel, the first graphic novel to win the Newbery Medal; pictorial boards, color art by the author. First-state jacket lacks the Newbery seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/new-kid"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-long-way-from-chicago-honor-cross-reference-note",
   "title": "A Long Way from Chicago (Honor cross-reference note)",
   "author": "Richard Peck",
   "publisher": "Dial Books for Young Readers",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "newbery",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cross-reference only, included to prevent miscataloging. This is a Newbery Honor book (1999), not a Medal winner; the Medal went to the sequel, A Year Down Yonder, in 2001. The first edition was published in 1998 by Dial. The stated first printing carries a number line on the copyright page (reported strings include 7 9 10 8 6); confirm the full descending line for the true first rather than relying on any single terminal digit.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-long-way-from-chicago-honor-cross-reference-note"
  },
  {
   "slug": "animals-of-the-bible-a-picture-book",
   "title": "Animals of the Bible, A Picture Book",
   "author": "Helen Dean Fish (text); Dorothy P. Lathrop (illustrations)",
   "publisher": "Frederick A. Stokes Company",
   "year": "1937",
   "genre": "caldecott",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Caldecott Medal winner (awarded 1938). Frederick A. Stokes Company imprint on the title page and spine; copyright 1937. A recognized first-issue point is the misspelling of the illustrator's surname as 'Lathop' (rather than 'Lathrop') on the spine of both the book and the dust jacket, corrected in later printings. Lathrop's lithograph illustrations throughout. Later reissues under the Lippincott imprint (Lippincott absorbed Stokes) are not the first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/animals-of-the-bible-a-picture-book"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mei-li",
   "title": "Mei Li",
   "author": "Thomas Handforth",
   "publisher": "Doubleday, Doran & Company",
   "year": "1938",
   "genre": "caldecott",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday, Doran & Company imprint; copyright 1938. Per Doubleday convention of the period, the first printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page; later reprints drop that statement. Orange cloth with gilt lettering (Chinese characters to the upper board, English to the spine); pictorial endpapers; black-and-white lithograph illustrations. The first-issue jacket bears no Caldecott seal (award announced 1939).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mei-li"
  },
  {
   "slug": "abraham-lincoln",
   "title": "Abraham Lincoln",
   "author": "Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire",
   "publisher": "Doubleday, Doran & Company",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "caldecott",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday, Doran & Company imprint; copyright 1939. Per Doubleday convention, the first printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page. The large-format stone-lithograph picture book; pictorial paper-covered boards over cloth spine. A reported first-state textual point is an incorrect date given for the Emancipation Proclamation. The d'Aulaires reworked the artwork for later editions (acetate reproduction from the late 1950s), so the 1939 printing is the point of issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/abraham-lincoln"
  },
  {
   "slug": "they-were-strong-and-good",
   "title": "They Were Strong and Good",
   "author": "Robert Lawson",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "caldecott",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The Viking Press imprint; copyright 1940. The first printing states 'First Published September 1940' on the copyright page, with no later-printing notations; second and later 1940 printings are noted as such on the copyright page. Pictorial cloth with pictorial endpapers; black-and-white illustrations throughout. The first-issue jacket bears no Caldecott seal (award 1941).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/they-were-strong-and-good"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-little-house",
   "title": "The Little House",
   "author": "Virginia Lee Burton",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin Company",
   "year": "1942",
   "genre": "caldecott",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Houghton Mifflin Company imprint; copyright 1942. The decisive first-printing point is the presence of '1942' on the TITLE page (the date flanks the central flower); the second printing (May 1943) is otherwise identical but removes the '1942' from the title page. The first-issue dust jacket front flap carries the $1.75 price (verify presence of the original price, not the figure for valuation). Oblong quarto in blue cloth stamped in white, with pictorial endpapers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-little-house"
  },
  {
   "slug": "many-moons",
   "title": "Many Moons",
   "author": "James Thurber (text); Louis Slobodkin (illustrations)",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company",
   "year": "1943",
   "genre": "caldecott",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Harcourt, Brace and Company imprint, copyright 1943. The first printing is identified by a printer's code on the copyright page (a single capital letter sequence beginning with the earliest letter, used by Harcourt at this period), not by a 'First Edition' statement. First-issue dust jacket carries no Caldecott seal (the medal was awarded in 1944) and bears a wartime war-bond advertisement on the rear jacket flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/many-moons"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-rooster-crows-a-book-of-american-rhymes-and-jingles",
   "title": "The Rooster Crows: A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles",
   "author": "Maud and Miska Petersham",
   "publisher": "The Macmillan Company",
   "year": "1945",
   "genre": "caldecott",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The Macmillan Company imprint, copyright 1945, with no later-printing notation. The first-issue dust jacket carries no Caldecott seal, as the medal was awarded in 1946. The 1945 first printing contains the original full complement of illustrations, including two pages depicting African American children that were later removed.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-rooster-crows-a-book-of-american-rhymes-and-jingles"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-little-island",
   "title": "The Little Island",
   "author": "Golden MacDonald (pseudonym of Margaret Wise Brown); Leonard Weisgard (illustrations)",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "caldecott",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday & Company (Junior Books) imprint, Garden City, New York, copyright 1946, with the words 'FIRST EDITION' printed on the copyright page and the author credited as 'Golden MacDonald.' First-issue dust jacket is unclipped and carries no Caldecott seal, as the medal was awarded in 1947.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-little-island"
  },
  {
   "slug": "big-snow",
   "title": "Big Snow",
   "author": "Berta and Elmer Hader",
   "publisher": "The Macmillan Company",
   "year": "1948",
   "genre": "caldecott",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Title is properly 'The Big Snow.' Macmillan imprint with the title page dated 1948; note the 1948 date alone does not prove a first printing. The first-printing dust jacket carries no Caldecott Medal emblem on the front panel (the medal was awarded in 1949) and the rear flap advertises only earlier Hader titles.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/big-snow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-case-of-conscience",
   "title": "A Case of Conscience",
   "author": "James Blish",
   "publisher": "Ballantine Books (New York)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Paperback original in pictorial wrappers, Ballantine number 256, 35 cents, April 1958; 188 pp; cover art by Richard Powers. First printing carries the 256 code with no later-printing statement on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-case-of-conscience"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-wanderer",
   "title": "The Wanderer",
   "author": "Fritz Leiber",
   "publisher": "Ballantine Books (New York)",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Paperback original, Ballantine U6010, 75 cents; first printing has the U6010 code and no added printing statement. Cover art by Bob Abbett.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-wanderer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "to-your-scattered-bodies-go",
   "title": "To Your Scattered Bodies Go",
   "author": "Philip José Farmer",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US hardcover, Putnam 1971, with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed cover price. Assembled and expanded from earlier Riverworld novellas.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/to-your-scattered-bodies-go"
  },
  {
   "slug": "foundations-edge",
   "title": "Foundation's Edge",
   "author": "Isaac Asimov",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (New York)",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with no later-printing line; first-state copies show the gutter code on the final text leaf (reported as code on page 365). First-issue dust jacket carries the printed cover price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/foundations-edge"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-vor-game",
   "title": "The Vor Game",
   "author": "Lois McMaster Bujold",
   "publisher": "Baen Books (New York)",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Paperback original from Baen carrying the printed cover price; the first printing states 'First printing, September 1990' on the copyright page with a number line retaining the 1. Cover art by Tom Kidd.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-vor-game"
  },
  {
   "slug": "barrayar",
   "title": "Barrayar",
   "author": "Lois McMaster Bujold",
   "publisher": "Baen Books (New York)",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Mass-market paperback original from Baen; first printing dated October 1991 with the number line ending in 1 and the printed cover price. Cover art by Stephen Hickman.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/barrayar"
  },
  {
   "slug": "harry-potter-and-the-goblet-of-fire",
   "title": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire",
   "author": "J. K. Rowling",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury (London)",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Bloomsbury first edition (8 July 2000): the copyright page states 'First Edition' but carries NO number line (unlike the earlier Bloomsbury Potter titles). Bloomsbury imprint at the foot of the title page; ISBN 0 7475 4624 X. The US Scholastic first is a separate book stating 'First American edition' with a number line ending in 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/harry-potter-and-the-goblet-of-fire"
  },
  {
   "slug": "jonathan-strange-mr-norrell",
   "title": "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell",
   "author": "Susanna Clarke",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury (London) for the UK issue; Bloomsbury USA (New York) for the US issue",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by the number line beginning with 1 (full line present). Portia Rosenberg illustrations; priced jacket. A simultaneously issued variant exists (black boards / white endpapers / black jacket vs. white boards / black endpapers). The US issue states 'First U.S. Edition'.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/jonathan-strange-mr-norrell"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-windup-girl",
   "title": "The Windup Girl",
   "author": "Paolo Bacigalupi",
   "publisher": "Night Shade Books (San Francisco)",
   "year": "2009",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Night Shade Books hardcover, 2009; first printing with a full number line ending in 1 and a priced dust jacket. The decisive first-printing point: a production error omitted the acknowledgments page, so the true first printing has no acknowledgments; the acknowledgments were added on page 361 from the second printing onward. A separate signed/limited issue was also produced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-windup-girl"
  },
  {
   "slug": "redshirts",
   "title": "Redshirts",
   "author": "John Scalzi",
   "publisher": "Tor Books (New York)",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Tor hardcover, 2012 (full title 'Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas', ISBN 978-0-7653-1699-8); states 'First Edition: June 2012' with a full number line ending in 1; priced dust jacket. Author-signed copies of this first printing also circulate.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/redshirts"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nettle-bone",
   "title": "Nettle & Bone",
   "author": "T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon)",
   "publisher": "Tor Books (New York)",
   "year": "2022",
   "genre": "hugo-novel",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Tor Books hardcover, April 26, 2022 (ISBN 9781250244048). First printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a complete number line including 1, and carries the printed price on the dust jacket flap. The first hardcover casing is foil-stamped with custom endpapers illustrated by the author.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nettle-bone"
  },
  {
   "slug": "flowers-for-algernon",
   "title": "Flowers for Algernon",
   "author": "Daniel Keyes",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace & World (New York)",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with no later-printing notice; bound in light grey cloth; dust jacket designed by Carl Smith with the printed price on the front flap (unclipped). No number line on a 1966 Harcourt book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/flowers-for-algernon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-einstein-intersection",
   "title": "The Einstein Intersection",
   "author": "Samuel R. Delany",
   "publisher": "Ace Books",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace mass-market paperback original, Ace number F-427, pictorial wraps, cover and interior art by Jack Gaughan, original forty-cent cover price. Paperback original with no preceding hardcover. The catalog number F-427 printed on the cover and spine identifies the issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-einstein-intersection"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rite-of-passage",
   "title": "Rite of Passage",
   "author": "Alexei Panshin",
   "publisher": "Ace Books",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace mass-market paperback original, issued as an Ace Science Fiction Special, Ace number A-16, pictorial wraps, cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon. Paperback original with no preceding hardcover. The Ace number A-16 printed on the cover and spine identifies the issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/rite-of-passage"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-time-of-changes",
   "title": "A Time of Changes",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (New York)",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday hardcover with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page and no later-printing indication; dust jacket carries a price on the front flap. Doubleday's stated 'First Edition' is the primary point of issue for the trade first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-time-of-changes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-forbidden-tower",
   "title": "The Forbidden Tower",
   "author": "Marion Zimmer Bradley",
   "publisher": "DAW Books",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "DAW Books mass-market paperback original, DAW collector number 256, first printing dated September 1977, pictorial wraps with cover art by Richard Hescox. Paperback original with no preceding hardcover. The DAW collector number and the printing date help identify the first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-forbidden-tower"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-falling-woman",
   "title": "The Falling Woman",
   "author": "Pat Murphy",
   "publisher": "Tor Books (Tom Doherty Associates), New York",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Tor hardcover, octavo, in boards; first printing stated on the copyright page as 'First printing: November 1986' together with a full number line ending in 1; priced dust jacket. The hardcover is the first form.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-falling-woman"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-quiet-pools",
   "title": "The Quiet Pools",
   "author": "Michael P. Kube-McDowell",
   "publisher": "Ace Books, New York",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace hardcover, boards, 371 pages; first edition stated on the copyright page as 'First Edition: May 1990'; priced dust jacket with illustration by Chris Moore (jacket design by Michael Storrings).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-quiet-pools"
  },
  {
   "slug": "moving-mars",
   "title": "Moving Mars",
   "author": "Greg Bear",
   "publisher": "Tor Books (New York)",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Tor hardcover (published November 1993); first printing with the 'First Edition' statement and a complete number line ending in 1; priced dust jacket. Publisher's boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/moving-mars"
  },
  {
   "slug": "parable-of-the-talents",
   "title": "Parable of the Talents",
   "author": "Octavia E. Butler",
   "publisher": "Seven Stories Press (New York)",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Seven Stories Press hardcover (1998); first printing with the complete number line ending in 1; black paper-covered boards lettered in silver on the spine. First-state dust jacket bears an incorrect ISBN printed on the rear panel (ending 762), with a corrective sticker giving the proper ISBN (ending 819) applied over it; the sticker is frequently missing or rubbed on surviving copies. Sequel to Parable of the Sower.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/parable-of-the-talents"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-speed-of-dark",
   "title": "The Speed of Dark",
   "author": "Elizabeth Moon",
   "publisher": "Ballantine Books (US)",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ballantine Books hardcover, first printing. Copyright page reads 'First Edition: January 2003' followed by the number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Priced dust jacket; publisher's boards. ISBN 0-345-44755-7.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-speed-of-dark"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-forever-war-uk-first-hardcover-note",
   "title": "The Forever War (UK first hardcover note)",
   "author": "Joe Haldeman",
   "publisher": "Weidenfeld & Nicolson (London)",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "Nebula Best Novel winners (all, 1965–2024) + notable Locus Award (SF/Fantasy Novel) winners; first-edition points of issue",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardcover (1975), priced dust jacket. This is the UK first edition, NOT the true first edition. It followed the US St. Martin's Press hardcover of 1974 by a year.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-forever-war-uk-first-hardcover-note"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dain-curse",
   "title": "The Dain Curse",
   "author": "Dashiell Hammett",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1929",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the Borzoi device and no statement of a later printing on the copyright page. Bound in yellow cloth, the front board with a skull-and-crossbones ornament and the rear board stamped with the black rectangular Borzoi Books device; spine lettered in black and red. A reliable text point of the first printing is 'dopped in' for 'dropped in' at page 260, line 19. First-issue jacket carries the printed price. Hammett's second novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dain-curse"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-little-sister",
   "title": "The Little Sister",
   "author": "Raymond Chandler",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the UK Hamish Hamilton edition, published June 1949, which precedes the US Houghton Mifflin edition (September 1949) by about three months. First printing has no later-printing statement; first-issue jacket carries the printed price. The US Houghton Mifflin printing is the true first American edition but is not the global first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-little-sister"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-tremor-of-forgery",
   "title": "The Tremor of Forgery",
   "author": "Patricia Highsmith",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (UK) / Doubleday (US)",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Both the UK Heinemann and the US Doubleday editions appeared in 1969. The Doubleday US edition is documented with a March 1969 release. A first printing of either carries the jacket price on the flap and no later-printing statement. Collect the edition whose priority you can establish for your copy rather than assuming one nation precedes.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-tremor-of-forgery"
  },
  {
   "slug": "beat-not-the-bones",
   "title": "Beat Not the Bones",
   "author": "Charlotte Jay",
   "publisher": "Collins (UK) / Harper & Brothers (US)",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Both the UK Collins (Crime Club) and the US Harper & Brothers editions are dated 1952. A first-issue dust jacket carries the price on the flap and no later-printing statement; the Harper first carries the printed price to the upper inside flap. Inaugural Edgar Best Novel winner (awarded 1954). By Charlotte Jay, pseudonym of Geraldine Halls.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/beat-not-the-bones"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-day-of-the-jackal-era-god-save-the-mark",
   "title": "The Day of the Jackal-era: God Save the Mark",
   "author": "Donald E. Westlake",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The book is 'God Save the Mark' (the supplied title prefix 'The Day of the Jackal-era' is erroneous and unrelated to this work). Random House first printing states 'FIRST PRINTING' on the copyright page with no later-printing notice; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed price on the flap. A comic crime novel narrated by perennial con-victim Fred Fitch. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel (1968).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-day-of-the-jackal-era-god-save-the-mark"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bottoms",
   "title": "The Bottoms",
   "author": "Joe R. Lansdale",
   "publisher": "Subterranean Press (true first, limited) / Mysterious Press (first trade)",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Two distinct 2000 states. The Subterranean Press limited edition (signed, 400 numbered plus 26 lettered copies, illustrated) was published roughly May 2000 and is set from Lansdale's longer original manuscript. The Mysterious Press trade hardcover, with the standard text, followed about six months later; its first printing states 'First Edition' with a complete number line down to 1 and carries the printed price on the first-issue jacket. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel (2001).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bottoms"
  },
  {
   "slug": "live-by-night",
   "title": "Live by Night",
   "author": "Dennis Lehane",
   "publisher": "William Morrow",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Morrow first printing has 'First Edition' stated together with a number line ending in 1, and the first-issue jacket shows the printed retail price. Won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 2013. Signed first printings and signed indie-store states exist.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/live-by-night"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mr-mercedes",
   "title": "Mr. Mercedes",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Scribner",
   "year": "2014",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has a full number line ending in 1 with 'First Scribner hardcover edition' stated, and the first-issue jacket shows the printed retail price. Won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 2015. Cemetery Dance and other signed or limited states exist separately.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mr-mercedes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "five-decembers",
   "title": "Five Decembers",
   "author": "James Kestrel",
   "publisher": "Hard Case Crime (Titan Books)",
   "year": "2021",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The Hard Case Crime / Titan hardcover (October 2021, series number 150) is the first edition and follows Titan's first-printing convention. Won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 2022. Signed first printings exist.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/five-decembers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cotton-comes-to-harlem",
   "title": "Cotton Comes to Harlem",
   "author": "Chester Himes",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US G.P. Putnam's Sons first edition (1965): stated first edition with first-issue jacket carrying the printed price. A French-language edition, 'Retour en Afrique' (Paris: Plon, 1964), preceded the English-language text by about a year. The Putnam edition is the first English-language edition and the first hardbound edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cotton-comes-to-harlem"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hunter-point-blank",
   "title": "The Hunter (Point Blank)",
   "author": "Richard Stark (Donald E. Westlake)",
   "publisher": "Permabook (Pocket Books)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "edgar-crime",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Paperback original issued under the pseudonym 'Richard Stark,' a Permabook (Pocket Books) printing, catalog number M-4272, dated December 1962. Color pictorial wrapper with cover art by Harry Bennett. First Parker novel; later reissued and film-tied as 'Point Blank.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hunter-point-blank"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-a-glass-darkly-containing-carmilla",
   "title": "In a Glass Darkly (containing 'Carmilla')",
   "author": "Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu",
   "publisher": "Richard Bentley and Son (London)",
   "year": "1872",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in three volumes (three-decker), post octavo, in original cloth, with half-titles as issued. The story distribution given in the prior draft was wrong: Volume I contains the first three stories, 'Green Tea,' 'The Familiar,' and 'Mr Justice Harbottle.' The long novella 'The Room in the Dragon Volant' and the novella 'Carmilla' occupy the remaining two volumes, with 'Carmilla' appearing in the final volume. Placing 'Mr Justice Harbottle' in Volume II is incorrect.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-a-glass-darkly-containing-carmilla"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-reformatory",
   "title": "The Reformatory",
   "author": "Tananarive Due",
   "publisher": "Saga Press (Simon & Schuster, New York)",
   "year": "2023",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover, published 31 October 2023, 576 pp, ISBN 9781982188344. The first printing shows a full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page, with a first-state jacket priced as issued. Won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel for 2023 (presented 2024) and the 2024 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel; it also won the Shirley Jackson Award.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-reformatory"
  },
  {
   "slug": "replay",
   "title": "Replay",
   "author": "Ken Grimwood",
   "publisher": "Arbor House (New York)",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Arbor House hardcover, copyright 1986 (publication generally cited as January 1987). The first printing has the complete number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on the copyright page. Won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (presented 1988).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/replay"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-dark-matter",
   "title": "A Dark Matter",
   "author": "Peter Straub",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (New York)",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday hardcover, February 2010; the first printing carries First Edition with a complete number line on the copyright page, jacket priced as issued. Won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel for 2010.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-dark-matter"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-fisherman-of-misery-co-winner-context-misery",
   "title": "The Fisherman of (Misery co-winner context) — Misery",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Viking (Viking Penguin, New York)",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "world-fantasy-stoker: World Fantasy Award + Bram Stoker Award winners + horror cornerstone canon — first-edition points",
   "firstEditionPoints": "This is a duplicate placeholder of the primary Misery record and should be deduplicated downstream. For the underlying title: Viking hardcover, 1987; the first edition states First published in 1987 by Viking Penguin Inc. on the copyright page, with the jacket priced as issued. Co-winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel for 1987 with Robert McCammon's Swan Song.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-fisherman-of-misery-co-winner-context-misery"
  },
  {
   "slug": "as-i-lay-dying",
   "title": "As I Lay Dying",
   "author": "William Faulkner",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith (New York)",
   "year": "1930",
   "genre": "high-spots-modern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first issue: published by Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, New York, 1930, in publisher's beige cloth stamped in brown with pictorial dust jacket. The defining first-issue point is the dropped or misaligned 'I' on page 11. The first printing comprised 2,522 copies; the plate for page 11 was replaced after roughly the first 750 copies, so only those earliest copies show the misaligned 'I'. Copies with the corrected page 11 are the later state of the first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/as-i-lay-dying"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sanctuary",
   "title": "Sanctuary",
   "author": "William Faulkner",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith (New York)",
   "year": "1931",
   "genre": "high-spots-modern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition (Connolly canon): Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, New York, 1931. Copyright page reads 'First published, 1931' with no later-impression notice. Binding is light gray cloth over magenta paper-covered boards, the spine lettered in magenta, with a black-stained top edge (the record's 'red cloth lettered in black' is incorrect). First-issue dust jacket carries 'A Check List for the Discriminating Reader' printed on the back panel. Faulkner heavily revised the galleys, but the published 1931 text is the standard collected first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sanctuary"
  },
  {
   "slug": "three-stories-ten-poems",
   "title": "Three Stories & Ten Poems",
   "author": "Ernest Hemingway",
   "publisher": "Contact Publishing Co. (Robert McAlmon), Paris",
   "year": "1923",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hemingway's first book. Issued in printed wrappers, 300 copies, no dust jacket; some copies retain a plain glassine wrap. Wrappers are gray, lettered in black, with the title list set on the front cover. Title-page imprint reads Contact Publishing Co. Printed in Dijon by Maurice Darantiere.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/three-stories-ten-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-our-time",
   "title": "in our time",
   "author": "Ernest Hemingway",
   "publisher": "Three Mountains Press, Paris",
   "year": "1924",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Lowercase title 'in our time' (prose vignettes only, no full short stories). Printed on Rives handmade paper; tan boards with a red newsprint-collage design, front board lettered in black; woodcut frontispiece portrait of Hemingway by Henry Strater. Numbered, with a limitation statement. The intended run was 300 copies but a printing error reduced it to roughly 170 released. Distinct from the 1925 Boni & Liveright 'In Our Time'.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-our-time"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-torrents-of-spring",
   "title": "The Torrents of Spring",
   "author": "Ernest Hemingway",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons, New York",
   "year": "1926",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by the Scribner seal on the copyright page and matching 1926 dates on title and copyright pages, with no later printings indicated. Bound in dark green cloth lettered in red, with a paper spine label. Published May 1926; first printing of about 1,250 copies.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-torrents-of-spring"
  },
  {
   "slug": "men-without-women",
   "title": "Men Without Women",
   "author": "Ernest Hemingway",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons, New York",
   "year": "1927",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by the Scribner seal on the copyright page and matching 1927 dates, with the perfect (unbroken) numeral '3' on page 3. Bound in black cloth with gilt-lettered paper labels on the front board and spine; top edge stained yellow. Published October 1927.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/men-without-women"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-fifth-column-and-the-first-forty-nine-stories",
   "title": "The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories",
   "author": "Ernest Hemingway",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons, New York",
   "year": "1938",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the Scribner seal with the letter A on the copyright page. Bound in red cloth with Hemingway's facsimile signature stamped in black on the front cover and the spine lettered in gilt and black. Issued in a dust jacket bearing the printed price. Published October 14, 1938. First collected appearance of four previously uncollected stories.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-fifth-column-and-the-first-forty-nine-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "across-the-river-and-into-the-trees",
   "title": "Across the River and Into the Trees",
   "author": "Ernest Hemingway",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons, New York",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the Scribner seal with the letter A on the copyright page. Bound in black cloth stamped in gilt. The earliest dust jacket has yellow (not orange) on the spine panel and bears the printed price. Published September 7, 1950.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/across-the-river-and-into-the-trees"
  },
  {
   "slug": "this-side-of-paradise",
   "title": "This Side of Paradise",
   "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons, New York",
   "year": "1920",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing (Bruccoli A5.1.a) has the Scribner seal and reads 'Published April, 1920' on the copyright page, with no later reprinting statements. Bound in dark green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine with blind-stamped lettering on the front board. First-issue dust jacket carries no printing statement and shows only the publisher's description on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/this-side-of-paradise"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tales-of-the-jazz-age",
   "title": "Tales of the Jazz Age",
   "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons, New York",
   "year": "1922",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has 'Published September, 1922' on the copyright page with the Scribner's seal. Bound in dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover. First-issue dust jacket carries the John Held Jr. illustration. Scarce in the original jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tales-of-the-jazz-age"
  },
  {
   "slug": "all-the-sad-young-men",
   "title": "All the Sad Young Men",
   "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons, New York",
   "year": "1926",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has 'Published February, 1926' on the copyright page with the Scribner's seal. Bound in green cloth with the title in blind on the upper board and stamped in gilt on the spine. The collecting point for the first printing is undamaged type on pages 38, 90, and 248. The dust jacket is brown with a cover image by Cleon printed in green and black. Contains 'The Rich Boy' and 'Winter Dreams,' among others.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/all-the-sad-young-men"
  },
  {
   "slug": "taps-at-reveille",
   "title": "Taps at Reveille",
   "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons, New York",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the Scribner's 'A' and seal on the copyright page. The first state has the original uncancelled leaves at pages 349-352 in the story 'One Interne,' reading 'catch it' on page 351. The second state replaces these as a cancel leaf carrying three revisions. Bound in green cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/taps-at-reveille"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-last-tycoon",
   "title": "The Last Tycoon",
   "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons, New York",
   "year": "1941",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the 'A' and the Scribner's seal on the copyright page. Posthumous, edited with an introduction by Edmund Wilson, and issued together with 'The Great Gatsby' and selected stories. Bound in blue cloth stamped in gilt on the front board and spine, with a red top-stain.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-last-tycoon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "soldiers-pay",
   "title": "Soldiers' Pay",
   "author": "William Faulkner",
   "publisher": "Boni & Liveright, New York",
   "year": "1926",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faulkner's first novel (his second book after the 1924 poetry collection The Marble Faun). Published February 1926 in a first printing of 2,500 copies. Binding: blue cloth, front board and spine stamped in yellow, spine also stamped in blind, with pictorial endpapers. The copyright page carries no statement of later printings. The key first-state dust jacket point: the rear panel lists five titles with An American Tragedy as the first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/soldiers-pay"
  },
  {
   "slug": "go-down-moses",
   "title": "Go Down, Moses",
   "author": "William Faulkner",
   "publisher": "Random House, New York",
   "year": "1942",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page; the title page and binding read 'Go Down, Moses and Other Stories' (the 'and Other Stories' was later dropped). Primary first-issue binding: black cloth, titling and rule stamped in gilt and red on spine and front panel, with a red top stain. First-issue dust jacket lists eight titles on the rear panel beginning with 'Storm.' Several scarcer variant bindings are recorded, distinguished by an unstained top edge.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/go-down-moses"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cup-of-gold",
   "title": "Cup of Gold",
   "author": "John Steinbeck",
   "publisher": "Robert M. McBride & Company, New York",
   "year": "1929",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Steinbeck's first book, published 1929 in 1,537 copies (Goldstone & Payne A1a). First-issue binding: yellow cloth, titled in black on front cover and spine, with the top edge stained blue and the final blank leaf present. The copyright page carries no later-printing notice. Issued in the pictorial pirate dust jacket illustrated by Mahlon Blaine with the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cup-of-gold"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-pastures-of-heaven",
   "title": "The Pastures of Heaven",
   "author": "John Steinbeck",
   "publisher": "Brewer, Warren & Putnam, New York",
   "year": "1932",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Genuine first issue carries the Brewer, Warren & Putnam imprint at the foot of the spine and on the title page. Binding: green cloth with titles in gilt. Sheets were printed for about 2,500 sets but only a portion were bound under the Brewer imprint; the remaining sheets passed to later publishers, making the Brewer-imprint copies the true first issue. First-issue dust jacket carries the Brewer imprint.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-pastures-of-heaven"
  },
  {
   "slug": "to-a-god-unknown",
   "title": "To a God Unknown",
   "author": "John Steinbeck",
   "publisher": "Robert O. Ballou, New York",
   "year": "1933",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first issue in green cloth, spine stamped in gilt, top edge stained, with pictorial endpapers and a title page printed in green and black. Title page, dust jacket, and endsheets carry illustrations by Mahlon Blaine. Although about 1,498 sheets were printed, only roughly 598 copies were bound in the Ballou green cloth. Goldstone & Payne A3a.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/to-a-god-unknown"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tortilla-flat",
   "title": "Tortilla Flat",
   "author": "John Steinbeck",
   "publisher": "Covici-Friede, New York",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: copyright page reads 'Manufactured in the United States by The Van Rees Press' and notes no later printing; original beige/oatmeal cloth stamped in blue with blue top stain. Illustrations by Ruth Gannett. The first-issue dust jacket carries a Steinbeck bibliography on the back flap (replaced by blurbs in later states). About 4,000 copies in the first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tortilla-flat"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-dubious-battle",
   "title": "In Dubious Battle",
   "author": "John Steinbeck",
   "publisher": "Covici-Friede, New York",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Two simultaneous first-edition formats. The deluxe issue is a signed limited of 99 numbered copies bound in black cloth over grey buckram, gilt spine lettering, top edge stained, in a black paper-covered slipcase with a paper spine label. The trade issue is bound in orange/tangerine cloth printed in black and red, top edge stained red, with no statement of later printing on the copyright page. Goldstone & Payne A5a (limited) and A5b (trade).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-dubious-battle"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-long-valley",
   "title": "The Long Valley",
   "author": "John Steinbeck",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press, New York",
   "year": "1938",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: copyright page reads 'First published in September 1938' with no later printing noted. Bound in beige buckram-backed terracotta/red boards with the spine stamped in red. First-issue dust jacket has a wraparound illustration by Elmer Hader, lettered in black and blue. About 8,000 copies.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-long-valley"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-moon-is-down",
   "title": "The Moon Is Down",
   "author": "John Steinbeck",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press, New York",
   "year": "1942",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, first issue: copyright page reads 'First published in March 1942' with NO printer's imprint, and on page 112, line 11, the period between the words 'talk' and 'this' is noticeably larger than the other periods in the book. Bound in blue cloth, spine stamped in silver, front cover blind-stamped. First-issue dust jacket is priced and reads 'The Moon Is Down' at the top of the flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-moon-is-down"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cannery-row",
   "title": "Cannery Row",
   "author": "John Steinbeck",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press, New York",
   "year": "1945",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing (published January 1945): the diagnostic precedence point is the binding color — light buff/tan cloth is the first state; canary/yellow cloth is the later second state. Lettered in blue on spine and front cover, with a black top stain. First-issue dust jacket is priced and carries the Arthur Hawkins Jr. pictorial design. About 2,500 copies in the first-state buff binding.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cannery-row"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-pearl",
   "title": "The Pearl",
   "author": "John Steinbeck",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press, New York",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the statement 'Published by The Viking Press in December 1947' on the copyright page (not 'First Published 1947'). Illustrated with drawings by Jose Clemente Orozco. The first-state dust jacket carries the printed price and shows the photograph of Steinbeck looking to his left, toward the spine; the second-state jacket shows him glancing to the right. The story had earlier appeared in Woman's Home Companion (1945) as 'The Pearl of the World,' but that is a periodical appearance, not the book first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-pearl"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-winter-of-our-discontent",
   "title": "The Winter of Our Discontent",
   "author": "John Steinbeck",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press, New York",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the statement 'First Published in 1961 by The Viking Press, Inc.' on the copyright page with no later-printing notice. Bound in blue cloth with titling in black on silver panels, and the top edge tinted pale blue. Dust jacket illustrated by Elmer Hader and carrying the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-winter-of-our-discontent"
  },
  {
   "slug": "look-homeward-angel",
   "title": "Look Homeward, Angel",
   "author": "Thomas Wolfe",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons, New York",
   "year": "1929",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Wolfe's first book. First printing carries the Scribner's seal (the publisher's printer's mark) on the copyright page with no notice of later printings; the title page is dated 1929. Bound in dark blue cloth. The dedication to Aline Bernstein ('A.B.') is present. First-issue dust jacket carries the printed price and the Doris Ulmann photograph of Wolfe with biography on the rear panel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/look-homeward-angel"
  },
  {
   "slug": "of-time-and-the-river",
   "title": "Of Time and the River",
   "author": "Thomas Wolfe",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons, New York",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the 'A' together with the Scribner seal on the copyright page. Bound in black cloth lettered in gilt with green rules on the front board and spine. First-issue dust jacket carries the printed price and the Ossip Garber (Garber/Garbo studio) photograph of Wolfe on the rear panel. A signed limited issue of this title also exists.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/of-time-and-the-river"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-web-and-the-rock",
   "title": "The Web and the Rock",
   "author": "Thomas Wolfe",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers, New York",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the words First Edition printed on the copyright page together with the Harper month-year letter code E-O (E equals May, O equals the year 1939). Navy blue cloth, gilt and red title block on spine and front panel; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed price. First of Wolfe's two posthumous novels.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-web-and-the-rock"
  },
  {
   "slug": "you-cant-go-home-again",
   "title": "You Can't Go Home Again",
   "author": "Thomas Wolfe",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers, New York",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the words First Edition on the copyright page together with the Harper month-year letter code H-P (H equals August, P equals the year 1940). Posthumous novel; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/you-cant-go-home-again"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hills-beyond",
   "title": "The Hills Beyond",
   "author": "Thomas Wolfe",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers, New York",
   "year": "1941",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the words First Edition on the copyright page together with the Harper month-year letter code H-Q (H equals August, Q equals the year 1941). First state has lines 5 and 6 from the foot of page 220 transposed. Dark blue cloth, gilt lettering on front board and spine; posthumous collection with a note on Wolfe by Edward C. Aswell.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hills-beyond"
  },
  {
   "slug": "one-mans-initiation-1917",
   "title": "One Man's Initiation: 1917",
   "author": "John Dos Passos",
   "publisher": "George Allen & Unwin, London",
   "year": "1920",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Dos Passos's first book. The true first is the London Allen & Unwin edition, published October 1920, in blue cloth. The text was bowdlerized, with passages cut or blanked for the censors (later restored in the 1969 Cornell University Press edition set from uncorrected proofs).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/one-mans-initiation-1917"
  },
  {
   "slug": "three-soldiers",
   "title": "Three Soldiers",
   "author": "John Dos Passos",
   "publisher": "George H. Doran Company, New York",
   "year": "1921",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First state of the first edition has the misprint signing for singing on page 213, line 31. Additional first-state points: three integral blank leaves at the front (none at the back), no colophon device on the copyright page, and the leaf bearing pages 9 and 10 tipped in rather than sewn. First-issue dust jacket carries the publisher's blurb on the front, spine, and back.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/three-soldiers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "manhattan-transfer",
   "title": "Manhattan Transfer",
   "author": "John Dos Passos",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers, New York",
   "year": "1925",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has First Edition on the copyright page together with the Harper month-year letter code K-Z (K equals October, Z equals the year 1925). Cloth stamped in orange; first-issue dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/manhattan-transfer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-42nd-parallel",
   "title": "The 42nd Parallel",
   "author": "John Dos Passos",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers, New York",
   "year": "1930",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First volume of the U.S.A. trilogy, published February 1930. Bound in dark red cloth spine with patterned-paper boards and a printed paper spine label; first printing carries the Harper & Brothers date code on the copyright page (Harper used a two-letter month-and-year code in this era, with the year letter corresponding to 1930). Interior black-and-white illustrations are by Reginald Marsh. First-issue dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-42nd-parallel"
  },
  {
   "slug": "1919",
   "title": "1919",
   "author": "John Dos Passos",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York",
   "year": "1932",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Second U.S.A. volume, published March 1932. Bound in orange cloth, titles stamped in silver on spine and front cover. First printing has no statement of additional printings on the copyright page. First-issue trade dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap (some advance copies lack a price).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/1919"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-big-money",
   "title": "The Big Money",
   "author": "John Dos Passos",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Third and final U.S.A. volume, published August 1936. First printing has 'First edition' stated on the copyright page with no other printings noted; bound in cloth lettered in silver. First-issue dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-big-money"
  },
  {
   "slug": "o-pioneers",
   "title": "O Pioneers!",
   "author": "Willa Cather",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston",
   "year": "1913",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries the 1913 date on the title page and copyright page (later printings drop the 1913 date from the title page). Bound in light yellow-brown vertically ribbed cloth stamped in gilt; a recognized binding point is the period after 'CO' on the spine touching the O. Riverside Press (Houghton Mifflin) production. Crane bibliography A6a.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/o-pioneers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "my-ntonia",
   "title": "My Ántonia",
   "author": "Willa Cather",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston",
   "year": "1918",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing comprised 3,500 copies. The key first-state point concerns the W. T. Benda illustrations: in the first state they are printed on coated/glossy paper (about 2,500 copies); Cather objected to the glossy stock and the remaining copies were printed on the uncoated text paper. First state therefore has the Benda plates on coated paper. Date present on the title leaf; Riverside Press production. First-issue dust jacket present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/my-ntonia"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-lost-lady",
   "title": "A Lost Lady",
   "author": "Willa Cather",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf, New York",
   "year": "1923",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Published September 1923. The limitation comprises 220 signed copies on Borzoi all-rag paper (20 lettered A–T and 200 numbered 1–200), plus the trade printing of 20,000 copies on English featherweight paper. Trade first is bound in green cloth lettered in gilt with distinctive green-and-purple patterned endpapers and title page printed in black and green; Knopf borzoi imprint. Knopf firsts of this period do not carry a printed 'first edition' statement, so the first is identified by the absence of any later-printing notice together with the borzoi imprint and the points above.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-lost-lady"
  },
  {
   "slug": "shadows-on-the-rock",
   "title": "Shadows on the Rock",
   "author": "Willa Cather",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf, New York",
   "year": "1931",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade edition bound in green cloth with paper spine and front labels and a red topstain; the Knopf Borzoi device appears at the rear. Cather bibliography reference Crane A17.a. A separate signed limited issue precedes the trade: 619 copies on Croxley hand-made paper in marbled boards with leather spine label, plus a smaller deluxe issue of 199 copies on Japan vellum, all signed by Cather.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/shadows-on-the-rock"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-house-of-mirth",
   "title": "The House of Mirth",
   "author": "Edith Wharton",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons, New York",
   "year": "1905",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First issue: 'Published October, 1905' on the copyright page with the Scribner seal; no advertisements at the rear (later printings add rear ads); red ribbed cloth lettered in gilt; complete with the A. B. Wenzell frontispiece and full set of plates. Wharton bibliography reference Garrison A12.I.a. First-issue dust jacket extremely scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-house-of-mirth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ethan-frome",
   "title": "Ethan Frome",
   "author": "Edith Wharton",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons, New York",
   "year": "1911",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First issue: copyright page reads 'Published September, 1911' as called for, with the Scribner seal. The principal first-issue point is the word 'wearily' in perfect, unbroken type on page 135 (the type later broke); red cloth lettered in gilt. Wharton bibliography reference Garrison A14. First-issue dust jacket very scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ethan-frome"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-glimpses-of-the-moon",
   "title": "The Glimpses of the Moon",
   "author": "Edith Wharton",
   "publisher": "D. Appleton and Company, New York",
   "year": "1922",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First issue: publisher's code '(1)' at the foot of the last page of text as called for, with no additional printings noted on the copyright page; octavo, 364 pages plus four pages of ads; blue cloth with gilt-stamped border on front and gilt lettering on front and spine. First-issue color pictorial dust jacket with Appleton ads on the verso.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-glimpses-of-the-moon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "main-street",
   "title": "Main Street",
   "author": "Sinclair Lewis",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Howe, New York",
   "year": "1920",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First issue, first state: imprint reads 'HARCOURT, BRACE AND HOWE' on the title page and spine (the firm was renamed Harcourt, Brace & Co. shortly after); 1920 on both title and copyright pages. Textual first-state points: a perfect, unbroken 'y' in the word 'May' on page 387, and an unbattered '54' in the page number on page 54. Blue cloth with orange lettering; first-issue dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/main-street"
  },
  {
   "slug": "babbitt",
   "title": "Babbitt",
   "author": "Sinclair Lewis",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York",
   "year": "1922",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First issue, first state has the textual error 'Purdy' for 'Lyte' on page 49 (line 4), with 'my fellow human' on the following line; this reading was corrected in later printings. Copyright page carries the first-printing statement 'Published September, 1922'. Bound in dark blue cloth stamped in orange on spine and front board.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/babbitt"
  },
  {
   "slug": "elmer-gantry",
   "title": "Elmer Gantry",
   "author": "Sinclair Lewis",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York",
   "year": "1927",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First-issue binding shows the 'G' in 'Gantry' on the spine appearing as a 'C' (the letter has a rounded base that reads as an open C); this was very slightly recut in the second issue. Copyright page carries the first-printing statement 'Published March, 1927'. Bound in blue cloth stamped in orange. First-issue dust jacket carries the printed price on the flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/elmer-gantry"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dodsworth",
   "title": "Dodsworth",
   "author": "Sinclair Lewis",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York",
   "year": "1929",
   "genre": "author-deep-1: Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First issue identified by the first-printing statement 'Published, March, 1929' on the copyright page. Bound in navy blue cloth lettered and framed in orange. First-issue dust jacket carries the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dodsworth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "raise-high-the-roof-beam-carpenters-and-seymour-an-introduct",
   "title": "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction",
   "author": "J.D. Salinger",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first issue was distributed without a dedication leaf and reads 'Seymore' (for 'Seymour') on page 173. Salinger objected, and the publisher inserted a tipped-in dedication leaf, creating the more common second state of the first printing. Bound in gray cloth with the backstrip stamped in gilt; first-issue dust jacket carries the printed price on the flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/raise-high-the-roof-beam-carpenters-and-seymour-an-introduct"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pnin",
   "title": "Pnin",
   "author": "Vladimir Nabokov",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has 'First Edition' stated at the foot of the copyright page, and the title page carries '1957' after the Garden City, New York publisher location. The second printing (issued only about two weeks later) drops the '1957' from the title page. Bound in black boards lettered on the spine; first-issue jacket carries the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pnin"
  },
  {
   "slug": "speak-memory-an-autobiography-revisited",
   "title": "Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited",
   "author": "Vladimir Nabokov",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the revised text; copyright page carries Library of Congress card number 66-23330 and no later-printing statement. Black cloth with blind-stamped 'VN' oval on the front cover, gilt spine lettering, and endpapers reproducing Nabokov's butterfly drawing and a map of the family lands. First-issue jacket carries the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/speak-memory-an-autobiography-revisited"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ada-or-ardor-a-family-chronicle",
   "title": "Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle",
   "author": "Vladimir Nabokov",
   "publisher": "McGraw-Hill",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page together with the McGraw-Hill code 45720 and no later-printing notation. Black cloth with blind-debossed lettering on the front board, gilt spine, and the author-portrait jacket carrying the printed price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ada-or-ardor-a-family-chronicle"
  },
  {
   "slug": "player-piano",
   "title": "Player Piano",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Vonnegut's first novel and first book. The Scribner capital 'A' together with the Scribner seal/colophon on the copyright page denotes the first printing. First printing was 7,600 copies. First-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/player-piano"
  },
  {
   "slug": "couples",
   "title": "Couples",
   "author": "John Updike",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page, with the Borzoi/Knopf colophon. First-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/couples"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-wapshot-scandal",
   "title": "The Wapshot Scandal",
   "author": "John Cheever",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page carries 'FIRST EDITION' together with the Harper letter-pair date code, which on confirmed first printings reads 'L-N'. In the Harper code the second letter denotes the year (N = 1964) and the first letter the month, so the first printing shows L-N, not the January 'A-N' form. First-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-wapshot-scandal"
  },
  {
   "slug": "an-american-dream",
   "title": "An American Dream",
   "author": "Norman Mailer",
   "publisher": "The Dial Press",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Dial Press imprint with the 1965 date on the title/copyright page and no statement of a later printing. Quarter blue cloth over grey boards, silver spine lettering, 270 pp; first-issue jacket (art by Paul Bacon) carries the printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/an-american-dream"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sometimes-a-great-notion",
   "title": "Sometimes a Great Notion",
   "author": "Ken Kesey",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "author-deep-2: Vonnegut, Updike, Philip Roth, Bellow, Cheever, Mailer, Capote, Salinger, Heller, Kesey, Nabokov (US firsts)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page reads 'Published in 1964 by The Viking Press, Inc.' with no later-printing statement. Bound in speckled grey cloth stamped in blue and green (a square face with two K's forming the eyes on the front board), top edge stained green, 628 pages. First-state dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon, unclipped with the printed price intact; the decisive first-state jacket point is the photographer's name misspelled 'Hank Krangler' printed vertically along the edge of the rear flap, with Kesey's two-line biography on the rear flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sometimes-a-great-notion"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-orchard-keeper",
   "title": "The Orchard Keeper",
   "author": "Cormac McCarthy",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "McCarthy's scarce first novel. 'First Printing' is stated on the copyright page (not 'First Edition'), with no later-printing line. Bound in green cloth shelfback over red paper-covered boards, gilt spine lettering with red decoration, the author's initials blind/gilt stamped on the front board, top edge stained green. First-issue white dust jacket with black and red lettering carries the printed price unclipped and review blurbs on the rear panel (including Ralph Ellison, Robert Penn Warren and James Michener), with the author photo on the rear flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-orchard-keeper"
  },
  {
   "slug": "outer-dark",
   "title": "Outer Dark",
   "author": "Cormac McCarthy",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "McCarthy's second novel. 'First Printing' is stated on the copyright page (not 'First Edition'), with no mention of further printings; the first edition had a single printing of about 5,000 copies. Cloth binding with the printed price unclipped on the dust jacket. Scarce in jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/outer-dark"
  },
  {
   "slug": "suttree",
   "title": "Suttree",
   "author": "Cormac McCarthy",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' is stated on the copyright page ABOVE the publisher's number line; the first printing carries the full number line ending in 2 (Random House's convention of the 1970s-80s for a first printing), so the absence of a number line is NOT the point. Light yellow boards with a black cloth spine, gilt spine lettering, octavo, 471 pages. First-issue dust jacket designed by Jack Ribik with the printed price on the front flap and the code '2/79' on the rear flap. Many copies were remaindered with a red stamp to the textblock edge; unmarked copies are scarcer.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/suttree"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-stonemason-play",
   "title": "The Stonemason (play)",
   "author": "Cormac McCarthy",
   "publisher": "The Ecco Press",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trade first is the hardcover: \"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page with no further printings noted; quarter black cloth over grey paper-covered boards, title in silver on spine, in dust jacket. Trade run about 7,500 copies. A separate signed limited edition of 350 numbered copies was issued in publisher's boards with a slipcase and no jacket. An Ecco softcover first printing (full number line) also exists, but the collected true first is the trade hardcover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-stonemason-play"
  },
  {
   "slug": "end-zone",
   "title": "End Zone",
   "author": "Don DeLillo",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page reads \"First Printing\" followed by a code letter (\"First Printing C\"); black cloth boards lettered in silver on spine and front board; dust jacket carries the original printed price on the front flap. Author's second novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/end-zone"
  },
  {
   "slug": "amazons-as-cleo-birdwell-pseudonymous",
   "title": "Amazons (as Cleo Birdwell, pseudonymous)",
   "author": "Don DeLillo",
   "publisher": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Published under the pseudonym \"Cleo Birdwell.\" The first printing is the collectible state; Holt went back for a second printing, so first-printing copies should be confirmed against the copyright page rather than assumed. DeLillo has never authorized a reissue, making the original hardcover the definitive edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/amazons-as-cleo-birdwell-pseudonymous"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sula",
   "title": "Sula",
   "author": "Toni Morrison",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states \"First Edition\" with no later printing indicated. Bound in orange cloth, lettering in gilt on spine and front cover, the Knopf Borzoi device blind-stamped to the rear board, top edge stained green. The dust jacket (design by Wendell Minor) carries the printed retail price. Morrison's scarce second novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sula"
  },
  {
   "slug": "jazz",
   "title": "Jazz",
   "author": "Toni Morrison",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states \"First Trade Edition,\" published April 1992. Bound in black boards with a black cloth spine, lettered in gilt; the dust jacket carries the printed retail price at the top of the front flap and a dating code at the foot of the rear flap. A true first must show the stated First Trade Edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/jazz"
  },
  {
   "slug": "paradise",
   "title": "Paradise",
   "author": "Toni Morrison",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states \"First Edition,\" published 1998. Large octavo bound in black cloth stamped in copper-gilt with the author's initials to the front, fore-edges untrimmed; the dust jacket (design by Carol Devine Carson) carries the printed retail price. Morrison's first novel after the Nobel Prize.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/paradise"
  },
  {
   "slug": "setting-free-the-bears",
   "title": "Setting Free the Bears",
   "author": "John Irving",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House first printing: \"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page together with a number line whose lowest number is 2 (Random House's house practice of dropping the 1 from the line on first printings). The unclipped jacket carries the printed price. Irving's first novel and his scarcest trade first edition; genuine firsts in a fine, unclipped jacket are uncommon.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/setting-free-the-bears"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-water-method-man",
   "title": "The Water-Method Man",
   "author": "John Irving",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House first printing: \"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page together with a number line whose lowest number is 2 (Random House dropped the 1 on first printings of this era). The unclipped jacket carries the printed price. Irving's second novel; scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-water-method-man"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-158-pound-marriage",
   "title": "The 158-Pound Marriage",
   "author": "John Irving",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House first printing: \"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page together with a number line whose lowest number is 2 (Random House dropped the 1 on first printings of this era). The unclipped jacket carries the printed price. Irving's third novel; scarce in fine state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-158-pound-marriage"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-cider-house-rules",
   "title": "The Cider House Rules",
   "author": "John Irving",
   "publisher": "William Morrow",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Morrow first printing: \"First Trade Edition\" stated on the copyright page with a full number line running down to 1; the unclipped jacket carries the printed price (jacket designed by Honi Werner). A signed limited edition was also issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-cider-house-rules"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-prayer-for-owen-meany",
   "title": "A Prayer for Owen Meany",
   "author": "John Irving",
   "publisher": "William Morrow",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Morrow trade first: number line down to 1 on the copyright page with no later-printing statement; the unclipped jacket carries the printed price. Note the precedence question below.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-prayer-for-owen-meany"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-invention-of-solitude",
   "title": "The Invention of Solitude",
   "author": "Paul Auster",
   "publisher": "Sun (SUN, New York)",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Paperback original in pictorial wrappers from Sun (SUN), New York; no hardcover equivalent was issued, so the wrappers ARE the first edition. Auster's first prose book, a memoir, and scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-invention-of-solitude"
  },
  {
   "slug": "accordion-crimes",
   "title": "Accordion Crimes",
   "author": "Annie Proulx",
   "publisher": "Scribner",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing with the Scribner number line and no later-printing statement; quarter brown cloth over beige paper boards, spine lettered in copper; dust jacket bearing the printed price, unclipped. Byline \"E. Annie Proulx.\" A separate signed, numbered limited issue of 2,500 copies with a tipped-in limitation leaf was also produced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/accordion-crimes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "close-range-wyoming-stories-contains-brokeback-mountain",
   "title": "Close Range: Wyoming Stories (contains \"Brokeback Mountain\")",
   "author": "Annie Proulx",
   "publisher": "Scribner",
   "year": "1999",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing with the Scribner number line and no later-printing statement; quarter black cloth over green paper boards; dust jacket bearing the printed price, unclipped. Contains the first book appearance of \"Brokeback Mountain\" (which first appeared in The New Yorker, October 1997). The first edition is illustrated with six full-page color paintings by William Matthews not present in later printings. Byline \"Annie Proulx\" (the \"E.\" dropped beginning with this title).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/close-range-wyoming-stories-contains-brokeback-mountain"
  },
  {
   "slug": "that-old-ace-in-the-hole",
   "title": "That Old Ace in the Hole",
   "author": "Annie Proulx",
   "publisher": "Scribner",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing is identified by the Scribner imprint with the words \"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page together with a complete descending number line including the numeral 1. The dust jacket carries the original printed price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/that-old-ace-in-the-hole"
  },
  {
   "slug": "home",
   "title": "Home",
   "author": "Marilynne Robinson",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing states \"First edition, 2008\" on the copyright page accompanied by a complete number line that includes the numeral 1. The dust jacket carries the original printed price. Companion novel to Gilead.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/home"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lila",
   "title": "Lila",
   "author": "Marilynne Robinson",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "2014",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing states \"First edition, 2014\" on the copyright page with a complete number line that includes the numeral 1. The dust jacket carries the original printed price. Third novel of the Gilead cycle; winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lila"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mother-country-britain-the-welfare-state-and-nuclear-polluti",
   "title": "Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution",
   "author": "Marilynne Robinson",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "author-deep-3: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing is the Farrar, Straus and Giroux edition stating \"First Edition\" on the copyright page with a number line including the numeral 1. The dust jacket carries the original printed price. Robinson's first work of nonfiction.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mother-country-britain-the-welfare-state-and-nuclear-polluti"
  },
  {
   "slug": "thinner",
   "title": "Thinner",
   "author": "Stephen King (as Richard Bachman)",
   "publisher": "NAL Books (New American Library)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the NAL hardcover, jacketed and bylined Richard Bachman, with the copyright page stating First Printing, November, 1984 and a number line reading 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9, the printed jacket price present. Black quarter cloth over red boards with red-stamped spine. Published before the Bachman-equals-King identity was made public in early 1985. The rear-flap author photo, credited to Claudia Bachman, is actually of Richard Manuel, a friend of King's literary agent Kirby McCauley.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/thinner"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cycle-of-the-werewolf",
   "title": "Cycle of the Werewolf",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Land of Enchantment",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Land of Enchantment issued the book in 1983 with twelve Berni Wrightson color illustrations in three states: a signed, numbered, slipcased limited of 350 copies signed by King and Wrightson, divided into 100 collector copies (numbered 1 to 100, each with an original Wrightson drawing laid in) and 250 deluxe copies (numbered 101 to 350, accompanied by a Wrightson portfolio); plus an unsigned trade hardcover of about 7,500 copies. This was the only hardcover edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cycle-of-the-werewolf"
  },
  {
   "slug": "demon-seed",
   "title": "Demon Seed",
   "author": "Dean Koontz",
   "publisher": "Bantam Books",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1973 Bantam mass-market paperback original; there was no hardcover first. A first printing carries no later-printing statement on the copyright page. Koontz substantially rewrote the novel for a 1997 edition, which is a distinct text and a separate first thus.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/demon-seed"
  },
  {
   "slug": "whispers-dean-koontz",
   "title": "Whispers",
   "author": "Dean Koontz",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the Putnam hardcover with the printed jacket price present and no statement of a later printing on the copyright page; in this period Putnam typically indicated the first by the word First Edition or by date correspondence rather than a number line, which Putnam did not adopt until about 1985. One of Koontz's scarcer early hardcovers under his own name.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/whispers-dean-koontz"
  },
  {
   "slug": "phantoms-dean-koontz",
   "title": "Phantoms",
   "author": "Dean Koontz",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam hardcover first, identified by the printed price on the jacket front flap and the absence of any later-printing statement on the copyright page. (Treat any claimed number-line state cautiously for this early-1980s Putnam title rather than as a settled point.)",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/phantoms-dean-koontz"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-vision",
   "title": "The Vision",
   "author": "Dean Koontz",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam hardcover first, in cloth-backed boards. This early title carries no statement of printing on the copyright page (the absence of a later-printing statement, with the priced jacket, identifies the first); it does not carry a 1-to-10 number line. A scarce early own-name Koontz hardcover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-vision"
  },
  {
   "slug": "twilight-eyes",
   "title": "Twilight Eyes",
   "author": "Dean Koontz",
   "publisher": "Land of Enchantment",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the Land of Enchantment edition (1985), illustrated by Phil Parks, issued only as a signed limited edition in publisher's cloth slipcase. The signed printing was limited to 250 copies, with a small lettered subset (24 copies, divided among author, artist, and publisher). Large quarto in gilt-decorated cloth with color pictorial jacket and pictorial endpapers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/twilight-eyes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cry-to-heaven",
   "title": "Cry to Heaven",
   "author": "Anne Rice",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Alfred A. Knopf (A Borzoi Book) hardcover first, October 1982. Knopf identifies its firsts by the words First Edition stated on the copyright page with the Borzoi colophon and no later-printing statement, in a priced unclipped jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cry-to-heaven"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-vampire-lestat",
   "title": "The Vampire Lestat",
   "author": "Anne Rice",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Alfred A. Knopf (A Borzoi Book) hardcover first, 1985. First printing has the words First Edition stated on the copyright page with the Borzoi colophon and no later-printing statement, in the priced unclipped jacket. Second of the Vampire Chronicles.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-vampire-lestat"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-queen-of-the-damned",
   "title": "The Queen of the Damned",
   "author": "Anne Rice",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Alfred A. Knopf (A Borzoi Book) hardcover first, October 1988. First printing has the words First Edition stated on the copyright page with the Borzoi colophon and no later-printing statement, in the priced unclipped jacket. Quarter white cloth over beige boards with gilt medallion. Third of the Vampire Chronicles. Note that Knopf ran printings before publication, so some copies state a later printing before publication date while still being first edition so stated.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-queen-of-the-damned"
  },
  {
   "slug": "books-of-blood-volumes-4-6",
   "title": "Books of Blood, Volumes 4-6",
   "author": "Clive Barker",
   "publisher": "Sphere Books (UK)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Sphere paperback originals (1985), priced 1.50 net, the same paperback-original format as Volumes 1-3. Weidenfeld & Nicolson issued hardcovers of these volumes in 1985-1986, but those followed the Sphere paperbacks rather than preceding them.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/books-of-blood-volumes-4-6"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hellbound-heart",
   "title": "The Hellbound Heart",
   "author": "Clive Barker",
   "publisher": "Dark Harvest (in Night Visions 3)",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The text first appeared in the anthology Night Visions 3, published by Dark Harvest in November 1986, which was issued in a trade hardcover and a signed/limited slipcased state. The first US standalone repackaging was the Berkley mass-market paperback titled Night Visions: The Hellbound Heart in 1988. A standalone edition under the bare title The Hellbound Heart from HarperPaperbacks did not appear until 1991, following the success of the Hellraiser film; the UK Fontana paperback also dates to 1991.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hellbound-heart"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-great-and-secret-show",
   "title": "The Great and Secret Show",
   "author": "Clive Barker",
   "publisher": "Collins (UK) / Harper & Row (US)",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First book of the Art trilogy. The UK Collins hardcover (ISBN 0-00-223453-X) and the US Harper & Row hardcover (ISBN 0-06-016276-7) both appeared in 1989 with priced jackets. Confirm the imprint and the original (unclipped) jacket price against the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-great-and-secret-show"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-great-train-robbery",
   "title": "The Great Train Robbery",
   "author": "Michael Crichton",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf (Borzoi) first issue, identified by \"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page with no later-printing indicated (Knopf's standard method in this era; no number line yet), and the original price-printed dust jacket. Knopf's Borzoi colophon appears as a normal feature and should not be read as a printing marker.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-great-train-robbery"
  },
  {
   "slug": "congo",
   "title": "Congo",
   "author": "Michael Crichton",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf (Borzoi) first issue, identified by \"First Edition\" (stated as a first trade edition) on the copyright page with no later-printing line, and the original price-printed dust jacket. Knopf did not yet use a number line in 1980.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/congo"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sphere",
   "title": "Sphere",
   "author": "Michael Crichton",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf (Borzoi) first issue, identified by \"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page (Knopf was just beginning to add a number line in the late 1980s, so the stated wording is the reliable point) and the original price-printed dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sphere"
  },
  {
   "slug": "eaters-of-the-dead",
   "title": "Eaters of the Dead",
   "author": "Michael Crichton",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf (Borzoi) first issue, identified by \"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page with no later-printing indicated (no number line at this date), and the original price-printed dust jacket. Copies are noted with a red top-stain.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/eaters-of-the-dead"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-firm",
   "title": "The Firm",
   "author": "John Grisham",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday first issue: copyright page reads \"March 1991\" with \"First Edition\" and a full number line, accompanied by the Doubleday anchor/dolphin colophon, and the original price-printed dust jacket. First-state copies have light green-gray boards with a black cloth spine and gold endpapers; the binding shifted later in the printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-firm"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-pelican-brief",
   "title": "The Pelican Brief",
   "author": "John Grisham",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday first printing: copyright page states \"First Edition\" with the dated line \"March 1992\" and a complete Doubleday number line that includes the digit 1 (the scrambled sequence 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2, not a line that ends in 1). First-state dust jacket carries the printed retail price on the front flap with no added bar code; a later jacket state adds a bar code to the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-pelican-brief"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-client",
   "title": "The Client",
   "author": "John Grisham",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday first printing: copyright page states \"First Edition\" with the dated line \"March 1993\" and the complete Doubleday number line that includes the digit 1 (scrambled sequence 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2, not a line ending in 1). First-state dust jacket carries the printed retail price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-client"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-chamber",
   "title": "The Chamber",
   "author": "John Grisham",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday first printing: copyright page states \"First Edition\" with the dated line \"June 1994\" and the complete Doubleday number line including the digit 1 (scrambled sequence 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2, not a line ending in 1). First-state dust jacket carries the printed retail price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-chamber"
  },
  {
   "slug": "red-storm-rising",
   "title": "Red Storm Rising",
   "author": "Tom Clancy",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam first printing: identified by a complete number line on the copyright page that includes the digit 1. Putnam's line for this title is the ascending sequence 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (the 1 sits at the start of an ascending line, not at the end of a descending one); Putnam in this period generally did not print the words \"First Edition.\" First-state dust jacket carries the printed retail price on the front flap. Co-written with Larry Bond; Clancy's first Putnam title after the Naval Institute Press editions of The Hunt for Red October.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/red-storm-rising"
  },
  {
   "slug": "patriot-games",
   "title": "Patriot Games",
   "author": "Tom Clancy",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam first printing: identified by a complete number line on the copyright page that includes the digit 1 (the ascending sequence 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; Putnam did not state \"First Edition\"). First-state dust jacket carries the printed retail price on the front flap. A recognized first-state text point exists: uncorrected errors on pages 218, 228, 231, and 232, sometimes accompanied by a publisher's errata slip; these were corrected in later printings.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/patriot-games"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-cardinal-of-the-kremlin",
   "title": "The Cardinal of the Kremlin",
   "author": "Tom Clancy",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "author-deep-4: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Tom Clancy",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam first printing: identified by a complete number line on the copyright page that includes the digit 1 (the ascending sequence 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; Putnam did not state \"First Edition\"). First-state dust jacket carries the printed retail price on the front flap; the jacket shows a satellite against a black background with red foil lettering.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-cardinal-of-the-kremlin"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-return-of-the-king",
   "title": "The Return of the King",
   "author": "J.R.R. Tolkien",
   "publisher": "George Allen & Unwin (London)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "author-deep-5",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First impression published 20 October 1955, the latest and scarcest of the three volumes in first impression. The dust jacket is priced 21s net and the two folding maps are present. Note that the state designation is contested: an early view (the original Hammond and Anderson definition) treated the presence of a signature mark 4 and slipped or sagging type on page 49 as a first-state point, but Hammond subsequently revised this so that the slipped type on page 49 is now regarded as a later-state feature rather than a first-state point. Because the point is disputed among bibliographers, it should not be used on its own to confirm a first state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-return-of-the-king"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-silmarillion",
   "title": "The Silmarillion",
   "author": "J.R.R. Tolkien (ed. Christopher Tolkien)",
   "publisher": "George Allen & Unwin (London)",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "author-deep-5",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK first: the copyright page states First published in 1977 with no later printing line. The folding map is present in a rear pocket. Green cloth with a gilt device. Dust jacket art is by Tolkien, the white emblem on a dark ground.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-silmarillion"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dune-messiah",
   "title": "Dune Messiah",
   "author": "Frank Herbert",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "author-deep-5",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, G.P. Putnam's Sons, October 1969. First printing has no printing statement on the copyright page, is bound in brown cloth, and the dust jacket carries Jack Gaughan artwork. Book-club editions were issued in red cloth, which distinguishes them from the brown-cloth first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dune-messiah"
  },
  {
   "slug": "stardust-neil-gaiman",
   "title": "Stardust",
   "author": "Neil Gaiman",
   "publisher": "DC Comics / Vertigo (New York)",
   "year": "1997-1998",
   "genre": "author-deep-5",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first appearance is the four-part illustrated 'Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie' (Vertigo prestige-format miniseries, 1997-1998), followed by the collected illustrated hardcover and trade paperback (Vertigo, 1998). The unillustrated prose edition is a later, separate first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/stardust-neil-gaiman"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-colour-of-magic",
   "title": "The Colour of Magic",
   "author": "Terry Pratchett",
   "publisher": "Colin Smythe (Gerrards Cross)",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "author-deep-5",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published under the Colin Smythe imprint, 1983. The sheets were in fact printed in the United States by St. Martin's Press; only about 506 copies were issued in the UK by Smythe, a large share of them going to libraries, which makes a fine jacketed copy very scarce. The UK jacket bears NO printed price, only a Colin Smythe price sticker; jacket art is by Alan Smith. A first-state jacket has the original blurb on the front flap, before the pasted-on printed overlay that corrects inaccuracies; the overlaid state is far more common.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-colour-of-magic"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-murder-at-the-vicarage",
   "title": "The Murder at the Vicarage",
   "author": "Agatha Christie",
   "publisher": "William Collins Sons / Crime Club (London)",
   "year": "1930",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Collins Crime Club first edition, published 20 October 1930, retailing at 7/6. Note a genuine binding variant: first printings are found BOTH in the older black cloth with a 'Collins' spine imprint AND in orange cloth with a 'The Crime Club' spine imprint, reflecting Collins changing the imprint and cloth colour during production. First-issue jacket priced 7/6. The first novel to feature Miss Marple and St Mary Mead.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-murder-at-the-vicarage"
  },
  {
   "slug": "moonraker",
   "title": "Moonraker",
   "author": "Ian Fleming",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cape first, published 7 April 1955 (Gilbert A3a); black cloth stamped in silver; first-issue jacket priced 10s 6d net on both flaps. The earliest state shows the printing error 'shoo' (missing final t in 'shoot') at the foot of page 10; this was corrected to 'shoot' during the first impression. Verso carries a single 'First published 1955' line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/moonraker"
  },
  {
   "slug": "diamonds-are-forever",
   "title": "Diamonds Are Forever",
   "author": "Ian Fleming",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cape first, published 26 March 1956 (Gilbert A4a); black cloth blind-stamped with a silver-gilt diamond device on the front board, lettered in silver on the spine. First-issue jacket priced 12s 6d net. Verso carries a single impression line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/diamonds-are-forever"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dr-no",
   "title": "Dr. No",
   "author": "Ian Fleming",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cape first, published 31 March 1958 (Gilbert A6a); black cloth lettered in silver on the spine. The recognized first-state binding has PLAIN boards with NO dancing-girl silhouette; the silhouette (the 'Honeychile' figure, brown-stamped on the front board) was added in a later state to match the series. The plain-board first state had a much smaller run than the silhouette state, making it the scarcer binding. First-issue jacket (design by Pat Marriott) priced 13s 6d net, with the author's name in black on the spine; later jackets show the name in white.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dr-no"
  },
  {
   "slug": "on-her-majestys-secret-service",
   "title": "On Her Majesty's Secret Service",
   "author": "Ian Fleming",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cape first, published 1 April 1963 (Gilbert A11a); standard binding is dark cloth/boards with a white ski-track motif stamped on the front board and the spine lettered in silver (a premium variant uses quarter vellum over black boards with gilt spine and top edge gilt). The Richard Chopping dust jacket depicts an artist's hands drawing the Bond family coat of arms. First-issue text point: 'two kings' on page 34, line 7. Jacket priced 16s net.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/on-her-majestys-secret-service"
  },
  {
   "slug": "you-only-live-twice",
   "title": "You Only Live Twice",
   "author": "Ian Fleming",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cape first edition, first impression, 1964 (Gilbert A14a). The verso carries the single line 'FIRST PUBLISHED 1964' with no later-impression statement. The Richard Chopping trompe-l'oeil jacket (a toad and a peony bloom) is priced 16s net on the front flap; copies bound in publisher's boards with silver titles and Japanese characters to the upper board, with bamboo-patterned endpapers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/you-only-live-twice"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-looking-glass-war",
   "title": "The Looking Glass War",
   "author": "John le Carré",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Heinemann first edition, 1965 (le Carré moved from Gollancz to Heinemann for this title). Publisher's black paper-covered boards with the spine stamped in silver, in the first-issue Heinemann jacket. Verso carries a single 'First published 1965' line with no later-impression statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-looking-glass-war"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cover-her-face",
   "title": "Cover Her Face",
   "author": "P.D. James",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber and Faber first, 1962; publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; first-issue dust jacket (art by Charles Mozley) priced 18s net on the front flap. Copyright verso carries a single 'First published in mcmlxii' statement with no later-impression line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cover-her-face"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-mind-to-murder",
   "title": "A Mind to Murder",
   "author": "P.D. James",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber and Faber first, 1963; publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; first-issue dust jacket priced 18s net on the front flap. Copyright verso carries a single first-published statement with no later-impression line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-mind-to-murder"
  },
  {
   "slug": "unnatural-causes",
   "title": "Unnatural Causes",
   "author": "P.D. James",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber and Faber first, 1967; publisher's red boards lettered in silver/gilt on the spine; copyright verso carries a single first-published statement with no later-impression line. First-issue dust jacket unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/unnatural-causes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "shroud-for-a-nightingale",
   "title": "Shroud for a Nightingale",
   "author": "P.D. James",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber and Faber first, 1971; publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; first-issue dust jacket priced £2.00 net (unclipped). Copyright verso carries a single first-published statement with no later-impression line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/shroud-for-a-nightingale"
  },
  {
   "slug": "an-unsuitable-job-for-a-woman",
   "title": "An Unsuitable Job for a Woman",
   "author": "P.D. James",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber and Faber first, 1972; publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; first-issue dust jacket priced £1.90 net (unclipped). Copyright verso carries a single first-published statement with no later-impression line. Introduces Cordelia Gray.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/an-unsuitable-job-for-a-woman"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-black-tower",
   "title": "The Black Tower",
   "author": "P.D. James",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber and Faber first, 1975; publisher's grey cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; first-issue dust jacket priced £2.75 net (unclipped). Copyright verso carries a single first-published statement with no later-impression line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-black-tower"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-ghostway",
   "title": "The Ghostway",
   "author": "Tony Hillerman",
   "publisher": "Dennis McMillan Publications (San Diego)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "author-deep-6",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the Dennis McMillan Publications edition of 1984, a signed and numbered issue limited to 300 copies (part of McMillan's 'The Door Into Darkness' program). It precedes the trade edition. The Harper & Row trade first appeared in 1985 (copyright 1984), with a stated 'FIRST EDITION' and number line ending in 1 and a priced first-state jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-ghostway"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-man-within",
   "title": "The Man Within",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1929",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: William Heinemann, 1929. Greene's first published novel, in an initial run of about 2,500 copies. Original BLACK cloth (not blue) with a blind-stamped border and publisher's device to the boards, spine lettered in gilt; 'First published 1929' on the copyright page with no later-impression statement. The correct first-issue dust jacket is priced 7s 6d net to the spine and carries the Oliver Onions 'Painted Face' review on the rear flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-man-within"
  },
  {
   "slug": "stamboul-train",
   "title": "Stamboul Train",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1932",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Heinemann, 1932. 'First published 1932' on the verso. The decisive point is the J.B. Priestley libel issue: Priestley, recognizing the character read as a caricature of him, threatened action, so roughly 13,000 sheets were recalled and cancel leaves substituted. The genuine first (uncorrected) issue retains the original text. The quickest test is on page 82: the uncorrected first issue reads 'Dickens' (line 2) and uses the name 'Savory'; corrected copies change the name to 'Quin Savory' across several pages and replace 'Dickens' with 'Chaucer.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/stamboul-train"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-quiet-american",
   "title": "The Quiet American",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Heinemann, 1955. Original cloth lettered in gilt to the spine; 'First published 1955' on the copyright page. The first-issue dust jacket is priced 13s 6d net to the front flap (not 12s 6d), unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-quiet-american"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-handful-of-dust",
   "title": "A Handful of Dust",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall (UK)",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Chapman & Hall, 1934. 'First published in 1934' on the title verso. Bound not in plain cloth but in the distinctive black-and-red snakeskin-patterned cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with a frontispiece of Hetton by J. D. M. Harvey. First-issue pictorial dust jacket printed in black and red.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-handful-of-dust"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-loved-one",
   "title": "The Loved One",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown (US)",
   "year": "1948",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948. First American edition, subtitled 'An Anglo-American Tragedy', in grey cloth with the spine lettered in green and a Samuel Bryant dust jacket. This is the first edition in book form. The text first appeared in the US magazine Horizon (February 1948) before any book edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-loved-one"
  },
  {
   "slug": "down-and-out-in-paris-and-london",
   "title": "Down and Out in Paris and London",
   "author": "George Orwell",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz (UK)",
   "year": "1933",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Victor Gollancz, 1933. Orwell's first book and the first use of the 'George Orwell' pseudonym. Published 9 January 1933 in a first impression of 1,500 copies (followed within the month by a second impression of 500 and a third of 1,000). Cloth binding lettered on the spine; the dust jacket is notably scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/down-and-out-in-paris-and-london"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-clergymans-daughter",
   "title": "A Clergyman's Daughter",
   "author": "George Orwell",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz (UK)",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Victor Gollancz, 1935. Orwell's second novel, in a small printing of about 2,000 copies. Bindings are recorded in both black cloth and green cloth; the dust jacket is printed in pink and black on a yellow ground (designed by Denis Piper) and is exceedingly rare. Title page dated 1935 with no later impression statement. Orwell disliked the book and blocked reprints in his lifetime, leaving the first as the principal edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-clergymans-daughter"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-road-to-wigan-pier",
   "title": "The Road to Wigan Pier",
   "author": "George Orwell",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz / Left Book Club (UK)",
   "year": "1937",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Victor Gollancz, 8 March 1937. Issued in two simultaneous forms: the trade edition in blue cloth lettered in yellow on the spine, with a yellow printed dust jacket, in a small printing of about 2,150 copies; and the Left Book Club edition in limp orange cloth printed in black ('Left Book Club Edition / Not for Sale to the Public'), in roughly 44,150 copies. Both forms contain all 32 photographic plates. The trade cloth copy with its yellow jacket is the collected first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-road-to-wigan-pier"
  },
  {
   "slug": "homage-to-catalonia",
   "title": "Homage to Catalonia",
   "author": "George Orwell",
   "publisher": "Secker & Warburg (UK)",
   "year": "1938",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Secker & Warburg, 25 April 1938. Orwell's move to Secker after Gollancz declined the book. Green cloth with a pictorial first-issue dust jacket. A small first printing of 1,500 copies that sold poorly (well under half in the first months), making the genuine first scarce. Title page dated 1938.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/homage-to-catalonia"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-spire",
   "title": "The Spire",
   "author": "William Golding",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Faber & Faber, 1964. Published 10 April 1964. Publisher's purple cloth, gilt titles to spine; first-issue dust jacket with a four-colour pictorial design by John Piper, priced 18s net to the front flap, unclipped. Copyright page reads 'First published in 1964' by Faber and Faber, printed by R. MacLehose and Company at the University Press, Glasgow.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-spire"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-pale-view-of-hills",
   "title": "A Pale View of Hills",
   "author": "Kazuo Ishiguro",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Faber & Faber, 1982. Ishiguro's first novel and scarce. Boards with gilt spine titles; first-issue dust jacket priced £6.25 net to the flap, unclipped. Copyright page states 'First published in 1982' with no later-impression statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-pale-view-of-hills"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-cement-garden",
   "title": "The Cement Garden",
   "author": "Ian McEwan",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (UK)",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. McEwan's first full-length novel (his third book, after two story collections). Publisher's green cloth, gilt spine titles, grey endpapers; first-issue dust jacket designed by Ron Bowen, priced £3.50 net to the flap, unclipped. Copyright page reads 'First published 1978'.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-cement-garden"
  },
  {
   "slug": "grimus",
   "title": "Grimus",
   "author": "Salman Rushdie",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz (UK)",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Victor Gollancz, 1975. Rushdie's scarce first novel, a work of fantasy and science fiction. Publisher's lilac boards, gilt spine titles; first-issue dust jacket printed in dark blue and purple, priced £3.50 net to the flap, unclipped. Copyright page reads 'First published 1975'. Genuinely uncommon as Rushdie's debut.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/grimus"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-history-of-the-world-in-10-chapters",
   "title": "A History of the World in 10½ Chapters",
   "author": "Julian Barnes",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (UK)",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "author-deep-7: British/Irish/world literary — Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London: Jonathan Cape, 1989 (32 Bedford Square; ISBN 0-224-02669-0). Boards, gilt spine; first-issue dust jacket priced to the flap and unclipped. Title page states 'First published 1989' for the first printing. The book includes a colour plate of Géricault's 'The Raft of the Medusa' facing page 124.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-history-of-the-world-in-10-chapters"
  },
  {
   "slug": "north-of-boston",
   "title": "North of Boston",
   "author": "Robert Frost",
   "publisher": "David Nutt (London)",
   "year": "1914",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Frost's second book, again a London first. About 1,000 sets of first-edition sheets were bound in several variant states over roughly eight years. The genuine first issue, first binding state is coarse olive-green cloth bearing a blind-rule border at the edges of the front cover and lacking any rubber-stamped 'Printed in Great Britain' on the title-page verso; roughly 350 copies were bound and sold before the First World War. The David Nutt imprint and the '6/-' price are present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/north-of-boston"
  },
  {
   "slug": "collected-poems-robert-frost",
   "title": "Collected Poems",
   "author": "Robert Frost",
   "publisher": "Henry Holt (first trade edition); Random House (signed limited edition)",
   "year": "1930",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 1931 Pulitzer Prize. The signed limited edition of 1,000 copies was published by Random House, signed by Frost on the half-title and hand-numbered on the limitation leaf, and preceded the Holt trade edition by roughly four weeks; it was printed on heavy laid paper in tan linen boards with a leather spine label. The Henry Holt first trade edition (1930) was printed from the same Random House plates; its first state carries the uncorrected reading 'laces' for 'faces' at page 128, line 8, corrected in later printings.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/collected-poems-robert-frost"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-witness-tree",
   "title": "A Witness Tree",
   "author": "Robert Frost",
   "publisher": "Henry Holt",
   "year": "1942",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize (Frost's fourth). The signed limited edition of 735 numbered copies, printed at the Spiral Press and bound in green with the leaves untrimmed and issued in a green paper slipcase, precedes the trade edition. The trade first printing carries the words 'FIRST PRINTING' on the copyright page; later printings substitute 'SECOND PRINTING' or a month-and-year date.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-witness-tree"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-man-with-the-blue-guitar-other-poems",
   "title": "The Man with the Blue Guitar & Other Poems",
   "author": "Wallace Stevens",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1937",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, one of 1,000 copies, Knopf 1937 with the Borzoi colophon and no later-printing statement. The principal point of issue is in the dust jacket: the first-issue jacket carries the error 'conjunctioning' on the front flap, which Knopf reset to 'conjunctions' for the second-issue jacket at Stevens's insistence; the first-issue jacket is markedly scarcer.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-man-with-the-blue-guitar-other-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "poems",
   "title": "Poems",
   "author": "W. H. Auden",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber",
   "year": "1930",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Auden's first commercially published book, preceded only by the privately printed 1928 Poems hand-set by Stephen Spender in a tiny edition (most sources cite about thirty copies; some say around forty-five). The Faber first edition of 1930 ran roughly 1,000 copies in blue-grey paper-covered boards with a paper spine label. The 1933 second edition replaced seven of the poems, so a true 1930 first is identified by the original contents and the 'First published in mcmxxx' statement with no reprint or second-edition line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-complete-poems-1927-1979",
   "title": "The Complete Poems 1927-1979",
   "author": "Elizabeth Bishop",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First collected and complete edition, published posthumously. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983; first printing identified by the FSG first-printing/first-edition statement with the year on the copyright page (FSG in this period used wording such as First printing or First edition followed by the year). Green cloth in an orange dust jacket designed by Cynthia Krupat.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-complete-poems-1927-1979"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dolphin",
   "title": "The Dolphin",
   "author": "Robert Lowell",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973; first printing identified by the FSG first-printing statement with the year on the copyright page (FSG used wording such as First printing, 1973). Issued in a dust jacket. A UK Faber edition appeared the same year (1973).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dolphin"
  },
  {
   "slug": "promises-poems-1954-1956",
   "title": "Promises: Poems 1954-1956",
   "author": "Robert Penn Warren",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the 1958 National Book Award. First printing: Random House, New York, 1957, identified by 'First Printing' stated on the copyright page (Random House practice of the period), in dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/promises-poems-1954-1956"
  },
  {
   "slug": "paterson-book-one",
   "title": "Paterson (Book One)",
   "author": "William Carlos Williams",
   "publisher": "New Directions",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of Book One: New Directions, 1946, limited to 1000 copies, printed for New Directions by the Van Vechten Press, Metuchen, New Jersey; bound in beige cloth with black design and gilt lettering, in dust jacket. Each of the five Books (1946-1958) is a separate first; the first four were limited to 1000 copies, the fifth to 3000.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/paterson-book-one"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-weary-blues",
   "title": "The Weary Blues",
   "author": "Langston Hughes",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1926",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hughes's first book; introduction by Carl Van Vechten, dust-jacket design by Miguel Covarrubias. First printing: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926, in an edition of 1,500 copies; quarter blue cloth spine lettered in gilt over patterned (batik-style) paper boards, with the Borzoi device, in dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-weary-blues"
  },
  {
   "slug": "annie-allen",
   "title": "Annie Allen",
   "author": "Gwendolyn Brooks",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the first Pulitzer awarded to an African American author. First printing: Harper & Brothers, 1949, identified by the Harper letter code 'F-Y' on the copyright page (F = June month, Y = 1949 year) together with the 'FIRST EDITION' statement, in dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/annie-allen"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-collected-poems-of-marianne-moore",
   "title": "The Collected Poems of Marianne Moore",
   "author": "Marianne Moore",
   "publisher": "Macmillan",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the National Book Award. First American printing: Macmillan, 1951, in dust jacket; introduction by T. S. Eliot. The Bollingen Prize was awarded to Moore in 1953 as a career honor, not specifically for this book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-collected-poems-of-marianne-moore"
  },
  {
   "slug": "selected-poems-conrad-aiken",
   "title": "Selected Poems",
   "author": "Conrad Aiken",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1929",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. First printing: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929, in dust jacket. For a 1929 Scribner's book the first-printing indication is the matching date on the title and copyright pages with no notice of a later printing, accompanied by the Scribner seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/selected-poems-conrad-aiken"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hearts-needle",
   "title": "Heart's Needle",
   "author": "W. D. Snodgrass",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, a confessional landmark. First printing: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959, copyright page stating 'First published April 13, 1959' with the Borzoi device; an edition of 1500 copies, in dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hearts-needle"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-shadow-of-sirius",
   "title": "The Shadow of Sirius",
   "author": "W. S. Merwin",
   "publisher": "Copper Canyon Press",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Merwin's second. First printing: Copper Canyon Press, 2008, identified by the publisher's number line on the copyright page. Note that Copper Canyon's line counts down to 2 on a first printing rather than to 1, so the lowest number present being 2 is the first-printing point; the line advances on later printings. Issued in cloth with dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-shadow-of-sirius"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-morning-of-the-poem",
   "title": "The Morning of the Poem",
   "author": "James Schuyler",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. First printing: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1980, identified by the publisher's number line on the copyright page (a complete descending line including 1 indicates the first printing). Issued in black cloth and blue paper-covered boards with dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-morning-of-the-poem"
  },
  {
   "slug": "partial-accounts-new-and-selected-poems",
   "title": "Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems",
   "author": "William Meredith",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. First printing: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1987, with 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page per Knopf's house practice (the Borzoi colophon appears but is present on all Knopf printings, so it is not by itself a first-printing point). Issued simultaneously in cloth with dust jacket and in paper wrappers; the clothbound issue is the collector's first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/partial-accounts-new-and-selected-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-world-doesnt-end",
   "title": "The World Doesn't End",
   "author": "Charles Simic",
   "publisher": "Harcourt Brace Jovanovich",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; a collection of prose poems. The true first is the Harcourt Brace Jovanovich trade edition of 1989 (San Diego), identified by the Harcourt letter line on the copyright page reading A B C D E (not a number line). The collectible first is the cloth hardcover in pictorial dust jacket; a softcover issue in wrappers also exists.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-world-doesnt-end"
  },
  {
   "slug": "selected-poems-james-tate",
   "title": "Selected Poems",
   "author": "James Tate",
   "publisher": "Wesleyan University Press",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the 1992 William Carlos Williams Award. The true first is the Wesleyan University Press / University Press of New England hardcover of 1991, in black cloth boards with a dust jacket, identified as first edition, first printing; a simultaneous paperback was also issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/selected-poems-james-tate"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-wild-iris",
   "title": "The Wild Iris",
   "author": "Louise Glück",
   "publisher": "The Ecco Press",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (Glück later received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature). The true first is the Ecco Press hardcover of 1992 (Hopewell, NJ), with 'first edition' stated on the copyright page, bound in yellow boards with a cloth backstrip lettered in gilt and a pictorial dust jacket. A first paperback printing was also issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-wild-iris"
  },
  {
   "slug": "neon-vernacular",
   "title": "Neon Vernacular",
   "author": "Yusef Komunyakaa",
   "publisher": "Wesleyan University Press",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. The true first is the Wesleyan University Press / University Press of New England 1993 edition (Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems), identified as first edition, first printing. The hardcover issue was published without a dust jacket; a simultaneous paperback was also issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/neon-vernacular"
  },
  {
   "slug": "repair",
   "title": "Repair",
   "author": "C. K. Williams",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux",
   "year": "1999",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (also a 1999 National Book Award finalist). The first edition was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York) in 1999. The hardcover, issued with a dust jacket and carrying the FSG first-edition statement, is the collectible true first; a softcover edition was also issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/repair"
  },
  {
   "slug": "walking-to-marthas-vineyard",
   "title": "Walking to Martha's Vineyard",
   "author": "Franz Wright",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The first edition was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2003 as a clothbound hardcover (ISBN 0375415181), with the Borzoi device and the publisher's first-edition conventions on the copyright page; issued with dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/walking-to-marthas-vineyard"
  },
  {
   "slug": "delights-shadows",
   "title": "Delights & Shadows",
   "author": "Ted Kooser",
   "publisher": "Copper Canyon Press",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Kooser was US Poet Laureate. The first edition was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2004 as a trade paperback original (ISBN 1556592019). A separate clothbound issue exists as a signed, limited edition of 250 numbered copies.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/delights-shadows"
  },
  {
   "slug": "late-wife",
   "title": "Late Wife",
   "author": "Claudia Emerson",
   "publisher": "Louisiana State University Press",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The first edition was published by Louisiana State University Press in 2005 in the Southern Messenger Poets series (ISBN 9780807130841), issued simultaneously in cloth and paper.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/late-wife"
  },
  {
   "slug": "native-guard",
   "title": "Native Guard",
   "author": "Natasha Trethewey",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "2006",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Trethewey later served as US Poet Laureate. The first edition was published by Houghton Mifflin in 2006 (ISBN 9780618604630), with the publisher's first-edition conventions and the full number line on the copyright page; issued in black paper-covered boards with dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/native-guard"
  },
  {
   "slug": "failure",
   "title": "Failure",
   "author": "Philip Schultz",
   "publisher": "Harcourt",
   "year": "2007",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The Harcourt first edition (2007) was a paperback original in printed wrappers (Harcourt/Harvest), ISBN 978-0-15-603128-8; there was no separate jacketed trade hardcover. Look for first-printing indicia and a complete number line on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/failure"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-tradition",
   "title": "The Tradition",
   "author": "Jericho Brown",
   "publisher": "Copper Canyon Press",
   "year": "2019",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by Copper Canyon Press on April 2, 2019, as a paperback original (ISBN 9781556594861) with a first-printing number line. Won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; National Book Award finalist (2019). The number line advances on later printings.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-tradition"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ash-wednesday",
   "title": "Ash-Wednesday",
   "author": "T. S. Eliot",
   "publisher": "The Fountain Press (New York) / Faber & Faber (London)",
   "year": "1930",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The signed limited edition of 1930 precedes the Faber trade edition. The limitation totaled 600 copies, all signed by Eliot and numbered: 400 copies for The Fountain Press in America and 200 copies for Faber in Britain. The true first is identified by the signed limitation leaf. The Faber trade edition, also 1930, follows and lacks the signature and limitation.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ash-wednesday"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-draft-of-xxx-cantos",
   "title": "A Draft of XXX Cantos",
   "author": "Ezra Pound",
   "publisher": "Hours Press (Paris)",
   "year": "1930",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first: Hours Press (Nancy Cunard), Paris, 1930. The edition comprised 200 copies on ordinary paper plus a small number of special copies (10 on Texas Mountain paper and 2 on vellum). Capitals designed by Dorothy Shakespear Pound. This precedes the first American edition (Farrar & Rinehart, 1933) and the Faber trade edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-draft-of-xxx-cantos"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hugh-selwyn-mauberley",
   "title": "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley",
   "author": "Ezra Pound",
   "publisher": "The Ovid Press (London)",
   "year": "1920",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first: The Ovid Press, London, completed April 1920; limited to 200 numbered copies (15 on Japan vellum numbered 1-15 and not for sale, 20 signed copies numbered 16-35, and 165 unsigned copies numbered 36-200). Printed and published by John Rodker at his Ovid Press, with woodcut initials by Edward Wadsworth. Identified by the Ovid Press colophon and limitation statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hugh-selwyn-mauberley"
  },
  {
   "slug": "crow",
   "title": "Crow",
   "author": "Ted Hughes",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Faber first edition, first printing, 1970: black cloth lettered in gilt, in the pictorial dust jacket designed by Leonard Baskin, jacket priced one pound net and unclipped. The first printing carries the original (shorter) contents with no reprint statement. The 1972 reprint adds seven poems, so the 1970 first is identified by the original contents and the absence of any reprint or added-poem indication.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/crow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-whitsun-weddings",
   "title": "The Whitsun Weddings",
   "author": "Philip Larkin",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Faber first edition, first impression, published 28 February 1964: original cloth lettered in gilt, in the dust jacket designed by Berthold Wolpe and priced 12s 6d (12/6), unclipped. The first impression carries no reprint statement. Bloomfield A7a.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-whitsun-weddings"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-north-ship",
   "title": "The North Ship",
   "author": "Philip Larkin",
   "publisher": "The Fortune Press",
   "year": "1945",
   "genre": "poetry-canon",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Larkin's first book. Fortune Press first edition 1945 (Bloomfield A1a), one of fewer than 500 copies. Bound in black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, 36 pages, and issued in a thin, fragile printed dust jacket (commonly sunned and chipped, and often price-clipped by the publisher with a later 12/6 price label). The 1945 Fortune first precedes the revised 1966 Faber reissue, which adds an introduction and a poem.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-north-ship"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-iceman-cometh",
   "title": "The Iceman Cometh",
   "author": "Eugene O'Neill",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Denim-blue (dark blue) cloth with O'Neill's facsimile signature gilt-stamped on the front cover; spine titled in gilt within a red label; top edge stained red. Octavo, 260 pp. The first printing carries no later-printing statement on the copyright page; first issue is in the dust jacket with the printed price at the foot of the front flap. Later printings are stated (for example 'Third Printing'). Identify the first by the absence of any later-printing statement together with the original priced jacket rather than by a 'First Printing' slug.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-iceman-cometh"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mourning-becomes-electra",
   "title": "Mourning Becomes Electra",
   "author": "Eugene O'Neill",
   "publisher": "Horace Liveright",
   "year": "1931",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First published by Horace Liveright, New York, 1931 (the trilogy in one volume). A signed limited edition of 550 copies was also issued, bound in vellum with a black morocco gilt spine label and including facsimile leaves of O'Neill's working notes folded into a pocket at the rear. The trade first printing has no later-printing statement on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mourning-becomes-electra"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-zoo-story-the-death-of-bessie-smith-the-sandbox",
   "title": "The Zoo Story, The Death of Bessie Smith, The Sandbox",
   "author": "Edward Albee",
   "publisher": "Coward-McCann",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First American edition in book form of these three early one-acts (Coward-McCann, New York, 1960), Albee's first book, with a short introduction by the author. Light blue cloth lettered to the spine, in dust jacket with the printed price at the foot of the front flap. The first printing carries no later-printing statement on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-zoo-story-the-death-of-bessie-smith-the-sandbox"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-american-dream",
   "title": "The American Dream",
   "author": "Edward Albee",
   "publisher": "Coward-McCann",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition Coward-McCann, New York, 1961, issued in 1961 in two simultaneous formats: a softcover (wrappers) issue in the publisher's contemporary-drama series and a hardcover issue in cloth with dust jacket. The first printing of either format carries no later-printing statement on the copyright page; the priced dust jacket accompanies the hardcover issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-american-dream"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-birthday-party",
   "title": "The Birthday Party",
   "author": "Harold Pinter",
   "publisher": "Encore Publishing Co. / Methuen",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the Encore Publishing Co. (London) edition in stiff printed wrappers, 1959, preceding any Methuen issue. This was Pinter's first full-length play in print. The Methuen 1960 hardback was issued as the collection 'The Birthday Party and Other Plays' (not a stand-alone title), so it is both a later printing and a different made-up book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-birthday-party"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-piano-lesson",
   "title": "The Piano Lesson",
   "author": "August Wilson",
   "publisher": "Dutton",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "drama-canon (landmark plays as collectible first editions: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, August Wilson, Hansberry)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition is the Dutton hardcover, 1990 (ISBN 0525249265), in cloth with dust jacket; the first printing is identified by a complete number line ending in 1. Winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. A Plume trade paperback was issued alongside, and a book-club hardcover also exists.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-piano-lesson"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-tale-of-squirrel-nutkin",
   "title": "The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin",
   "author": "Beatrix Potter",
   "publisher": "Frederick Warne & Co. (London)",
   "year": "1903",
   "genre": "childrens-classics",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, 1903, Frederick Warne & Co. Original boards with a pictorial onlay mounted on the front cover and color illustrations throughout. This is the book in which Potter's now-familiar pictorial series endpapers were introduced. Early copies carry the publisher's 36 East 22d Street New York address on the title leaf. Note that bibliographers regard the first-edition first and second issues of this title as essentially indistinguishable, so do not rely on a precise issue point.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-tale-of-squirrel-nutkin"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-tale-of-benjamin-bunny",
   "title": "The Tale of Benjamin Bunny",
   "author": "Beatrix Potter",
   "publisher": "Frederick Warne & Co. (London)",
   "year": "1904",
   "genre": "childrens-classics",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first issue, Frederick Warne & Co., September 1904. The recognized first-issue textual points are both on page 15: the word spelled 'muffatees' (the misspelling was altered in later printings) and the word 'we' set in Roman rather than italic type. Original grey paper-covered boards printed in dark green with a color illustration mounted on the front board; frontispiece and color illustrations throughout.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-tale-of-benjamin-bunny"
  },
  {
   "slug": "when-we-were-very-young",
   "title": "When We Were Very Young",
   "author": "A. A. Milne (illustrated by E. H. Shepard)",
   "publisher": "Methuen & Co. (London)",
   "year": "1924",
   "genre": "childrens-classics",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK first edition, Methuen, November 1924, blue cloth with gilt. The recognized first-state point is on the contents leaf: in the first state the page number 'ix' is absent, while later states show 'ix' printed. The first-state dust jacket carries the 7/6 price on the spine. A deluxe signed limited issue was also produced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/when-we-were-very-young"
  },
  {
   "slug": "harry-potter-and-the-prisoner-of-azkaban",
   "title": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban",
   "author": "J. K. Rowling",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury (London)",
   "year": "1999",
   "genre": "childrens-classics",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK first (Bloomsbury, 1999). The true first state requires three points together: the full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on the copyright page; the copyright credited to 'Joanne Rowling' rather than 'J. K. Rowling'; and the dropped/incorrectly broken line of text on page 7 (after the word 'burnt'). Printer line reads Clays Ltd, St Ives plc. The print run was halted when the 'Joanne Rowling' error was noticed, so the first state is genuinely scarce. The copyright page should show only 'Bloomsbury' and '1999'.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/harry-potter-and-the-prisoner-of-azkaban"
  },
  {
   "slug": "harry-potter-and-the-order-of-the-phoenix",
   "title": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix",
   "author": "J. K. Rowling",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury (London)",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "childrens-classics",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK first (Bloomsbury, 21 June 2003). The copyright page must state 'First Edition' (the last four titles in the series carry this wording). Earliest copies are noted for printer's errors on the opening page not present in later runs, notably 'bo' for 'boy' and a poorly printed 'scuffiness'/'scruffiness'. The copyright page shows 'Bloomsbury' and '2003'. Printed in very large quantities, so first printings are common.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/harry-potter-and-the-order-of-the-phoenix"
  },
  {
   "slug": "harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince",
   "title": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince",
   "author": "J. K. Rowling",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury (London)",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "childrens-classics",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK first (Bloomsbury, 16 July 2005). The copyright page must state 'First Edition' and show '2005'. A recognised first-printing text point is the line on page 99 reading 'eleven outstanding O.W.L.s', changed to 'ten' in later printings. Printed in very large quantities, so first printings are common.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince"
  },
  {
   "slug": "harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows",
   "title": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows",
   "author": "J. K. Rowling",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury (London)",
   "year": "2007",
   "genre": "childrens-classics",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK first (Bloomsbury, 21 July 2007). The copyright page must state 'First Edition' and show '2007'. A separate Bloomsbury deluxe edition (slipcased) is its own collectible state. Printed in an enormous simultaneous global run, so the standard first printing is abundant.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-velveteen-rabbit",
   "title": "The Velveteen Rabbit",
   "author": "Margery Williams (illustrated by William Nicholson)",
   "publisher": "George H. Doran (New York) / Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1922",
   "genre": "childrens-classics",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, 1922, with William Nicholson's seven color chromolithograph plates (four single-page, three double-page). Both issues were physically printed in Great Britain (the Whitefriars Press colophon appears on the verso of the final text leaf). The US issue adds 'George H. Doran Company, New York' to the title page; the UK issue lists only Heinemann. Yellow-tan pictorial boards depicting the rabbit.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-velveteen-rabbit"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-daybreakers",
   "title": "The Daybreakers",
   "author": "Louis L'Amour",
   "publisher": "Bantam Books",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "Collectible genre deeper: westerns (L'Amour, Grey, McMurtry), thrillers (Ludlum, Forsyth, Follett), plus notable signed/limited modern genre firsts with points of issue.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Paperback original, Bantam catalog number A1933 (not A2068), published February 1960, original cover price 35 cents, yellow-tinted page edges. The first published Sackett novel, launching the family saga. The true first printing shows the A1933 catalog code with no later-printing statement or raised price on the wrappers and copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-daybreakers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-pillars-of-the-earth",
   "title": "The Pillars of the Earth",
   "author": "Ken Follett",
   "publisher": "Macmillan (London) / William Morrow (New York)",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "Collectible genre deeper: westerns (L'Amour, Grey, McMurtry), thrillers (Ludlum, Forsyth, Follett), plus notable signed/limited modern genre firsts with points of issue.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the UK Macmillan edition (London, 1989), in black cloth with gilt spine lettering and a pictorial jacket showing lightning striking a distant cathedral; it reads 'First published 1989' on the copyright page, per Macmillan's house style. The US William Morrow edition is the first American edition: stated 'First Edition' with a number line ending in 1, in tan boards with a jacket featuring a gargoyle.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-pillars-of-the-earth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "streets-of-laredo",
   "title": "Streets of Laredo",
   "author": "Larry McMurtry",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster (New York)",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "Collectible genre deeper: westerns (L'Amour, Grey, McMurtry), thrillers (Ludlum, Forsyth, Follett), plus notable signed/limited modern genre firsts with points of issue.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The US Simon & Schuster trade first edition (New York, 1993) is the true first: a full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page, stated First Edition, 589 pp, blue cloth and beige paper boards with gilt spine lettering, and a first-state jacket (design by Wendell Minor, painting by Maynard Dixon) with the printed price. It is the sequel to Lonesome Dove.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/streets-of-laredo"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-special-providence",
   "title": "A Special Providence",
   "author": "Richard Yates",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf states 'First Edition' on the copyright page accompanied by the Borzoi colophon, with no later-printing notation. Original cloth binding; jacket design by Wendell Minor.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-special-providence"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-recognitions",
   "title": "The Recognitions",
   "author": "William Gaddis",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace & Company",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, with a device blind-stamped on the upper board; 956 pp. First-issue dust jacket priced 7.50 with the '383 Madison Avenue' address on the lower rear flap. First printings carry no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-recognitions"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-tunnel",
   "title": "The Tunnel",
   "author": "William Gass",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf trade first states First Edition on the copyright page; first-issue jacket is unclipped at thirty dollars (red and black design). The novel was roughly twenty-six years in the writing. A separate signed limited issue also exists as a parallel premium state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-tunnel"
  },
  {
   "slug": "boswell-a-modern-comedy",
   "title": "Boswell: A Modern Comedy",
   "author": "Stanley Elkin",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House first printing states First Edition / First Printing on the copyright page in the pre-1970 Random House manner (no number line yet on titles of this era); first-issue jacket with the original price on the front flap. Elkin's first book and first novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/boswell-a-modern-comedy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-bad-man",
   "title": "A Bad Man",
   "author": "Stanley Elkin",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House first printing states First Edition / First Printing on the copyright page (pre-1970 Random House style, no number line on this title); first-issue jacket with the original price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-bad-man"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-cannibal",
   "title": "The Cannibal",
   "author": "John Hawkes",
   "publisher": "New Directions",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "New Directions, New York, 1949. Number 13 in the 'Direction' series; small format (16mo), 223 pages; gray cloth-textured paper-covered boards; introduction by Albert J. Guerard; the first printing carries no statement of a later printing. Issued in dust jacket. Hawkes's first novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-cannibal"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lime-twig",
   "title": "The Lime Twig",
   "author": "John Hawkes",
   "publisher": "New Directions",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "New Directions, New York, 1961. Issued simultaneously in clothbound hardcover and as a New Directions Paperbook; the clothbound hardcover in dust jacket is the collected first state. Introduction by Leslie A. Fiedler; the first printing carries no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lime-twig"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-blood-oranges",
   "title": "The Blood Oranges",
   "author": "John Hawkes",
   "publisher": "New Directions",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "New Directions, New York, 1971. First printing with no later-printing statement on the copyright page; orange-red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust jacket designed by Gertrude Huston, carrying the original price to the flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-blood-oranges"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-last-gentleman",
   "title": "The Last Gentleman",
   "author": "Walker Percy",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1966. First edition identified by the FSG copyright-page statement ('First printing, 1966' / 'First published') with no number line and no later-printing notice; first-issue dust jacket carrying the original price to the flap. Approximately 409 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-last-gentleman"
  },
  {
   "slug": "love-in-the-ruins",
   "title": "Love in the Ruins",
   "author": "Walker Percy",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "FSG 'First printing, 1971' stated on the copyright page; black cloth with brown top-stain, orange endpapers, 403 pages; first-issue jacket carrying the original price of 7.95 with the bright orange/yellow/blue spine lettering.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/love-in-the-ruins"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-second-coming",
   "title": "The Second Coming",
   "author": "Walker Percy",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trade first: FSG 'First printing, 1980' on the copyright page; orange cloth boards stamped in gilt, tan endpapers, 360 pages; first-issue jacket. A separate signed limited issue of 450 copies (blue cloth, in a publisher's slipcase) was signed at the colophon.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-second-coming"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-heart-is-a-lonely-hunter",
   "title": "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter",
   "author": "Carson McCullers",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Tan buckram stamped in dark red; '1940' on both title and copyright pages with no later-printing statement; 356 pages; first-issue dust jacket priced 2.50 with the 'Summer's Lease' blurb on the rear flap. McCullers's first novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-heart-is-a-lonely-hunter"
  },
  {
   "slug": "reflections-in-a-golden-eye",
   "title": "Reflections in a Golden Eye",
   "author": "Carson McCullers",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1941",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Houghton Mifflin first; tan cloth; copyright page dated 1941 with no later-printing statement; first-issue dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig with the distinctive square cellophane/glassine window on the front panel and the original price of 2.00 on the flap (the glassine commonly wrinkles or tears). McCullers's second novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/reflections-in-a-golden-eye"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-ballad-of-the-sad-cafe",
   "title": "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe",
   "author": "Carson McCullers",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Full title 'The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: The Novels and Stories of Carson McCullers.' Published by Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press, 1951. Original peach cloth with title and decorative pattern to spine and title to upper board in red. This omnibus is the first book appearance of the title novella (which had appeared in Harper's Bazaar in 1943); it also reprints the three earlier novels and gathers six shorter stories. First printing identified by the 1951 copyright page free of any later-printing notation and a first-issue dust jacket retaining its original price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-ballad-of-the-sad-cafe"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-curtain-of-green",
   "title": "A Curtain of Green",
   "author": "Eudora Welty",
   "publisher": "Doubleday, Doran & Company",
   "year": "1941",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page; original orange cloth stamped in white and green; 285,[1] pp.; first-issue dust jacket unclipped at $2.50; introduction by Katherine Anne Porter. Roughly 2,476 copies printed. Welty's first book; full title 'A Curtain of Green and Other Stories.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-curtain-of-green"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-robber-bridegroom",
   "title": "The Robber Bridegroom",
   "author": "Eudora Welty",
   "publisher": "Doubleday, Doran & Company",
   "year": "1942",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page; Doubleday, Doran imprint; original blue cloth stamped in white and pink; first-issue dust jacket retaining its original price. Welty's first novel (a novella retelling of a Grimm tale set in the Natchez Trace country).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-robber-bridegroom"
  },
  {
   "slug": "delta-wedding",
   "title": "Delta Wedding",
   "author": "Eudora Welty",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace & Company",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page; Harcourt, Brace & Company imprint; first printing April 1946; first-issue dust jacket retaining its original price. Welty's first full-length novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/delta-wedding"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ship-of-fools",
   "title": "Ship of Fools",
   "author": "Katherine Anne Porter",
   "publisher": "Atlantic-Little, Brown",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued as 'An Atlantic Monthly Press Book' by Little, Brown; 'first edition' stated on the copyright page; yellow cloth boards with red titling to spine and a facsimile signature on the front board; 497 pp.; first-issue dust jacket carrying the original price. Porter's only novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ship-of-fools"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-long-fourth-and-other-stories",
   "title": "A Long Fourth and Other Stories",
   "author": "Peter Taylor",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace & Company",
   "year": "1948",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Harcourt, Brace & Company first edition, 1948; 'first edition' stated on the copyright page; introduction by Robert Penn Warren; collects seven stories; first-issue dust jacket with the original printed flap price. This is Taylor's first book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-long-fourth-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-field-of-vision",
   "title": "The Field of Vision",
   "author": "Wright Morris",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace & Company",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Harcourt, Brace & Company first edition, 1956. Charcoal/black cloth lettered in silver; Harry Ford-designed dust jacket bearing a bullfight photograph by Morris and the original printed flap price; 'first edition' stated on the copyright page. Winner of the 1957 National Book Award for Fiction.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-field-of-vision"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-works-of-love",
   "title": "The Works of Love",
   "author": "Wright Morris",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Alfred A. Knopf (Borzoi Books) first edition, 1952; 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page per Knopf's period convention, with the Borzoi device; first-issue dust jacket with the original printed flap price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-works-of-love"
  },
  {
   "slug": "where-im-calling-from-new-and-selected-stories",
   "title": "Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories",
   "author": "Raymond Carver",
   "publisher": "Atlantic Monthly Press",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Terra-cotta cloth stamped in gilt; 393 pp.; published May 1988, three months before Carver's death. The trade first edition states First Printing on the copyright page (no number line).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/where-im-calling-from-new-and-selected-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-pharaohs-army-memories-of-the-lost-war",
   "title": "In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War",
   "author": "Tobias Wolff",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Octavo, 221 pp.; First Edition stated on the copyright page with the Knopf borzoi device and no further printings indicated; published October 4, 1994. ISBN 0-679-40217-9.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-pharaohs-army-memories-of-the-lost-war"
  },
  {
   "slug": "this-boys-life-a-memoir",
   "title": "This Boy's Life: A Memoir",
   "author": "Tobias Wolff",
   "publisher": "Atlantic Monthly Press",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Quarter brown cloth over green paper boards, gilt spine lettering; [15], 4-288 pp.; jacket designed by Jose Ortega and priced on the front flap; first printing stated on the copyright page. ISBN 0-87113-248-6.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/this-boys-life-a-memoir"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mohawk",
   "title": "Mohawk",
   "author": "Richard Russo",
   "publisher": "Vintage Books (Vintage Contemporaries)",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Paperback original in pictorial glossy wraps, issued without dust jacket; wrappers designed by Lorraine Louie with illustration by Rick Lovell; ISBN 0-394-74409-8; First Edition stated on the copyright page. Vintage Contemporaries original, 1986.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mohawk"
  },
  {
   "slug": "continental-drift",
   "title": "Continental Drift",
   "author": "Russell Banks",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Quarter gray cloth over brown paper boards; 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page together with a full number line beginning at 1; unclipped jacket priced at the original figure on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/continental-drift"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sweet-hereafter",
   "title": "The Sweet Hereafter",
   "author": "Russell Banks",
   "publisher": "HarperCollins",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Quarter dark-blue cloth spine over light-blue paper boards with gilt spine lettering; 'First Edition' stated with a full number line beginning at 1 on the copyright page; jacket unclipped with original front-flap price. Basis for Atom Egoyan's 1997 film.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sweet-hereafter"
  },
  {
   "slug": "wolf-a-false-memoir",
   "title": "Wolf: A False Memoir",
   "author": "Jim Harrison",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "White cloth with black spine lettering; black top stain (top edge dyed black); octavo, 225 pp.; pictorial dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon, unclipped with original price. Harrison's first novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/wolf-a-false-memoir"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dalva",
   "title": "Dalva",
   "author": "Jim Harrison",
   "publisher": "E.P. Dutton / Seymour Lawrence",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Quarter white cloth over green paper boards with gilt lettering to front board and spine; green endpapers; [14],3-324 pp.; number line present ending in 1 on the copyright page; dust-jacket painting by Russell Chatham, original price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dalva"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bushwhacked-piano",
   "title": "The Bushwhacked Piano",
   "author": "Thomas McGuane",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "McGuane's second novel. Simon & Schuster first printing (ISBN 0-671-20819-5 / 9780671208196) with the original jacket price unclipped on the front flap. Winner of the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bushwhacked-piano"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ninety-two-in-the-shade",
   "title": "Ninety-Two in the Shade",
   "author": "Thomas McGuane",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Green cloth with silver spine lettering; 197 pp., octavo; jacket designed by Janet Halverson. First-printing copyright page with no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ninety-two-in-the-shade"
  },
  {
   "slug": "facing-the-music",
   "title": "Facing the Music",
   "author": "Larry Brown",
   "publisher": "Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Small octavo, 167 pp.; First Edition / First Printing stated on the copyright page; original price unclipped on the front jacket flap (ISBN 0912697911 / 9780912697918). Brown's first book, a collection of ten stories.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/facing-the-music"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dirty-work",
   "title": "Dirty Work",
   "author": "Larry Brown",
   "publisher": "Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "236 pp.; First Edition / First Printing stated on the copyright page; original price unclipped on the front jacket flap. ISBN 0-945575-20-3 (9780945575207). Brown's first novel (his second book).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dirty-work"
  },
  {
   "slug": "joe",
   "title": "Joe",
   "author": "Larry Brown",
   "publisher": "Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Edition / First Printing stated on the copyright page with a complete number line ending in 1; original price unclipped on the front jacket flap. ISBN 0-945575-61-0 (9780945575610). Brown's second novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/joe"
  },
  {
   "slug": "geronimo-rex",
   "title": "Geronimo Rex",
   "author": "Barry Hannah",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Orange cloth-backed red boards with gilt and red spine lettering; yellow topstain; color pictorial dust jacket designed by Stuart Rosenberg, unclipped at the original 7.95 price. Hannah's first novel and a National Book Award nominee.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/geronimo-rex"
  },
  {
   "slug": "airships",
   "title": "Airships",
   "author": "Barry Hannah",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Tan/yellow paper over boards backed in navy cloth with gilt spine lettering; machine-deckled fore edge; light-blue topstain; octavo; dust jacket unclipped at 8.95; 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with the Knopf borzoi colophon. Hannah's first story collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/airships"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ray",
   "title": "Ray",
   "author": "Barry Hannah",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf first printing with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page and the borzoi colophon; original price present on the front jacket flap; 113 pp.; jacket designed by Fred Marcellino. A short novel and a critical breakthrough for Hannah.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ray"
  },
  {
   "slug": "naked-in-garden-hills",
   "title": "Naked in Garden Hills",
   "author": "Harry Crews",
   "publisher": "William Morrow",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Original olive/light-green cloth boards stamped in black and red, in an unclipped dust jacket priced 5.95; first-state jacket carries a review of 'The Gospel Singer' on the rear panel. Crews's second novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/naked-in-garden-hills"
  },
  {
   "slug": "car",
   "title": "Car",
   "author": "Harry Crews",
   "publisher": "William Morrow",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Original black cloth-backed sky-blue paper boards, spine lettered in blue and red-orange, with black endpapers and an illustrated dust jacket priced 5.95 on the front flap. Later collected in the omnibus 'Classic Crews' (1993), which is not a first of the novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/car"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-childhood-the-biography-of-a-place",
   "title": "A Childhood: The Biography of a Place",
   "author": "Harry Crews",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Quarter green cloth over yellow paper boards with green spine lettering; 171 pp.; dust jacket priced 8.95 on the front flap; number line present and ending in 1 on the copyright page (Harper & Row first-printing tell).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-childhood-the-biography-of-a-place"
  },
  {
   "slug": "legs",
   "title": "Legs",
   "author": "William Kennedy",
   "publisher": "Coward, McCann & Geoghegan",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing from Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, New York, 1975; tan paper boards with a gilt-stamped Kennedy signature, backed in black cloth with gilt spine lettering; dust jacket priced on the front flap. First volume of the Albany cycle.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/legs"
  },
  {
   "slug": "billy-phelans-greatest-game",
   "title": "Billy Phelan's Greatest Game",
   "author": "William Kennedy",
   "publisher": "Viking Press",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing from The Viking Press, New York, 1978; grey cloth with silver spine lettering; 282 pp.; dust jacket priced on the front flap, with the Viking first-printing copyright statement. Second Albany-cycle novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/billy-phelans-greatest-game"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lieutenant",
   "title": "The Lieutenant",
   "author": "Andre Dubus",
   "publisher": "Dial Press",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing from The Dial Press, New York, 1967; dust jacket priced on the front flap. Dubus's first book and his only novel, published the year after he finished the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Genuinely scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lieutenant"
  },
  {
   "slug": "separate-flights",
   "title": "Separate Flights",
   "author": "Andre Dubus",
   "publisher": "David R. Godine",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing from David R. Godine, Boston, 1975; original cloth in dust jacket priced 8.95 on the front flap. Dubus's first story collection (his second book). Won the Boston Globe's first Laurence L. Winship Award (1975).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/separate-flights"
  },
  {
   "slug": "adultery-other-choices",
   "title": "Adultery & Other Choices",
   "author": "Andre Dubus",
   "publisher": "David R. Godine",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Published in Boston by David R. Godine, 1977. First edition, first printing so stated on the copyright page. Red cloth stamped in gold; 178 pp.; pictorial dust jacket depicting an unmade bed on the front panel. Ten stories, including 'Killings' (later the basis for the 2001 film 'In the Bedroom') and the novella 'Adultery.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/adultery-other-choices"
  },
  {
   "slug": "servants-of-the-map",
   "title": "Servants of the Map",
   "author": "Andrea Barrett",
   "publisher": "W.W. Norton & Company",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Norton first edition, first printing, with a complete number line descending to 1 on the copyright page and the original price present on the front jacket flap. Story collection; a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/servants-of-the-map"
  },
  {
   "slug": "with-shuddering-fall",
   "title": "With Shuddering Fall",
   "author": "Joyce Carol Oates",
   "publisher": "Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Vanguard Press, New York, 1964. Oates's first novel (her first book was the 1963 story collection 'By the North Gate'). Octavo, 316 pp., yellow cloth with a mounted black band along the fore-edge, lettering in white, blue, and black, red top-stain. Red-and-white dust jacket with the price present on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/with-shuddering-fall"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-garden-of-earthly-delights",
   "title": "A Garden of Earthly Delights",
   "author": "Joyce Carol Oates",
   "publisher": "Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First of the Wonderland Quartet. Vanguard Press, New York, 1967 on the title and copyright pages, with no statement of a later printing. Green cloth, approximately 440 pp. Original pictorial dust jacket with the price present on the front flap. A 1968 National Book Award finalist.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-garden-of-earthly-delights"
  },
  {
   "slug": "expensive-people",
   "title": "Expensive People",
   "author": "Joyce Carol Oates",
   "publisher": "Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Second of the Wonderland Quartet. Vanguard Press, New York, 1968; approximately 308 pp., orange cloth. Original dust jacket with the price present on the front flap and no additional-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/expensive-people"
  },
  {
   "slug": "them",
   "title": "them",
   "author": "Joyce Carol Oates",
   "publisher": "Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Third of the Wonderland Quartet and the 1970 National Book Award winner; the title is styled in lowercase as them. Vanguard Press did not print a stated First Edition line on this title; the first printing is identified by a copyright page that carries the Vanguard imprint and 1969 date with no later-printing notation. First-issue trade copies retain a price-present dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/them"
  },
  {
   "slug": "wonderland",
   "title": "Wonderland",
   "author": "Joyce Carol Oates",
   "publisher": "Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Fourth of the Wonderland Quartet. The 1971 Vanguard Press hardcover carries Oates's original ending; she revised the ending for the 1972 paperback, so the 1971 hardcover preserves a distinct earlier textual state. As with other Vanguard firsts, the first printing is identified by the absence of any later-printing notation on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/wonderland"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bellefleur",
   "title": "Bellefleur",
   "author": "Joyce Carol Oates",
   "publisher": "E. P. Dutton",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "White cloth over mauve paper-covered boards, spine stamped in silver, with mauve endpapers and the original illustrated dust jacket. The first trade printing shows the complete number line ending in 1 on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bellefleur"
  },
  {
   "slug": "if-morning-ever-comes",
   "title": "If Morning Ever Comes",
   "author": "Anne Tyler",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Tyler's first novel. The copyright page states FIRST EDITION and the title page carries the Knopf borzoi colophon. The first-issue dust jacket bears the date code 10/64 at the lower corner of the front flap with the price intact.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/if-morning-ever-comes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-slipping-down-life",
   "title": "A Slipping-Down Life",
   "author": "Anne Tyler",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Tyler's fourth novel. The copyright page states FIRST EDITION with the Knopf borzoi device; the binding is quarter white cloth over yellow paper boards. Many copies bear a handwritten R remainder mark on the front free endpaper; copies without the remainder mark are markedly scarcer.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-slipping-down-life"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-clock-winder",
   "title": "The Clock Winder",
   "author": "Anne Tyler",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf, New York, 1972. The true first states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page with the Knopf borzoi colophon; green cloth lettered in gilt. Tyler's fourth novel and among the scarcer early firsts in a fine first-issue jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-clock-winder"
  },
  {
   "slug": "celestial-navigation",
   "title": "Celestial Navigation",
   "author": "Anne Tyler",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf, New York, 1974. The true first states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page with the borzoi colophon; bright yellow cloth lettered in gilt, in a first-issue dust jacket with the printed price present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/celestial-navigation"
  },
  {
   "slug": "earthly-possessions",
   "title": "Earthly Possessions",
   "author": "Anne Tyler",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf, New York, 1977. The true first states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page with the borzoi colophon; quarter cloth over green paper boards (boards blind-stamped), spine lettered in gilt, jacket designed by Fred Marcellino with the printed price present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/earthly-possessions"
  },
  {
   "slug": "morgans-passing",
   "title": "Morgan's Passing",
   "author": "Anne Tyler",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf, New York, 1980. The true first states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page with the borzoi colophon; quarter brown cloth over yellow paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, in the original unclipped dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/morgans-passing"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dinner-at-the-homesick-restaurant",
   "title": "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant",
   "author": "Anne Tyler",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf, New York, 1982. The true first states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page with the borzoi colophon; brown cloth backing over cinnamon paper boards, gray top-stain, in the original unclipped illustrated jacket. A Pulitzer/National Book Award/PEN-Faulkner finalist with many later printings, so confirm the stated 'FIRST EDITION' with no later-printing notice.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dinner-at-the-homesick-restaurant"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-accidental-tourist",
   "title": "The Accidental Tourist",
   "author": "Anne Tyler",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf 1985, a Borzoi book; copyright page states FIRST EDITION with the Borzoi colophon. Because the novel won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was later filmed, it was heavily reprinted, so a true first must show the stated FIRST EDITION with no additional-printing statement on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-accidental-tourist"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-love-trouble-stories-of-black-women",
   "title": "In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women",
   "author": "Alice Walker",
   "publisher": "Harcourt Brace Jovanovich",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Walker's first story collection; first book appearance of 'Everyday Use.' Copyright page states First edition with the letter line B C D E. For Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in the 1973-1983 window the 'A' was deliberately omitted, so 'First edition / B C D E' is the correct first-printing state, not a later printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-love-trouble-stories-of-black-women"
  },
  {
   "slug": "meridian",
   "title": "Meridian",
   "author": "Alice Walker",
   "publisher": "Harcourt Brace Jovanovich",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Two-tone cloth with gilt spine titles; orange dust jacket, unclipped. Copyright page states First edition together with the letter line B C D E. Within the 1973-1983 Harcourt window the omitted 'A' is correct, so 'First edition / B C D E' is the true first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/meridian"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-house-on-mango-street",
   "title": "The House on Mango Street",
   "author": "Sandra Cisneros",
   "publisher": "Arte Publico Press",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Paperback original in pictorial wrappers with cover art by Alejandro Romero; no hardcover true first exists. Arte Publico Press, Houston, 1984, reportedly in a small first print run of about 500 copies. Original wrappers, often with spine sunning. ISBN 0-934770-20-0.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-house-on-mango-street"
  },
  {
   "slug": "woman-hollering-creek-and-other-stories",
   "title": "Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories",
   "author": "Sandra Cisneros",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House, New York, 1991. Cisneros's first book with a major trade publisher. The true first is the hardcover (ISBN 0-394-57654-3) with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page and the number line ending in 1; rust-brown paper boards with a dark cloth spine and metallic spine lettering. Original unclipped pictorial dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/woman-hollering-creek-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "almanac-of-the-dead",
   "title": "Almanac of the Dead",
   "author": "Leslie Marmon Silko",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Simon & Schuster, New York, 1991. Quarter red cloth over orange paper boards, blind-stamped front board, gilt-lettered spine; 763,[1] pp; color typographic endpapers. 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with the number line. Original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/almanac-of-the-dead"
  },
  {
   "slug": "heart-of-aztlan",
   "title": "Heart of Aztlan",
   "author": "Rudolfo Anaya",
   "publisher": "Editorial Justa Publications",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Editorial Justa Publications, Inc., Berkeley, California, 1976; 209 pp. Anaya's second novel (following Bless Me, Ultima). Issued both in a scarce red-cloth hardcover (gilt lettering on spine and front board, largely for library distribution) and in pictorial card wrappers. Confirm the 1976 first-printing state on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/heart-of-aztlan"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-women-of-brewster-place",
   "title": "The Women of Brewster Place",
   "author": "Gloria Naylor",
   "publisher": "Viking Press",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Viking, New York, 1982 (ISBN 0-670-77855-9). Naylor's first book; winner of the National Book Award for first novel. Quarter cloth over paper-covered boards with spine lettering. First printing: copyright page shows 1982 with no additional-printing statement. Original unclipped dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-women-of-brewster-place"
  },
  {
   "slug": "breath-eyes-memory",
   "title": "Breath, Eyes, Memory",
   "author": "Edwidge Danticat",
   "publisher": "Soho Press",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Danticat's debut novel. Soho Press, New York, 1994. The true first is the hardcover with the full number line (including '1') on the copyright page and the original unclipped dust jacket. As a verified point, the first-state jacket carries no Oprah's Book Club promotional material (the title was selected in 1998, prompting later printings).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/breath-eyes-memory"
  },
  {
   "slug": "krik-krak",
   "title": "Krik? Krak!",
   "author": "Edwidge Danticat",
   "publisher": "Soho Press",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Danticat's story collection and National Book Award finalist, published by Soho Press, New York, 1995 (ISBN 1-56947-025-1). The first edition/first printing is the hardcover with a complete descending number line on the copyright page; the binding is quarter purple/blue paper-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, in the original black pictorial jacket designed by Royce M. Becker. The copyright page carries the cumulative copyright dates 1991 through 1995.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/krik-krak"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-mixquiahuala-letters",
   "title": "The Mixquiahuala Letters",
   "author": "Ana Castillo",
   "publisher": "Bilingual Press / Editorial Bilingue",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Castillo's first novel and winner of an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Published by Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue, Binghamton, New York, 1986. The recognized first is the paperback original in wrappers (ISBN 0-916950-67-5); a clothbound issue under a companion ISBN (0-916950-68-9) was also recorded. Widely reprinted later by Doubleday in 1992 (ISBN 0-385-42013-7).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-mixquiahuala-letters"
  },
  {
   "slug": "so-far-from-god",
   "title": "So Far from God",
   "author": "Ana Castillo",
   "publisher": "W. W. Norton",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Published by W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 1993 (ISBN 0-393-03490-9). The first printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page accompanied by a number line that includes the '1', per Norton's standard practice of the period. Issued in hardcover with the original price-bearing, unclipped dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/so-far-from-god"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gun-with-occasional-music",
   "title": "Gun, with Occasional Music",
   "author": "Jonathan Lethem",
   "publisher": "Harcourt Brace & Company",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Lethem's debut novel, Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994 (ISBN 0-15-136458-3). The copyright page states 'First edition' and carries Harcourt's descending alphabetic letter line; the true first must show the terminal 'A'. Binding is quarter green cloth over beige paper boards with orange spine lettering, in the original price-bearing dust jacket whose art is intentionally designed to appear worn or torn.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gun-with-occasional-music"
  },
  {
   "slug": "amnesia-moon",
   "title": "Amnesia Moon",
   "author": "Jonathan Lethem",
   "publisher": "Harcourt Brace & Company",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Lethem's second novel, Harcourt Brace & Company, New York, 1995. The copyright page states 'First edition' with Harcourt's descending letter line terminating in 'A'. Issued as a hardcover original in cloth-backed boards (black cloth, green boards, white spine lettering), in the original price-bearing, unclipped dust jacket; confirm the 'A' line and the flap price together.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/amnesia-moon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "as-she-climbed-across-the-table",
   "title": "As She Climbed Across the Table",
   "author": "Jonathan Lethem",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' accompanied by a complete number line descending to 1. Doubleday anchor colophon present. Cloth-backed boards, dust jacket with the publisher's original flap price intact and unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/as-she-climbed-across-the-table"
  },
  {
   "slug": "girl-in-landscape",
   "title": "Girl in Landscape",
   "author": "Jonathan Lethem",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page with a complete number line descending to 1; Doubleday anchor colophon present. Dust jacket with the publisher's original flap price unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/girl-in-landscape"
  },
  {
   "slug": "motherless-brooklyn",
   "title": "Motherless Brooklyn",
   "author": "Jonathan Lethem",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1999",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page reads 'FIRST EDITION' (the line typically reads 'October 1999 / First Edition') with a complete number line descending to 1. Doubleday anchor colophon present; black paper over boards. Dust jacket with the publisher's original flap price unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/motherless-brooklyn"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-fortress-of-solitude",
   "title": "The Fortress of Solitude",
   "author": "Jonathan Lethem",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page with a complete number line descending to 1; Doubleday anchor colophon present. Two-tone boards; dust jacket with the publisher's original flap price unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-fortress-of-solitude"
  },
  {
   "slug": "garden-state",
   "title": "Garden State",
   "author": "Rick Moody",
   "publisher": "Pushcart Press",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pushcart Press first edition; winner of the Editors' Book Award. Moody's debut and true first book, far scarcer than his later titles. Issued as a hardcover (black boards stamped in silver) with dust jacket, and simultaneously as a softcover that is scarcer than the hardcover. Confirm the Pushcart Press imprint on the title page and the absence of any later-printing notice.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/garden-state"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-ice-storm",
   "title": "The Ice Storm",
   "author": "Rick Moody",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page with a complete number line descending to 1; Little, Brown imprint. Navy cloth over yellow boards stamped in gold; dust jacket with the publisher's original flap price intact and unclipped. Moody's second book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-ice-storm"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-ring-of-brightest-angels-around-heaven",
   "title": "The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven",
   "author": "Rick Moody",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Stated FIRST EDITION on the copyright page with a complete number line ending in 1; Little, Brown imprint, New York. Subtitle on the title page reads A Novella and Stories. This is Moody's first story collection (the title novella plus stories).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-ring-of-brightest-angels-around-heaven"
  },
  {
   "slug": "purple-america",
   "title": "Purple America",
   "author": "Rick Moody",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Stated FIRST EDITION on the copyright page with a complete number line ending in 1; Little, Brown imprint. Purple boards with black backstrip. Confirm an unclipped jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/purple-america"
  },
  {
   "slug": "jack",
   "title": "Jack",
   "author": "A.M. Homes",
   "publisher": "Macmillan Publishing Company",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Macmillan hardcover, copyright 1989, ISBN 0-02-744831-2, with print code/number line ending in 1 per Macmillan practice. Yellow cloth with grey spine lettering, white paper-covered boards, in dust jacket. Homes's debut novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/jack"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-safety-of-objects",
   "title": "The Safety of Objects",
   "author": "A.M. Homes",
   "publisher": "W.W. Norton & Company",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Norton hardcover with stated first edition and a number line ending in 1; Norton imprint on the copyright page. ISBN 0-393-02884-4. Homes's first story collection (ten stories). Confirm an unclipped jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-safety-of-objects"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-a-country-of-mothers",
   "title": "In a Country of Mothers",
   "author": "A.M. Homes",
   "publisher": "Knopf",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Alfred A. Knopf (Borzoi) hardcover, 1993, ISBN 0-679-41568-9, with the stated first edition and Knopf number line; Borzoi colophon on the copyright page. Homes's second novel. Confirm an unclipped jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-a-country-of-mothers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "anagrams",
   "title": "Anagrams",
   "author": "Lorrie Moore",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Borzoi/Knopf copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' with the number-line descending to a terminal '1'; Borzoi colophon. Quarter light-blue cloth over grey paper boards with gilt lettering; confirm the jacket flap price is unclipped. Moore's first novel (her second book).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/anagrams"
  },
  {
   "slug": "like-life",
   "title": "Like Life",
   "author": "Lorrie Moore",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Borzoi/Knopf copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' with the number-line ending in a terminal '1'; Borzoi colophon. Quarter blue cloth over light-blue paper boards, silver spine lettering; priced dust jacket. Moore's second story collection (eight stories).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/like-life"
  },
  {
   "slug": "at-the-gates-of-the-animal-kingdom",
   "title": "At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom",
   "author": "Amy Hempel",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf (Borzoi) first edition, ISBN 0-394-57174-6. Copyright page states FIRST EDITION with a number line descending to 1; Borzoi colophon present. Hempel's second book, a story collection (137 pp), typically in orange cloth over black boards with matching jacket. Verify the jacket price is present and unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/at-the-gates-of-the-animal-kingdom"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tumble-home",
   "title": "Tumble Home",
   "author": "Amy Hempel",
   "publisher": "Scribner",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Scribner first edition, ISBN 0-684-83375-9, full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; Scribner 'S' colophon. Subtitled 'A Novella and Short Stories' — the title novella plus stories (155 pp). Verify the jacket price is present and unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tumble-home"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dog-of-the-marriage",
   "title": "The Dog of the Marriage",
   "author": "Amy Hempel",
   "publisher": "Scribner",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Scribner first edition, ISBN 0-7432-6451-7, with a number line descending to 1; Scribner colophon. Hempel's fourth collection (nine stories, 160 pp), bound in tan cloth and boards. Verify the jacket price is present and unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dog-of-the-marriage"
  },
  {
   "slug": "angels",
   "title": "Angels",
   "author": "Denis Johnson",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf (Borzoi) first edition, ISBN 0-394-53225-7. Copyright page states FIRST EDITION with a number line descending to 1; Borzoi colophon. Johnson's debut novel, in quarter black cloth over black paper boards. Verify the jacket price is present and unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/angels"
  },
  {
   "slug": "fiskadoro",
   "title": "Fiskadoro",
   "author": "Denis Johnson",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf (Borzoi) first edition, ISBN 0-394-53839-0. Copyright page states FIRST EDITION with a number line descending to 1; Borzoi colophon. Johnson's second novel (221 pp), quarter black cloth over black paper boards with pictorial jacket. Verify the jacket price is present and unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/fiskadoro"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-stars-at-noon",
   "title": "The Stars at Noon",
   "author": "Denis Johnson",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf (Borzoi) first edition, ISBN 0-394-53840-4. Copyright page states FIRST EDITION with a number line ending in 1; Borzoi colophon. 181 pp, quarter black cloth over black paper boards, deckled fore edge. Verify the jacket price is present and unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-stars-at-noon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "already-dead-a-california-gothic",
   "title": "Already Dead: A California Gothic",
   "author": "Denis Johnson",
   "publisher": "HarperCollins",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "HarperCollins first edition, first printing, with the number line ending in 1 on the copyright page and the HarperCollins imprint. Confirm the original jacket price is present and unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/already-dead-a-california-gothic"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bad-behavior",
   "title": "Bad Behavior",
   "author": "Mary Gaitskill",
   "publisher": "Poseidon Press",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Poseidon Press (a Simon & Schuster division) first edition, copyright 1988, with a full number line ending in 1. Bound in brown cloth over gray boards, stamped in silver, in the original dust jacket. ISBN 0-671-65871-7. Gaitskill's debut collection. Some catalogues date the book 1989 (a later printing); the 1988 number-line-to-1 copy is the true first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bad-behavior"
  },
  {
   "slug": "two-girls-fat-and-thin",
   "title": "Two Girls, Fat and Thin",
   "author": "Mary Gaitskill",
   "publisher": "Poseidon Press",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Poseidon Press first edition, copyright 1991, with a number line ending in 1. Octavo, quarter navy cloth with maroon paper-covered boards. Gaitskill's first novel. Confirm the original jacket price is present and unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/two-girls-fat-and-thin"
  },
  {
   "slug": "because-they-wanted-to",
   "title": "Because They Wanted To",
   "author": "Mary Gaitskill",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Simon & Schuster first edition, first printing, with a full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page and the Simon & Schuster imprint. Blue textured boards over speckled paper, gilt spine, in the illustrated dust jacket. PEN/Faulkner finalist. Confirm the original jacket price is present and unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/because-they-wanted-to"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-changeling",
   "title": "The Changeling",
   "author": "Joy Williams",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday first edition, copyright 1978, with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page per Doubleday practice (statement present only on the first printing). Octavo, 201 pages, publisher's orange boards with black cloth spine. First-state dust jacket carries the original printed price, unclipped. Williams's scarce second novel; it had no second printing and went out of print until the 2008 reissue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-changeling"
  },
  {
   "slug": "an-invisible-sign-of-my-own",
   "title": "An Invisible Sign of My Own",
   "author": "Aimee Bender",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' with a full number line descending to 1; Doubleday anchor colophon. Bender's first novel, following her 1998 story collection. A true first carries the unclipped flap price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/an-invisible-sign-of-my-own"
  },
  {
   "slug": "willful-creatures",
   "title": "Willful Creatures",
   "author": "Aimee Bender",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' with a full number line descending to 1; Doubleday anchor colophon. Bender's second story collection (ISBN 0-385-50113-7). A true first carries the unclipped flap price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/willful-creatures"
  },
  {
   "slug": "vampires-in-the-lemon-grove",
   "title": "Vampires in the Lemon Grove",
   "author": "Karen Russell",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "2013",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Borzoi/Knopf copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' with a full number line descending to 1; Borzoi colophon. Russell's second story collection, eight tales. A true first carries the unclipped flap price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/vampires-in-the-lemon-grove"
  },
  {
   "slug": "stranger-things-happen",
   "title": "Stranger Things Happen",
   "author": "Kelly Link",
   "publisher": "Small Beer Press",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Small Beer Press trade paperback original, July 2001; ISBN 1-931520-00-3 (9781931520003), cover price stated on the original wrapper. As a paperback original from the small press Link co-founded, this printing is the true first; no hardcover precedes it. A true first carries no later-printing notice on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/stranger-things-happen"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pretty-monsters",
   "title": "Pretty Monsters",
   "author": "Kelly Link",
   "publisher": "Viking (Viking Children's / Penguin)",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Viking Children's first edition, October 2008, ISBN 0-670-01090-1 (9780670010905), with full number line ending in 1 and the Viking imprint. Issued in the young-adult line; confirm an unclipped jacket flap price. Selected and expanded stories collection illustrated by Shaun Tan.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pretty-monsters"
  },
  {
   "slug": "get-in-trouble",
   "title": "Get in Trouble",
   "author": "Kelly Link",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "2015",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House first edition with 'First Edition' stated and a full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; Random House colophon. Pulitzer Prize finalist for fiction; among Link's most collected later collections.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/get-in-trouble"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dead-babies",
   "title": "Dead Babies",
   "author": "Martin Amis",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Stated 'First published 1975' on the copyright page; Jonathan Cape boards and priced dust jacket. Amis's second novel. The text was retitled 'Dark Secrets' for the 1977 Triad/Panther paperback.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dead-babies"
  },
  {
   "slug": "success",
   "title": "Success",
   "author": "Martin Amis",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Stated 'First published 1978'; Jonathan Cape, black boards with gilt spine titles and yellow topstain, priced dust jacket; 224 pages. Amis's third novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/success"
  },
  {
   "slug": "other-people-a-mystery-story",
   "title": "Other People: A Mystery Story",
   "author": "Martin Amis",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Stated 'First published 1981'; Jonathan Cape, black cloth with dust jacket; subtitle 'A Mystery Story' on the title page; 223 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/other-people-a-mystery-story"
  },
  {
   "slug": "einsteins-monsters",
   "title": "Einstein's Monsters",
   "author": "Martin Amis",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Stated 'First published 1987'; Jonathan Cape boards and dust jacket. A collection of five linked stories on nuclear themes, prefaced by the introductory essay 'Thinkability'.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/einsteins-monsters"
  },
  {
   "slug": "london-fields",
   "title": "London Fields",
   "author": "Martin Amis",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Stated 'First published 1989'; Jonathan Cape, thick novel in black boards; dust jacket priced 12.95 GBP on the front flap. A signed limited edition was also issued and is collected separately.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/london-fields"
  },
  {
   "slug": "times-arrow-or-the-nature-of-the-offence",
   "title": "Time's Arrow: Or The Nature of the Offence",
   "author": "Martin Amis",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Stated 'First published 1991'; Jonathan Cape boards and dust jacket; narrative told in reverse. Booker Prize shortlisted in 1991.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/times-arrow-or-the-nature-of-the-offence"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bloody-chamber-and-other-stories",
   "title": "The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories",
   "author": "Angela Carter",
   "publisher": "Gollancz",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, copyright page stating 'First published in Great Britain 1979'; slim octavo in black paper boards with the yellow typographic Gollancz dust jacket. Carter's landmark feminist fairy-tale collection and her most collected title.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bloody-chamber-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-magic-toyshop",
   "title": "The Magic Toyshop",
   "author": "Angela Carter",
   "publisher": "Heinemann",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, London: William Heinemann, 1967, copyright page stating 'First published 1967'; Carter's second novel, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Early Carter firsts are scarce, particularly in the dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-magic-toyshop"
  },
  {
   "slug": "shadow-dance",
   "title": "Shadow Dance",
   "author": "Angela Carter",
   "publisher": "Heinemann",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, London: William Heinemann, 1966, copyright page stating 'First published 1966'; Carter's debut novel, in publisher's cloth with dust jacket. Genuinely scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/shadow-dance"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-infernal-desire-machines-of-doctor-hoffman",
   "title": "The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman",
   "author": "Angela Carter",
   "publisher": "Hart-Davis",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1972, copyright page stating 'First published 1972'. The US issue appeared under the different title 'The War of Dreams' (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-infernal-desire-machines-of-doctor-hoffman"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nights-at-the-circus",
   "title": "Nights at the Circus",
   "author": "Angela Carter",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, London: Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press, 1984, copyright page stating 'First published 1984'; in publisher's boards with dust jacket. Joint winner of the 1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nights-at-the-circus"
  },
  {
   "slug": "wise-children",
   "title": "Wise Children",
   "author": "Angela Carter",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition published 1991 by Chatto & Windus in London, hardcover in cloth boards with the original unclipped dust jacket. Carter's final novel, issued shortly before her death in February 1992.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/wise-children"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-drowned-world",
   "title": "The Drowned World",
   "author": "J.G. Ballard",
   "publisher": "Berkley Books",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first appearance in book form is the US Berkley Medallion paperback original (F655, 1962), in wraps; this is the expanded text. The Victor Gollancz hardcover (imprint dated 1962, but actually issued January 1963) is the first hardcover and first UK edition, in the publisher's distinctive boards under a yellow dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-drowned-world"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-atrocity-exhibition",
   "title": "The Atrocity Exhibition",
   "author": "J.G. Ballard",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition published 1970 by Jonathan Cape, hardcover in black cloth boards lettered in gilt, top edge stained pink, with the dust jacket based on a Salvador Dali image. This is the true first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-atrocity-exhibition"
  },
  {
   "slug": "crash",
   "title": "Crash",
   "author": "J.G. Ballard",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition published 1973 by Jonathan Cape, in boards with the first-issue dust jacket designed by Bill Botten. This is the true first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/crash"
  },
  {
   "slug": "concrete-island",
   "title": "Concrete Island",
   "author": "J.G. Ballard",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition published 1974 by Jonathan Cape, in boards with the original Bill Botten-designed dust jacket. This is the true first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/concrete-island"
  },
  {
   "slug": "high-rise",
   "title": "High-Rise",
   "author": "J.G. Ballard",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition published 1975 by Jonathan Cape, in blue boards lettered in gilt, with the Craig Dodd-designed dust jacket. Title appears hyphenated as 'High-Rise'.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/high-rise"
  },
  {
   "slug": "empire-of-the-sun",
   "title": "Empire of the Sun",
   "author": "J.G. Ballard",
   "publisher": "Gollancz",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First published in Great Britain in 1984 by Victor Gollancz; priced dust jacket. A recognized first-issue point is the jacket's rear panel carrying only two review quotes (later issues add more). Booker-shortlisted; won the Guardian Fiction Prize.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/empire-of-the-sun"
  },
  {
   "slug": "inside-mr-enderby",
   "title": "Inside Mr Enderby",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "Heinemann",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First published in 1963 by Heinemann under the pseudonym 'Joseph Kell' - the true first carries the Kell byline, not Burgess. This is the key bibliographic point. First volume of the Enderby sequence.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/inside-mr-enderby"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-doctor-is-sick",
   "title": "The Doctor Is Sick",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "Heinemann",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First published in 1960 by Heinemann, London; original green boards with the spine stamped in red. Early Burgess, scarce in the dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-doctor-is-sick"
  },
  {
   "slug": "martha-quest",
   "title": "Martha Quest",
   "author": "Doris Lessing",
   "publisher": "Michael Joseph",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First published in 1952 by Michael Joseph, London; green cloth with dust jacket designed by Peter Rudland. First of the 'Children of Violence' sequence (Lessing's second novel overall).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/martha-quest"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-fifth-child",
   "title": "The Fifth Child",
   "author": "Doris Lessing",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First published in 1988 by Jonathan Cape, London; black boards lettered in gilt on the spine, priced dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-fifth-child"
  },
  {
   "slug": "briefing-for-a-descent-into-hell",
   "title": "Briefing for a Descent into Hell",
   "author": "Doris Lessing",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First published in 1971 by Jonathan Cape, London; priced dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/briefing-for-a-descent-into-hell"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bookshop",
   "title": "The Bookshop",
   "author": "Penelope Fitzgerald",
   "publisher": "Gerald Duckworth & Co.",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Green boards titled in gilt; dust jacket illustrated by Joan Ogden, priced. States 'First published 1978' by Duckworth with no later impression line. Booker-shortlisted; scarce in fine jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bookshop"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-golden-child",
   "title": "The Golden Child",
   "author": "Penelope Fitzgerald",
   "publisher": "Gerald Duckworth & Co.",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "States 'First published 1977' by Duckworth. Fitzgerald's first published work of fiction. Scarce in jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-golden-child"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-blue-flower",
   "title": "The Blue Flower",
   "author": "Penelope Fitzgerald",
   "publisher": "Flamingo (HarperCollins)",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "States 'First published in Great Britain in 1995 by Flamingo,' an imprint of HarperCollins; first published 21 September 1995. Her most acclaimed late novel; won the US National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Boards in dust jacket, priced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-blue-flower"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-beginning-of-spring",
   "title": "The Beginning of Spring",
   "author": "Penelope Fitzgerald",
   "publisher": "William Collins",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "States 'First published 1988' by Collins, London. Booker-shortlisted. Boards in dust jacket, priced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-beginning-of-spring"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-gate-of-angels",
   "title": "The Gate of Angels",
   "author": "Penelope Fitzgerald",
   "publisher": "Collins",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "States 'First published 1990' by Collins, London. Booker-shortlisted (lost to A.S. Byatt's Possession). Boards in dust jacket, priced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-gate-of-angels"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-game",
   "title": "The Game",
   "author": "A.S. Byatt",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Byatt's second novel. First published 1967 by Chatto & Windus; red cloth boards with gilt spine lettering and patterned dust jacket. Scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-game"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-virgin-in-the-garden",
   "title": "The Virgin in the Garden",
   "author": "A.S. Byatt",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First published 1978 by Chatto & Windus; first volume of the Frederica Potter quartet. Cloth boards with priced dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-virgin-in-the-garden"
  },
  {
   "slug": "angels-insects",
   "title": "Angels & Insects",
   "author": "A.S. Byatt",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First published 1992 by Chatto & Windus; contains two novellas, 'Morpho Eugenia' and 'The Conjugial Angel'. Red-and-purple spine with white lettering; dust jacket priced 14.99 net. Octavo, 292 pp.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/angels-insects"
  },
  {
   "slug": "union-street",
   "title": "Union Street",
   "author": "Pat Barker",
   "publisher": "Virago",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Barker's debut novel, a Virago original published 1982 (on sale 13 May 1982). Issued by Virago Press as a paperback original; a hardcover/library binding is comparatively scarce. Seven linked stories of working-class women on Union Street.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/union-street"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-eye-in-the-door",
   "title": "The Eye in the Door",
   "author": "Pat Barker",
   "publisher": "Viking",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK hardcover, Viking 1993, stating 'First published 1993' with a full number line descending to 1. Second novel of the Regeneration trilogy; won the Guardian Fiction Prize. Look for the unclipped jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-eye-in-the-door"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-passion",
   "title": "The Passion",
   "author": "Jeanette Winterson",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK hardcover, Bloomsbury 1987, stating 'First published 1987' (ISBN 0747500347). Won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Jacket priced and unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-passion"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sexing-the-cherry",
   "title": "Sexing the Cherry",
   "author": "Jeanette Winterson",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK hardcover, Bloomsbury 1989, stating 'First published 1989'. Won the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Jacket priced and unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sexing-the-cherry"
  },
  {
   "slug": "written-on-the-body",
   "title": "Written on the Body",
   "author": "Jeanette Winterson",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK hardcover, Jonathan Cape 1992, stating 'First published 1992' (ISBN 0224035878). Narrator is deliberately unnamed and genderless. Jacket priced and unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/written-on-the-body"
  },
  {
   "slug": "every-day-is-mothers-day",
   "title": "Every Day Is Mother's Day",
   "author": "Hilary Mantel",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK hardcover, Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press, 1985, stating 'First published 1985'. Mantel's debut novel, issued in cloth lettered in gilt with dust jacket. Scarce in jacket, particularly pre-Wolf Hall fame.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/every-day-is-mothers-day"
  },
  {
   "slug": "vacant-possession",
   "title": "Vacant Possession",
   "author": "Hilary Mantel",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "States 'First published 1986' by Chatto & Windus on the copyright page. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, in a priced dust jacket. Mantel's second novel, a sequel to her debut Every Day Is Mother's Day.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/vacant-possession"
  },
  {
   "slug": "eight-months-on-ghazzah-street",
   "title": "Eight Months on Ghazzah Street",
   "author": "Hilary Mantel",
   "publisher": "Viking",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "States 'First published 1988' by Viking on the copyright page. Cloth boards in a priced dust jacket. Mantel's third novel, drawn from her years in Jeddah.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/eight-months-on-ghazzah-street"
  },
  {
   "slug": "fludd",
   "title": "Fludd",
   "author": "Hilary Mantel",
   "publisher": "Viking",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "States 'First published 1989' by Viking on the copyright page. Cloth boards in a priced dust jacket. Won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and the Cheltenham Prize.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/fludd"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-girl-at-the-lion-dor",
   "title": "The Girl at the Lion d'Or",
   "author": "Sebastian Faulks",
   "publisher": "Hutchinson",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "States 'First published 1989' by Hutchinson on the copyright page. Original olive-green cloth, gilt spine titles, decorative endpapers, in a priced dust jacket. First book of Faulks's loose French trilogy (with Birdsong and Charlotte Gray).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-girl-at-the-lion-dor"
  },
  {
   "slug": "birdsong",
   "title": "Birdsong",
   "author": "Sebastian Faulks",
   "publisher": "Hutchinson",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "States 'First published 1993' by Hutchinson; the copyright-page number line runs down to 1 on the true first impression. Original green cloth lettered in silver, grey endpapers, in a priced dust jacket. Faulks's most collected book; the first impression precedes the US Random House edition (1996).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/birdsong"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-fools-alphabet",
   "title": "A Fool's Alphabet",
   "author": "Sebastian Faulks",
   "publisher": "Hutchinson",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "States 'First published 1992' by Hutchinson on the copyright page. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt, in a pictorial, priced dust jacket. Structured as 26 chapters, each set in a place beginning with a different letter.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-fools-alphabet"
  },
  {
   "slug": "charlotte-gray",
   "title": "Charlotte Gray",
   "author": "Sebastian Faulks",
   "publisher": "Hutchinson",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition published by Hutchinson, London, 1998, stating 'First published in 1998'; blue cloth boards lettered in gilt on the spine, in the unclipped pictorial dust jacket. First printing indicated by the number sequence at the copyright page. Third and final volume of Faulks's French trilogy, following The Girl at the Lion d'Or and Birdsong.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/charlotte-gray"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-south",
   "title": "The South",
   "author": "Colm Toibin",
   "publisher": "Serpent's Tail",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Toibin's debut novel, a Serpent's Tail paperback original, London, 1990 (ISBN 1852421703), with French flaps; first edition, first impression. Won the Irish Times/Aer Lingus First Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award. Genuinely scarce as a true first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-south"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-portable-virgin",
   "title": "The Portable Virgin",
   "author": "Anne Enright",
   "publisher": "Secker & Warburg",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by Secker & Warburg, London, 1991 (ISBN 0436200147), stating 'First published in 1991'; publisher's cloth in the unclipped dust wrapper. Enright's first book, a collection of seventeen short stories; won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 1991. Scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-portable-virgin"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-wig-my-father-wore",
   "title": "The Wig My Father Wore",
   "author": "Anne Enright",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1995 (ISBN 0224040553), stating 'First published 1995'; hardcover in the priced, unclipped dust jacket. The first issue carries a printed promotional belly band over the jacket. Enright's debut novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-wig-my-father-wore"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-newton-letter",
   "title": "The Newton Letter",
   "author": "John Banville",
   "publisher": "Secker & Warburg",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK first edition states 'First published in England 1982 by Martin Secker & Warburg Limited' on the copyright page. Black boards stamped in gilt on the spine; priced dust jacket; about 82 pages. Third of Banville's science-themed sequence (after Doctor Copernicus and Kepler, followed by Mefisto).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-newton-letter"
  },
  {
   "slug": "doctor-copernicus",
   "title": "Doctor Copernicus",
   "author": "John Banville",
   "publisher": "Secker & Warburg",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK first edition published by Secker & Warburg in 1976, with the Secker & Warburg imprint and 1976 date stated on the copyright page; priced dust jacket. Won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. First book of the science/'Revolutions' sequence.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/doctor-copernicus"
  },
  {
   "slug": "kepler",
   "title": "Kepler",
   "author": "John Banville",
   "publisher": "Secker & Warburg",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK first edition published by Martin Secker & Warburg in 1981, with the Secker & Warburg imprint and 1981 date on the copyright page; priced dust jacket. Won the 1981 Guardian Fiction Prize. Part of the science/'Revolutions' sequence.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/kepler"
  },
  {
   "slug": "birchwood",
   "title": "Birchwood",
   "author": "John Banville",
   "publisher": "Secker & Warburg",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK first edition published by Secker & Warburg in 1973, with the Secker & Warburg imprint and 1973 date on the copyright page; priced dust jacket. Banville's first novel (following his 1970 story collection). Scarce in jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/birchwood"
  },
  {
   "slug": "long-lankin",
   "title": "Long Lankin",
   "author": "John Banville",
   "publisher": "Secker & Warburg",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK first edition (Secker & Warburg, 1970) is Banville's debut book, a collection of stories plus the novella 'The Possessed.' Stated Secker & Warburg imprint with 1970 date; priced dust jacket. Very scarce. The original 1970 text differs from the revised 1984 reissue, which Banville reworked and from which he dropped several pieces.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/long-lankin"
  },
  {
   "slug": "labyrinths-selected-stories-other-writings",
   "title": "Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings",
   "author": "Jorge Luis Borges (ed. Donald A. Yates & James E. Irby; preface by André Maurois)",
   "publisher": "New Directions, New York",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition thus, a compilation original to English rather than a translation of a single Spanish book. New Directions, 1962: quarter black cloth with patterned paper-covered boards, frontispiece portrait, edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby with a preface by André Maurois. The hardcover in dust jacket is the collectible first issue; New Directions also issued the title as a paperbook (NDP186) in the same period. The 1962 first contains fewer pieces than the text as later augmented in 1964, so an early printing should not include the additional 1964 material.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/labyrinths-selected-stories-other-writings"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ficciones",
   "title": "Ficciones",
   "author": "Jorge Luis Borges (ed. & intro. Anthony Kerrigan; trans. Kerrigan, Bonner, Reid, Temple, Todd)",
   "publisher": "Grove Press, New York",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First complete English translation of Ficciones. Grove Press hardcover, 1962, in dust jacket, edited and introduced by Anthony Kerrigan with translations by Kerrigan, Anthony Bonner, Alastair Reid, Helen Temple, and Ruthven Todd. The cloth issue in jacket is the first-issue collectible (a paperback Evergreen edition also exists). Dealers note jacket states for this edition, so compare the jacket carefully.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ficciones"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ficciones-spanish-first",
   "title": "Ficciones (Spanish first)",
   "author": "Jorge Luis Borges",
   "publisher": "Editorial Sur, Buenos Aires",
   "year": "1944",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "World true first. Issued 1944 as Ficciones (1935–1944) by Editorial Sur, Buenos Aires, in printed wrappers, comprising 'El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan' plus 'Artificios'. The 1956 Emecé edition added three stories to Artificios ('El fin', 'El Sur', and 'La secta del Fénix') and is a second, expanded state, not the true first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ficciones-spanish-first"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-aleph-and-other-stories-1933-1969",
   "title": "The Aleph and Other Stories 1933–1969",
   "author": "Jorge Luis Borges (trans. Norman Thomas di Giovanni with Borges)",
   "publisher": "E. P. Dutton, New York",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition thus in English; cloth in dust jacket, 1970, the first American edition. Collects twenty stories (eleven not previously in book form in English) plus Borges's commentaries and an 'Autobiographical Essay' written for this volume directly in English with di Giovanni. This English compilation does not correspond exactly to the Spanish El Aleph (1949).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-aleph-and-other-stories-1933-1969"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-universal-history-of-infamy",
   "title": "A Universal History of Infamy",
   "author": "Jorge Luis Borges (trans. Norman Thomas di Giovanni)",
   "publisher": "E. P. Dutton, New York",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in English, cloth in dust jacket, 1972, translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni. Renders the Spanish Historia universal de la infamia; the di Giovanni text follows Borges's 1954 revised Spanish version, so it includes material added after the 1935 original.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-universal-history-of-infamy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hopscotch",
   "title": "Hopscotch",
   "author": "Julio Cortázar (trans. Gregory Rabassa)",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books, New York",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition; Pantheon Books cloth in dust jacket, 1966, translated by Gregory Rabassa. Rabassa shared the inaugural U.S. National Book Award for Translation (1967) for this work. A true first printing has no later-printing statements on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hopscotch"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rayuela-hopscotch-spanish-first",
   "title": "Rayuela (Hopscotch — Spanish first)",
   "author": "Julio Cortázar",
   "publisher": "Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "World true first, in Spanish. Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires, 1963 (published June 28, 1963), small octavo in original printed wrappers (rústica), 635 pages, with the famous Tablero de direccion (table of instructions) leaf and the alternate chapter-67 reading order. The first tirada precedes the many later Sudamericana printings. Genuinely scarce in unrestored original wrappers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/rayuela-hopscotch-spanish-first"
  },
  {
   "slug": "blow-up-and-other-stories-orig-end-of-the-game-and-other-sto",
   "title": "Blow-Up and Other Stories (orig. 'End of the Game and Other Stories')",
   "author": "Julio Cortázar (trans. Paul Blackburn)",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books, New York",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition thus. Pantheon Books, New York, 1967, cloth in dust jacket (jacket design by Hoot von Zitzewitz), 277 pages, translated by Paul Blackburn. First published under the title 'End of the Game and Other Stories'; later reissues were retitled 'Blow-Up and Other Stories' to capitalize on Antonioni's 1966 film. The 1967 Pantheon 'End of the Game' issue is the priority English first; the 'Blow-Up' titling is later.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/blow-up-and-other-stories-orig-end-of-the-game-and-other-sto"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-green-house",
   "title": "The Green House",
   "author": "Mario Vargas Llosa (trans. Gregory Rabassa)",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row, New York",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition. Harper & Row, New York and Evanston, 1968, cloth in dust jacket, translated by Gregory Rabassa. Dust jacket designed by Guy Fleming. First American edition, first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-green-house"
  },
  {
   "slug": "conversation-in-the-cathedral",
   "title": "Conversation in the Cathedral",
   "author": "Mario Vargas Llosa (trans. Gregory Rabassa)",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row, New York",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition. Harper & Row, New York, 1975, black cloth boards with gilt lettering, 601 pages, translated by Gregory Rabassa. Translation of 'Conversacion en La Catedral.' First American edition, first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/conversation-in-the-cathedral"
  },
  {
   "slug": "aunt-julia-and-the-scriptwriter",
   "title": "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter",
   "author": "Mario Vargas Llosa (trans. Helen R. Lane)",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1982, cloth in dust jacket, 374 pages, translated by Helen R. Lane. Translation of 'La tia Julia y el escribidor.' First US edition, first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/aunt-julia-and-the-scriptwriter"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-death-of-artemio-cruz",
   "title": "The Death of Artemio Cruz",
   "author": "Carlos Fuentes (trans. Sam Hileman)",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Company, New York",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, translated by Sam Hileman: Farrar, Straus & Company cloth in dust jacket, New York, 1964 (306 pages). Translation of 'La muerte de Artemio Cruz.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-death-of-artemio-cruz"
  },
  {
   "slug": "where-the-air-is-clear",
   "title": "Where the Air Is Clear",
   "author": "Carlos Fuentes (trans. Sam Hileman)",
   "publisher": "Ivan Obolensky, New York",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, translated by Sam Hileman: Ivan Obolensky cloth in dust jacket, New York, 1960. Translation of 'La región más transparente.' Note the unusual US publisher (Ivan Obolensky / McDowell, Obolensky).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/where-the-air-is-clear"
  },
  {
   "slug": "terra-nostra",
   "title": "Terra Nostra",
   "author": "Carlos Fuentes (trans. Margaret Sayers Peden)",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden: Farrar, Straus & Giroux cloth in dust jacket, New York, 1976 (778 pages). Translation of 'Terra Nostra' (1975).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/terra-nostra"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-old-gringo",
   "title": "The Old Gringo",
   "author": "Carlos Fuentes (trans. Margaret Sayers Peden & the author)",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden with the author: Farrar, Straus & Giroux cloth in dust jacket, New York, 1985. Translation of 'Gringo viejo.' Some signed copies exist.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-old-gringo"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-obscene-bird-of-night",
   "title": "The Obscene Bird of Night",
   "author": "José Donoso (trans. Hardie St. Martin & Leonard Mades)",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf, New York",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, translated by Hardie St. Martin and Leonard Mades: Alfred A. Knopf cloth in dust jacket, New York, 1973. This Knopf translation is abridged (roughly twenty pages cut versus the Spanish text).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-obscene-bird-of-night"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-house-in-the-country",
   "title": "A House in the Country",
   "author": "José Donoso (trans. David Pritchard with Suzanne Jill Levine)",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf, New York",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First American edition, translated by David Pritchard with Suzanne Jill Levine: Alfred A. Knopf cloth in dust jacket, New York, 1984 (352 pages; ISBN 0-394-50949-8). Translation of 'Casa de campo.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-house-in-the-country"
  },
  {
   "slug": "of-love-and-shadows",
   "title": "Of Love and Shadows",
   "author": "Isabel Allende (trans. Margaret Sayers Peden)",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf, New York",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US/first English edition, Alfred A. Knopf, 1987, cloth in dust jacket. Quarter cloth over paper boards with gilt spine lettering. Translation by Margaret Sayers Peden of De amor y de sombra; first printing per Knopf practice (no later printing statement on the copyright page). Signed copies exist.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/of-love-and-shadows"
  },
  {
   "slug": "eva-luna",
   "title": "Eva Luna",
   "author": "Isabel Allende (trans. Margaret Sayers Peden)",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf, New York",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US/first English edition, Alfred A. Knopf, 1988, cloth in dust jacket. Translation by Margaret Sayers Peden; first American trade edition, first printing per Knopf practice (no later printing statement). Signed copies exist.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/eva-luna"
  },
  {
   "slug": "by-night-in-chile",
   "title": "By Night in Chile",
   "author": "Roberto Bolaño (trans. Chris Andrews)",
   "publisher": "New Directions, New York",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, New Directions, 2003, translated by Chris Andrews. This was the first of Bolano's books to be published in English. Issued as a New Directions paperbook with a clothbound issue also produced; first printing per the New Directions copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/by-night-in-chile"
  },
  {
   "slug": "distant-star",
   "title": "Distant Star",
   "author": "Roberto Bolaño (trans. Chris Andrews)",
   "publisher": "New Directions, New York",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, New Directions, 2004, translated by Chris Andrews. Translation of Estrella distante; first printing per the New Directions copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/distant-star"
  },
  {
   "slug": "baltasar-and-blimunda",
   "title": "Baltasar and Blimunda",
   "author": "José Saramago (trans. Giovanni Pontiero)",
   "publisher": "Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US/first English edition, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987, cloth in dust jacket, translated by Giovanni Pontiero. This was the first Saramago novel published in English; first printing per HBJ practice.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/baltasar-and-blimunda"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-heart-so-white",
   "title": "A Heart So White",
   "author": "Javier Marías (trans. Margaret Jull Costa)",
   "publisher": "The Harvill Press, London",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition is the UK Harvill Press, 1995, cloth in dust jacket (ISBN 1-86046-002-X cloth / 1-86046-003-8 paper), translated by Margaret Jull Costa from 'Corazón tan blanco.' Marías and Jull Costa shared the 1997 International Dublin (IMPAC) Literary Award for it.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-heart-so-white"
  },
  {
   "slug": "all-souls",
   "title": "All Souls",
   "author": "Javier Marías (trans. Margaret Jull Costa)",
   "publisher": "Harvill / HarperCollins, London",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition; UK Harvill (Collins/Harvill imprint), 1992, cloth in dust jacket (ISBN 0-00-271140-0 / 9780002711401), translated by Margaret Jull Costa from 'Todas las almas.' This was the first Marías novel translated into English.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/all-souls"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tomorrow-in-the-battle-think-on-me",
   "title": "Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me",
   "author": "Javier Marías (trans. Margaret Jull Costa)",
   "publisher": "The Harvill Press, London",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition; UK Harvill Press, 1996, cloth in dust jacket (ISBN 1-86046-199-9 / 9781860461996), translated by Margaret Jull Costa from 'Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí.' Marías's third novel translated into English.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tomorrow-in-the-battle-think-on-me"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-autumn-of-the-patriarch",
   "title": "The Autumn of the Patriarch",
   "author": "Gabriel García Márquez (trans. Gregory Rabassa)",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row, New York",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English-language edition; Harper & Row cloth in dust jacket, 1976, translated by Gregory Rabassa (269 pp). Translation of 'El otoño del patriarca.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-autumn-of-the-patriarch"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-general-in-his-labyrinth",
   "title": "The General in His Labyrinth",
   "author": "Gabriel García Márquez (trans. Edith Grossman)",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf, New York",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English-language edition; Alfred A. Knopf cloth in dust jacket, 1990, translated by Edith Grossman. Green cloth with gilt and black lettering. Translation of 'El general en su laberinto.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-general-in-his-labyrinth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-time-of-the-doves-orig-uk-in-diamond-square",
   "title": "The Time of the Doves (orig. UK 'In Diamond Square')",
   "author": "Mercè Rodoreda (trans. David H. Rosenthal)",
   "publisher": "Taplinger, New York",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition under this title; Taplinger, New York, 1980, translated by David H. Rosenthal from the Catalan 'La plaça del Diamant.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-time-of-the-doves-orig-uk-in-diamond-square"
  },
  {
   "slug": "invisible-cities-le-citt-invisibili",
   "title": "Invisible Cities (Le città invisibili)",
   "author": "Italo Calvino",
   "publisher": "Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition and first English-language edition; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974, translated by William Weaver. Copyright page credits the Italian original 1972 and this translation 1974.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/invisible-cities-le-citt-invisibili"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cosmicomics-le-cosmicomiche",
   "title": "Cosmicomics (Le cosmicomiche)",
   "author": "Italo Calvino",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace & World, New York",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition and first English-language edition; Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968, translated by William Weaver (octavo, cloth in dust jacket). The Harcourt, Brace & World imprint (pre-Jovanovich merger) is a key tell for the 1968 first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cosmicomics-le-cosmicomiche"
  },
  {
   "slug": "if-on-a-winters-night-a-traveler-se-una-notte-dinverno-un-vi",
   "title": "If on a winter's night a traveler (Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore)",
   "author": "Italo Calvino",
   "publisher": "Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (New York)",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition in English, translated by William Weaver. The first printing states 'First edition' on the copyright page with the letterline 'B C D E' (the suppressed 'A' is the Harcourt convention for a first printing). Dust jacket priced 12.95 to the front flap, unclipped. The jacket lettering and title typography are a documented design feature of the first edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/if-on-a-winters-night-a-traveler-se-una-notte-dinverno-un-vi"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-periodic-table-il-sistema-periodico",
   "title": "The Periodic Table (Il sistema periodico)",
   "author": "Primo Levi",
   "publisher": "Schocken Books (New York)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in English, translated by Raymond Rosenthal, published by Schocken Books, New York, dated 1984. First printing is stated on the copyright page with no additional later impression dates or number-line advance.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-periodic-table-il-sistema-periodico"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-unbearable-lightness-of-being-nesnesiteln-lehkost-byt",
   "title": "The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí)",
   "author": "Milan Kundera",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row (New York)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim. Quarter-cloth spine over paper-covered boards; dust jacket designed by Fred Marcellino, priced 15.95 to the unclipped front flap. First printing has the complete number line ending in '1' on the copyright page. Octavo, 314 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-unbearable-lightness-of-being-nesnesiteln-lehkost-byt"
  },
  {
   "slug": "group-portrait-with-lady-gruppenbild-mit-dame",
   "title": "Group Portrait with Lady (Gruppenbild mit Dame)",
   "author": "Heinrich Böll",
   "publisher": "McGraw-Hill (New York)",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition in English, translated by Leila Vennewitz, published by McGraw-Hill, New York, 1973, with first printing stated on the copyright page (later impressions note additional printings). 405 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/group-portrait-with-lady-gruppenbild-mit-dame"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-clown-ansichten-eines-clowns",
   "title": "The Clown (Ansichten eines Clowns)",
   "author": "Heinrich Böll",
   "publisher": "McGraw-Hill (New York)",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition in English, translated by Leila Vennewitz, published by McGraw-Hill, New York, 1965 (247 pp.). German original published as Ansichten eines Clowns by Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1963.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-clown-ansichten-eines-clowns"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-rings-of-saturn-die-ringe-des-saturn",
   "title": "The Rings of Saturn (Die Ringe des Saturn)",
   "author": "W. G. Sebald",
   "publisher": "Harvill Press (London) / New Directions (New York)",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, translated by Michael Hulse, with the characteristic black-and-white photographs. UK Harvill Press, London, 1998, issued in both a softcover (French-wraps) and a scarcer hardback aimed largely at libraries. A US New Directions hardcover also appeared in 1998. Documented textual variations exist between Hulse's English and Sebald's German.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-rings-of-saturn-die-ringe-des-saturn"
  },
  {
   "slug": "my-brilliant-friend-lamica-geniale",
   "title": "My Brilliant Friend (L'amica geniale)",
   "author": "Elena Ferrante",
   "publisher": "Europa Editions (New York)",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, translated by Ann Goldstein, issued as a paperback original by Europa Editions, 2012 (ISBN 9781609450786, 331 pp.). There is no hardcover trade first. First book of the Neapolitan Quartet; identify by the Europa Editions imprint and absence of later-printing statements on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/my-brilliant-friend-lamica-geniale"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-goalies-anxiety-at-the-penalty-kick-die-angst-des-torman",
   "title": "The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter)",
   "author": "Peter Handke",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York)",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, translated by Michael Roloff, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1972 (133 pp.; ISBN 0374163766). Stated first printing; dust jacket designed by Janet Halverson. Handke's first work of fiction published in English.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-goalies-anxiety-at-the-penalty-kick-die-angst-des-torman"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cancer-ward-rakovy-korpus",
   "title": "Cancer Ward (Rakovy korpus)",
   "author": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn",
   "publisher": "The Bodley Head (London) / Dial Press (New York)",
   "year": "1968-1969",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English appeared as an unauthorized translation by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg, issued by The Bodley Head, London, in two parts: Part I in 1968 and Part II in 1969. This precedes the US Dial Press edition. Identify by the Bodley Head imprint and the first-impression statement on the Part I volume.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cancer-ward-rakovy-korpus"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-master-and-margarita-master-i-margarita",
   "title": "The Master and Margarita (Master i Margarita)",
   "author": "Mikhail Bulgakov",
   "publisher": "Grove Press (New York) / Collins and Harvill (London) / Harper & Row (New York)",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Two different 1967 English translations, a genuine point of issue rather than printings. First, the Mirra Ginsburg translation, Grove Press, New York, 1967 (stated first American edition, first printing), based on the shortened/censored Moskva magazine text; an octavo of about 402 pages. Second, the Michael Glenny translation, used for both Collins & Harvill (London) and Harper & Row (New York) in 1967, based on the fuller, less-censored manuscript. Identify by the translator credit on the title page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-master-and-margarita-master-i-margarita"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-gift-dar",
   "title": "The Gift (Dar)",
   "author": "Vladimir Nabokov",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, translated by Michael Scammell in collaboration with the author (with Dmitri Nabokov). G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, published May 27, 1963; identify the first printing by the stated first edition. The UK Weidenfeld & Nicolson edition followed on November 8, 1963, using the same translation.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-gift-dar"
  },
  {
   "slug": "thousand-cranes-senbazuru",
   "title": "Thousand Cranes (Senbazuru)",
   "author": "Yasunari Kawabata",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First American edition, translated by Edward G. Seidensticker, with chapter-heading drawings by Fumi Komatsu. Borzoi colophon present; copyright page carries the FIRST AMERICAN EDITION statement with no later-printing line. Dust jacket priced on the front flap. Knopf editions of this era do not use a number line, so its absence is normal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/thousand-cranes-senbazuru"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sound-of-the-mountain-yama-no-oto",
   "title": "The Sound of the Mountain (Yama no Oto)",
   "author": "Yasunari Kawabata",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First American edition, translated by Edward G. Seidensticker. Borzoi device present; copyright page carries the FIRST AMERICAN EDITION statement. No number line on the true first (consistent with Knopf practice of the period). Dust jacket priced on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sound-of-the-mountain-yama-no-oto"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sound-of-waves-shiosai",
   "title": "The Sound of Waves (Shiosai)",
   "author": "Yukio Mishima",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First American edition, first printing, translated by Meredith Weatherby, with drawings by Yoshinori Kinoshita. Borzoi colophon present; copyright page carries the FIRST AMERICAN EDITION statement. Bound in decorative papered boards. Pictorial dust jacket (jacket painting by Jose de Almeida). This was the first of Mishima's books translated and published in the United States.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sound-of-waves-shiosai"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-temple-of-the-golden-pavilion-kinkakuji",
   "title": "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Kinkakuji)",
   "author": "Yukio Mishima",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First American edition, first printing, translated by Ivan Morris, with an introduction by Nancy Wilson Ross and drawings by Fumi Komatsu. Borzoi colophon present; copyright page carries the FIRST AMERICAN EDITION statement. Bound in red cloth spine over grey paper boards; illustrated dust jacket priced on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-temple-of-the-golden-pavilion-kinkakuji"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-makioka-sisters-sasameyuki",
   "title": "The Makioka Sisters (Sasameyuki)",
   "author": "Jun'ichiro Tanizaki",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First American edition, translated by Edward G. Seidensticker. Borzoi colophon present; copyright page and title page dated 1957, with the FIRST AMERICAN EDITION statement. Thick octavo (roughly 530 pages), bound in black cloth with embossed red paper over boards and gold spine lettering. Dust jacket priced on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-makioka-sisters-sasameyuki"
  },
  {
   "slug": "some-prefer-nettles-tade-kuu-mushi",
   "title": "Some Prefer Nettles (Tade Kuu Mushi)",
   "author": "Jun'ichiro Tanizaki",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US and first English-language edition, translated by Edward G. Seidensticker. Borzoi (Knopf) imprint with 'FIRST AMERICAN EDITION' stated on the copyright page and Borzoi colophon. Octavo, roughly xvii plus 202 pages, with a title-page vignette and chapter head-pieces; issued in pictorial paper-covered boards with a black-printed spine in a pictorial dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/some-prefer-nettles-tade-kuu-mushi"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-wild-sheep-chase-hitsuji-o-meguru-boken",
   "title": "A Wild Sheep Chase (Hitsuji o Meguru Boken)",
   "author": "Haruki Murakami",
   "publisher": "Kodansha International (New York/Tokyo)",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in English, translated by Alfred Birnbaum. Published by Kodansha International, ISBN 0-87011-905-7. Cloth boards in a pictorial dust jacket with the surreal ram design; no later-printing statement on the true first. This was Murakami's first book published in English in the United States.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-wild-sheep-chase-hitsuji-o-meguru-boken"
  },
  {
   "slug": "norwegian-wood-noruwei-no-mori",
   "title": "Norwegian Wood (Noruwei no Mori)",
   "author": "Haruki Murakami",
   "publisher": "Kodansha International (Tokyo)",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first appearance in English is the Kodansha English Library pocket edition translated by Alfred Birnbaum, 1989, a Japan-only edition produced for Japanese students of English. It preserves the two-volume division of the original, with a red first volume and a green second volume in small softcover format, and includes an appendix of Japanese text for key English phrases. The canonical trade first edition is the separate Jay Rubin translation published by The Harvill Press (London) and Vintage (US) in 2000.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/norwegian-wood-noruwei-no-mori"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dance-dance-dance-dansu-dansu-dansu",
   "title": "Dance Dance Dance (Dansu Dansu Dansu)",
   "author": "Haruki Murakami",
   "publisher": "Kodansha International (New York/Tokyo)",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in English, translated by Alfred Birnbaum. Published by Kodansha International, ISBN 4-7700-1683-6, roughly 393 pages. First printing in black paper-covered boards over a black cloth spine stamped in yellow, with the jacket illustration by Maki Sasaki; no later-printing statement on the true first. Sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dance-dance-dance-dansu-dansu-dansu"
  },
  {
   "slug": "kafka-on-the-shore-umibe-no-kafuka",
   "title": "Kafka on the Shore (Umibe no Kafuka)",
   "author": "Haruki Murakami",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English-language edition, translated by Philip Gabriel, with jacket design by Chip Kidd. Borzoi colophon on the copyright page; first printing carries the full number line including the '1'. Collates 436 pages. Issued in a priced, unclipped dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/kafka-on-the-shore-umibe-no-kafuka"
  },
  {
   "slug": "1q84",
   "title": "1Q84",
   "author": "Haruki Murakami",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "2011",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First complete English-language edition, gathering all three books in a single volume. Translated by Jay Rubin (Books 1-2) and Philip Gabriel (Book 3). Borzoi colophon on the copyright page; first printing carries the full number line. Distinctive semi-transparent (translucent) dust jacket designed by Chip Kidd and Maggie Hinders.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/1q84"
  },
  {
   "slug": "no-longer-at-ease",
   "title": "No Longer at Ease",
   "author": "Chinua Achebe",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Heinemann, London, 1960. Cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; 170 pages. Issued in a pictorial dust jacket designed by Peter Edwards, with no later-printing statement on the first impression.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/no-longer-at-ease"
  },
  {
   "slug": "arrow-of-god",
   "title": "Arrow of God",
   "author": "Chinua Achebe",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first impression, Heinemann, London, 1964. Publisher's dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to the spine and a blind-stamped publisher's device to the rear cover; issued in an unclipped pictorial dust jacket. This 1964 text is the original, unrevised state; Achebe revised the novel for a 1974 edition, making the 1974 text a distinct 'first thus.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/arrow-of-god"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-man-of-the-people",
   "title": "A Man of the People",
   "author": "Chinua Achebe",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Heinemann, London, 1966. Red cloth with gilt lettering to the spine; dust jacket unclipped with the original price (18s) to the front flap. The Heinemann London printing is the established first English edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-man-of-the-people"
  },
  {
   "slug": "anthills-of-the-savannah",
   "title": "Anthills of the Savannah",
   "author": "Chinua Achebe",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Heinemann, London, 1987 (published December 1987). Boards with dust jacket. Booker-shortlisted. Precedes the first US edition (Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1988).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/anthills-of-the-savannah"
  },
  {
   "slug": "season-of-anomy",
   "title": "Season of Anomy",
   "author": "Wole Soyinka",
   "publisher": "Rex Collings (London)",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Rex Collings, London, 1973. Publisher's cloth with unclipped dust jacket. Soyinka's second (and last) novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/season-of-anomy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-man-died-prison-notes",
   "title": "The Man Died: Prison Notes",
   "author": "Wole Soyinka",
   "publisher": "Rex Collings (London)",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Rex Collings, London, 1972. Large octavo in black cloth, gilt lettering to spine; dust jacket unclipped (priced 3.50 net). Soyinka's prison memoir of his Nigerian Civil War detention.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-man-died-prison-notes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dusklands",
   "title": "Dusklands",
   "author": "J. M. Coetzee",
   "publisher": "Ravan Press (Johannesburg)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Ravan Press, Johannesburg, April 1974. Coetzee's first book, a scarce small-press South African issue. Grey cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in a dust jacket reproducing a Namaqualand watercolour attributed to Thomas Baines; octavo, 134 pages. No later-printing line on the true first. The two novellas are The Vietnam Project and The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dusklands"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-the-heart-of-the-country",
   "title": "In the Heart of the Country",
   "author": "J. M. Coetzee",
   "publisher": "Secker & Warburg (London) / Harper & Row (New York)",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Secker and Warburg, London, 1977 (with Harper and Row, New York, 1977 near-simultaneous). Cloth in dust jacket. The South African Ravan Press edition followed in 1978 and famously left the Afrikaans dialogue untranslated, a distinct first-thus state. The US edition appeared under the variant title From the Heart of the Country.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-the-heart-of-the-country"
  },
  {
   "slug": "burgers-daughter",
   "title": "Burger's Daughter",
   "author": "Nadine Gordimer",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Jonathan Cape, London, 1979. Cloth in dust jacket; no printing statement on the true first. Banned in South Africa on publication. Preceded the US Viking 1979 edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/burgers-daughter"
  },
  {
   "slug": "midaq-alley-zuqaq-al-midaq",
   "title": "Midaq Alley (Zuqaq al-Midaq)",
   "author": "Naguib Mahfouz",
   "publisher": "Khayats (Beirut)",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, translated by Trevor Le Gassick, published by Khayats, Beirut, 1966, a scarce Lebanese-press issue of roughly 319 pages, not Heinemann. Heinemann Educational, London, issued a corrected (revised) edition in 1975. The Khayats 1966 is the genuine first English appearance.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/midaq-alley-zuqaq-al-midaq"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-thief-and-the-dogs-al-liss-wa-al-kilab",
   "title": "The Thief and the Dogs (al-Liss wa al-Kilab)",
   "author": "Naguib Mahfouz",
   "publisher": "American University in Cairo Press (Cairo)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, translated by Trevor Le Gassick and M. M. Badawi, revised by John Rodenbeck, American University in Cairo Press, Cairo, 1984. AUC imprint. Preceded the Anchor/Doubleday US trade edition of 1989.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-thief-and-the-dogs-al-liss-wa-al-kilab"
  },
  {
   "slug": "miramar",
   "title": "Miramar",
   "author": "Naguib Mahfouz",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (London, African Writers Series #197) / American University in Cairo Press",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, 1978, translated by Fatma Moussa-Mahmoud, edited and revised by Maged el Kommos and John Rodenbeck, with an introduction by John Fowles. Issued as Heinemann African Writers Series number 197 (wrappers carry the AWS series number on the spine); the American University in Cairo Press issued the parallel hardcover. The Arabic original appeared in 1967.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/miramar"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-white-castle-beyaz-kale",
   "title": "The White Castle (Beyaz Kale)",
   "author": "Orhan Pamuk",
   "publisher": "Carcanet Press (Manchester)",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, translated by Victoria Holbrook, Carcanet Press, Manchester, 1990 (ISBN 0-85635-882-7). Boards with dust jacket; this was Pamuk's first book to appear in English. The US edition (George Braziller, New York) followed in 1991. The Turkish original appeared in 1985.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-white-castle-beyaz-kale"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-black-book-kara-kitap",
   "title": "The Black Book (Kara Kitap)",
   "author": "Orhan Pamuk",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York) / Faber & Faber (London)",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, 1994, translated by Guneli Gun, issued by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the US and Faber & Faber in the UK. Cloth in dust jacket. The Gun translation is the original first English text; the later Maureen Freely retranslation of 2006 is a separate first-thus, not the first English appearance. The Turkish original appeared in 1990.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-black-book-kara-kitap"
  },
  {
   "slug": "my-michael-mikhael-sheli",
   "title": "My Michael (Mikha'el Sheli)",
   "author": "Amos Oz",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (London) / Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, 1972, translated by Nicholas de Lange. Both the UK Chatto & Windus and the US Knopf (Borzoi colophon, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION statement) appeared in 1972, in cloth with dust jacket. The Hebrew original appeared in 1968. This was the first of de Lange's many translations of Oz.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/my-michael-mikhael-sheli"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-tale-of-love-and-darkness-sippur-al-ahava-ve-hoshekh",
   "title": "A Tale of Love and Darkness (Sippur al Ahava ve-Hoshekh)",
   "author": "Amos Oz",
   "publisher": "Harcourt (Orlando) / Chatto & Windus (London)",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, translated by Nicholas de Lange, 2004, issued by Harcourt in the US and Chatto & Windus in the UK. Cloth with dust jacket; the US Harcourt printing carries a full number line ending in 1 on the true first. Memoir; the Hebrew original appeared in 2002.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-tale-of-love-and-darkness-sippur-al-ahava-ve-hoshekh"
  },
  {
   "slug": "black-box-kufsah-shehorah",
   "title": "Black Box (Kufsah Shehorah)",
   "author": "Amos Oz",
   "publisher": "Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (San Diego) / Chatto & Windus (London)",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, translated by Nicholas de Lange, 1988, issued by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in the US and Chatto & Windus in the UK. Epistolary novel. Cloth with dust jacket; the US printing carries a number line ending in 1 on the true first. Hebrew original published 1987.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/black-box-kufsah-shehorah"
  },
  {
   "slug": "purple-hibiscus",
   "title": "Purple Hibiscus",
   "author": "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie",
   "publisher": "Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (Workman, US)",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, published 30 October 2003 in the US. Adichie's debut novel. Boards with dust jacket; copyright page states First Edition with a full number line ending in 1 on the first printing. Preceded the UK edition (Fourth Estate, 2004).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/purple-hibiscus"
  },
  {
   "slug": "weep-not-child",
   "title": "Weep Not, Child",
   "author": "James Ngugi (Ngugi wa Thiong'o)",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (London, African Writers Series #7)",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1964, bylined James Ngugi (the pre-renaming author-name point). Heinemann African Writers Series number 7; issued as series wrappers and also in a cloth hardback issue. The first novel in English by an East African to be published by Heinemann.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/weep-not-child"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-river-between",
   "title": "The River Between",
   "author": "James Ngugi (Ngugi wa Thiong'o)",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (London, African Writers Series #17)",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1965, bylined James Ngugi (the pre-renaming author-name point). Heinemann African Writers Series number 17; issued in series wrappers and also a cloth issue. Although published after Weep Not, Child, it was written earlier.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-river-between"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-grain-of-wheat",
   "title": "A Grain of Wheat",
   "author": "James Ngugi (Ngugi wa Thiong'o)",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (London, African Writers Series #36)",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1967, published by Heinemann in London as African Writers Series number 36, bylined 'James Ngugi' (before the author adopted the Gikuyu form of his name). Issued in both cloth and wrappers. The author later revised the text for the 1986 edition, so the 1967 printing carries the original, unrevised text.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-grain-of-wheat"
  },
  {
   "slug": "petals-of-blood",
   "title": "Petals of Blood",
   "author": "Ngugi wa Thiong'o",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Heinemann, London, 1977, bylined 'Ngugi wa Thiong'o' (after the author adopted the Gikuyu form of his name). Issued in cloth with dust jacket and also in the African Writers Series. This was the last of Ngugi's novels written originally in English; he turned to writing in Gikuyu thereafter. The London edition precedes the US issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/petals-of-blood"
  },
  {
   "slug": "devil-on-the-cross-caitaani-mutharaba-ini",
   "title": "Devil on the Cross (Caitaani Mutharaba-Ini)",
   "author": "Ngugi wa Thiong'o",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (London, African Writers Series #200)",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English-language edition, Heinemann Educational Books, African Writers Series number 200, London, 1982, translated from the Gikuyu by the author himself. Issued in wrappers bearing the series number. The novel was composed in Gikuyu while the author was imprisoned and is among the first modern novels written in that language.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/devil-on-the-cross-caitaani-mutharaba-ini"
  },
  {
   "slug": "wizard-of-the-crow-murogi-wa-kagogo",
   "title": "Wizard of the Crow (Murogi wa Kagogo)",
   "author": "Ngugi wa Thiong'o",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books (New York) / Harvill Secker (London)",
   "year": "2006",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English-language edition, 2006, translated from the Gikuyu by the author. The US issue (Pantheon Books, New York) is bound in green cloth with a priced dust jacket and carries a full number line ending in 1; the UK issue (Harvill Secker, London) appeared the same year. Both are 2006 first English-language printings.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/wizard-of-the-crow-murogi-wa-kagogo"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-blithedale-romance",
   "title": "The Blithedale Romance",
   "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne",
   "publisher": "Ticknor, Reed & Fields (Boston)",
   "year": "1852",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First American edition in publisher's brown cloth, 1852, Ticknor, Reed & Fields imprint, with the rear ad catalogue. A recognized issue point on the Boston edition is the copyright page reading 'Massachusetts' positioned directly opposite the words 'do not wish' on the first page of the Preface. The London Chapman & Hall two-volume edition was issued about a week earlier to secure English copyright.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-blithedale-romance"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-marble-faun-or-the-romance-of-monte-beni",
   "title": "The Marble Faun; or, The Romance of Monte Beni",
   "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne",
   "publisher": "Ticknor & Fields (Boston)",
   "year": "1860",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First American edition in two volumes, publisher's cloth, 1860. The true first American is issued WITHOUT the appended explanatory Conclusion (called the Postscript in the English line), which Hawthorne added shortly afterward to answer readers' questions; in the first printing Volume II ends without that Conclusion. Presence or absence of the appended Conclusion and the rear ad catalogue help fix the printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-marble-faun-or-the-romance-of-monte-beni"
  },
  {
   "slug": "twice-told-tales",
   "title": "Twice-Told Tales",
   "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne",
   "publisher": "American Stationers Co. / John B. Russell (Boston)",
   "year": "1837",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, single volume, 1837, in publisher's brown embossed cloth with the title gilt on the spine; imprint of the American Stationers Co., John B. Russell (printed by Freeman and Bolles), with a publisher's circular device on the title page. Hawthorne's first book to bear his name on the title page. Copies appear with either 12 or 16 pages of ads at the rear, with no established priority. The expanded 1842 two-volume James Munroe edition adds new tales and is a separate, later edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/twice-told-tales"
  },
  {
   "slug": "typee-a-peep-at-polynesian-life",
   "title": "Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life",
   "author": "Herman Melville",
   "publisher": "John Murray (London) — UK; Wiley & Putnam (New York) — US",
   "year": "1846",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Melville's first book. UK (John Murray, late February 1846): issued in Murray's Home and Colonial Library, titled 'Narrative of a Four Months' Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands,' set from Melville's manuscript. US (Wiley & Putnam, March 1846): titled 'Typee,' in two parts, set from proof sheets of the Murray edition; the first American issue retains the fuller original text that was further expurgated for the later revised American edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/typee-a-peep-at-polynesian-life"
  },
  {
   "slug": "life-on-the-mississippi",
   "title": "Life on the Mississippi",
   "author": "Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)",
   "publisher": "James R. Osgood & Co. (Boston)",
   "year": "1883",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US first edition, James R. Osgood & Co., Boston, 1883. The three classic first-state points are: the tailpiece on page 441 showing Mark Twain's head emerging from flames atop an urn (later suppressed at Mrs. Clemens's request as too morbid); the caption on page 443 reading 'The St. Louis Hotel'; and the uncorrected reading 'it it' on page 444. Illustrated, issued in publisher's pictorial cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/life-on-the-mississippi"
  },
  {
   "slug": "leaves-of-grass-1855-first-edition",
   "title": "Leaves of Grass (1855 first edition)",
   "author": "Walt Whitman",
   "publisher": "Self-published, printed by Andrew & James Rome (Brooklyn)",
   "year": "1855",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Self-published first edition of about 795 bound copies; the earliest binding (Blanck-BAL Binding State A) is dark green cloth with a triple-ruled gilt border and blind-stamped floral ornaments, the title in gilt with gilt-rayed lettering, marbled endpapers and gilt edges. Quarto, about 95 pages, twelve untitled poems preceded by a prose preface; no author name on the title page (Whitman is named only within the text). Frontispiece is the engraved 'carpenter' portrait of Whitman in laborer's dress, by Samuel Hollyer after a Gabriel Harrison daguerreotype. Frontispiece State A is printed on heavy paper; State B is on thin paper mounted to a heavier sheet.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/leaves-of-grass-1855-first-edition"
  },
  {
   "slug": "leaves-of-grass-1860-61-third-edition",
   "title": "Leaves of Grass (1860–61, 'third edition')",
   "author": "Walt Whitman",
   "publisher": "Thayer & Eldridge (Boston)",
   "year": "1860",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Third edition, greatly enlarged (456 pages), Thayer & Eldridge, Boston, 1860-61. Issued in a variety of decorated cloth bindings (orange, green, brown) with gilt and blind stamping. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Whitman by Stephen Alonzo Schoff after a painting by Charles Hine, with calligraphic title and ornamental motifs. The genuine issue carries the Thayer & Eldridge imprint; the firm failed in 1861.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/leaves-of-grass-1860-61-third-edition"
  },
  {
   "slug": "leaves-of-grass-deathbed-edition-1891-92",
   "title": "Leaves of Grass ('Deathbed' edition, 1891–92)",
   "author": "Walt Whitman",
   "publisher": "David McKay (Philadelphia)",
   "year": "1891 (1891–92)",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The final authorized arrangement Whitman approved (the 'Deathbed edition'), David McKay, Philadelphia. Points: cancel title page dated 1891-'2 (the contents leaf is also a cancel); the 'A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads' essay and the 'Sands at Seventy' and 'Good-Bye My Fancy' annexes; and Whitman's printed note affirming this as the authoritative text. Plain dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt with title, author, and publisher.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/leaves-of-grass-deathbed-edition-1891-92"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tamerlane-and-other-poems-by-a-bostonian",
   "title": "Tamerlane and Other Poems. By a Bostonian",
   "author": "Edgar Allan Poe",
   "publisher": "Calvin F. S. Thomas (Boston)",
   "year": "1827",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Poe's first book, published anonymously ('By a Bostonian'), printed by Calvin F. S. Thomas, Boston, 1827. A thin pamphlet of 40 pages in plain tan/buff (variously described as drab, tan, or tea-colored) printed wrappers, roughly 6.75 by 4.5 inches. Collation runs Title (p.1), Preface (pp.3-4), 'Tamerlane' (pp.5-21), 'Fugitive Pieces' half-title and poems (pp.23-34), 'Notes' (pp.35-40). Only about a dozen genuine copies are known.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tamerlane-and-other-poems-by-a-bostonian"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sketch-book-of-geoffrey-crayon-gent",
   "title": "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.",
   "author": "Washington Irving (as 'Geoffrey Crayon')",
   "publisher": "C. S. Van Winkle (New York) — US, in 7 parts; John Murray (London) — UK",
   "year": "1819–1820",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The American first edition was issued serially in seven paper-wrappered parts (Nos. I–VII) printed by C. S. Van Winkle, New York, 1819–1820, with Part I dated 1819 and containing 'Rip Van Winkle' (No. VI carries 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'). Genuine parts are in their original printed wrappers. Recorded points include printing points in the first printings of Parts I, VI and VII; a copyright-infringement slip inserted in Part II at page 103; and a reading in Part III at page 240, line 12 (Blanck records two states with no priority established). The London Murray two-volume edition (1820) is the first English book edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sketch-book-of-geoffrey-crayon-gent"
  },
  {
   "slug": "essays-first-series",
   "title": "Essays (First Series)",
   "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson",
   "publisher": "James Munroe & Co. (Boston)",
   "year": "1841",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, James Munroe & Co., Boston, 1841 (Myerson A.10.1.a), in cloth or boards. The volume was titled simply 'Essays' at publication — the 'First Series' designation came retroactively after the Second Series appeared in 1844 and was used on the 1847 revised edition. Contains twelve essays including 'Self-Reliance,' 'Compensation,' 'The Over-Soul,' and 'Circles.' Verify the 1841 Munroe imprint and the original 'Essays' title; collectors confirm first-issue status against Myerson's recorded points.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/essays-first-series"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-week-on-the-concord-and-merrimack-rivers",
   "title": "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers",
   "author": "Henry David Thoreau",
   "publisher": "James Munroe & Co. (Boston)",
   "year": "1849",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Thoreau's first book, published at his own expense by James Munroe & Co., Boston, 1849, in an edition of 1,000 copies. First issue has the original 1849 Munroe title leaf. Famous for poor sales: Munroe returned 706 unsold copies to Thoreau in 1853 (256 bound, 450 in sheets). In 1862 Ticknor & Fields acquired 145 bound copies and the 450 sheets and reissued them with a cancel title page — the second issue. The genuine first issue must have the integral, un-cancelled 1849 Munroe title leaf, not the Ticknor & Fields cancel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-week-on-the-concord-and-merrimack-rivers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "maggie-a-girl-of-the-streets-a-story-of-new-york",
   "title": "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York)",
   "author": "Stephen Crane (as 'Johnston Smith')",
   "publisher": "Self-published (printed in New York)",
   "year": "1893",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Crane's first book, privately printed at his own expense in 1893 under the pseudonym 'Johnston Smith,' in an edition of about 1,100 copies, most of which Crane destroyed when they failed to sell. Original mustard/pale-yellow printed wrappers (extremely fragile and rare). Two title-page states are recorded in BAL: (1) title in upper- and lower-case lettering, and (2) title in all capitals. Unexpurgated text. Fewer than about forty copies are now recorded.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/maggie-a-girl-of-the-streets-a-story-of-new-york"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-country-of-the-pointed-firs",
   "title": "The Country of the Pointed Firs",
   "author": "Sarah Orne Jewett",
   "publisher": "Houghton, Mifflin & Co. (Boston)",
   "year": "1896",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston and New York, 1896 (issued November 1896), 213 pages. Green cloth with gilt top, the binding designed by Sarah Wyman Whitman; title, author and ornament stamped in gilt on the upper board, and title, author and publisher in gilt on the spine. The 1896 text comprises the sketches as first collected; later editions interpolate additional Dunnet Landing stories ('The Queen's Twin,' 'A Dunnet Shepherdess,' 'William's Wedding') that are not present in the 1896 first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-country-of-the-pointed-firs"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-awakening",
   "title": "The Awakening",
   "author": "Kate Chopin",
   "publisher": "Herbert S. Stone & Co. (Chicago & New York)",
   "year": "1899",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Herbert S. Stone & Co., Chicago and New York, 1899 (published April 22, 1899). Publisher's pale green cloth, decoratively stamped in dark green and red, with the spine lettered in red and top edge gilt. The book was condemned on publication and Stone declined further printings, so there was essentially a single printing, making the genuine 1899 issue scarce in any state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-awakening"
  },
  {
   "slug": "little-women-or-meg-jo-beth-and-amy",
   "title": "Little Women; or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy",
   "author": "Louisa May Alcott",
   "publisher": "Roberts Brothers (Boston)",
   "year": "1868",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first issue of Part First, Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1868 (Part First offered for sale in early October 1868, about 2,000 copies). The key BAL point is the state of the terminal (rear) advertisements: the genuine first issue has the earliest catalogue state with the title listed at its original lower price, before the publisher raised the price for later printings. Half-title present; illustrations by May Alcott; earliest binding in green, purple, or terracotta cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/little-women-or-meg-jo-beth-and-amy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-rise-of-silas-lapham",
   "title": "The Rise of Silas Lapham",
   "author": "William Dean Howells",
   "publisher": "Ticknor & Co. (Boston)",
   "year": "1885",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in book form, Ticknor & Co., Boston, 1885 (after serialization in The Century Magazine). First-printing points: 'Mr. Howells's Latest Works' listed on the verso of the half-title leaf, and only the 'e' of 'sojourner' battered in the last line of page 176. Original gilt-stamped cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-rise-of-silas-lapham"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-modern-instance",
   "title": "A Modern Instance",
   "author": "William Dean Howells",
   "publisher": "James R. Osgood & Co. (Boston)",
   "year": "1882",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in book form, James R. Osgood & Co., Boston, 1882 (published October 7, 1882). Octavo, 514 pages, with a blank leaf following page 514 in the first printing. Publisher's green cloth stamped in black and gilt, with ecru endpapers. BAL 9602.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-modern-instance"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-pickwick-papers-the-posthumous-papers-of-the-pickwick-cl",
   "title": "The Pickwick Papers (The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club)",
   "author": "Charles Dickens",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall",
   "year": "1836-1837",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 20 (in 19) monthly parts in printed wrappers, April 1836 to November 1837. Robert Seymour illustrated Part I (four plates) before his death by suicide after the first number; R. W. Buss illustrated Part III on an interim basis (two plates) before being replaced; Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz') then took over for the remainder, his early plates signed 'Nemo' (his pseudonym before 'Phiz') in Part IV. Sam Weller first appears in Part IV (chapter 10, July 1836), the instalment that made the serial a sensation. A 'prime' set carries a recognized run of points including 1836-dated wrappers on the early parts, the Seymour wording on Parts I-II wrappers, the Buss wording on Part III, the Buss plates unre-etched in Part III, the 'Nemo'-signed plates in Part IV, and the correct address and advertisement inserts. The 1837 one-volume first book edition has the Phiz plates and the Talfourd dedication.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-pickwick-papers-the-posthumous-papers-of-the-pickwick-cl"
  },
  {
   "slug": "david-copperfield",
   "title": "David Copperfield",
   "author": "Charles Dickens",
   "publisher": "Bradbury & Evans",
   "year": "1849-1850",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 20 (in 19) monthly parts in printed wrappers with Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz') plates, May 1849 to November 1850. Part-issue points center on the plate states and the advertisement inserts bound into the individual parts. The 1850 first one-volume book edition has the Phiz plates and the dedication; pure parts in wrappers are far scarcer than the bound volume.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/david-copperfield"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bleak-house",
   "title": "Bleak House",
   "author": "Charles Dickens",
   "publisher": "Bradbury & Evans",
   "year": "1852-1853",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 20 (in 19) monthly parts in printed wrappers with Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz') plates, March 1852 to September 1853. A notable feature of the illustrations is the group of 'dark plates' (Phiz's machine-ruled etchings producing deep tonal effects). Part-issue points involve the plate states and the advertisement inserts in the parts. The one-volume first book edition followed in 1853.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bleak-house"
  },
  {
   "slug": "wuthering-heights",
   "title": "Wuthering Heights",
   "author": "Emily Brontë (as 'Ellis Bell')",
   "publisher": "Thomas Cautley Newby",
   "year": "1847",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Published December 1847 by Newby in three volumes as a matched set with Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey: Wuthering Heights fills volumes I and II, Agnes Grey occupies volume III. Title pages credit 'Ellis Bell' (Wuthering Heights) and 'Acton Bell' (Agnes Grey). The Newby printing is notoriously careless: erratic pagination, missing and faulty punctuation, three misspellings of 'Heights' (as 'Heghts') and several of 'Agnes' (as 'Anges'). The print run is believed to have been very small, around 250 copies.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/wuthering-heights"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall",
   "title": "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall",
   "author": "Anne Brontë (as 'Acton Bell')",
   "publisher": "Thomas Cautley Newby",
   "year": "1848",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Three volumes, published by Newby around 1 July 1848 'by Acton Bell'. The first issue lacks the author's preface; Newby printed only part of the agreed run and issued the remainder with a cancel title and Anne's newly written preface as the 'second edition' in mid-August 1848. First issue therefore has no preface; the second-edition state carries the preface 'To the Second Edition' (dated 22 July 1848) in which Anne defends the novel. The second edition also incorporates some corrections while introducing new errors.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sense-and-sensibility",
   "title": "Sense and Sensibility",
   "author": "Jane Austen (anonymous, 'By a Lady')",
   "publisher": "Thomas Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall",
   "year": "1811",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Three volumes, Austen's debut, published anonymously 'By a Lady' in 1811; advertisements first appeared 30 October 1811. The title-page imprint reads printed for the author by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar, and published by T. Egerton, Whitehall. Title pages dated 1811. Half-titles are a point of completeness and vary among surviving copies; the most complete sets retain half-titles to all three volumes. The edition was small, about 1000 copies. A corrected second edition followed in 1813.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sense-and-sensibility"
  },
  {
   "slug": "emma",
   "title": "Emma",
   "author": "Jane Austen ('By the Author of \"Pride and Prejudice\"')",
   "publisher": "John Murray",
   "year": "1816",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Three volumes, title pages dated 1816 (the book went on sale 23 December 1815, hence the common note of late-1815 issue). Title pages read 'Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes. By the Author of \"Pride and Prejudice,\" &c. &c.', published by John Murray. The dedication to the Prince Regent is a required leaf. The first volume's collation is distinctive: the opening sheet carries only the title page and the dedication, with the half-title printed on what would otherwise be the last blank leaf. About 2000 copies were printed at the author's expense.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/emma"
  },
  {
   "slug": "middlemarch",
   "title": "Middlemarch",
   "author": "George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)",
   "publisher": "William Blackwood and Sons",
   "year": "1871-1872",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued in eight half-volume 'Books' in original printed paper wrappers, published bimonthly and irregularly from December 1871 to December 1872, an experimental serial-in-parts format. Each Book has its own title and number. First-issue points centre on the eight parts in original wrappers with their advertisements (advertisement states vary between parts), and an errata slip present in Book IV. The four-volume bound cloth edition (volume I dated 1871, volumes II to IV dated 1872) was issued in parallel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/middlemarch"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-mill-on-the-floss",
   "title": "The Mill on the Floss",
   "author": "George Eliot",
   "publisher": "William Blackwood and Sons",
   "year": "1860",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Three volumes, title pages dated 1860 (published 4 April 1860), issued in publisher's cinnamon/orange-brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Earliest-state copies lack the advertisement leaf inserted in Volume I and carry rear advertisements in Volume III that cite Adam Bede in its seventh edition; copies with the inserted ad leaf and the eighth-edition Adam Bede advertisement are a slightly later state of the same first edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-mill-on-the-floss"
  },
  {
   "slug": "adam-bede",
   "title": "Adam Bede",
   "author": "George Eliot",
   "publisher": "William Blackwood and Sons",
   "year": "1859",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Three volumes (Eliot's first full-length novel), title pages dated 1859, with publisher's advertisements bound at the rear of Volume III. Because the book reprinted very rapidly in its first year, the first impression carries no edition statement on the title pages; copies whose title pages read 'Second Edition,' 'Third Edition,' and so on are later impressions of the same year.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/adam-bede"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-importance-of-being-earnest",
   "title": "The Importance of Being Earnest",
   "author": "Oscar Wilde",
   "publisher": "Leonard Smithers and Co.",
   "year": "1899",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Published February 1899 in three states: 1,000 ordinary copies, 100 large-paper copies on handmade paper (signed and numbered), and 12 copies on Japanese vellum. Sheets printed by the Chiswick Press in January 1899. The title page reads 'by the Author of Lady Windermere's Fan' — Wilde's name is not given, following his imprisonment. Dark mauve cloth with a spare botanical design by Charles Hazelwood Shannon; Smithers imprint.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-importance-of-being-earnest"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-study-in-scarlet",
   "title": "A Study in Scarlet",
   "author": "Arthur Conan Doyle",
   "publisher": "Ward, Lock & Co. (in Beeton's Christmas Annual)",
   "year": "1887",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first appearance is in Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887, the first Sherlock Holmes story, in pictorial paper wrappers — exceedingly rare, with only about a dozen complete copies known. Authentication relies on the original engraved pictorial wrappers (a photographic facsimile shows fine dot patterning under magnification), the integral advertisements, and the two dramatic pieces bound in after the story. The first separate book edition is Ward, Lock 1888, illustrated by the author's father Charles Doyle.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-study-in-scarlet"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sign-of-four",
   "title": "The Sign of Four",
   "author": "Arthur Conan Doyle",
   "publisher": "Spencer Blackett",
   "year": "1890",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First book edition, October 1890, after the February 1890 appearance in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine as 'The Sign of the Four'. Decisive first-state points: on the Contents leaf (p.[iii]) the figure reads '13' for '138' (incomplete numeral); on page 56, line 16, 'wished' is misprinted 'w shed'; the binding is stamped 'Spencer Blackett's Standard Library'; frontispiece after Charles Kerr; red cloth with black decorative border and gilt.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sign-of-four"
  },
  {
   "slug": "alices-adventures-in-wonderland",
   "title": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland",
   "author": "Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson)",
   "publisher": "Macmillan and Co.",
   "year": "1865 (suppressed); 1866 (first published)",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The 1865 first printing of 2,000 copies (text printed at the Oxford University Press / Clarendon Press) was suppressed at Tenniel's insistence over the poor quality of the illustration impressions; only about 22 to 23 copies are now known — the true first. Point: title page dated 1865, with the Oxford printing of the text block. The first published edition is dated 1866 (issued late 1865 for the Christmas market), entirely reset and reprinted by Richard Clay. The suppressed 1865 sheets were sold to Appleton of New York and reissued with a cancel title leaf dated 1866 (the 'Appleton Alice').",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/alices-adventures-in-wonderland"
  },
  {
   "slug": "daniel-deronda",
   "title": "Daniel Deronda",
   "author": "George Eliot",
   "publisher": "William Blackwood and Sons",
   "year": "1876",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued in eight monthly parts (the eight 'Books') in printed wrappers, February to September 1876, by William Blackwood and Sons; the four-volume cloth edition followed. In the parts: four half-titles and eight section titles as issued, advertisements to the parts, and errata slips present in the relevant parts. In the cloth issue, recorded first-issue points include the Volume I misprint 'reponsive' at page 83, line 2, and a tipped-in errata leaf following the title of the volume containing Book III.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/daniel-deronda"
  },
  {
   "slug": "take-back-plenty",
   "title": "Take Back Plenty",
   "author": "Colin Greenland",
   "publisher": "Unwin Hyman",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True UK first is the Unwin Hyman (London) 1990 hardcover, with pictorial dust jacket and '1990' Unwin Hyman imprint on the title and copyright pages. Unwin Hyman was shortly afterward absorbed into HarperCollins, making the imprint short-lived. An Unwin trade paperback of the same setting also appeared.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/take-back-plenty"
  },
  {
   "slug": "vurt",
   "title": "Vurt",
   "author": "Jeff Noon",
   "publisher": "Ringpull Press",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued as a Ringpull Press (Littleborough) trade paperback original in 1993 — the debut for both author and publisher. The first printing copyright page reads 'First published by Ringpull Press in 1993'; the second printing adds the year, reading 'First published by Ringpull Press in 1993, 1994'. A scarce hardcover state also exists.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/vurt"
  },
  {
   "slug": "fools",
   "title": "Fools",
   "author": "Pat Cadigan",
   "publisher": "Bantam Spectra",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Bantam Spectra paperback original, 1992 (a Spectra Special Edition); first printing carries the full descending number line ending in 1. Issued as a paperback original, so there is no true hardcover first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/fools"
  },
  {
   "slug": "unquenchable-fire",
   "title": "Unquenchable Fire",
   "author": "Rachel Pollack",
   "publisher": "Century",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Century hardcover, London 1988, with dust jacket. The novel won the Clarke before any US hardcover existed.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/unquenchable-fire"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dreaming-in-smoke",
   "title": "Dreaming in Smoke",
   "author": "Tricia Sullivan",
   "publisher": "Millennium",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Millennium (an Orion imprint) hardcover, 1998, with dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dreaming-in-smoke"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bold-as-love",
   "title": "Bold as Love",
   "author": "Gwyneth Jones",
   "publisher": "Gollancz",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Gollancz hardcover, London 2001, full title Bold as Love: A Near Future Fantasy, with dust jacket; first printing per the Gollancz number line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bold-as-love"
  },
  {
   "slug": "song-of-time",
   "title": "Song of Time",
   "author": "Ian R. MacLeod",
   "publisher": "PS Publishing",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK PS Publishing hardcover, 2008. PS issued the title in two states: an unsigned trade hardcover and a signed, numbered, slipcased limited edition with a limitation page (the signed limited was a small numbered run).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/song-of-time"
  },
  {
   "slug": "software",
   "title": "Software",
   "author": "Rudy Rucker",
   "publisher": "Ace Books",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Ace paperback original, 1982; pictorial wrappers; Ace Science Fiction. First printing identified per the Ace number line / first-printing statement on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/software"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dinner-at-deviants-palace",
   "title": "Dinner at Deviant's Palace",
   "author": "Tim Powers",
   "publisher": "Ace Books",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Ace paperback original, 1985; pictorial wrappers (cover art by John Berkey). First printing per the Ace number line / first-printing statement on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dinner-at-deviants-palace"
  },
  {
   "slug": "homunculus",
   "title": "Homunculus",
   "author": "James P. Blaylock",
   "publisher": "Ace Books",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Ace paperback original, 1986; pictorial wrappers (cover art by James Warhola). The copyright page carries the statement 'Ace Science Fiction Special / March 1986,' which identifies the first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/homunculus"
  },
  {
   "slug": "strange-toys",
   "title": "Strange Toys",
   "author": "Patricia Geary",
   "publisher": "Bantam Spectra",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Bantam Spectra mass-market paperback original, 1987 (cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon); first printing per the number line ending in '1' on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/strange-toys"
  },
  {
   "slug": "wetware",
   "title": "Wetware",
   "author": "Rudy Rucker",
   "publisher": "Avon Books",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Avon mass-market paperback original, first printing April 1988; pictorial wrappers; first printing identified by a complete Avon number line ending in 1. No prior hardcover edition was issued, so this paperback original is the true first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/wetware"
  },
  {
   "slug": "subterranean-gallery",
   "title": "Subterranean Gallery",
   "author": "Richard Paul Russo",
   "publisher": "Tor Books",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Tor mass-market paperback original, 1989; first printing identified by a complete Tor number line ending in 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/subterranean-gallery"
  },
  {
   "slug": "points-of-departure",
   "title": "Points of Departure",
   "author": "Pat Murphy",
   "publisher": "Bantam Spectra",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Bantam Spectra mass-market paperback original, 1990; short-story collection; first printing identified by a complete number line ending in 1. Cover art by Mark Harrison.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/points-of-departure"
  },
  {
   "slug": "king-of-morning-queen-of-day",
   "title": "King of Morning, Queen of Day",
   "author": "Ian McDonald",
   "publisher": "Bantam Spectra",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Bantam Spectra mass-market paperback original, first printing June 1991; first printing identified by a complete number line ending in 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/king-of-morning-queen-of-day"
  },
  {
   "slug": "elvissey",
   "title": "Elvissey",
   "author": "Jack Womack",
   "publisher": "Tor Books",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Tor hardcover, 1993 (ISBN 0-312-85202-9); dust jacket present; first printing indicated by the Tor/Tom Doherty Associates number line counting down to 1. Tor issued the title simultaneously in hardcover and trade paperback; the hardcover is the more sought-after first state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/elvissey"
  },
  {
   "slug": "growing-up-weightless",
   "title": "Growing Up Weightless",
   "author": "John M. Ford",
   "publisher": "Bantam Spectra",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Bantam Spectra mass-market paperback original, October 1993 (ISBN 0-553-37306-4); first printing indicated by the number line counting down to 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/growing-up-weightless"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mysterium",
   "title": "Mysterium",
   "author": "Robert Charles Wilson",
   "publisher": "Bantam Spectra",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Bantam Spectra trade paperback original, 1994 (ISBN 0-553-37365-X); first printing indicated by the number line counting down to 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mysterium"
  },
  {
   "slug": "headcrash",
   "title": "Headcrash",
   "author": "Bruce Bethke",
   "publisher": "Warner Aspect",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Warner Aspect mass-market paperback original, 1995 (ISBN 0-446-60260-4); first printing indicated by the number line counting down to 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/headcrash"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-troika",
   "title": "The Troika",
   "author": "Stepan Chapman",
   "publisher": "Ministry of Whimsy Press",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Ministry of Whimsy Press trade paperback original, 1997 (ISBN 1-890464-02-3); small-press first edition distributed through small-press channels. Chapman's debut novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-troika"
  },
  {
   "slug": "253-the-print-remix",
   "title": "253: The Print Remix",
   "author": "Geoff Ryman",
   "publisher": "Flamingo (HarperCollins UK)",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Flamingo trade paperback, 1998; the print adaptation of Ryman's hypertext work; first printing per the HarperCollins number line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/253-the-print-remix"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ship-of-fools-richard-paul-r",
   "title": "Ship of Fools",
   "author": "Richard Paul Russo",
   "publisher": "Ace Books",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Ace mass-market paperback original, January 2001; first printing per the Ace number line ending in 1. UK title is Unto Leviathan.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ship-of-fools-richard-paul-r"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-mount",
   "title": "The Mount",
   "author": "Carol Emshwiller",
   "publisher": "Small Beer Press",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Small Beer Press trade paperback original, August 2002, ISBN 1-931520-03-8; first printing; small-press item.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-mount"
  },
  {
   "slug": "war-surf",
   "title": "War Surf",
   "author": "M. M. Buckner",
   "publisher": "Ace Books",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Ace Books mass-market paperback original, 2005; first printing identified by the Ace number line ending in 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/war-surf"
  },
  {
   "slug": "spin-control",
   "title": "Spin Control",
   "author": "Chris Moriarty",
   "publisher": "Bantam Spectra",
   "year": "2006",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Bantam Spectra mass-market paperback original, 2006; first printing identified by the number line ending in 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/spin-control"
  },
  {
   "slug": "terminal-mind",
   "title": "Terminal Mind",
   "author": "David Walton",
   "publisher": "Meadowhawk Press",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Meadowhawk Press trade paperback original, 2008 (ISBN 978-0-9787326-3-9); first printing. A small-press original.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/terminal-mind"
  },
  {
   "slug": "emissaries-from-the-dead",
   "title": "Emissaries from the Dead",
   "author": "Adam-Troy Castro",
   "publisher": "Eos (HarperCollins)",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Eos/HarperCollins mass-market paperback original, 2008 (ISBN 978-0-06-144372-5); first printing identified by the number line ending in 1. First Andrea Cort novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/emissaries-from-the-dead"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bitter-angels",
   "title": "Bitter Angels",
   "author": "C. L. Anderson (Sarah Zettel)",
   "publisher": "Bantam Spectra (Ballantine)",
   "year": "2009",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Spectra paperback original, 2009 (ISBN 0-553-59217-3), first printing per the number line. C. L. Anderson is a pseudonym of Sarah Zettel. By the time this title appeared (August 2009), the Spectra imprint had moved from Bantam Dell to the Ballantine group, so the Spectra/Ballantine attribution is accurate.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bitter-angels"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-samuil-petrovitch-trilogy",
   "title": "The Samuil Petrovitch Trilogy",
   "author": "Simon Morden",
   "publisher": "Orbit",
   "year": "2011",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The three constituent novels (Equations of Life, Theories of Flight, Degrees of Freedom) were each first issued in 2011 as Orbit paperback originals, published within months of one another. First-printing number line ending in 1 on each volume.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-samuil-petrovitch-trilogy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lost-everything",
   "title": "Lost Everything",
   "author": "Brian Francis Slattery",
   "publisher": "Tor Books",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Tor Books trade paperback original, April 2012 (ISBN 9780765329127); first printing per the Tor number line ending in 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lost-everything"
  },
  {
   "slug": "countdown-city",
   "title": "Countdown City",
   "author": "Ben H. Winters",
   "publisher": "Quirk Books",
   "year": "2013",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Quirk Books trade paperback original, July 2013 (ISBN 9781594746277); Last Policeman #2; first printing per the number line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/countdown-city"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-book-of-the-unnamed-midwife",
   "title": "The Book of the Unnamed Midwife",
   "author": "Meg Elison",
   "publisher": "Sybaritic Press",
   "year": "2014",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Sybaritic Press trade paperback, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4951-1636-0; small-press original and Elison's debut.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-book-of-the-unnamed-midwife"
  },
  {
   "slug": "apex",
   "title": "Apex",
   "author": "Ramez Naam",
   "publisher": "Angry Robot",
   "year": "2015",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Angry Robot paperback original, May 2015; third and final volume of the Nexus trilogy (Nexus Arc). First printing identified by the Angry Robot number line; US and UK editions appeared under the Angry Robot imprint.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/apex"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-mercy-journals",
   "title": "The Mercy Journals",
   "author": "Claudia Casper",
   "publisher": "Arsenal Pulp Press",
   "year": "2016",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Arsenal Pulp Press (Vancouver) trade paperback original, May 2016; first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-mercy-journals"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sooner-or-later-everything-falls-into-the-sea",
   "title": "Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea",
   "author": "Sarah Pinsker",
   "publisher": "Small Beer Press",
   "year": "2019",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Small Beer Press (Easthampton) trade paperback original, March 2019; a short-story collection; first printing. Signed copies exist.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sooner-or-later-everything-falls-into-the-sea"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dead-space",
   "title": "Dead Space",
   "author": "Kali Wallace",
   "publisher": "Berkley",
   "year": "2021",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Berkley trade paperback original, March 2021; ISBN 9781984803726. Identify the first printing by a complete Berkley number line whose lowest digit is 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dead-space"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dark-eden",
   "title": "Dark Eden",
   "author": "Chris Beckett",
   "publisher": "Corvus (Atlantic Books)",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Corvus (Atlantic Books) hardcover, 2012; ISBN 9781848874633; dust jacket present. Corvus also issued a trade paperback at the same time (ISBN 9781848874640).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dark-eden"
  },
  {
   "slug": "distraction",
   "title": "Distraction",
   "author": "Bruce Sterling",
   "publisher": "Bantam Spectra",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Bantam Spectra hardcover, December 1998; ISBN 0553104845; black paper boards, dust jacket printed with the price on the front flap. Identify the first printing by a complete number line whose lowest digit is 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/distraction"
  },
  {
   "slug": "air",
   "title": "Air",
   "author": "Geoff Ryman",
   "publisher": "St. Martin's Press / Gollancz",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US St. Martin's Press (Griffin) trade paperback, 2004; ISBN 9780312261214; full title 'Air: Or, Have Not Have.' UK Gollancz edition followed in 2005.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/air"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-testament-of-jessie-lamb",
   "title": "The Testament of Jessie Lamb",
   "author": "Jane Rogers",
   "publisher": "Sandstone Press",
   "year": "2011",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Sandstone Press trade paperback original, 2011 (ISBN 9781905207589); a paperback original with no hardcover issued. First impression has no later-printing statement on the copyright page. A noted first-issue point is the spine misspelling 'Jesse' rather than 'Jessie' on the original Sandstone printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-testament-of-jessie-lamb"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rosewater",
   "title": "Rosewater",
   "author": "Tade Thompson",
   "publisher": "Apex Book Company (Apex Publications)",
   "year": "2016",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Apex Book Company trade paperback original, published 15 November 2016 (about 287 pages, ISBN 9781937009298); small-press first printing. The Orbit edition (19 October 2018, about 390 pages) is the later, more common reissue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/rosewater"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-red-house-mystery",
   "title": "The Red House Mystery",
   "author": "A. A. Milne",
   "publisher": "Methuen & Co. (London)",
   "year": "1922",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Methuen first, 1922 on the title page, with no later-impression statement on the verso; blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Milne's only detective novel and a Haycraft-Queen cornerstone.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-red-house-mystery"
  },
  {
   "slug": "when-last-i-died",
   "title": "When Last I Died",
   "author": "Gladys Mitchell",
   "publisher": "Michael Joseph (London)",
   "year": "1941",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Michael Joseph first edition, London, 1941, in wartime-standard cloth. The thirteenth Mrs Bradley novel and a scarce wartime first. The first printing shows the Michael Joseph imprint and no later-impression statement on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/when-last-i-died"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gaudy-night",
   "title": "Gaudy Night",
   "author": "Dorothy L. Sayers",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz (London)",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Victor Gollancz first edition, London, 1935, in black cloth with the characteristic Gollancz yellow printed dust jacket in black and red typographic design. A cornerstone Wimsey and Harriet Vane novel. The first printing shows no later-impression line on the copyright page. The fragile Gollancz jacket of this period rarely survives, so a first in jacket is genuinely scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gaudy-night"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-steam-pig",
   "title": "The Steam Pig",
   "author": "James McClure",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz (London)",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Victor Gollancz first edition, London, 1971, in red paper-covered boards lettered in gilt on the spine, in the typographic Gollancz jacket, around 224 pages. The first Kramer and Zondi novel; it won the CWA Gold Dagger for 1971. The first printing shows the Gollancz imprint dated 1971 with no later-impression statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-steam-pig"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-way-through-the-woods",
   "title": "The Way Through the Woods",
   "author": "Colin Dexter",
   "publisher": "Macmillan (London)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Macmillan first edition, London, 1992, with the statement First published 1992 and a full number line descending to 1. The tenth Inspector Morse novel; it won the CWA Gold Dagger for 1992. A copy whose number line does not include 1 is a later printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-way-through-the-woods"
  },
  {
   "slug": "whip-hand",
   "title": "Whip Hand",
   "author": "Dick Francis",
   "publisher": "Michael Joseph (London)",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Michael Joseph first, 1979, with the 'First published in Great Britain' statement on the copyright page and no statement of a later impression. The second Sid Halley novel. It won the 1979 CWA Gold Dagger and the Edgar Award for Best Novel (awarded 1981 for the 1980 US edition) — one of only two novels to take both honors, alongside Le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/whip-hand"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gorky-park",
   "title": "Gorky Park",
   "author": "Martin Cruz Smith",
   "publisher": "Random House (New York)",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Random House first, 1981, with 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page above a Random House number line. The first Arkady Renko novel; won the 1981 CWA Gold Dagger.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gorky-park"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-fatal-inversion",
   "title": "A Fatal Inversion",
   "author": "Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)",
   "publisher": "Viking (London)",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Viking first, 1987, with the 'First published 1987' statement on the copyright page and a complete number line; written by Ruth Rendell as Barbara Vine. Won the 1987 CWA Gold Dagger.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-fatal-inversion"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-broken-shore",
   "title": "The Broken Shore",
   "author": "Peter Temple",
   "publisher": "Text Publishing (Melbourne, Australia)",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Australian Text Publishing first, 2005 — the true first, preceding all overseas editions. Hardcover in dust jacket from the Text imprint; the copyright page shows 'First published 2005' with the Text colophon. Won the 2006 Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction and the 2007 CWA Duncan Lawrie (Gold) Dagger, Temple being the first Australian to win the Gold Dagger.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-broken-shore"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dry",
   "title": "The Dry",
   "author": "Jane Harper",
   "publisher": "Pan Macmillan Australia (Sydney)",
   "year": "2016",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Australian Pan Macmillan first, 2016 — the true first, preceding the UK and US editions. The first Aaron Falk novel; the copyright page shows 'First published 2016' with a number line. Won the 2017 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction and the 2017 CWA Gold Dagger (the main best-crime-novel award).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dry"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mr-whites-confession",
   "title": "Mr. White's Confession",
   "author": "Robert Clark",
   "publisher": "Picador USA / St. Martin's Press (New York)",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Picador USA / St. Martin's first edition, 1998, with the 'First Edition' statement and a complete number line ending in 1. Won the 1999 Edgar Award for Best Novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mr-whites-confession"
  },
  {
   "slug": "california-girl",
   "title": "California Girl",
   "author": "T. Jefferson Parker",
   "publisher": "William Morrow (New York)",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US William Morrow first edition, 2004, with the 'FIRST EDITION' statement and a number line ending in 1. Won the 2005 Edgar Award for Best Novel; Parker's second Edgar Best Novel after Silent Joe.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/california-girl"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-cold-red-sunrise",
   "title": "A Cold Red Sunrise",
   "author": "Stuart M. Kaminsky",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Charles Scribner's Sons first, 1988, with 'First Edition' on the copyright page and a number line. The third Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov novel; it won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1989 for the 1988 publication.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-cold-red-sunrise"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rumpole-of-the-bailey",
   "title": "Rumpole of the Bailey",
   "author": "John Mortimer",
   "publisher": "Penguin Books (Harmondsworth, England)",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The Penguin paperback original of 1978 (ISBN 0140046704) is the first appearance in book form of the collected Rumpole stories, which originated as television scripts. A paperback-original situation: there is no preceding hardcover of this collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/rumpole-of-the-bailey"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-doorbell-rang",
   "title": "The Doorbell Rang",
   "author": "Rex Stout",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press (New York)",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Viking first, 1965: the copyright page reads 'First published in 1965 by The Viking Press' with no later-printing notice, and the book is printed by the Colonial Press. A Nero Wolfe novel of 186 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-doorbell-rang"
  },
  {
   "slug": "edwin-of-the-iron-shoes",
   "title": "Edwin of the Iron Shoes",
   "author": "Marcia Muller",
   "publisher": "David McKay (New York)",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US David McKay first, 1977: red paper-covered boards with title stamped in black on the spine, octavo; jacket designed by Erik Sundgaard. The first Sharon McCone novel, widely credited with establishing the modern female private-eye series.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/edwin-of-the-iron-shoes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-eye-of-the-beholder-indemnity-only",
   "title": "The Eye of the Beholder (Indemnity Only)",
   "author": "Sara Paretsky",
   "publisher": "The Dial Press (New York)",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The correct title is 'Indemnity Only', the US Dial Press first, 1982. The first printing is identified on the copyright page by a number line that includes the 1, with an unclipped dust jacket carrying the original 1982 price. This is Paretsky's debut and the first V.I. Warshawski novel, a cornerstone of the female private-eye school of crime fiction.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-eye-of-the-beholder-indemnity-only"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sticks-scones-the-cold-dish",
   "title": "Sticks & Scones (The Cold Dish)",
   "author": "Craig Johnson",
   "publisher": "Viking (New York)",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The correct debut is 'The Cold Dish', the US Viking first, 2004. The first printing shows 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page together with a number line that includes the 1, and an unclipped jacket with the original price. It is Johnson's debut and the first Walt Longmire novel, an increasingly collected modern crime debut.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sticks-scones-the-cold-dish"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-cold-dish",
   "title": "The Cold Dish",
   "author": "Craig Johnson",
   "publisher": "Viking (New York)",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Viking first, 2004. The copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' with a number line that includes the 1, and the first issue carries an unclipped jacket with the original price. This is Johnson's debut and the first Walt Longmire mystery.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-cold-dish"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mystic-river-uk",
   "title": "Mystic River (UK)",
   "author": "Dennis Lehane",
   "publisher": "Bantam Press (London)",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Bantam Press (Transworld) edition, 2001, ISBN 0593047508. It states 'First published in Great Britain' with a number line and is a first-thus in the UK, collected by British buyers but secondary in precedence to the US Morrow first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mystic-river-uk"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hot-rock",
   "title": "The Hot Rock",
   "author": "Donald E. Westlake",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster (New York)",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Simon & Schuster first, 1970: an octavo in buff cloth-backed boards with a pictorial dust jacket; first printing carries the Simon & Schuster first-edition statement on the copyright page with no later-printing line. The first Dortmunder novel, introducing comic-caper protagonist John Dortmunder, and a cornerstone of comic crime fiction. Jacket priced for 1970.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hot-rock"
  },
  {
   "slug": "god-save-the-child",
   "title": "God Save the Child",
   "author": "Robert B. Parker",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin (Boston)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Houghton Mifflin first, 1974: the second Spenser novel; black cloth lettered in silver with a blue-and-red dust jacket; first printing has no later-printing statement on the copyright page. Parker later won the Edgar for the third Spenser novel, Promised Land (1977).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/god-save-the-child"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-anatomy-of-a-murder",
   "title": "The Anatomy of a Murder",
   "author": "Robert Traver",
   "publisher": "St. Martin's Press (New York)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US St. Martin's Press first, 1958 (title 'Anatomy of a Murder'): first printing carries the St. Martin's imprint with the 1958 date and no later-printing statement. A landmark courtroom novel by Robert Traver, pen name of Michigan Supreme Court justice John D. Voelker; basis for the 1959 Otto Preminger film. Jacket priced for 1958.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-anatomy-of-a-murder"
  },
  {
   "slug": "fletch",
   "title": "Fletch",
   "author": "Gregory Mcdonald",
   "publisher": "The Bobbs-Merrill Company (Indianapolis/New York)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Bobbs-Merrill first, 1974: first printing carries the Bobbs-Merrill imprint with no later-printing statement; black binding with gilt-lettered spine and a pictorial dust jacket. Won the 1975 Edgar for Best First Novel. Jacket priced for 1974.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/fletch"
  },
  {
   "slug": "confess-fletch",
   "title": "Confess, Fletch",
   "author": "Gregory Mcdonald",
   "publisher": "Avon Books (New York)",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Avon paperback original, November 1976 (Avon #30882) — a true paperback original with no prior hardcover; first printing identified by the Avon code and number line. Won the 1977 Edgar for Best Paperback Original, making McDonald the only author to win for both a first novel (Fletch) and its sequel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/confess-fletch"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-cold-day-in-paradise",
   "title": "A Cold Day in Paradise",
   "author": "Steve Hamilton",
   "publisher": "St. Martin's Press / Thomas Dunne (New York)",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US St. Martin's Press / Thomas Dunne first, 1998: copyright page states 'First Edition' with a number line ending in 1; pictorial dust jacket over black boards. Alex McKnight #1. It won both the 1999 Edgar and the 1999 Shamus for Best First Novel, an unusual double. A scarce first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-cold-day-in-paradise"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-ice-house",
   "title": "The Ice House",
   "author": "Minette Walters",
   "publisher": "Macmillan (London)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Macmillan first, published 26 June 1992: 'First published 1992' by Macmillan with a number line ending in 1. Walters's debut; it won the 1992 CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger for best first novel. A scarce true first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-ice-house"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bones-and-silence",
   "title": "Bones and Silence",
   "author": "Reginald Hill",
   "publisher": "William Collins / Collins Crime Club (London)",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Collins (Crime Club) first, 1990: 'First published 1990' with a number line ending in 1; bound in blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and a pictorial dust jacket. Eleventh Dalziel and Pascoe novel; it won the 1990 CWA Gold Dagger.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bones-and-silence"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-chatham-school-affair",
   "title": "The Chatham School Affair",
   "author": "Thomas H. Cook",
   "publisher": "Bantam Books (New York)",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Bantam first, 1996: copyright page states 'First Edition' with a number line ending in 1; first-issue jacket priced for 1996. It won the 1997 Edgar for Best Novel, a genuine long-tail winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-chatham-school-affair"
  },
  {
   "slug": "old-bones",
   "title": "Old Bones",
   "author": "Aaron Elkins",
   "publisher": "The Mysterious Press (New York)",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Mysterious Press first, 1987: the copyright page states the printing month (December 1987) with a full number line counting down 10 to 1. Won the 1988 Edgar Award for Best Novel; fourth Gideon Oliver ('skeleton detective') novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/old-bones"
  },
  {
   "slug": "spadework-labrava",
   "title": "Spadework (LaBrava)",
   "author": "Elmore Leonard",
   "publisher": "Arbor House (New York)",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The Edgar winner is 'LaBrava', US Arbor House first, 1983, with a full number line counting down to 1 on the copyright page and the 1983 price intact on the front jacket flap. Won the 1984 Edgar Award for Best Novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/spadework-labrava"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-ox-bow-incident",
   "title": "The Ox-Bow Incident",
   "author": "Walter Van Tilburg Clark",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "romance-western-awards",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page carries the words 'First Printing'. Bound in tan/oatmeal cloth with brown spine lettering; Random House house device on the title page and spine. Dust jacket priced on the front flap. Later printings remove the 'First Printing' statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-ox-bow-incident"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-man-who-shot-liberty-valance-in-indian-country",
   "title": "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (in: Indian Country)",
   "author": "Dorothy M. Johnson",
   "publisher": "Ballantine Books",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "romance-western-awards",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The story's first book appearance is in the Ballantine collection 'Indian Country' (1953), issued in Ballantine's dual format of the period: a cloth hardcover (dull yellow textured paper-covered boards, in a yellow and red dust jacket, 197 pp.) and a paperback original. The hardcover issue is the elusive one. The collection gathers eleven of Johnson's frontier stories, including this title and 'A Man Called Horse.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-man-who-shot-liberty-valance-in-indian-country"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-ox-bow-incident-film-award-context",
   "title": "The Ox-Bow Incident (film/award context)",
   "author": "Walter Van Tilburg Clark",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "romance-western-awards",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Duplicate cross-reference; see main Ox-Bow entry. The true first carries 'First Printing' on the copyright page, in tan/oatmeal cloth with brown spine lettering and the Random House device on the title page and spine. The top edge is dyed gray; 8vo, 309 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-ox-bow-incident-film-award-context"
  },
  {
   "slug": "regency-buck",
   "title": "Regency Buck",
   "author": "Georgette Heyer",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "romance-western-awards",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Heinemann, London, 1935 first edition — Heyer's first novel set in the Regency period, effectively the founding text of the Regency-romance subgenre. UK cloth with Heinemann device; the verso of the title carries no later reprint statement. The original 1935 dust jacket shows a pugilist illustration on the spine, a feature present only on the first edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/regency-buck"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rebecca",
   "title": "Rebecca",
   "author": "Daphne du Maurier",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz",
   "year": "1938",
   "genre": "romance-western-awards",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Gollancz, London, 1938 first edition; black cloth, gilt spine lettering, in Gollancz's typographic dust jacket (no pictorial art) with the 8/6 net price on the spine. A separate Special Presentation Edition limited to 200 copies (so designated on the title page and jacket, in a cream/off-white jacket printed in magenta and black) was issued roughly one month ahead of the trade publication.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/rebecca"
  },
  {
   "slug": "katherine",
   "title": "Katherine",
   "author": "Anya Seton",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "romance-western-awards",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1954 first edition (published July 1954). Look for Houghton Mifflin's first-printing convention on the copyright page with no additional-printing or later-date statements, and a priced first-issue dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/katherine"
  },
  {
   "slug": "captive-bride",
   "title": "Captive Bride",
   "author": "Johanna Lindsey",
   "publisher": "Avon Books",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "romance-western-awards",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Avon paperback original, 1977 — Lindsey's debut novel. Identify by the 'First Avon Printing' statement and the lowest printing number on the copyright page, with the original cover price on the wrapper. Cover art by Robert McGinnis.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/captive-bride"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-fulfillment",
   "title": "The Fulfillment",
   "author": "LaVyrle Spencer",
   "publisher": "Avon Books",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "romance-western-awards",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Avon paperback original, October 1979 — Spencer's debut novel (manuscript forwarded by Kathleen Woodiwiss to her Avon editor). Identify by the 'First Avon Printing' statement and the lowest printing number on the copyright page; original cover price printed on the wrapper.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-fulfillment"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-enchanted-land",
   "title": "The Enchanted Land",
   "author": "Jude Deveraux",
   "publisher": "Avon Books",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "romance-western-awards",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Avon paperback original, 1978 — Deveraux's first published novel (set on a New Mexico ranch). Identify by the 'First Avon Printing' statement and the lowest printing number on the copyright page; original cover price printed on the wrapper.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-enchanted-land"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-people-could-fly-american-black-folktales",
   "title": "The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales",
   "author": "Virginia Hamilton (illus. Leo & Diane Dillon)",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "childrens-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Stated first edition on the copyright page with a full number line ending in 1; large-format hardcover with Leo and Diane Dillon jacket art and full-page paintings throughout; original price on the front jacket flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-people-could-fly-american-black-folktales"
  },
  {
   "slug": "esperanza-rising",
   "title": "Esperanza Rising",
   "author": "Pam Muñoz Ryan",
   "publisher": "Scholastic Press",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "childrens-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing with a full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; Scholastic Press imprint stated; original price on the jacket flap; the first-printing jacket carries NO Pura Belpré seal (the award postdates the first printing).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/esperanza-rising"
  },
  {
   "slug": "northern-lights-us-title-the-golden-compass",
   "title": "Northern Lights (US title: The Golden Compass)",
   "author": "Philip Pullman",
   "publisher": "Scholastic UK (Point)",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "childrens-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'POINT' present on the spine and jacket as called for; original price on the front flap; the rear flap carries the '7-9 Pratt Street' address; full number line descending to 1. Jacket art (the alethiometer) by David Scutt.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/northern-lights-us-title-the-golden-compass"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-watsons-go-to-birmingham-1963",
   "title": "The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963",
   "author": "Christopher Paul Curtis",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "childrens-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the full number line 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (i.e. it includes the 1) on the copyright page; Delacorte Press imprint; price-clipped or priced jacket on the front flap. The true-first jacket carries no Newbery Honor or Coretta Scott King Honor seal, since both honors were announced in 1996.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-watsons-go-to-birmingham-1963"
  },
  {
   "slug": "locomotive",
   "title": "Locomotive",
   "author": "Brian Floca",
   "publisher": "Atheneum (Simon & Schuster)",
   "year": "2013",
   "genre": "childrens-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has a complete number line running down to 1 on the copyright page; imprint stated as Atheneum / Richard Jackson Books (a Simon & Schuster imprint); oversize landscape picture-book format. The true-first jacket carries no Caldecott Medal or Sibert Honor seal, both awarded in 2014.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/locomotive"
  },
  {
   "slug": "this-is-not-my-hat",
   "title": "This Is Not My Hat",
   "author": "Jon Klassen",
   "publisher": "Candlewick Press",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "childrens-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'first edition' with a full number line including 1 (Candlewick format); black paper over boards. True first dust jacket carries no Caldecott or Kate Greenaway medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/this-is-not-my-hat"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-invention-of-hugo-cabret",
   "title": "The Invention of Hugo Cabret",
   "author": "Brian Selznick",
   "publisher": "Scholastic Press",
   "year": "2007",
   "genre": "childrens-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries the full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1; Scholastic Press imprint; thick illustrated novel in words and pictures. True first jacket has no Caldecott seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-invention-of-hugo-cabret"
  },
  {
   "slug": "brown-girl-dreaming",
   "title": "Brown Girl Dreaming",
   "author": "Jacqueline Woodson",
   "publisher": "Nancy Paulsen Books (Penguin)",
   "year": "2014",
   "genre": "childrens-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries a number line including 1; Nancy Paulsen Books imprint; memoir-in-verse, brown cloth lettered in gilt. True first jacket has no Coretta Scott King, National Book Award, or Newbery Honor seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/brown-girl-dreaming"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lon-po-po-a-red-riding-hood-story-from-china",
   "title": "Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China",
   "author": "Ed Young",
   "publisher": "Philomel Books (Putnam)",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "childrens-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries a number line including 1 and states first impression on the copyright page; Philomel imprint; panel-format pastel and watercolor art; laminated boards with blue endpapers. True first jacket has no Caldecott seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lon-po-po-a-red-riding-hood-story-from-china"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tuesday",
   "title": "Tuesday",
   "author": "David Wiesner",
   "publisher": "Clarion Books (Houghton Mifflin)",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "childrens-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has a full number line counting down to 1 (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1) on the copyright page; Clarion Books imprint; near-wordless watercolor picture book; true-first jacket bears NO Caldecott Medal seal, as the medal was awarded in 1992.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tuesday"
  },
  {
   "slug": "show-way",
   "title": "Show Way",
   "author": "Jacqueline Woodson (illus. Hudson Talbott)",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "childrens-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has a number line counting down to 1; G.P. Putnam's Sons imprint; Hudson Talbott mixed-media art; true-first jacket bears NO Newbery Honor seal, as the honor was awarded in 2006.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/show-way"
  },
  {
   "slug": "henrys-freedom-box",
   "title": "Henry's Freedom Box",
   "author": "Ellen Levine (illus. Kadir Nelson)",
   "publisher": "Scholastic Press",
   "year": "2007",
   "genre": "childrens-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has a Scholastic number line counting down to 1; Scholastic Press imprint; Kadir Nelson oil illustrations; true-first jacket bears NO Caldecott Honor or Coretta Scott King seal, as those were awarded in 2008.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/henrys-freedom-box"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dave-the-potter-artist-poet-slave",
   "title": "Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave",
   "author": "Laban Carrick Hill (illus. Bryan Collier)",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown Books for Young Readers",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "childrens-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has a number line counting down to 1; Little, Brown imprint; Bryan Collier collage and watercolor art; true-first jacket bears NO Caldecott Honor or Coretta Scott King seal, as those were awarded in 2011.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dave-the-potter-artist-poet-slave"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-undefeated",
   "title": "The Undefeated",
   "author": "Kwame Alexander (illus. Kadir Nelson)",
   "publisher": "Versify / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt",
   "year": "2019",
   "genre": "childrens-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has a number line ending in 1; Versify imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Kadir Nelson paintings; true-first jacket carries NO award seals because the Caldecott Medal, Newbery Honor, and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor were all awarded in 2020, after first publication.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-undefeated"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-book-of-nightmares",
   "title": "The Book of Nightmares",
   "author": "Galway Kinnell",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin (Boston)",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "poetry-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in blind-stamped black cloth with red spine titling; dust jacket with Howard Zimmon black-and-white illustrations printed in red, unclipped with original price. Copyright page states the first printing with no later-printing line. Cloth ISBN 0395120977 (a simultaneous wrappers issue, ISBN 0395120985, also exists; the cloth is the collector's first).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-book-of-nightmares"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mortal-acts-mortal-words",
   "title": "Mortal Acts, Mortal Words",
   "author": "Galway Kinnell",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin (Boston)",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "poetry-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing stated on the copyright page with no added later-printing line; clothbound in dust jacket with the original price intact. Cloth ISBN 0395291259; a simultaneous wrappers issue (ISBN 0395291267) also exists, with the cloth being the collector's first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mortal-acts-mortal-words"
  },
  {
   "slug": "praise",
   "title": "Praise",
   "author": "Robert Hass",
   "publisher": "The Ecco Press (New York)",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "poetry-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Volume 17 of Ecco's American Poetry Series; 68 pp with deckled edges; dark cloth over boards (described by dealers as burgundy to dark purple), gilt spine stamping; title blind-stamped upside down on the rear board; green dust jacket with black lettering and a black-and-white photo of Hass on the rear; title page undated, copyright page dated 1979; the first printing has no remainder mark.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/praise"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sun-under-wood-new-poems",
   "title": "Sun Under Wood: New Poems",
   "author": "Robert Hass",
   "publisher": "The Ecco Press (Hopewell, NJ)",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "poetry-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing with a full number line ending in 1; 77 pp; ISBN 0880014687; clothbound in dust jacket with the original price. A paper-over-board variant with a woodcut design also exists alongside the cloth issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sun-under-wood-new-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ararat",
   "title": "Ararat",
   "author": "Louise Glück",
   "publisher": "The Ecco Press (New York)",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "poetry-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, 68 pp, quarter-cloth and paper over boards (gray and black, stamped in green) in printed dust jacket. Identify the first printing by the full number line on the copyright page; a reduced line indicates a later printing. ISBN 0880012471.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ararat"
  },
  {
   "slug": "faithful-and-virtuous-night",
   "title": "Faithful and Virtuous Night",
   "author": "Louise Glück",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York)",
   "year": "2014",
   "genre": "poetry-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition stated with full number line ending in 1; gray paper boards, spine lettered in white, in dust jacket; 71 pp; ISBN 9780374152017 (ISBN-10 0374152012). The 9780374535773 ISBN is the later paperback.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/faithful-and-virtuous-night"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dien-cai-dau",
   "title": "Dien Cai Dau",
   "author": "Yusef Komunyakaa",
   "publisher": "Wesleyan University Press (Middletown, CT)",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "poetry-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Wesleyan Poetry Series. Issued in cloth and in wrappers. Wrappers issue: ISBN 0819511641 (ISBN-13 9780819511645). The clothbound hardcover carries ISBN 0819521639 (9780819521637) and is the scarcer form. The Vietnam War collection; the title is GI-era slang rendered 'crazy.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dien-cai-dau"
  },
  {
   "slug": "my-alexandria",
   "title": "My Alexandria",
   "author": "Mark Doty",
   "publisher": "University of Illinois Press (Urbana)",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "poetry-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "National Poetry Series selection (chosen by Philip Levine). Issued in cloth and in wrappers; first printing on the copyright page. Wrappers ISBN 0252063171 (ISBN-13 9780252063176). The University of Illinois Press markets the cloth as the first cloth edition; the cloth issue is the collector's preferred form. US true first precedes the UK Jonathan Cape edition (ISBN 0224041282 / 9780224041287).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/my-alexandria"
  },
  {
   "slug": "atlantis",
   "title": "Atlantis",
   "author": "Mark Doty",
   "publisher": "HarperCollins (New York)",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "poetry-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition so stated on the copyright page with a full number line descending to 1; HarperCollins hardcover in dust jacket with original price, 103 pp. A HarperPerennial trade paperback (ISBN 0060951060) was issued for the same title; the hardcover (ISBN 0060553626) is the collectible first. Confirm the number line reaches 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/atlantis"
  },
  {
   "slug": "autobiography-of-red-a-novel-in-verse",
   "title": "Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse",
   "author": "Anne Carson",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "poetry-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition so stated on the copyright page with a full number line descending to 1; publisher's cream boards backed with bronze cloth, gilt spine lettering, in dust jacket with original price; 149 pp; ISBN 0375401334. Published 1998.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/autobiography-of-red-a-novel-in-verse"
  },
  {
   "slug": "speed-the-plow",
   "title": "Speed-the-Plow",
   "author": "David Mamet",
   "publisher": "Grove Press",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "drama-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Grove Press, New York, 1988, ISBN 9780802110282. First edition issued in hardcover (with dust jacket) and in trade wrappers; the hardcover is the desirable state. Confirm by the stated first-edition designation and the number line on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/speed-the-plow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "oleanna",
   "title": "Oleanna",
   "author": "David Mamet",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "drama-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pantheon Books, New York, 1992. First edition, first printing in hardcover with dust jacket; confirm by the first-edition designation and a complete number line running to 1 on the copyright page. Signed copies from the period exist.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/oleanna"
  },
  {
   "slug": "true-west",
   "title": "True West",
   "author": "Sam Shepard",
   "publisher": "Samuel French (acting ed.) / Bantam 'Seven Plays' (US) / Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "drama-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The play premiered in 1980. The first book-form text appears in 1981 in the Bantam collection 'Seven Plays' (trade paperback), the Samuel French acting edition, and the Faber UK edition. There is no prominent standalone US trade-hardcover first edition; collect the play within the 1981 collected or acting-edition texts.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/true-west"
  },
  {
   "slug": "fool-for-love",
   "title": "Fool for Love",
   "author": "Sam Shepard",
   "publisher": "City Lights Books",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "drama-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued by City Lights as 'Fool for Love and The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing His Wife,' 1983, trade paperback wrappers, 120 pp., pairing the play with the comic operetta. ISBN 0-87286-150-3. First printing has no later-printing line on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/fool-for-love"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-heidi-chronicles",
   "title": "The Heidi Chronicles",
   "author": "Wendy Wasserstein",
   "publisher": "Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (collection) / Dramatists Play Service",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "drama-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Collected first hardcover: 'The Heidi Chronicles and Other Plays' (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990, ISBN 0-15-139985-9), copyright page states 'First edition' with a full descending letter/number line ending in 'A'; 249 pp.; cloth-spine boards. Contains The Heidi Chronicles, Uncommon Women and Others, and Isn't It Romantic.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-heidi-chronicles"
  },
  {
   "slug": "how-i-learned-to-drive",
   "title": "How I Learned to Drive",
   "author": "Paula Vogel",
   "publisher": "Dramatists Play Service (acting) / Theatre Communications Group (collection)",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "drama-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First book texts are softcover: the Dramatists Play Service acting edition (1997, wrappers, ISBN 0-8222-1623-X) and the TCG collection 'The Mammary Plays' (1998, ISBN 1-55936-144-1), which pairs How I Learned to Drive with The Mineola Twins. No trade hardcover first; collect the earliest wrappered text with no later-printing line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/how-i-learned-to-drive"
  },
  {
   "slug": "topdog-underdog",
   "title": "Topdog/Underdog",
   "author": "Suzan-Lori Parks",
   "publisher": "Theatre Communications Group (TCG)",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "drama-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "TCG edition, 2001 (ISBN 1-55936-201-4 / 9781559362016), trade paperback original. First printing states 'First Edition' and lacks a later-printing line on the copyright page. Issued in wrappers; no trade hardcover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/topdog-underdog"
  },
  {
   "slug": "august-osage-county",
   "title": "August: Osage County",
   "author": "Tracy Letts",
   "publisher": "Theatre Communications Group (TCG)",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "drama-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "TCG edition, 2008 (ISBN 978-1-55936-330-3 / 1-55936-330-4), trade paperback original. The true first printing is January 2008, states 'First Edition,' and carries no award blurbs or banners on the cover; a second printing followed in February 2008, so the first printing is comparatively scarce. No hardcover trade first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/august-osage-county"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cloud-nine",
   "title": "Cloud Nine",
   "author": "Caryl Churchill",
   "publisher": "Pluto Press (with Joint Stock), London",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "drama-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First published London by Pluto Press, 1979, in association with the Joint Stock Theatre Group; issued in wrappers with copyright page stating 'First published 1979.' Written for Joint Stock and premiered in 1979. A revised text appeared in later printings, so the 1979 Pluto issue is the earliest.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cloud-nine"
  },
  {
   "slug": "serious-money",
   "title": "Serious Money",
   "author": "Caryl Churchill",
   "publisher": "Methuen (London)",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "drama-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Methuen, London, 1987, in the Royal Court Writers series; issued in card wrappers (paperback original), copyright page stating 'First published in 1987 by Methuen' with no later-printing line. Published for the first performances at the Royal Court Theatre in 1987.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/serious-money"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pravda-with-howard-brenton",
   "title": "Pravda (with Howard Brenton)",
   "author": "David Hare",
   "publisher": "Methuen (London)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "drama-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Methuen, London, 1985; issued in wrappers, copyright page stating 'First published 1985 by Methuen.' Co-written with Howard Brenton and premiered at the National Theatre in 1985. The first printing carries no later-printing line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pravda-with-howard-brenton"
  },
  {
   "slug": "copenhagen",
   "title": "Copenhagen",
   "author": "Michael Frayn",
   "publisher": "Methuen Drama (London)",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "drama-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Methuen Drama, London, 1998 (ISBN 0-413-72490-5); issued in wrappers, copyright page stating 'First published 1998 by Methuen.' Premiered at the Cottesloe, National Theatre, in 1998. The first printing lacks a later-printing line; a revised edition with an added postscript followed after release of the Bohr letters.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/copenhagen"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lieutenant-of-inishmore",
   "title": "The Lieutenant of Inishmore",
   "author": "Martin McDonagh",
   "publisher": "Methuen Drama (London)",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "drama-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Methuen Drama, London, 2001, individual playscript in wrappers (ISBN 0-413-76500-8), stating 'First published 2001 by Methuen.' Issued around the Royal Shakespeare Company premiere at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, in 2001. A true first lacks any later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lieutenant-of-inishmore"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lives-of-a-cell-notes-of-a-biology-watcher",
   "title": "The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher",
   "author": "Lewis Thomas",
   "publisher": "Viking Press",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Viking Press, New York, 1974. Bound in quarter blue cloth over green boards. First printing has no added later-printing statement on the copyright page; first-state dust jacket carries the original printed price on the front flap (later printings and reprints differ). Essays first appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lives-of-a-cell-notes-of-a-biology-watcher"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-medusa-and-the-snail-more-notes-of-a-biology-watcher",
   "title": "The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher",
   "author": "Lewis Thomas",
   "publisher": "Viking Press",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Viking Press, New York, 1979. Blue boards with a cloth-backed spine and gilt titling; 175 pages. Copyright page states 'First published in ... 1979 by The Viking Press' with no later-printing statement on the true first; first-state dust jacket retains the original printed flap price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-medusa-and-the-snail-more-notes-of-a-biology-watcher"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-man-who-mistook-his-wife-for-a-hat-and-other-clinical-ta",
   "title": "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales",
   "author": "Oliver Sacks",
   "publisher": "Gerald Duckworth (UK) / Summit Books (US)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Duckworth: black cloth, gilt spine lettering; 233pp, illustrated; first-issue dust jacket priced 9.95 net. US Summit (New York): pale green paper-covered boards over red spine cloth lettered in gilt; first printing identified by a complete number line on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-man-who-mistook-his-wife-for-a-hat-and-other-clinical-ta"
  },
  {
   "slug": "awakenings",
   "title": "Awakenings",
   "author": "Oliver Sacks",
   "publisher": "Gerald Duckworth",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Duckworth (London) cloth, gilt spine lettering; first-issue dust jacket retains its original net price; copyright page carries no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/awakenings"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sociobiology-the-new-synthesis",
   "title": "Sociobiology: The New Synthesis",
   "author": "Edward O. Wilson",
   "publisher": "Belknap Press of Harvard University Press",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Large oblong quarto; cloth boards; profusely illustrated with line drawings by Sarah Landry and halftones; 697pp; copyright page shows 1975 with no later-printing statement; first-state jacket retains its price. Notable for the controversial final chapter applying sociobiology to human behavior.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sociobiology-the-new-synthesis"
  },
  {
   "slug": "on-human-nature",
   "title": "On Human Nature",
   "author": "Edward O. Wilson",
   "publisher": "Harvard University Press",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth binding; copyright page carries no later-printing statement; first-state dust jacket retains its price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/on-human-nature"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-ants",
   "title": "The Ants",
   "author": "Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson",
   "publisher": "Belknap Press of Harvard University Press",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Large folio, very heavy; tan cloth; profusely illustrated with color paintings, photographs, and nearly a thousand line drawings; first printing with no later-printing statement on the copyright page; first-state jacket retains its price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-ants"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-diversity-of-life",
   "title": "The Diversity of Life",
   "author": "Edward O. Wilson",
   "publisher": "Belknap Press of Harvard University Press",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Quarter black cloth over brown cloth boards, gilt spine lettering; 424pp; illustrated with color plates plus full-page and in-text black-and-white drawings and photographs; first printing with no later-printing statement on the copyright page; first-state jacket retains its price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-diversity-of-life"
  },
  {
   "slug": "annals-of-the-former-world",
   "title": "Annals of the Former World",
   "author": "John McPhee",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Black cloth; copyright page states 'First edition, 1998'; first-state dust jacket with price present. Omnibus collecting the geology tetralogy (Basin and Range; In Suspect Terrain; Rising from the Plains; Assembling California) plus the new section Crossing the Craton.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/annals-of-the-former-world"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-control-of-nature",
   "title": "The Control of Nature",
   "author": "John McPhee",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-backed boards; copyright page states 'First edition, 1989'; first-state dust jacket with price present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-control-of-nature"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-sand-county-almanac-and-sketches-here-and-there",
   "title": "A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There",
   "author": "Aldo Leopold",
   "publisher": "Oxford University Press",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "nature-sports-outdoor",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Blue/blue-green cloth with silver lettering and decoration on the front board and spine; illustrated in black and white by Charles W. Schwartz; first-issue dust jacket priced 3.50 on the front flap; the dust-jacket flaps have NO mention of 'Round River,' which confirms the first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-sand-county-almanac-and-sketches-here-and-there"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sea-around-us",
   "title": "The Sea Around Us",
   "author": "Rachel Carson",
   "publisher": "Oxford University Press",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Blue cloth; first issue dated 1951 with no later-printing statement on the copyright page; first-state dust jacket. Published July 2, 1951.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sea-around-us"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-edge-of-the-sea",
   "title": "The Edge of the Sea",
   "author": "Rachel Carson",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Blue-green cloth stamped in black; illustrated in text by Bob Hines; copyright page states 'First Printing September 1955'; first-state dust jacket with the original unclipped price intact.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-edge-of-the-sea"
  },
  {
   "slug": "under-the-sea-wind",
   "title": "Under the Sea-Wind",
   "author": "Rachel Carson",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1941",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Blue-gray linen boards with gilt bird stamping to the front and a tan cloth spine bearing a blue paper label with gilt lettering; eight full-page illustrations by Howard Frech; first-state dust jacket with the original price on the front flap. Carson's scarce first book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/under-the-sea-wind"
  },
  {
   "slug": "wonderful-life-the-burgess-shale-and-the-nature-of-history",
   "title": "Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History",
   "author": "Stephen Jay Gould",
   "publisher": "W. W. Norton",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-backed boards; full number line on the copyright page ending in '1'; first-state dust jacket with price present. Illustrated.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/wonderful-life-the-burgess-shale-and-the-nature-of-history"
  },
  {
   "slug": "battle-cry-of-freedom-the-civil-war-era",
   "title": "Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era",
   "author": "James M. McPherson",
   "publisher": "Oxford University Press",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth; volume in the Oxford History of the United States; full number line on the copyright page descending to '1' with no later-printing statement; first-state dust jacket with price present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/battle-cry-of-freedom-the-civil-war-era"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-path-to-power-the-years-of-lyndon-johnson-vol-1",
   "title": "The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 1)",
   "author": "Robert A. Caro",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-backed boards; 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with the Borzoi colophon; first-state dust jacket with price present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-path-to-power-the-years-of-lyndon-johnson-vol-1"
  },
  {
   "slug": "means-of-ascent-the-years-of-lyndon-johnson-vol-2",
   "title": "Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 2)",
   "author": "Robert A. Caro",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Black cloth with gilt spine lettering; copyright page states 'First Edition' with the Borzoi colophon and no later-printing line; first-state dust jacket priced (24.95) and not clipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/means-of-ascent-the-years-of-lyndon-johnson-vol-2"
  },
  {
   "slug": "master-of-the-senate-the-years-of-lyndon-johnson-vol-3",
   "title": "Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 3)",
   "author": "Robert A. Caro",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Black cloth with gilt spine lettering; copyright page states 'First Edition' with the Borzoi colophon; first-state dust jacket priced (35.00) and not clipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/master-of-the-senate-the-years-of-lyndon-johnson-vol-3"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-denial-of-death",
   "title": "The Denial of Death",
   "author": "Ernest Becker",
   "publisher": "The Free Press (Macmillan)",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Navy cloth with white and gilt spine lettering; copyright page without a later-printing statement; first-state dust jacket priced (7.95). Published shortly before Becker's death.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-denial-of-death"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-fire-next-time",
   "title": "The Fire Next Time",
   "author": "James Baldwin",
   "publisher": "The Dial Press",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-backed boards; copyright page without a later-printing statement; first-state dust jacket priced 3.50 and not clipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-fire-next-time"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-promise-of-american-life",
   "title": "The Promise of American Life",
   "author": "Herbert Croly",
   "publisher": "Macmillan",
   "year": "1909",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth; 1909 title-page date with no later-impression statement. Published November 1909; reprinted June 1910, April 1911, and March 1912, so an undated-reprint statement or a later date indicates a subsequent printing. A landmark of Progressive-era political thought.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-promise-of-american-life"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-mind-of-the-south",
   "title": "The Mind of the South",
   "author": "W. J. Cash",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1941",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Gray cloth; 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page in Knopf's standard form with the Borzoi colophon; issued as a Borzoi Book. First-state dust jacket priced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-mind-of-the-south"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-strange-career-of-jim-crow",
   "title": "The Strange Career of Jim Crow",
   "author": "C. Vann Woodward",
   "publisher": "Oxford University Press",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth; 1955 first issue with no later-printing statement; first-state dust jacket priced. Grew out of his Richard Lectures at the University of Virginia.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-strange-career-of-jim-crow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-age-of-jackson",
   "title": "The Age of Jackson",
   "author": "Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown",
   "year": "1945",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth; copyright page noting first publication September 1945 with no later-printing statement; first-state dust jacket priced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-age-of-jackson"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-guns-of-august-companion-a-distant-mirror-the-calamitous",
   "title": "The Guns of August companion — A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century",
   "author": "Barbara W. Tuchman",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Black cloth (cloth-backed boards); 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with the Borzoi colophon; first-state dust jacket priced. Collates xx, 677 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-guns-of-august-companion-a-distant-mirror-the-calamitous"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-coming-of-the-war-1914",
   "title": "The Coming of the War, 1914",
   "author": "Bernadotte E. Schmitt",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1930",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Two volumes, publisher's cloth. As a Scribner book of this period, the first printing shows the Scribner capital 'A' on the copyright page; later printings lack the 'A' or carry a later letter or printing code. First printings appear in red cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-coming-of-the-war-1914"
  },
  {
   "slug": "re-lee-a-biography",
   "title": "R.E. Lee: A Biography",
   "author": "Douglas Southall Freeman",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Four volumes, publisher's cloth. First printings carry the Scribner capital 'A' on the copyright page of each volume; later printings lack it. Volumes one and two appeared October 1934, volumes three and four April 1935.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/re-lee-a-biography"
  },
  {
   "slug": "george-washington-biography",
   "title": "George Washington (biography)",
   "author": "Douglas Southall Freeman",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1948",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Seven volumes published 1948 through 1957, publisher's cloth. First printings carry the Scribner capital 'A' on the copyright page of each volume; later printings lack it.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/george-washington-biography"
  },
  {
   "slug": "eleanor-and-franklin",
   "title": "Eleanor and Franklin",
   "author": "Joseph P. Lash",
   "publisher": "W. W. Norton",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Single thick volume, cloth-backed boards, illustrated, in a priced first-state dust jacket. The Norton first printing carries its first-printing indicia on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/eleanor-and-franklin"
  },
  {
   "slug": "patriotic-gore-studies-in-the-literature-of-the-american-civ",
   "title": "Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War",
   "author": "Edmund Wilson",
   "publisher": "Oxford University Press",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Publisher's blue cloth, dated 1962 on the title page with no later-printing statement on the copyright page, in a priced first-state dust jacket. Collation xxxii plus 816 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/patriotic-gore-studies-in-the-literature-of-the-american-civ"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-liberal-imagination-essays-on-literature-and-society",
   "title": "The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society",
   "author": "Lionel Trilling",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Publisher's cloth in a priced first-state dust jacket (jacket design by Robert Hallock). The first printing states 'Published by The Viking Press in April 1950' on the copyright page with no later-printing statement. Collation xvi plus 303 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-liberal-imagination-essays-on-literature-and-society"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-other-america-poverty-in-the-united-states",
   "title": "The Other America: Poverty in the United States",
   "author": "Michael Harrington",
   "publisher": "Macmillan",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pale grey/textured grey cloth lettered on spine and front panel, 191 pp. The copyright page carries the 'First Printing' statement with no prior printing history and no number line, published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1962. First-state jacket priced (often found clipped).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-other-america-poverty-in-the-united-states"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-emperor-of-all-maladies-a-biography-of-cancer",
   "title": "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer",
   "author": "Siddhartha Mukherjee",
   "publisher": "Scribner",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-backed boards; copyright page reads 'First Scribner hardcover edition' with a full descending number line; first-state dust jacket priced. Published New York, November 2010.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-emperor-of-all-maladies-a-biography-of-cancer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sixth-extinction-an-unnatural-history",
   "title": "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History",
   "author": "Elizabeth Kolbert",
   "publisher": "Henry Holt and Company",
   "year": "2014",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-backed boards. Copyright page reads First Edition 2014. First-state dust jacket present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sixth-extinction-an-unnatural-history"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hemingses-of-monticello-an-american-family",
   "title": "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family",
   "author": "Annette Gordon-Reed",
   "publisher": "W. W. Norton & Company",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-backed boards. Copyright page carries a full number line descending to 1. First-state dust jacket present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hemingses-of-monticello-an-american-family"
  },
  {
   "slug": "embracing-defeat-japan-in-the-wake-of-world-war-ii",
   "title": "Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II",
   "author": "John W. Dower",
   "publisher": "W. W. Norton / The New Press",
   "year": "1999",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-backed boards. Joint Norton/New Press imprint on the copyright page with a full number line descending to 1. First-state dust jacket present. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/embracing-defeat-japan-in-the-wake-of-world-war-ii"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lincoln-at-gettysburg-the-words-that-remade-america",
   "title": "Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America",
   "author": "Garry Wills",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-backed boards. Copyright page carries a full number line reading down to 1. First-state dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lincoln-at-gettysburg-the-words-that-remade-america"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-haunted-land-facing-europes-ghosts-after-communism",
   "title": "The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism",
   "author": "Tina Rosenberg",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-backed boards. Copyright page states First Edition with the number line reading down to its lowest digit. First-state dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-haunted-land-facing-europes-ghosts-after-communism"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lindbergh",
   "title": "Lindbergh",
   "author": "A. Scott Berg",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-backed boards. Copyright page states First Edition with a full number line. First-state dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. Illustrated; roughly 628 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lindbergh"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-double-helix-a-personal-account-of-the-discovery-of-the",
   "title": "The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA",
   "author": "James D. Watson",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Atheneum, New York, 1968. The first printing states First Edition on the copyright page. First-state dust jacket is priced on the front flap and carries a photograph of the author in Paris with review excerpts on the rear panel. Harvard University Press had originally contracted the book and then withdrew it before publication, so the Atheneum issue is the first trade edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-double-helix-a-personal-account-of-the-discovery-of-the"
  },
  {
   "slug": "silent-spring-companion-instead-the-snow-leopard",
   "title": "Silent Spring companion — instead: The Snow Leopard",
   "author": "Peter Matthiessen",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The Viking Press, New York, 1978. The first printing is identified by the copyright-page statement that the book was first published in 1978 by The Viking Press, with no statement of a later printing. First-state dust jacket is priced on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/silent-spring-companion-instead-the-snow-leopard"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-tree-where-man-was-born",
   "title": "The Tree Where Man Was Born",
   "author": "Peter Matthiessen",
   "publisher": "E. P. Dutton",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1972, with color photographs by Eliot Porter. The first printing is identified by the first-printing statement on the copyright page and a priced first-state dust jacket on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-tree-where-man-was-born"
  },
  {
   "slug": "stride-toward-freedom-the-montgomery-story",
   "title": "Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story",
   "author": "Martin Luther King Jr.",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Harper & Brothers, New York, 1958. The first printing carries the Harper letter-code cipher H-H on the copyright page, denoting the first printing under Harper's month-year code system. First-state dust jacket is priced on the front flap. This was King's first book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/stride-toward-freedom-the-montgomery-story"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-autobiography-of-malcolm-x",
   "title": "The Autobiography of Malcolm X",
   "author": "Malcolm X with Alex Haley",
   "publisher": "Grove Press",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Black cloth lettered in gilt; copyright page states 'first printing'; first-issue dust jacket designed by Roy Kuhlman and priced on the front flap. Includes the M. S. Handler introduction and Alex Haley epilogue, with sixteen pages of photographic plates.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-autobiography-of-malcolm-x"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-origins-of-totalitarianism",
   "title": "The Origins of Totalitarianism",
   "author": "Hannah Arendt",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth; copyright page dated 1951 with no later-printing or revised-edition statement; first-state dust jacket priced. The text was published in Britain under the variant title 'The Burden of Our Time.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-origins-of-totalitarianism"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bridge-over-the-river-kwai-n-a-instead-eichmann-in-jerus",
   "title": "The Bridge over the River Kwai — n/a; instead: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil",
   "author": "Hannah Arendt",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Publisher's tan cloth stamped in red and black; copyright page with 1963 first-printing indicia and no later-printing statement; first-state dust jacket priced. The work was first serialized in The New Yorker.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bridge-over-the-river-kwai-n-a-instead-eichmann-in-jerus"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-theory-of-justice",
   "title": "A Theory of Justice",
   "author": "John Rawls",
   "publisher": "Belknap Press of Harvard University Press",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth; copyright page dated 1971 with no later-printing statement (later printings are explicitly numbered, e.g. a 1973 fifth printing); first-state dust jacket priced and unclipped. Collation xv, 607 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-theory-of-justice"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hiroshima-companion-instead-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-third-r",
   "title": "Hiroshima companion — instead: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich",
   "author": "William L. Shirer",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-backed boards; 'First Printing' stated on the copyright page; first-state dust jacket priced ten dollars on the front flap; roughly 1,245 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hiroshima-companion-instead-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-third-r"
  },
  {
   "slug": "all-the-presidents-men",
   "title": "All the President's Men",
   "author": "Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Blue cloth with title in white on the spine and blind-stamped title on the front board; full number line (1 through 10) on the copyright page; first-state dust jacket priced at eight dollars ninety-five cents on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/all-the-presidents-men"
  },
  {
   "slug": "working-people-talk-about-what-they-do-all-day",
   "title": "Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day...",
   "author": "Studs Terkel",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-backed boards; 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page (Pantheon, a division of Random House — first-printing number lines in this house may end in 2 rather than 1); first-state dust jacket priced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/working-people-talk-about-what-they-do-all-day"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-good-war-an-oral-history-of-world-war-two",
   "title": "The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two",
   "author": "Studs Terkel",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "One-piece dark blue cloth with silver spine lettering and a blind-stamped 'V' and title on the front board; 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page (dealer-described first printings show no number line); first-state dust jacket priced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-good-war-an-oral-history-of-world-war-two"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gandhis-truth-on-the-origins-of-militant-nonviolence",
   "title": "Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence",
   "author": "Erik H. Erikson",
   "publisher": "W. W. Norton",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; first printing carries a complete number line on the copyright page that includes the 1; first-state dust jacket is priced and not clipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gandhis-truth-on-the-origins-of-militant-nonviolence"
  },
  {
   "slug": "stilwell-and-the-american-experience-in-china-1911-45",
   "title": "Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45",
   "author": "Barbara W. Tuchman",
   "publisher": "The Macmillan Company",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Black cloth with silver spine lettering; copyright page carries Macmillan's first-printing statement; first-state dust jacket is priced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/stilwell-and-the-american-experience-in-china-1911-45"
  },
  {
   "slug": "parting-the-waters-america-in-the-king-years-1954-63",
   "title": "Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63",
   "author": "Taylor Branch",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-backed boards; full number line on the copyright page that includes the 1; first-state dust jacket priced at $24.95 and not clipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/parting-the-waters-america-in-the-king-years-1954-63"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-metaphysical-club-a-story-of-ideas-in-america",
   "title": "The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America",
   "author": "Louis Menand",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-backed boards; copyright page states 'First edition, 2001' with a complete number line; first-state dust jacket priced and not clipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-metaphysical-club-a-story-of-ideas-in-america"
  },
  {
   "slug": "what-hath-god-wrought-the-transformation-of-america-1815-184",
   "title": "What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848",
   "author": "Daniel Walker Howe",
   "publisher": "Oxford University Press",
   "year": "2007",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth; Oxford History of the United States volume; full number line down to 1 on the copyright page; first-state dust jacket priced and not clipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/what-hath-god-wrought-the-transformation-of-america-1815-184"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-ideological-origins-of-the-american-revolution",
   "title": "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution",
   "author": "Bernard Bailyn",
   "publisher": "Belknap Press of Harvard University Press",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth; the 1967 first lacks any 'Enlarged Edition' statement on the title page and copyright page. The dust jacket is priced. Distinguish from the 1992 enlarged edition, which adds a fourth chapter on the Constitution debate and is so identified.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-ideological-origins-of-the-american-revolution"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-radicalism-of-the-american-revolution",
   "title": "The Radicalism of the American Revolution",
   "author": "Gordon S. Wood",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-backed boards; 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with the Borzoi colophon. The dust jacket is priced. Book-club copies lack the priced jacket and the stated first-edition line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-radicalism-of-the-american-revolution"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-creation-of-the-american-republic-1776-1787",
   "title": "The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787",
   "author": "Gordon S. Wood",
   "publisher": "University of North Carolina Press",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth; published by the University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill) for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1969, with first-printing indicia on the copyright page and no later-printing statement. The dust jacket is priced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-creation-of-the-american-republic-1776-1787"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-midwifes-tale-the-life-of-martha-ballard-based-on-her-diar",
   "title": "A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812",
   "author": "Laurel Thatcher Ulrich",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-backed boards; 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with the Borzoi colophon. The dust jacket is priced. Distinguish from book-club issues, which are unpriced and lack the stated first-edition line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-midwifes-tale-the-life-of-martha-ballard-based-on-her-diar"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-fate-of-liberty-abraham-lincoln-and-civil-liberties",
   "title": "The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties",
   "author": "Mark E. Neely Jr.",
   "publisher": "Oxford University Press",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth; first printing carries a complete number line on the copyright page ending in '1' per Oxford's convention, with no later-printing statement. The dust jacket is priced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-fate-of-liberty-abraham-lincoln-and-civil-liberties"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mary-chesnuts-civil-war",
   "title": "Mary Chesnut's Civil War",
   "author": "C. Vann Woodward (editor)",
   "publisher": "Yale University Press",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth; Yale University Press (New Haven), 1981, with first-printing indicia on the copyright page and no later-printing statement. The dust jacket is priced. Later printings are so noted on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mary-chesnuts-civil-war"
  },
  {
   "slug": "praying-for-sheetrock-n-a-instead-lincoln-pulitzer-biography",
   "title": "Praying for Sheetrock — n/a; instead: Lincoln (Pulitzer biography)",
   "author": "David Herbert Donald",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of Donald's Lincoln has a complete number line on the copyright page descending to 1. Issued in cloth-backed boards (red and blue) with a price-bearing first-state dust jacket. Illustrated, 714 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/praying-for-sheetrock-n-a-instead-lincoln-pulitzer-biography"
  },
  {
   "slug": "eleanor-roosevelt-vol-1-1884-1933",
   "title": "Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 1, 1884-1933",
   "author": "Blanche Wiesen Cook",
   "publisher": "Viking",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has a complete number line on the copyright page descending to 1. Issued in cloth-backed boards with a price-bearing first-state dust jacket. First of a multi-volume biography.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/eleanor-roosevelt-vol-1-1884-1933"
  },
  {
   "slug": "his-excellency-george-washington-instead-founding-brothers-t",
   "title": "His Excellency: George Washington — instead: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation",
   "author": "Joseph J. Ellis",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf states 'First Edition' on the copyright page accompanied by the Borzoi colophon (Knopf house practice; no descending number line). Issued in cloth-backed boards with a price-bearing first-state dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/his-excellency-george-washington-instead-founding-brothers-t"
  },
  {
   "slug": "american-sphinx-the-character-of-thomas-jefferson",
   "title": "American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson",
   "author": "Joseph J. Ellis",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf states 'First Edition' on the copyright page accompanied by the Borzoi colophon (Knopf house practice; no descending number line). Issued in cloth-backed boards with a price-bearing first-state dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/american-sphinx-the-character-of-thomas-jefferson"
  },
  {
   "slug": "washington-a-life",
   "title": "Washington: A Life",
   "author": "Ron Chernow",
   "publisher": "The Penguin Press",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has a complete number line on the copyright page that includes (ends in) 1; later printings drop the 1. Issued in tan boards with a green spine, gilt lettering, and a price-bearing first-state dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/washington-a-life"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-power-broker-companion-instead-grant",
   "title": "The Power Broker companion — instead: Grant",
   "author": "Ron Chernow",
   "publisher": "The Penguin Press",
   "year": "2017",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has a complete number line on the copyright page that includes (ends in) 1; later printings drop the 1. Issued in cloth-backed boards with a price-bearing first-state dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-power-broker-companion-instead-grant"
  },
  {
   "slug": "no-ordinary-time-franklin-and-eleanor-roosevelt-the-home-fro",
   "title": "No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II",
   "author": "Doris Kearns Goodwin",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Quarter-cloth over boards. Copyright page states First Printing with a full number line; first-state jacket carries the original price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/no-ordinary-time-franklin-and-eleanor-roosevelt-the-home-fro"
  },
  {
   "slug": "slavery-by-another-name-the-re-enslavement-of-black-american",
   "title": "Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II",
   "author": "Douglas A. Blackmon",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Quarter-cloth over boards. Copyright page reads FIRST EDITION; first-state jacket is priced on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/slavery-by-another-name-the-re-enslavement-of-black-american"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-swerve-how-the-world-became-modern",
   "title": "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern",
   "author": "Stephen Greenblatt",
   "publisher": "W. W. Norton",
   "year": "2011",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Quarter-cloth over ochre boards with gilt spine lettering. Copyright page carries a number line; first-state jacket is priced on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-swerve-how-the-world-became-modern"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-night-country",
   "title": "The Night Country",
   "author": "Loren Eiseley",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Quarter-cloth over boards, illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher. Copyright page carries the Scribner letter A (or A with colophon) marking the first printing; first-state jacket is priced on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-night-country"
  },
  {
   "slug": "teaching-a-stone-to-talk-expeditions-and-encounters",
   "title": "Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters",
   "author": "Annie Dillard",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in cloth-backed boards with the Harper & Row FIRST EDITION statement and the publisher number line on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket carries the original price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/teaching-a-stone-to-talk-expeditions-and-encounters"
  },
  {
   "slug": "wisdom-of-the-body-n-a-instead-late-night-thoughts-on-listen",
   "title": "Wisdom of the Body — n/a; instead: Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony",
   "author": "Lewis Thomas",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition with the Viking number line on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket carries the original price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/wisdom-of-the-body-n-a-instead-late-night-thoughts-on-listen"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-youngest-science-notes-of-a-medicine-watcher",
   "title": "The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher",
   "author": "Lewis Thomas",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition with the Viking number line on the copyright page; tan or beige paper-covered boards with gilt author initials and a black cloth spine; first-issue dust jacket carries the original price. Issued in the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation series.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-youngest-science-notes-of-a-medicine-watcher"
  },
  {
   "slug": "an-anthropologist-on-mars-seven-paradoxical-tales",
   "title": "An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales",
   "author": "Oliver Sacks",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition stating First Edition with the Borzoi colophon on the copyright page; tan buckram with yellow paper over the boards; first-issue dust jacket (design by Barbara de Wilde) carries the original price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/an-anthropologist-on-mars-seven-paradoxical-tales"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-blind-watchmaker",
   "title": "The Blind Watchmaker",
   "author": "Richard Dawkins",
   "publisher": "Longman (UK) / W. W. Norton (US)",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Longman Scientific & Technical (Harlow/Essex) 1986, cloth in first-state priced dust jacket. UK issue precedes the US Norton issue of the same year.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-blind-watchmaker"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cod-a-biography-of-the-fish-that-changed-the-world",
   "title": "Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World",
   "author": "Mark Kurlansky",
   "publisher": "Walker and Company",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-backed boards; copyright page notes first US publication 1997 with a complete descending number line (lowest number 1); first-state jacket priced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cod-a-biography-of-the-fish-that-changed-the-world"
  },
  {
   "slug": "longitude-the-true-story-of-a-lone-genius",
   "title": "Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius...",
   "author": "Dava Sobel",
   "publisher": "Walker and Company",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Small cloth-backed boards; copyright page states first US publication 1995 with a complete descending number line; first-state priced jacket. The original first issue is the unillustrated trade text.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/longitude-the-true-story-of-a-lone-genius"
  },
  {
   "slug": "thinking-fast-and-slow",
   "title": "Thinking, Fast and Slow",
   "author": "Daniel Kahneman",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "2011",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-backed boards; copyright page carries the FSG dated statement 'First edition, 2011'; first-state priced dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/thinking-fast-and-slow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "h-is-for-hawk",
   "title": "H Is for Hawk",
   "author": "Helen Macdonald",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (UK) / Grove Press (US)",
   "year": "2014",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Jonathan Cape 2014, fawn boards with spine titled in black; complete number line on the copyright page ending in 1; jacket art by Chris Wormell after Sir William Nicholson, with original unclipped price on the first-state jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/h-is-for-hawk"
  },
  {
   "slug": "guns-of-august-legacy-instead-the-proud-tower-a-portrait-of",
   "title": "Guns of August legacy — instead: The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914",
   "author": "Barbara W. Tuchman",
   "publisher": "Macmillan",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, illustrated endpapers, 16 plates of black-and-white photographs; first printing stated on the copyright page; first-state dust jacket with the original price on the front flap (unclipped).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/guns-of-august-legacy-instead-the-proud-tower-a-portrait-of"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sea-around-us-legacy-instead-the-log-from-the-sea-of-cor",
   "title": "The Sea Around Us legacy — instead: The Log from the Sea of Cortez",
   "author": "John Steinbeck (with Edward F. Ricketts)",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Maroon cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering, maroon top stain, pictorial map endpapers; copyright page reads 'Published by The Viking Press in September 1951' with no later printings listed; frontispiece photos of Steinbeck and Ricketts; the narrative of the 1941 'Sea of Cortez' plus the new 67-page Ricketts profile 'About Ed Ricketts'; first-state dust jacket with original unclipped price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sea-around-us-legacy-instead-the-log-from-the-sea-of-cor"
  },
  {
   "slug": "persepolis-tome-1",
   "title": "Persepolis (Tome 1)",
   "author": "Marjane Satrapi",
   "publisher": "L'Association (Paris)",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "French-language original, softcover, L'Association, Collection Ciboulette, 2000, 76 pp (ISBN 2-84414-058-0; ISBN-13 978-2-84414-058-6). Black-and-white throughout. Earliest printing carries an achevé d'imprimer dated 2000.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/persepolis-tome-1"
  },
  {
   "slug": "embroideries",
   "title": "Embroideries",
   "author": "Marjane Satrapi",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books (New York); French original Broderies from L'Association (Paris)",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English-language edition: Pantheon Books hardcover, 2005, translated by Anjali Singh, with a full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page indicating the first printing. The French original Broderies (L'Association, 2003) is the true first appearance in any language.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/embroideries"
  },
  {
   "slug": "chicken-with-plums-poulet-aux-prunes",
   "title": "Chicken with Plums (Poulet aux prunes)",
   "author": "Marjane Satrapi",
   "publisher": "L'Association (Paris); English edition from Pantheon Books (New York)",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "French original Poulet aux prunes published by L'Association in 2004 is the true first. The first English-language edition is the Pantheon Books hardcover of 2006, translated by Anjali Singh, with a number line ending in 1 on the copyright page for the first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/chicken-with-plums-poulet-aux-prunes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "summer-blonde",
   "title": "Summer Blonde",
   "author": "Adrian Tomine",
   "publisher": "Drawn & Quarterly (Montreal)",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First book edition collecting Optic Nerve issues 5 through 8, Drawn & Quarterly, 2002, issued in both hardcover (with dust jacket) and softcover. A first printing carries no later-printing statement on the indicia; reprintings are noted there.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/summer-blonde"
  },
  {
   "slug": "shortcomings",
   "title": "Shortcomings",
   "author": "Adrian Tomine",
   "publisher": "Drawn & Quarterly (Montreal)",
   "year": "2007",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First book edition: Drawn & Quarterly hardcover with dust jacket, 2007, collecting Optic Nerve issues 9 through 11. A first printing carries no additional-printing statement on the indicia.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/shortcomings"
  },
  {
   "slug": "are-you-my-mother-a-comic-drama",
   "title": "Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama",
   "author": "Alison Bechdel",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Boston)",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt hardcover with dust jacket, 2012, ISBN 9780618982509 (ISBN-10 0618982507). A first printing shows a full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/are-you-my-mother-a-comic-drama"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-essential-dykes-to-watch-out-for",
   "title": "The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For",
   "author": "Alison Bechdel",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Boston)",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin (Mariner imprint), Boston, 2008, ISBN 978-0-618-96880-0, number line ending in 1 for the first printing. A 392-page career-spanning collection of the comic strip with a new cartoonist's introduction.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-essential-dykes-to-watch-out-for"
  },
  {
   "slug": "saga-volume-1",
   "title": "Saga, Volume 1",
   "author": "Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples",
   "publisher": "Image Comics (Berkeley, CA)",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trade paperback collecting Saga issues 1 through 6, Image Comics, October 2012, ISBN 978-1-60706-601-9. The first printing carries no additional-printing notation in the indicia. The single issue Saga number 1 (March 2012) is the key collectible and its first printing is identifiable by the absence of any reprint banner; it sold out and was reprinted several times.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/saga-volume-1"
  },
  {
   "slug": "y-the-last-man-vol-1-unmanned",
   "title": "Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned",
   "author": "Brian K. Vaughan & Pia Guerra",
   "publisher": "Vertigo/DC Comics (New York)",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trade paperback collecting Y: The Last Man issues 1 through 5, Vertigo (DC Comics), January 2003, ISBN 1-56389-980-9 (978-1-56389-980-5). The first printing carries no later-printing statement in the indicia.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/y-the-last-man-vol-1-unmanned"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lost-girls",
   "title": "Lost Girls",
   "author": "Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie",
   "publisher": "Top Shelf Productions (Marietta, GA)",
   "year": "2006",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Three-volume slipcased hardcover set, Top Shelf Productions, 2006, ISBN 1-891830-74-0 (978-1-891830-74-7). Each oversized volume has a sewn-signature binding and its own dust jacket, all housed in a slipcase. The first printing has no additional-printing statement. Explicit erotic content.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lost-girls"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hellboy-wake-the-devil",
   "title": "Hellboy: Wake the Devil",
   "author": "Mike Mignola",
   "publisher": "Dark Horse Comics (Milwaukie, OR)",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade paperback, Dark Horse Comics, 1997, ISBN 1-56971-226-X (978-1-56971-226-9), collecting the five-issue 1996 mini-series Hellboy: Wake the Devil. The first printing has the original cover and no later-printing statement in the indicia. The collected edition adds a new epilogue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hellboy-wake-the-devil"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hellboy-the-right-hand-of-doom",
   "title": "Hellboy: The Right Hand of Doom",
   "author": "Mike Mignola",
   "publisher": "Dark Horse Comics (Milwaukie, OR)",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade paperback, Dark Horse Comics, 2000, ISBN 1-56971-489-0 (978-1-56971-489-8), the fourth Hellboy collection. It gathers shorter stories, among them Box Full of Evil, The Varcolac, and the first-printed King Volmer, several appearing in color for the first time after earlier black-and-white anthology and Dark Horse Presents appearances. The first printing has no later-printing statement in the indicia.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hellboy-the-right-hand-of-doom"
  },
  {
   "slug": "palomar-the-heartbreak-soup-stories",
   "title": "Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories",
   "author": "Gilbert Hernandez",
   "publisher": "Fantagraphics Books (Seattle)",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Oversized cloth hardcover with dust jacket, Fantagraphics, 2003 (released December 2003), ISBN 1-56097-539-3, about 520 pages, collecting the complete Palomar / Heartbreak Soup stories. A first printing shows no later-printing statement on the indicia.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/palomar-the-heartbreak-soup-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "locas-the-maggie-and-hopey-stories",
   "title": "Locas: The Maggie and Hopey Stories",
   "author": "Jaime Hernandez",
   "publisher": "Fantagraphics Books (Seattle)",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Oversized hardcover with dust jacket, Fantagraphics, 2004 (first Fantagraphics edition September 2004), ISBN 1-56097-611-X, about 700 pages, bound in black boards with embossed figures of Maggie and Hopey. A first printing carries no later-printing statement on the indicia.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/locas-the-maggie-and-hopey-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-the-shadow-of-no-towers",
   "title": "In the Shadow of No Towers",
   "author": "Art Spiegelman",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books (New York)",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Oversized board-page hardcover that opens vertically, Pantheon, 2004, ISBN 0-375-42307-6. A first printing shows the number line ending in 1. Heavy card-stock pages throughout.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-the-shadow-of-no-towers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "asterios-polyp",
   "title": "Asterios Polyp",
   "author": "David Mazzucchelli",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books (New York)",
   "year": "2009",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover with printed paper-covered boards and French flaps (issued without a separate dust jacket), Pantheon, 2009 (July 2009), ISBN 0-307-37732-9. A first printing carries the full number line ending in 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/asterios-polyp"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sculptor",
   "title": "The Sculptor",
   "author": "Scott McCloud",
   "publisher": "First Second (New York)",
   "year": "2015",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Second, February 2015, ISBN 978-1-59643-573-5 (the hardcover; ISBN-10 1-59643-573-9), about 496 pages. A first printing carries the full number line ending in 1. The hardcover is the primary collectible first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sculptor"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cant-we-talk-about-something-more-pleasant",
   "title": "Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?",
   "author": "Roz Chast",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury (New York)",
   "year": "2014",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover with dust jacket, Bloomsbury USA, 2014, ISBN 978-1-60819-806-1. First printing identified by a complete number line descending to 1 on the copyright page. Chast's first long-form memoir, in color cartoons, photos, and documents.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cant-we-talk-about-something-more-pleasant"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pyongyang-a-journey-in-north-korea",
   "title": "Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea",
   "author": "Guy Delisle",
   "publisher": "Drawn & Quarterly (Montreal) / L'Association",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "French original 'Pyongyang' (L'Association, Paris, 2003) is the true first. First English edition: Drawn & Quarterly, 2005, translated by Helge Dascher, ISBN 1-896597-89-0 (978-1-896597-89-8), first printing with no statement of a later printing on the indicia.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pyongyang-a-journey-in-north-korea"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-photographer",
   "title": "The Photographer",
   "author": "Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre & Frédéric Lemercier",
   "publisher": "First Second (New York) / Dupuis (Le Photographe)",
   "year": "2009",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "French original 'Le Photographe' (Dupuis, three volumes, 2003-2006) is the true first. First English edition: First Second, 2009, one-volume English-language edition translated by Alexis Siegel, ISBN 978-1-59643-375-5, first printing with no statement of a later printing on the indicia.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-photographer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-plot-the-secret-story-of-the-protocols-of-the-elders-of",
   "title": "The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion",
   "author": "Will Eisner",
   "publisher": "W. W. Norton (New York)",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover with dust jacket, W. W. Norton, 2005, with an introduction by Umberto Eco titled 'The Power of Falsehood', ISBN 0-393-06045-4 (978-0-393-06045-4). First printing identified by a complete number line descending to 1 on the copyright page. Eisner's final completed book, published posthumously in 2005.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-plot-the-secret-story-of-the-protocols-of-the-elders-of"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cages",
   "title": "Cages",
   "author": "Dave McKean",
   "publisher": "Kitchen Sink Press (Northampton, MA)",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First complete one-volume collected edition, Kitchen Sink Press, 1998, gathering the ten-issue series (issues 1-10, Tundra then Kitchen Sink, 1990-1996) into a single hardcover of roughly 500 pages. First printing identified by the Kitchen Sink 1998 indicia with no later-printing statement. A signed and numbered limited hardcover, issued in a slipcase with an audio CD of McKean's music bound in and signed by McKean (limited to 1000 copies), is a distinct collectible state alongside the standard trade hardcover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cages"
  },
  {
   "slug": "signal-to-noise",
   "title": "Signal to Noise",
   "author": "Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz / VG Graphics (London)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First book edition: Victor Gollancz (VG Graphics imprint), London, 1992, collecting and revising the serialization that ran in The Face. Issued the same year in both a pictorial-board hardcover (ISBN 057505140X; no dust jacket was issued) and a softcover (ISBN 0575052848), with an introduction by Jonathan Carroll added for the book. The US Dark Horse edition also appeared in 1992. First printing identified by indicia with no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/signal-to-noise"
  },
  {
   "slug": "stuck-rubber-baby",
   "title": "Stuck Rubber Baby",
   "author": "Howard Cruse",
   "publisher": "Paradox Press / DC Comics (New York)",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Paradox Press (a DC Comics imprint), 1995, with an introduction by Tony Kushner. Issued in both a hardcover-with-dust-jacket state and a large-format paperback in the same year. First printing identified by the 1995 Paradox Press indicia with no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/stuck-rubber-baby"
  },
  {
   "slug": "life",
   "title": "Life",
   "author": "Keith Richards (with James Fox)",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "music-film-pop",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition: October 2010' with a full number line ending in 1; ISBN 978-0-316-03438-8; brown boards lettered in silver on cover and spine, octavo, with color and black-and-white photographs; first-printing jackets are not price-clipped. Published October 2010 by Little, Brown.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/life"
  },
  {
   "slug": "born-to-run",
   "title": "Born to Run",
   "author": "Bruce Springsteen",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "2016",
   "genre": "music-film-pop",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trade first edition: full number line ending in 1; 508 pages; jacketed hardcover ISBN 978-1-5011-4151-5 (the 9781501141522 ISBN is also associated with the trade); published September 27, 2016. Publisher-issued signed trade copies were signed in black ink on a specially bound page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/born-to-run"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-philosophy-of-andy-warhol-from-a-to-b-and-back-again",
   "title": "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)",
   "author": "Andy Warhol (ghostwritten w/ Pat Hackett & Bob Colacello)",
   "publisher": "Harcourt Brace Jovanovich",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "music-film-pop",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, August 1975; quarter cloth over paper boards bound in yellow and red-orange, stamped in black and white; 241 pp; unclipped jacket. Stated first with no later printing indicated. ISBN 0-15-189050-1 (9780151890507).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-philosophy-of-andy-warhol-from-a-to-b-and-back-again"
  },
  {
   "slug": "psychotic-reactions-and-carburetor-dung",
   "title": "Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung",
   "author": "Lester Bangs (edited by Greil Marcus)",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "music-film-pop",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Knopf hardcover, 1987; 386 pp; ISBN 0-394-53896-X (9780394538969). Look for stated 'First Edition' with the Borzoi colophon and a full number line ending in 1. Published five years posthumously.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/psychotic-reactions-and-carburetor-dung"
  },
  {
   "slug": "writings-and-drawings",
   "title": "Writings and Drawings",
   "author": "Bob Dylan",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "music-film-pop",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Knopf, 1973; issued in laminated pictorial boards (distinctive pink tone, with a photo of Dylan on the lower cover) WITHOUT dust jacket as issued; quarto, 368 pp; illustrated endpapers and full-page line drawings by Dylan; ISBN 0-394-48243-3. Stated first with no later printing on the copyright page; Borzoi imprint.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/writings-and-drawings"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hammer-of-the-gods-the-led-zeppelin-saga",
   "title": "Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga",
   "author": "Stephen Davis",
   "publisher": "William Morrow",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "music-film-pop",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US William Morrow hardcover, 1985 (US publication May 1985); ISBN 0-688-04507-X (9780688045074). Look for stated 'First Edition' and a number line ending in 1; jacketed octavo. Became a bestseller in later paperback.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hammer-of-the-gods-the-led-zeppelin-saga"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-river-runs-through-it-and-other-stories",
   "title": "A River Runs Through It and Other Stories",
   "author": "Norman Maclean",
   "publisher": "University of Chicago Press",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "nature-sports-outdoor",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First state has the typo 'adways' for 'always' in the fifth paragraph of p. 27; the copyright page carries an ISBN that is missing a digit, with the correct, different ISBN on the rear dust-jacket flap; copyright page states 'Published 1976' with no number line; jacket price 7.95 on the top inside front flap; xiv, 217 pp.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-river-runs-through-it-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "summer-of-49",
   "title": "Summer of '49",
   "author": "David Halberstam",
   "publisher": "William Morrow",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "nature-sports-outdoor",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a number line descending to 1; William Morrow boards; price-present dust jacket (price-clipping removes that point). Chronicle of the 1949 Yankees-Red Sox pennant race and the DiMaggio-Williams rivalry.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/summer-of-49"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-field-guide-to-the-birds",
   "title": "A Field Guide to the Birds",
   "author": "Roger Tory Peterson",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "nature-sports-outdoor",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First issue: '1934' printed in the title-page imprint (not only on the verso); the index misprints 'bog-pumper' as 'bob-pumper'; the four color plates carry tissue guards with descriptive letterpress; the Whistling Swan and White (Common) Egret plumages are printed gray or 'dirty.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-field-guide-to-the-birds"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-river-never-sleeps",
   "title": "A River Never Sleeps",
   "author": "Roderick L. Haig-Brown",
   "publisher": "William Morrow",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "nature-sports-outdoor",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US printing: viii, 352 pp, black-and-white illustrations by Louis Darling (twelve full-page plates); William Morrow imprint dated 1946 on the title page; octavo in original beige cloth, spine lettered in blue with a blue fish illustration on the upper board.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-river-never-sleeps"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-compleat-angler-or-the-contemplative-mans-recreation",
   "title": "The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation",
   "author": "Izaak Walton",
   "publisher": "Printed by T. Maxey for Richard Marriot (London)",
   "year": "1653",
   "genre": "nature-sports-outdoor",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, London, 1653, small octavo; imprint 'Printed by T. Maxey for Rich. Marriot' (Maxey of Paul's Wharf). Engraved title within a piscatorial cartouche; small copperplate engravings of fish within the text; two engraved pages of Henry Lawes music. Reported counts of the in-text fish engravings vary across sources (commonly given as around six, occasionally more), so confirm against the specific copy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-compleat-angler-or-the-contemplative-mans-recreation"
  },
  {
   "slug": "north-with-the-spring",
   "title": "North with the Spring",
   "author": "Edwin Way Teale",
   "publisher": "Dodd, Mead & Company",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "nature-sports-outdoor",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1951; subtitle 'A Naturalist's Record of a 17,000-Mile Journey with the North American Spring'; the first volume of the 'American Seasons' quartet. Confirm Dodd, Mead's first-printing convention on the copyright page and a price-bearing trade dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/north-with-the-spring"
  },
  {
   "slug": "my-first-summer-in-the-sierra",
   "title": "My First Summer in the Sierra",
   "author": "John Muir",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1911",
   "genre": "nature-sports-outdoor",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade edition, Houghton Mifflin, 1911 (published June 1911), with illustrations from the author's pencil sketches and from photographs (plates by Herbert W. Gleason and others) and a folding map; issued under the Riverside Press imprint. The first printing carries the 1911 imprint and no statement of later printings on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/my-first-summer-in-the-sierra"
  },
  {
   "slug": "far-away-and-long-ago-a-history-of-my-early-life",
   "title": "Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life",
   "author": "W. H. Hudson",
   "publisher": "J. M. Dent / E. P. Dutton",
   "year": "1918",
   "genre": "nature-sports-outdoor",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition: J. M. Dent (London), 1918, in original cloth; first US: E. P. Dutton (New York), 1918. Both first printings carry the 1918 imprint with no later-printing statement. Hudson's memoir of his early life as a naturalist on the Argentine pampas.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/far-away-and-long-ago-a-history-of-my-early-life"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mastering-the-art-of-french-cooking-volume-one",
   "title": "Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Volume One)",
   "author": "Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "cookbooks-collectible",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with no later printings listed (Knopf convention: the statement is present on the first printing and removed on later printings). Patterned fleur-de-lis boards with turquoise stars; black-and-white titling on orange fields; orange top-stain. Dust jacket front flap bears the code '10/61' and the unclipped price of ten dollars. The rear 'Note About the Authors' is dated August 1961 (and erroneously states all three authors graduated from the Cordon Bleu). Typography, binding, and jacket by Warren Chappell.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mastering-the-art-of-french-cooking-volume-one"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-joy-of-cooking-privately-printed-first-edition",
   "title": "The Joy of Cooking (privately printed first edition)",
   "author": "Irma S. Rombauer",
   "publisher": "A. C. Clayton Printing Co. (St. Louis), self-published by the author",
   "year": "1931",
   "genre": "cookbooks-collectible",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Self-published in an edition of roughly 3,000 copies. Printed by A. C. Clayton Printing Co. of St. Louis (a label printer that had never before printed a book), with no further printings noted. Cover and chapter-head silhouettes designed by the author's daughter Marion Rombauer, the cover depicting St. Martha of Bethany subduing a tarasque.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-joy-of-cooking-privately-printed-first-edition"
  },
  {
   "slug": "serve-it-forth",
   "title": "Serve It Forth",
   "author": "M. F. K. Fisher (Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher)",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers (New York)",
   "year": "1937",
   "genre": "cookbooks-collectible",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page carries 'First Edition' together with the Harper letter-code 'D-M' (in the Harper system, the second letter M = 1937). Octavo, about 253 pages; orange cloth stamped in black and gilt; pink endpapers; illustrated dust jacket priced two dollars fifty. Fisher's first book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/serve-it-forth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "consider-the-oyster",
   "title": "Consider the Oyster",
   "author": "M. F. K. Fisher",
   "publisher": "Duell, Sloan and Pearce (New York)",
   "year": "1941",
   "genre": "cookbooks-collectible",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in original gray cloth boards stamped in white; about 116 pages; illustrated dust jacket with the two-dollar price intact. Copyright page without later-printing notation.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/consider-the-oyster"
  },
  {
   "slug": "how-to-cook-a-wolf",
   "title": "How to Cook a Wolf",
   "author": "M. F. K. Fisher",
   "publisher": "Duell, Sloan and Pearce (New York)",
   "year": "1942",
   "genre": "cookbooks-collectible",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in gray cloth over boards, with the title stamped in white ink on the backstrip and a white-ink wolf vignette on the front board; octavo, about 261 pages, with an illustrated dust jacket. The copyright page carries no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/how-to-cook-a-wolf"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-book-of-mediterranean-food",
   "title": "A Book of Mediterranean Food",
   "author": "Elizabeth David",
   "publisher": "John Lehmann (London)",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "cookbooks-collectible",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Octavo in original pink tweed cloth, the backstrip blocked in brown and lettered in gilt, in the John Minton illustrated dust wrapper (coloured Mediterranean bay and table scene, plus black-and-white Minton decorations within). The jacket is priced 10s 6d net on the front flap, as called for. David's first book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-book-of-mediterranean-food"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hors-doeuvre-and-canap-s-with-a-key-to-the-cocktail-party",
   "title": "Hors d'Oeuvre and Canapés (With a Key to the Cocktail Party)",
   "author": "James Beard",
   "publisher": "M. Barrows & Company (New York)",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "cookbooks-collectible",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Octavo, about 189 pages, illustrated; lavishly produced for its day. The copyright page carries the 1940 M. Barrows imprint and no later-printing data. Beard's first book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hors-doeuvre-and-canap-s-with-a-key-to-the-cocktail-party"
  },
  {
   "slug": "james-beards-american-cookery",
   "title": "James Beard's American Cookery",
   "author": "James Beard",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company (Boston)",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "cookbooks-collectible",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing per Little, Brown convention: the copyright page states First Edition with no later-printing line (Little, Brown stated First Edition or First Printing from 1940 until adopting number lines in the later 1970s). Thick octavo of about 877 pages, illustrated by Earl Thollander, in publisher's cloth. Verify the First Edition slug and the absence of any later-printing indication.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/james-beards-american-cookery"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-classic-italian-cook-book-the-art-of-italian-cooking-and",
   "title": "The Classic Italian Cook Book: The Art of Italian Cooking and the Italian Art of Eating",
   "author": "Marcella Hazan",
   "publisher": "Harper's Magazine Press (New York)",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "cookbooks-collectible",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first bears the Harper's Magazine Press imprint, dated 1973; original boards, illustrations by George Koizumi, with the copyright page carrying no later-printing notation. Hazan's first book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-classic-italian-cook-book-the-art-of-italian-cooking-and"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-edna-lewis-cookbook",
   "title": "The Edna Lewis Cookbook",
   "author": "Edna Lewis (with Evangeline Peterson)",
   "publisher": "The Bobbs-Merrill Company (Indianapolis/New York)",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "cookbooks-collectible",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition carries the Bobbs-Merrill imprint, dated 1972; recipes arranged in seasonal menu form (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Christmas). Jacket design by Norman Ives with a photograph by John T. Hill. The copyright page carries no later-printing data; Bobbs-Merrill of this period did not use a consistent stated-first slug, so identification rests on the 1972 imprint and the absence of later-printing notation. Lewis's first book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-edna-lewis-cookbook"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-taste-of-country-cooking",
   "title": "The Taste of Country Cooking",
   "author": "Edna Lewis",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "cookbooks-collectible",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first follows Knopf convention: the copyright page states 'First Edition' with no later-printing line; 1976 copyright. Hardcover in dust jacket, a Borzoi book edited by Judith Jones. The ISBN 0-394-73215-4 (978-0394732152) is the Vintage trade-paperback reissue format, not the original hardcover first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-taste-of-country-cooking"
  },
  {
   "slug": "an-invitation-to-indian-cooking",
   "title": "An Invitation to Indian Cooking",
   "author": "Madhur Jaffrey",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "cookbooks-collectible",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf first-edition convention: the copyright page states 'First Edition' with no later-printing line; 1973 copyright (ISBN 0-394-48172-0). Decorated coverboards and endpapers; line illustrations by the author. About 285 pp. Jaffrey's first book; later inducted into the James Beard Cookbook Hall of Fame (2006).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/an-invitation-to-indian-cooking"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-cuisines-of-mexico",
   "title": "The Cuisines of Mexico",
   "author": "Diana Kennedy",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row (New York)",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "cookbooks-collectible",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing per Harper & Row convention: the copyright page states 'First Edition' with no later-printing code; 1972 copyright (ISBN 0-06-012344-3). About 378 pp., rust cloth-covered boards, drawings by Sidonie Coryn, color illustrations. Kennedy's first book; foreword by Craig Claiborne.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-cuisines-of-mexico"
  },
  {
   "slug": "naked-lunch-the-naked-lunch",
   "title": "Naked Lunch (The Naked Lunch)",
   "author": "William S. Burroughs",
   "publisher": "The Olympia Press (Paris)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "high-spots-2: Modern-firsts cornerstone / high-spot long tail — landmark debut novels, banned/controversial landmarks, and association-significant base titles of the standard modern-firsts collecting canon, each with verified points of issue.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Titled 'The Naked Lunch'; Traveller's Companion Series no. 76, in an edition of about 5,000 copies. Key first-issue point: a green decorative border to the title page. The earliest state has 'Francs: 1.500' printed on the lower rear wrapper. Pictorial wrapper/jacket designed by Brion Gysin.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/naked-lunch-the-naked-lunch"
  },
  {
   "slug": "go-tell-it-on-the-mountain",
   "title": "Go Tell It on the Mountain",
   "author": "James Baldwin",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "high-spots-2: Modern-firsts cornerstone / high-spot long tail — landmark debut novels, banned/controversial landmarks, and association-significant base titles of the standard modern-firsts collecting canon, each with verified points of issue.",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Per Knopf convention, the copyright page states 'First Edition' with no later-printing line. Cloth binding with blue top-stained edge, gilt spine lettering, and the Borzoi colophon. First-issue jacket designed by John O'Hara Cosgrave II, priced '3.50' net on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/go-tell-it-on-the-mountain"
  },
  {
   "slug": "less-than-zero",
   "title": "Less Than Zero",
   "author": "Bret Easton Ellis",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster (New York)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "gaps-signed-limited: collectible debut novels and signed/limited-edition landmarks (late 20th / early 21st c.), with verified points of issue. Franklin Library / Easton Press cases addressed honestly (facsimile signatures; trade firsts usually precede).",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing has a complete number line ending in 1 on the copyright page. Quarter cloth over black paper-covered boards; dust jacket priced $15.95, unclipped; 208 pp. ISBN 0-671-54329-6.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/less-than-zero"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bright-lights-big-city",
   "title": "Bright Lights, Big City",
   "author": "Jay McInerney",
   "publisher": "Vintage Books / Vintage Contemporaries (New York)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "gaps-signed-limited: collectible debut novels and signed/limited-edition landmarks (late 20th / early 21st c.), with verified points of issue. Franklin Library / Easton Press cases addressed honestly (facsimile signatures; trade firsts usually precede).",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trade paperback original (no hardcover first). Issued in the Vintage Contemporaries series with its distinctive cover design; $5.95 price on the rear wrap; complete number line ending in 1. ISBN 0-394-72641-3. 5-1/4 x 8 inches, 182 pp.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bright-lights-big-city"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-poisonwood-bible",
   "title": "The Poisonwood Bible",
   "author": "Barbara Kingsolver",
   "publisher": "HarperFlamingo (HarperCollins, New York)",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "gaps-signed-limited: collectible debut novels and signed/limited-edition landmarks (late 20th / early 21st c.), with verified points of issue. Franklin Library / Easton Press cases addressed honestly (facsimile signatures; trade firsts usually precede).",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Stated 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page with a complete number line ending in 1. Dust jacket priced 'USA $26.00 / Canada $38.00', unclipped. Yellow-orange spine with black lettering; dark paper-covered boards; 546 pp. ISBN 0-06-017540-0.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-poisonwood-bible"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lovely-bones",
   "title": "The Lovely Bones",
   "author": "Alice Sebold",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company (Boston)",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "gaps-signed-limited: collectible debut novels and signed/limited-edition landmarks (late 20th / early 21st c.), with verified points of issue. Franklin Library / Easton Press cases addressed honestly (facsimile signatures; trade firsts usually precede).",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing has a complete number line including 1. Turquoise and navy cloth and boards; colorful pictorial dust jacket with the $21.95 price intact and unclipped. ISBN 0-316-66634-3.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lovely-bones"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-kite-runner",
   "title": "The Kite Runner",
   "author": "Khaled Hosseini",
   "publisher": "Riverhead Books (Penguin, New York)",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "gaps-signed-limited: collectible debut novels and signed/limited-edition landmarks (late 20th / early 21st c.), with verified points of issue. Franklin Library / Easton Press cases addressed honestly (facsimile signatures; trade firsts usually precede).",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright-page number line reads '1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2' — this exact sequence is the key first-printing point. Quarter black cloth spine over green boards with gilt lettering; pictorial dust jacket priced $24.95, unclipped. ISBN 1-57322-245-3.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-kite-runner"
  },
  {
   "slug": "revolutionary-road",
   "title": "Revolutionary Road",
   "author": "Richard Yates",
   "publisher": "Atlantic-Little, Brown",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued as 'An Atlantic Monthly Press Book' (Atlantic Monthly Press / Little, Brown). Quarter cloth over boards, spine lettered in gilt; jacket design by Tony Palladino. First-issue dust jacket carries the price 4.75 on the front flap (not 4.50). An advance/review state exists in a distinct promotional jacket bearing publisher praise.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/revolutionary-road"
  },
  {
   "slug": "eleven-kinds-of-loneliness",
   "title": "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness",
   "author": "Richard Yates",
   "publisher": "Atlantic-Little, Brown",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued as 'An Atlantic Monthly Press Book' (Atlantic Monthly Press / Little, Brown). Apple-green cloth with the publisher's emblem blindstamped on the front board, spine lettered in black; jacket design by Ivan Chermayeff with the price 4.50 on the front flap. First printings carry no later-printing line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/eleven-kinds-of-loneliness"
  },
  {
   "slug": "omensetters-luck",
   "title": "Omensetter's Luck",
   "author": "William Gass",
   "publisher": "New American Library",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Gass's debut novel, New American Library, 1966. Half black cloth over blue boards; jacket carries blurbs by Susan Sontag and Walker Percy and is priced 5.95 on the front flap. First printing identified by the absence of any later-printing line on the copyright page. A small printing was made.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/omensetters-luck"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-the-heart-of-the-heart-of-the-country",
   "title": "In the Heart of the Heart of the Country",
   "author": "William Gass",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Harper & Row, 1968. Yellow cloth with the publisher's device stamped in red on the front board, spine lettered in red and purple, yellow top-stain; orange endpapers. First-issue dust jacket priced 4.95 on the front flap. First printing shows no later-printing notation (Ahearn APG 002). Gass's second book and first story collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-the-heart-of-the-heart-of-the-country"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dick-gibson-show",
   "title": "The Dick Gibson Show",
   "author": "Stanley Elkin",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House first printing states First Edition on the copyright page AND carries a number line whose lowest digit is 2 (for example 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9), per the Random House convention used from 1970 to about 2002; first-issue jacket with the original price. Orange paper-covered boards with a radio-head figure on the front board.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dick-gibson-show"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-living-end",
   "title": "The Living End",
   "author": "Stanley Elkin",
   "publisher": "E. P. Dutton",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Dutton first printing carries a full number line including the 1; issued as A Henry Robbins Book; first-issue jacket with the original price on the front flap. A short novella in three sections (a triptych) that first appeared in American Review, Antaeus, and TriQuarterly.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-living-end"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-origin-of-the-brunists",
   "title": "The Origin of the Brunists",
   "author": "Robert Coover",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam first printing with no later-printing line on the copyright page. First-state dust jacket has the spine title BRUNISTS set too wide, measuring about 1-5/8 inches tall; the second-state jacket reduced the font so the spine title measures about 1-3/8 inches. Coover's first novel; winner of the William Faulkner Foundation Award for best first novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-origin-of-the-brunists"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-universal-baseball-association-inc-j-henry-waugh-prop",
   "title": "The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.",
   "author": "Robert Coover",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House, New York, 1968. First printing stated on the copyright page per Random House practice of the period (the words 'First Edition' / 'First Printing'). Octavo, 242 pages; tan paper-covered boards over red pictorial cloth, spine stamped in silver; dust jacket designed by Adelson & Eichinger with original price to the front flap. Frequently catalogued under the short title 'The Universal Baseball Association.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-universal-baseball-association-inc-j-henry-waugh-prop"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-public-burning",
   "title": "The Public Burning",
   "author": "Robert Coover",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The Viking Press, New York, 1977. First edition with the printed statement 'First published in 1977 by The Viking Press' on the copyright page and no statement of a later printing; quarter white cloth over black paper boards, 534 pages; first-issue dust jacket carrying the original price to the flap. The Rosenberg/Nixon novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-public-burning"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-violent-bear-it-away",
   "title": "The Violent Bear It Away",
   "author": "Flannery O'Connor",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Cudahy",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Farrar, Straus and Cudahy imprint (the pre-FSG name) with the copyright page reading only 'Copyright 1955, 1960 by Flannery O'Connor' and NO printing or edition statement; the first printing is identified by the absence of any later-printing indication. Cloth-backed patterned boards; 243 pages; published 8 February 1960; first-issue jacket designed by Milton Glaser. O'Connor's second novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-violent-bear-it-away"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-member-of-the-wedding",
   "title": "The Member of the Wedding",
   "author": "Carson McCullers",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Houghton Mifflin (Riverside Press, Cambridge) first; yellow cloth stamped in black; 1946 on the title and copyright pages with no later-printing line; 195 pages; first-issue dust jacket. McCullers's third book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-member-of-the-wedding"
  },
  {
   "slug": "flowering-judas-and-other-stories",
   "title": "Flowering Judas and Other Stories",
   "author": "Katherine Anne Porter",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace & Company",
   "year": "1930",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the 1930 Harcourt, Brace issue, a signed limited edition of 600 numbered copies, containing six stories ('Maria Concepcion,' 'Magic,' 'Rope,' 'He,' 'The Jilting of Granny Weatherall,' and the title story). Gray paper-covered boards with brown cloth backstrip, gilt spine titling. Identify it by the limitation leaf stating one of 600 copies, signed by Porter. Porter's first book. Note the 1930 title was simply 'Flowering Judas'; 'and Other Stories' belongs to the enlarged edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/flowering-judas-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pale-horse-pale-rider",
   "title": "Pale Horse, Pale Rider",
   "author": "Katherine Anne Porter",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace & Company",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First American trade edition, Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939. Octavo in sage green cloth, titles stamped in black on spine and front cover, yellow top stain; gathers three short novels (Old Mortality, Noon Wine, and the title novel Pale Horse, Pale Rider); 'first edition' stated on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket with the original printed flap price. Author-inscribed and presentation copies exist but are individual associations, not a formally designated issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pale-horse-pale-rider"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ceremony-in-lone-tree",
   "title": "Ceremony in Lone Tree",
   "author": "Wright Morris",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Atheneum first edition, 1960; cloth with gilt spine titles; first-issue dust jacket with the original printed flap price. A documented first-issue point: the earliest copies were affected by uneven gold-leaf stamping on the spine, leading the publisher to recall and have copies rebound, with notices sent to review editors. Sequel to The Field of Vision, drawing on its characters.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ceremony-in-lone-tree"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-home-place",
   "title": "The Home Place",
   "author": "Wright Morris",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1948",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-a",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Charles Scribner's Sons first edition, 1948; rust/full cloth; an experimental photo-text book pairing Morris's black-and-white photographs facing each page of narrative; first-issue dust jacket with the original printed flap price. The copyright page of the first printing shows the Scribner seal and bears no statement of a later printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-home-place"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-risk-pool",
   "title": "The Risk Pool",
   "author": "Richard Russo",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Quarter cloth over paper boards, jacket design by Robert Aulicino, original price intact on the front flap. The Random House first printing states First Edition on the copyright page together with a number line ending in 2 (not 1), per Random House practice of that era. Russo's second novel and his first book issued in hardcover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-risk-pool"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nobodys-fool",
   "title": "Nobody's Fool",
   "author": "Richard Russo",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Quarter gray cloth over light-gray paper boards, blue lettering on the front board and spine; original price intact on the front jacket flap. The Random House first printing states First Edition on the copyright page together with a number line ending in 2 (not 1), per Random House practice of that era.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nobodys-fool"
  },
  {
   "slug": "affliction",
   "title": "Affliction",
   "author": "Russell Banks",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Harper & Row first printing: 'First Edition' stated with a full number line including 1 on the copyright page; original price present on the jacket flap; blue boards with maroon (dark) cloth spine and silver spine lettering. Basis for the 1997 film.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/affliction"
  },
  {
   "slug": "legends-of-the-fall",
   "title": "Legends of the Fall",
   "author": "Jim Harrison",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition so stated on the copyright page (first printing statement present); full cloth binding with color endpapers; [x],276,[2] pp.; jacket art by Russell Chatham, unclipped with original price. First printing of 12,000 copies (Orr & Torrey bibliography A14.c).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/legends-of-the-fall"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sporting-club",
   "title": "The Sporting Club",
   "author": "Thomas McGuane",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "McGuane's first novel. Simon & Schuster first printing with First Edition stated on the copyright page; jacket designed by Paul Bacon, with the original price unclipped on the front flap. Octavo, approximately 220 pp.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sporting-club"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-gospel-singer",
   "title": "The Gospel Singer",
   "author": "Harry Crews",
   "publisher": "William Morrow",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Original lime paper-covered boards, stamped in black, in an unclipped dust jacket priced 4.95; octavo, 248 pp.; jacket blurb by Andrew Lytle. Crews's first novel and first book; first printing of roughly 4,000 copies per the Ahearn Author Price Guide.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-gospel-singer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-feast-of-snakes",
   "title": "A Feast of Snakes",
   "author": "Harry Crews",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing published by Atheneum, New York, 1976; blue cloth boards, blind-stamped on the upper board and lettered in silver at the spine, with orange topstain; dust jacket priced on the front flap. One of Crews's best-known novels.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-feast-of-snakes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-voyage-of-the-narwhal",
   "title": "The Voyage of the Narwhal",
   "author": "Andrea Barrett",
   "publisher": "W.W. Norton & Company",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-b",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Norton first edition, first printing, with a complete number line descending to 1 on the copyright page and the original price present on the front jacket flap. Hardcover, ISBN 0-393-04632-X. A novel of a 19th-century Arctic expedition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-voyage-of-the-narwhal"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-tin-can-tree",
   "title": "The Tin Can Tree",
   "author": "Anne Tyler",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Tyler's second novel, in a quarter-cloth binding with a blind-stamped front board. The copyright page states FIRST EDITION with the Knopf borzoi device. The first-issue dust jacket carries the date code 10/65 at the lower corner of the front flap with the price intact.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-tin-can-tree"
  },
  {
   "slug": "searching-for-caleb",
   "title": "Searching for Caleb",
   "author": "Anne Tyler",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf, New York, 1976 (title page dated 1976). The true first states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page with the borzoi colophon; white cloth spine over blue paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt, in the original unclipped dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/searching-for-caleb"
  },
  {
   "slug": "once-poems",
   "title": "Once: Poems",
   "author": "Alice Walker",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace & World",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Walker's first book. Published by Harcourt, Brace & World in 1968; cloth-backed boards, 81 pp. Copyright page carries the year and a stated First edition with no later-printing statement. Original dust jacket with the price unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/once-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-third-life-of-grange-copeland",
   "title": "The Third Life of Grange Copeland",
   "author": "Alice Walker",
   "publisher": "Harcourt Brace Jovanovich",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Walker's second book and first novel. Paper-covered boards over a red cloth spine, titles stamped in silver; 247 pp. Copyright page states First edition. Original dust jacket priced and unclipped on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-third-life-of-grange-copeland"
  },
  {
   "slug": "jacklight",
   "title": "Jacklight",
   "author": "Louise Erdrich",
   "publisher": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Erdrich's first book (poetry). Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984 (ISBN 0-03-068682-2), a trade paperback original issued in stiff pictorial wrappers with cover design by David Gatti; 85 pp. Confirm the 1984 first-printing state and absence of later printing statements.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/jacklight"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tracks",
   "title": "Tracks",
   "author": "Louise Erdrich",
   "publisher": "Henry Holt",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1988 (ISBN 0-8050-0895-0); 226 pp. 'First Edition' stated with the number line on the copyright page; original quarter burgundy cloth with speckled paper-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, in an unclipped pictorial dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tracks"
  },
  {
   "slug": "linden-hills",
   "title": "Linden Hills",
   "author": "Gloria Naylor",
   "publisher": "Ticknor & Fields",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Naylor's second novel. Ticknor & Fields, New York, 1985. The dust jacket was designed and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg (a confirmed and notable point). The first printing is identified by the printing statement on the copyright page; a true first carries the original unclipped jacket. Confirm the copyright page shows no later-printing indication.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/linden-hills"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mama-day",
   "title": "Mama Day",
   "author": "Gloria Naylor",
   "publisher": "Ticknor & Fields",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ticknor & Fields, New York, 1988. First-edition copies have blue paper-covered boards with a brown cloth spine, copper spine lettering, and illustrated endpapers. The first printing is identified by the printing statement on the copyright page with no later-printing indication; a true first carries the original unclipped dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mama-day"
  },
  {
   "slug": "at-the-bottom-of-the-river",
   "title": "At the Bottom of the River",
   "author": "Jamaica Kincaid",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Kincaid's first book, a story collection. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1983. The true first carries the stated 'First Printing 1983' on the copyright page (verso of the title page); orange paper-covered boards quarter-bound in green cloth, with the original price-intact dust jacket. The stories first appeared in The New Yorker.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/at-the-bottom-of-the-river"
  },
  {
   "slug": "annie-john",
   "title": "Annie John",
   "author": "Jamaica Kincaid",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Kincaid's first novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1985. The true first has the stated 'First printing' on the copyright page (verso of the title page) with no additional printings indicated, and the original unclipped dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/annie-john"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-small-place",
   "title": "A Small Place",
   "author": "Jamaica Kincaid",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-c",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Book-length essay on Antigua. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1988. The true first has the stated 'First printing' on the copyright page; jacket design by Cynthia Krupat, with the original price-intact dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-small-place"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-wall-of-the-sky-the-wall-of-the-eye",
   "title": "The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye",
   "author": "Jonathan Lethem",
   "publisher": "Harcourt Brace & Company",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Lethem's first story collection (seven stories), Harcourt Brace & Company, New York, 1996 (ISBN 0-15-100180-4). The copyright page states 'First edition' with Harcourt's descending letter line ending in 'A'; confirm the original dust jacket price is present and unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-wall-of-the-sky-the-wall-of-the-eye"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-end-of-alice",
   "title": "The End of Alice",
   "author": "A.M. Homes",
   "publisher": "Scribner",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Scribner hardcover, 1996, ISBN 0-684-81528-1, with a number line ending in 1 and the Scribner colophon on the copyright page. Homes's third novel. Confirm an unclipped jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-end-of-alice"
  },
  {
   "slug": "self-help",
   "title": "Self-Help",
   "author": "Lorrie Moore",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Borzoi/Knopf copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' with the publisher's number-line present and descending to a terminal '1'; Borzoi colophon. Quarter grey cloth over grey paper boards, silver spine lettering; dust jacket priced on the front flap. ISBN 0-394-53921-4. Moore's debut story collection. The terminal '1' in the number-line is decisive, because a later printing of the first edition can retain the words 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page while the number-line no longer reaches '1'.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/self-help"
  },
  {
   "slug": "who-will-run-the-frog-hospital",
   "title": "Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?",
   "author": "Lorrie Moore",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Borzoi/Knopf copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' with the number-line descending to a terminal '1'; Borzoi colophon. Quarter grey cloth over grey paper boards with gilt lettering; confirm the jacket flap price is unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/who-will-run-the-frog-hospital"
  },
  {
   "slug": "birds-of-america",
   "title": "Birds of America",
   "author": "Lorrie Moore",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Borzoi/Knopf copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' with the full number-line ending in a terminal '1'; Borzoi colophon. Confirm the dust-jacket front-flap price is present and unclipped. Moore's best-known and most-collected story collection (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/birds-of-america"
  },
  {
   "slug": "reasons-to-live",
   "title": "Reasons to Live",
   "author": "Amy Hempel",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Borzoi/Knopf copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' with the number-line descending to a terminal '1'; Borzoi colophon. White paper boards with a grey cloth spine, silver lettering on the front cover and spine; priced dust jacket (spine of the jacket is commonly sunned/darkened). ISBN 0-394-53993-1. Hempel's debut collection (contains 'In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried').",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/reasons-to-live"
  },
  {
   "slug": "jesus-son",
   "title": "Jesus' Son",
   "author": "Denis Johnson",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "FSG first edition, first printing, identified by a full number line descending to 1 on the copyright page and the FSG imprint. Octavo, bound in black textured boards with metallic spine lettering, in the standard FSG dust jacket. A small first print run makes the true first hardcover genuinely scarce. Confirm the original jacket price is present and unclipped on the first-printing jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/jesus-son"
  },
  {
   "slug": "veronica",
   "title": "Veronica",
   "author": "Mary Gaitskill",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pantheon first edition, first printing, with a full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page and the Pantheon colophon. National Book Award finalist. Confirm the original jacket price is present and unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/veronica"
  },
  {
   "slug": "state-of-grace",
   "title": "State of Grace",
   "author": "Joy Williams",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday first edition, copyright 1973. The reliable point of issue is the stated 'First Edition' on the copyright page; on Doubleday books of this era that statement appears only on first printings (it is dropped on later printings), often accompanied by a Doubleday letter/week dating code. Do not rely on a descending number line, since Doubleday did not consistently use one in this period. Williams's debut novel and a 1974 National Book Award for Fiction finalist. Uncorrected proofs exist and are prized.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/state-of-grace"
  },
  {
   "slug": "taking-care",
   "title": "Taking Care",
   "author": "Joy Williams",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House first edition with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page accompanied by a number line whose lowest number is 2 (Random House first-printing convention of roughly 1970-2002: the stated 'First Edition' plus a line such as '2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9'). If the 'First Edition' statement is absent and the line begins at 2, it is a later printing. Williams's first story collection. Confirm an unclipped jacket price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/taking-care"
  },
  {
   "slug": "breaking-and-entering",
   "title": "Breaking and Entering",
   "author": "Joy Williams",
   "publisher": "Vintage Contemporaries (Random House)",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued as a Vintage Contemporaries trade paperback original, copyright 1988 (ISBN 0-394-75773-4). As a paperback original there is no preceding hardcover, so this printing is the true first. Confirm a first-printing number line on the copyright page; later reprints add a printing notice.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/breaking-and-entering"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-quick-and-the-dead",
   "title": "The Quick and the Dead",
   "author": "Joy Williams",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Borzoi/Knopf first edition with 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page and a full descending number line to 1; Borzoi colophon. ISBN 0-679-44646-X. First hardcover printing published October 2000. A 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist. First-state dust jacket should be present and unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-quick-and-the-dead"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-girl-in-the-flammable-skirt",
   "title": "The Girl in the Flammable Skirt",
   "author": "Aimee Bender",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' with a full number line descending to 1; Doubleday anchor colophon. ISBN 0-385-49215-4 (9780385492157). Published July 1998. Bender's debut story collection and a New York Times Notable Book; the most collected Bender title, with signed and inscribed copies sought after.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-girl-in-the-flammable-skirt"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-particular-sadness-of-lemon-cake",
   "title": "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake",
   "author": "Aimee Bender",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' with a full number line descending to 1; Doubleday anchor colophon. A true first carries the unclipped flap price. Bender's best-known novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-particular-sadness-of-lemon-cake"
  },
  {
   "slug": "st-lucys-home-for-girls-raised-by-wolves",
   "title": "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves",
   "author": "Karen Russell",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "2006",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Borzoi/Knopf copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' with a full number line descending to 1; Borzoi colophon. Yellow boards with an orange backstrip, spine lettered in silver. Russell's debut, ten stories.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/st-lucys-home-for-girls-raised-by-wolves"
  },
  {
   "slug": "swamplandia",
   "title": "Swamplandia!",
   "author": "Karen Russell",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "2011",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Borzoi/Knopf copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' with a full number line descending to 1; Borzoi colophon. A true first carries the unclipped flap price. Russell's first novel (2012 Pulitzer finalist), which grew out of 'Ava Wrestles the Alligator' in St. Lucy's.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/swamplandia"
  },
  {
   "slug": "magic-for-beginners",
   "title": "Magic for Beginners",
   "author": "Kelly Link",
   "publisher": "Small Beer Press",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the Small Beer Press hardcover, published July 2005 (not September), ISBN 1-931520-15-1 (9781931520157). Small Beer issued the hardcover in two states: a signed, hand-numbered limited edition of 150 copies in cobalt-blue pearl linen cloth with two tipped-in plates, and a trade hardcover. Both precede the later mass-market Harcourt/Harvest trade edition. A true first carries no later-printing notice; second printing followed in October 2005.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/magic-for-beginners"
  },
  {
   "slug": "everything-ravaged-everything-burned",
   "title": "Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned",
   "author": "Wells Tower",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "2009",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-d",
   "firstEditionPoints": "FSG first edition, ISBN 978-0-374-29219-5, with a full number line descending to 1 on the copyright page and the FSG imprint. Tower's debut collection, widely listed among the best books of 2009; the hardcover is the collectible first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/everything-ravaged-everything-burned"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-rachel-papers",
   "title": "The Rachel Papers",
   "author": "Martin Amis",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Original black cloth boards with gilt-stamped spine titling, top edge stained pink; octavo, 227 pp. Copyright page reads 'First published 1973' with no later-printing line. Amis's debut novel, which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1974.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-rachel-papers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-information",
   "title": "The Information",
   "author": "Martin Amis",
   "publisher": "Flamingo (HarperCollins)",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition states 'First published in Great Britain in 1995 by Flamingo' on the copyright page; hardback in publisher's boards with the typographic Flamingo dust jacket. Note that Amis signed so many copies under his large publicity-driven advance that unsigned first-printing copies are comparatively scarce, so a signature alone does not establish priority.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-information"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-memoirs-of-a-survivor",
   "title": "The Memoirs of a Survivor",
   "author": "Doris Lessing",
   "publisher": "Octagon Press",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first published by Octagon Press, London, in 1974 - an unusual small-press first for Lessing. Octavo, green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, in dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-memoirs-of-a-survivor"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-shadow-of-the-sun",
   "title": "The Shadow of the Sun",
   "author": "A.S. Byatt",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Byatt's debut novel. The true first edition of 1964 was published under the title 'Shadow of a Sun' (singular article), not 'The Shadow of the Sun'. Cecil Day-Lewis, then at Chatto & Windus, persuaded Byatt to change her intended title to the more euphonious 'Shadow of a Sun' for publication. First published 1964 by Chatto & Windus in blue cloth with a dust jacket priced 21s. Scarce in jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-shadow-of-the-sun"
  },
  {
   "slug": "possession-a-romance",
   "title": "Possession: A Romance",
   "author": "A.S. Byatt",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First published 1990 by Chatto & Windus; winner of the 1990 Booker Prize. The first-issue dust jacket is priced 13.95 (net) on the front flap, not 13.99. Subtitle 'A Romance' on title page; decorative boards, green top-stain to the text block, with silk ribbon marker. Her most collected book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/possession-a-romance"
  },
  {
   "slug": "oranges-are-not-the-only-fruit",
   "title": "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit",
   "author": "Jeanette Winterson",
   "publisher": "Pandora Press",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first published by Pandora Press, London, 1985 - NOT Bloomsbury, Vintage, or Grove. Critically, the Pandora first was a paperback original in illustrated wrappers, never a hardcover, so there are no 'boards' to look for. Winterson's debut; won the Whitbread Award for a First Novel. Scarce in the original wrappers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/oranges-are-not-the-only-fruit"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-heather-blazing",
   "title": "The Heather Blazing",
   "author": "Colm Toibin",
   "publisher": "Picador",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by Picador, London, 1992, as a hardcover: octavo, [vi]+245pp, black cloth boards stamped in gilt, in the publisher's illustrated dust jacket (price 14.99 to the flap, author photo to the rear flap). Toibin's second novel; won the Encore Award.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-heather-blazing"
  },
  {
   "slug": "what-are-you-like",
   "title": "What Are You Like?",
   "author": "Anne Enright",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "authors-tier2-e: British/Irish literary deep bibliographies (Martin Amis, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright, John Banville)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by Jonathan Cape, London, 2000, as 'a Jonathan Cape Original' paperback (ISBN 0224060635); first edition, first printing. Enright's second novel; shortlisted for the 2000 Whitbread Novel Award and a winner of the Encore Award.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/what-are-you-like"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cien-a-os-de-soledad-one-hundred-years-of-solitude-spanish-f",
   "title": "Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude — Spanish first)",
   "author": "Gabriel García Márquez",
   "publisher": "Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "World true first edition, in the original Spanish, in printed wrappers (Colección Índice). The decisive first-printing point is the wrapper illustration: the first printing carries the blue galleon (sailing ship) floating over a jungle, designed in-house by Iris Pagano because Vicente Rojo's intended design was not ready in time. From the second printing onward the wrappers carry Vicente Rojo's design of small symbols set in nine blue frames. The colophon of the first printing records that printing was completed on the thirtieth of May 1967 ('treinta de mayo'). First print run was about 8,000 copies.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cien-a-os-de-soledad-one-hundred-years-of-solitude-spanish-f"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-time-of-the-hero",
   "title": "The Time of the Hero",
   "author": "Mario Vargas Llosa (trans. Lysander Kemp)",
   "publisher": "Grove Press, New York",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition. Grove Press, New York, 1966, cloth in dust jacket, translated by Lysander Kemp. Translation of 'La ciudad y los perros.' This was Vargas Llosa's first book translated into English. First American edition, first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-time-of-the-hero"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-house-of-the-spirits",
   "title": "The House of the Spirits",
   "author": "Isabel Allende (trans. Magda Bogin)",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf, New York",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US/first English edition, Alfred A. Knopf, 1985 (published April 12, 1985), cloth in dust jacket. Translated by Magda Bogin (not Margaret Sayers Peden, who translated Allende's later titles). A recognized first-printing point of issue is on page 147, where the first state shows a defective line break (an incomplete line 11); later printings correct this. First printing otherwise per Knopf practice (no later printing statement). Signed copies exist.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-house-of-the-spirits"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-gospel-according-to-jesus-christ",
   "title": "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ",
   "author": "José Saramago (trans. Giovanni Pontiero)",
   "publisher": "The Harvill Press, London",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition is the UK Harvill Press hardcover, 1993, in dust jacket (ISBN 0-00-271357-8 / 9780002713573), translated by Giovanni Pontiero. The US Harcourt Brace edition followed in 1994. Collectors seeking the first edition in English should take the 1993 Harvill, not the 1994 Harcourt.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-gospel-according-to-jesus-christ"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-family-of-pascual-duarte",
   "title": "The Family of Pascual Duarte",
   "author": "Camilo José Cela (trans. John Marks; later Anthony Kerrigan)",
   "publisher": "Eyre & Spottiswoode, London",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition is the UK Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946, translated by John Marks, issued under the title 'Pascual Duarte's Family' (not 'The Family of Pascual Duarte'). Cloth in dust jacket. This precedes the better-known Anthony Kerrigan translation, which appeared as 'The Family of Pascual Duarte' from Little, Brown (Boston, 1964).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-family-of-pascual-duarte"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hive",
   "title": "The Hive",
   "author": "Camilo José Cela (trans. J. M. Cohen with Arturo Barea)",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz, London / Farrar, Straus & Young, New York",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition appeared in 1953, translated by J. M. Cohen (with Arturo Barea) and carrying Arturo Barea's introduction, published in London by Victor Gollancz and in New York by Farrar, Straus & Young. Both are 1953; the precise priority between the UK and US issues is not firmly established, so neither should be asserted as the sole first English without copy-specific evidence.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hive"
  },
  {
   "slug": "chronicle-of-a-death-foretold",
   "title": "Chronicle of a Death Foretold",
   "author": "Gabriel García Márquez (trans. Gregory Rabassa)",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape, London (first English); Alfred A. Knopf, New York (first US)",
   "year": "1982 (Cape, first English); 1983 (Knopf, first US)",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first English-language edition is Jonathan Cape, London, 1982, translated by Gregory Rabassa. The first US edition is Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1983 (cloth in dust jacket). Both are firsts in their respective markets, but the UK Cape edition precedes the US Knopf edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/chronicle-of-a-death-foretold"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-name-of-the-rose-il-nome-della-rosa",
   "title": "The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa)",
   "author": "Umberto Eco",
   "publisher": "Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (New York)",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition in English, translated by William Weaver, issued as a Helen and Kurt Wolff Book. The first printing states 'First edition' on the copyright page with the letterline 'B C D E' flush left and the HBJ slug present; the absence of 'A' is the Harcourt first-printing convention. Quarter-bound in cream cloth backstrip over rose (sometimes described as mauve) paper-covered boards, with the title and decoration stamped in copper on spine and front cover; illustrated abbey-plan endpapers. 502 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-name-of-the-rose-il-nome-della-rosa"
  },
  {
   "slug": "foucaults-pendulum-il-pendolo-di-foucault",
   "title": "Foucault's Pendulum (Il pendolo di Foucault)",
   "author": "Umberto Eco",
   "publisher": "Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (New York)",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US trade edition in English, translated by William Weaver. The first printing states 'First edition' on the copyright page with the letterline beginning at 'B' ('B C D E'); the 'A' is suppressed, which is the Harcourt first-printing convention. Dust jacket priced to the front flap, unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/foucaults-pendulum-il-pendolo-di-foucault"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-emigrants-die-ausgewanderten",
   "title": "The Emigrants (Die Ausgewanderten)",
   "author": "W. G. Sebald",
   "publisher": "Harvill Press (London)",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, translated by Michael Hulse, published clothbound by The Harvill Press, London, 1996. This was the first of Sebald's books to appear in English and includes the integrated black-and-white photographs. The US edition (New Directions) followed in 1997 as a paperback.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-emigrants-die-ausgewanderten"
  },
  {
   "slug": "my-struggle-book-one-min-kamp-1",
   "title": "My Struggle: Book One (Min kamp 1)",
   "author": "Karl Ove Knausgaard",
   "publisher": "Archipelago Books (Brooklyn, NY)",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English-language edition, translated by Don Bartlett, titled My Struggle: Book One, published by Archipelago Books, 2012 (ISBN 9780914671008). Issued as a TRADE PAPERBACK ORIGINAL — there was no Archipelago hardcover first. The first edition is identified by the Archipelago imprint and the absence of any later-edition statement on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/my-struggle-book-one-min-kamp-1"
  },
  {
   "slug": "doctor-zhivago",
   "title": "Doctor Zhivago",
   "author": "Boris Pasternak",
   "publisher": "Collins and Harvill Press (London) / Pantheon Books (New York)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition: translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari, with 'The Poems of Yurii Zhivago' rendered by Bernard Guilbert Guerney. The UK Collins & Harvill edition (London, 1958) is the one usually cited as the first English: octavo, publisher's red cloth with gilt and black spine lettering, 510 pages including the poems at the rear, dust jacket designed by John Woodcock priced 21 shillings net. The US Pantheon edition appeared the same year; identify a Pantheon first printing by a copyright page that carries no later-printing statement, as the title saw many rapid impressions.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/doctor-zhivago"
  },
  {
   "slug": "one-day-in-the-life-of-ivan-denisovich",
   "title": "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich",
   "author": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn",
   "publisher": "E. P. Dutton (New York) / Frederick A. Praeger (New York)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Two competing 1963 US editions from different translators, which are different books rather than printings of one another. The Ralph Parker translation (Dutton, New York) and the Max Hayward & Ronald Hingley translation (Praeger, New York, which bills itself the 'only authorized edition') both appeared in 1963, reportedly close together early in the year. Identify a Dutton first by its stated edition with no later-printing line; the Praeger carries the 'authorized' notice on the title page or jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/one-day-in-the-life-of-ivan-denisovich"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-first-circle-v-kruge-pervom",
   "title": "The First Circle (V kruge pervom)",
   "author": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row (New York) / Collins & Harvill Press (London)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English appeared in 1968 in two distinct translations. The US Harper & Row 1968 edition uses the Thomas P. Whitney translation; identify its first printing by the stated first edition or a number line ending in 1. The UK Collins & Harvill 1968 edition does NOT use the Whitney text — it uses a separate translation credited to 'Michael Guybon,' a pseudonym for the team of Max Hayward, Manya Harari, and Michael Glenny; identify it by the Collins & Harvill imprint and first-impression statement. Both are based on the censored 87-chapter text.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-first-circle-v-kruge-pervom"
  },
  {
   "slug": "confessions-of-a-mask-kamen-no-kokuhaku",
   "title": "Confessions of a Mask (Kamen no Kokuhaku)",
   "author": "Yukio Mishima",
   "publisher": "New Directions (New York)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First American edition, first printing, translated by Meredith Weatherby. New Directions imprint with no later-printing statement; bound in publisher's maroon cloth lettered in white. Original dust jacket. This was Mishima's first novel issued in English, though not his first book in English (The Sound of Waves, Knopf 1956, preceded it).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/confessions-of-a-mask-kamen-no-kokuhaku"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-key-kagi",
   "title": "The Key (Kagi)",
   "author": "Jun'ichiro Tanizaki",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition, translated by Howard Hibbett, with the Borzoi (Knopf) colophon and the publisher's first-edition statement on the copyright page. The competing UK edition (Secker & Warburg, London) was published the same year, 1961, in midnight-blue cloth lettered in silver with a pictorial jacket; both use the Hibbett translation.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-key-kagi"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hard-boiled-wonderland-and-the-end-of-the-world-sekai-no-owa",
   "title": "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Sekai no Owari to Hardboiled Wonderland)",
   "author": "Haruki Murakami",
   "publisher": "Kodansha International (Tokyo/New York)",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in English, translated by Alfred Birnbaum. Published by Kodansha International, ISBN 4-7700-1544-5. The first printing is identified by the copyright-page reading 'First edition, 1991' followed by a number line counting down to 1 (printer's key 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Issued in quarter black cloth over paper-covered boards stamped in silver, in a pictorial dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hard-boiled-wonderland-and-the-end-of-the-world-sekai-no-owa"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-wind-up-bird-chronicle-nejimakidori-kuronikuru",
   "title": "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Nejimakidori Kuronikuru)",
   "author": "Haruki Murakami",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English-language edition, translated by Jay Rubin. Borzoi (running-borzoi) colophon on the copyright page; first printing carries the full descending number line ending in '1'. Collates viii, 611, [3] pages. Issued in an unclipped pictorial dust jacket. The English text is abridged from the Japanese: Rubin cut roughly three chapters and about 25,000 words at the publisher's request.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-wind-up-bird-chronicle-nejimakidori-kuronikuru"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-elephant-vanishes",
   "title": "The Elephant Vanishes",
   "author": "Haruki Murakami",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition of the collection (first thus): the seventeen stories were selected and assembled in English by Murakami's Knopf editor Gary Fisketjon, so the collection as such exists first in this English-language form. Translated by Alfred Birnbaum and Jay Rubin. Borzoi colophon on the copyright page; first printing carries the full number line. Issued in a pictorial dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-elephant-vanishes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-interpreters",
   "title": "The Interpreters",
   "author": "Wole Soyinka",
   "publisher": "Andre Deutsch (London)",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Andre Deutsch, London, 1965. Orange boards with the spine lettered and ruled in gilt; dust jacket priced 21s. Soyinka's first novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-interpreters"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ake-the-years-of-childhood",
   "title": "Ake: The Years of Childhood",
   "author": "Wole Soyinka",
   "publisher": "Rex Collings (London)",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Rex Collings, London, 1981. Boards with dust jacket. Memoir of Soyinka's Yoruba childhood. The first US edition (Random House, New York) follows.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ake-the-years-of-childhood"
  },
  {
   "slug": "julys-people",
   "title": "July's People",
   "author": "Nadine Gordimer",
   "publisher": "Ravan Press / Taurus (Johannesburg)",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Ravan Press / Taurus, Johannesburg, 1981. Hardcover, octavo, dust jacket. The South African edition was published to reach local readers and was promptly banned by the apartheid regime. UK (Jonathan Cape) and US (Viking) editions appeared the same year, 1981, and are treated as near-simultaneous.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/julys-people"
  },
  {
   "slug": "my-name-is-red-benim-adim-kirmizi",
   "title": "My Name Is Red (Benim Adim Kirmizi)",
   "author": "Orhan Pamuk",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York) / Faber & Faber (London)",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, 2001, translated by Erdag M. Goknar. The US Knopf issue carries the Borzoi colophon and a number line ending in 1 on the first printing, with a priced dust jacket. Faber & Faber issued the UK edition the same year. The Turkish original appeared in 1998. Won the International Dublin (IMPAC) Literary Award in 2003.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/my-name-is-red-benim-adim-kirmizi"
  },
  {
   "slug": "snow-kar",
   "title": "Snow (Kar)",
   "author": "Orhan Pamuk",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York) / Faber & Faber (London)",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, 2004, translated by Maureen Freely. The US Knopf issue carries the Borzoi colophon and a number line including 1 on the first printing, with a priced dust jacket. Faber & Faber issued the UK edition the same year. The Turkish original appeared in 2002.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/snow-kar"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-thing-around-your-neck",
   "title": "The Thing Around Your Neck",
   "author": "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie",
   "publisher": "Fourth Estate (London) / Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "2009",
   "genre": "world-lit-translated-3",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition story collection, 2009, issued by Fourth Estate in the UK and Alfred A. Knopf in the US, both dated to the same release in late May 2009. Boards with dust jacket. The UK Fourth Estate carries no later-printing statement on the true first; the US Knopf carries a number line ending in 1 on its first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-thing-around-your-neck"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-scarlet-letter-a-romance",
   "title": "The Scarlet Letter: A Romance",
   "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne",
   "publisher": "Ticknor, Reed & Fields (Boston)",
   "year": "1850",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing of 2,500 copies, Ticknor, Reed & Fields, Boston, 1850, in brown cloth with blind-stamped covers. The most cited first-printing reading is 'reduplicate' for 'repudiate' at page 21, line 20; scholars note this arose from two settings of the gathering containing page 21, so it is best described as a first-printing textual reading rather than an absolute point of issue. The first printing does NOT contain the additional 'Custom-House' preface note. Confirm the 1850 imprint and the early textual readings on any given copy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-scarlet-letter-a-romance"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-house-of-the-seven-gables",
   "title": "The House of the Seven Gables",
   "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne",
   "publisher": "Ticknor, Reed & Fields (Boston)",
   "year": "1851",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing of 1,690 copies, Ticknor, Reed & Fields, Boston, 1851 (BAL 7604), in brown cloth with the publisher's name gilt-stamped on the spine. First-printing points: the advertisement catalogue at the FRONT (bound between the endpapers) is dated March 1851 in the earliest state, and the type is battered on page 149. Later states carry ads dated May 1851, and subsequent printings carry ads dated October 1851 or January 1853.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-house-of-the-seven-gables"
  },
  {
   "slug": "moby-dick-or-the-whale",
   "title": "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale",
   "author": "Herman Melville",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers (New York) — US; Richard Bentley (London) — UK",
   "year": "1851",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US first (Harper, 14 November 1851): titled 'Moby-Dick; or, The Whale,' issued in a single volume in a stated printing of around 2,915 copies, and it CONTAINS the Epilogue plus roughly thirty-five further passages omitted from the earlier London edition. First-issue copies are bound in publisher's cloth found in a range of colors (recorded examples include black, blue, grey, green, purple-brown, red, and slate) with NO established priority among them; the distinctive orange-coated endpapers are a recognized feature of the Harper edition. UK first (Bentley, 18 October 1851): titled 'The Whale,' a three-volume set, blue cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/moby-dick-or-the-whale"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court",
   "title": "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court",
   "author": "Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)",
   "publisher": "Charles L. Webster & Co. (New York)",
   "year": "1889",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US first (Webster, 1889), illustrated throughout by Dan Beard, in publisher's subscription cloth, gilt-stamped. The accepted first-state point is the presence of a small S-like ornament within the caption on page 59 (between the words THE and KING); the second state lacks that ornament. Issued without the half-title on the recto of the frontispiece. The UK Chatto & Windus edition appeared the same year under the title 'A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-innocents-abroad",
   "title": "The Innocents Abroad",
   "author": "Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)",
   "publisher": "American Publishing Co. (Hartford)",
   "year": "1869",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US subscription first edition, American Publishing Co., Hartford, 1869 (BAL 3316). First-issue points: 1869 on both title and copyright pages; the double frontispiece; the last table-of-contents entry on page xviii reading 'Thankless Devotion - A Newspaper Valedictory'; 'XLI' on page 643; and the rear advertisements including the 'Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant' notice. Sold by subscription, so binding styles (cloth, sheep, half morocco) vary.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-innocents-abroad"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-raven-and-other-poems",
   "title": "The Raven and Other Poems",
   "author": "Edgar Allan Poe",
   "publisher": "Wiley & Putnam (New York)",
   "year": "1845",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First book appearance of 'The Raven,' issued November 19, 1845 in Wiley & Putnam's 'Library of American Books' (No. VIII). The volume was first issued separately in printed pink paper wrappers (the rarest and earliest state); it was also issued, and from early 1846 bound together with Poe's 'Tales' (1845), in publisher's dark green cloth stamped in blind with gilt spine lettering. Earliest copies include the half-title and the publisher's series and advertisement leaves.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-raven-and-other-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tales-1845",
   "title": "Tales (1845)",
   "author": "Edgar Allan Poe",
   "publisher": "Wiley & Putnam (New York)",
   "year": "1845",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Volume in Wiley & Putnam's 'Library of American Books,' New York, 1845, containing 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue,' 'The Purloined Letter,' 'The Gold-Bug,' 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' and others (BAL 16146; Queen's Quorum 1). Combined run of about 750 copies, issued in tan printed wrappers and in cloth, with NO established priority between wrappered and cloth copies. Two states are recorded, one with and one without the printer's and stereotyper's names, again with no priority assigned. Look for the correct three-line Wiley & Putnam copyright notice and the 'Library of American Books' half-title.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tales-1845"
  },
  {
   "slug": "adventures-of-gordon-pym-the-narrative-of-arthur-gordon-pym",
   "title": "Adventures of Gordon Pym (The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket)",
   "author": "Edgar Allan Poe",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers (New York) — US; Wiley & Putnam (London) — UK",
   "year": "1838",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Poe's only novel. US first: Harper & Brothers, New York, July 1838, in original cloth; verify the Harper imprint and the publisher's advertisement catalogue. The US Harper text includes the concluding editorial 'Note' explaining Pym's death and the supposedly lost final chapters. The first English edition (Wiley & Putnam, London, October 1838) is a separate, slightly later issue: it OMITS the final March 22 diary entry (the white-figure ending), adds a few sentences to the preface, and adopts British spellings. Identify by imprint and by whether the closing ending/Note is present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/adventures-of-gordon-pym-the-narrative-of-arthur-gordon-pym"
  },
  {
   "slug": "poems-by-emily-dickinson-first-series",
   "title": "Poems by Emily Dickinson (First Series)",
   "author": "Emily Dickinson (ed. Mabel Loomis Todd & T. W. Higginson)",
   "publisher": "Roberts Brothers (Boston)",
   "year": "1890",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Dickinson's first book and first posthumous collection. First edition, first printing: 'Roberts Brothers, 1890' on the title page, an edition of only about 500 copies, with the gilt-and-silver Indian-pipe (Monotropa) binding design by Mabel Loomis Todd, top edge gilt (Myerson A.1.1). The cloth occurs in more than one color (gray/white and olive-decorated variants) with NO established binding priority. A known issue point in some copies is a binding/folding error placing 'This is my letter to the World' and the section-one introductory leaf within the table of contents.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/poems-by-emily-dickinson-first-series"
  },
  {
   "slug": "uncle-toms-cabin-or-life-among-the-lowly",
   "title": "Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly",
   "author": "Harriet Beecher Stowe",
   "publisher": "John P. Jewett & Co. (Boston)",
   "year": "1852",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US first in book form, 2 volumes, John P. Jewett & Co., Boston, 1852 (after serialization in the National Era), published March 20, 1852 (BAL 19343). Verified first-issue textual points: 'spilt' (later corrected to 'spiled') in Volume I, page 42, and 'cathecism' (later corrected to 'catechism') in Volume II, page 74. Issued in several binding forms, cloth in black, purple, brown, and others, plus a gilt 'gift' binding; no binding-color priority. Title pages lack a later printing statement. Any copy whose binding or title page advertises tens or hundreds of thousands of copies sold is a later printing, not the first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/uncle-toms-cabin-or-life-among-the-lowly"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-last-of-the-mohicans-a-narrative-of-1757",
   "title": "The Last of the Mohicans; A Narrative of 1757",
   "author": "James Fenimore Cooper",
   "publisher": "Carey & Lea (Philadelphia) — US; John Miller (London) — UK",
   "year": "1826",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US first, H. C. Carey & I. Lea, Philadelphia, 1826, 2 volumes, original boards with paper spine labels (BAL 3833; Grolier American 100, no. 34; Spiller & Blackburn 7). Verified first-state points in Volume I: page 89 misnumbered 93, and chapter XVI misnumbered XIV. Volume II first state ('State A') reads 'a Book' in the fifth line of the copyright notice. Confirm the 1826 imprint and the 2-volume boards with spine labels.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-last-of-the-mohicans-a-narrative-of-1757"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-history-of-new-york-knickerbockers-history",
   "title": "A History of New York (Knickerbocker's History)",
   "author": "Washington Irving (as 'Diedrich Knickerbocker')",
   "publisher": "Inskeep & Bradford (New York)",
   "year": "1809",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, two volumes, 12mo, dated 1809, published in New York by Inskeep & Bradford (the imprint also names associated firms including Bradford & Inskeep and other agents). Issued December 1809 in original boards with paper labels. A key physical point is the folding panorama plate of New Amsterdam following the preface in Volume I; a complete genuine first should retain this plate. Collation runs roughly xxiii, 268; 258 pages across the two volumes. The pseudonymous Diedrich Knickerbocker attribution appears on the title pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-history-of-new-york-knickerbockers-history"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nature",
   "title": "Nature",
   "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson",
   "publisher": "James Munroe & Co. (Boston)",
   "year": "1836",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, published anonymously, James Munroe & Co., Boston, 1836 (BAL 5181); small format, approximately 95 pages, in cloth or boards, published 9 September 1836. The recognized first-state point is the pagination error: page 94 is misnumbered as page 92 in the earliest state, corrected to 94 in a later state. The 1836 title page bears no author attribution (some surviving copies have 'By Ralph Waldo Emerson' added later in pencil by another hand). BAL notes that some copies have a half title with no priority established. The motto is the prose quotation attributed to Plotinus.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nature"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-red-badge-of-courage-an-episode-of-the-american-civil-wa",
   "title": "The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War",
   "author": "Stephen Crane",
   "publisher": "D. Appleton & Co. (New York) — US; William Heinemann (London) — UK",
   "year": "1895",
   "genre": "pre-1900-american",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US first edition, D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1895 (BAL 4071), in tan/buff cloth. First-issue points: the title page is dated 1895; the type on page 225 is UNBROKEN (the word 'congratulated' at the foot of the page shows clean, undamaged type — later states show broken/battered type); and the rear advertisements begin with three Gilbert Parker titles and end with a Christian Reid title. The Red Badge itself is not listed in those rear ads in the first state. Verify the 1895 Appleton imprint, the unbroken page 225 type, and the first-state ad sequence.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-red-badge-of-courage-an-episode-of-the-american-civil-wa"
  },
  {
   "slug": "oliver-twist",
   "title": "Oliver Twist",
   "author": "Charles Dickens",
   "publisher": "Richard Bentley",
   "year": "1838",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Three volumes, published as 'by Boz', with 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank. The central plate point concerns the final plate in volume III: the FIRST issue has the 'Fireside' plate (which Dickens disliked), and it was SUPPRESSED and replaced by the 'Church' plate in the reissue printed days later. The first issue therefore has the 'Fireside' plate, not the 'Church' plate. First-issue title pages read 'by Boz'; the reissue substitutes 'Charles Dickens'. Copies mixing 'Boz' title pages with the later 'Church' plate are made-up or transitional and not a pure first issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/oliver-twist"
  },
  {
   "slug": "great-expectations",
   "title": "Great Expectations",
   "author": "Charles Dickens",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall",
   "year": "1861",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Three volumes, the first book edition, with no illustrations (unlike later editions) and issued in plum/purple cloth. The story first ran serially in 'All the Year Round' (December 1860 to August 1861); the three-volume book followed in 1861. The first issue is identified by its first-state title pages: the same setting of type was bound up and reissued five times in 1861 with altered title-page dating to suggest brisk demand, with persistent misprints carried throughout. The first-issue title page (first of the five) is the recognized point.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/great-expectations"
  },
  {
   "slug": "jane-eyre",
   "title": "Jane Eyre",
   "author": "Charlotte Brontë (as 'Currer Bell')",
   "publisher": "Smith, Elder & Co.",
   "year": "1847",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Three volumes, published 19 October 1847 in a small edition. The title page reads 'Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell' (this wording appears in the first and subsequent early editions, so it is not itself a distinguishing point). The genuine first-issue points are physical and textual: half-titles present in each volume, and the ABSENCE of both the preface and the dedication to W. M. Thackeray. The first edition had no preface (Brontë stated a preface was unnecessary) and no dedication; the preface and the Thackeray dedication were added only in the second edition of January 1848.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/jane-eyre"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pride-and-prejudice",
   "title": "Pride and Prejudice",
   "author": "Jane Austen (anonymous, 'By the Author of Sense and Sensibility')",
   "publisher": "T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall",
   "year": "1813",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Three volumes, published anonymously late January 1813 'By the Author of \"Sense and Sensibility\"'. Title pages dated 1813. Half-titles present in all three volumes. The printer imprints are a genuine authentication point: Volume I was printed by C. Roworth, Volumes II and III by G. Sidney; their imprints appear on the versos of the half-titles and at the end of the text in each volume. A second edition followed later in 1813.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pride-and-prejudice"
  },
  {
   "slug": "far-from-the-madding-crowd",
   "title": "Far from the Madding Crowd",
   "author": "Thomas Hardy",
   "publisher": "Smith, Elder & Co.",
   "year": "1874",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Two volumes, title pages dated 1874, in publisher's cloth, in an impression of 1000 copies (first published anonymously as a serial in the Cornhill Magazine through 1874). The London edition appeared in November 1874.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/far-from-the-madding-crowd"
  },
  {
   "slug": "jude-the-obscure",
   "title": "Jude the Obscure",
   "author": "Thomas Hardy",
   "publisher": "Osgood, McIlvaine & Co.",
   "year": "1896",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "One volume, issued as Volume VIII of the Wessex Novels collected set and the first separate book edition. The title page is dated 1896 although the book was actually published in November 1895. Points include the 1896-dated title page, the etched frontispiece of Christminster by H. Macbeth-Raeburn with its facing caption leaf, and Hardy's own map of 'The Wessex of the Novels' bound in the volume; issued in the green cloth of the Wessex series.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/jude-the-obscure"
  },
  {
   "slug": "vanity-fair",
   "title": "Vanity Fair",
   "author": "William Makepeace Thackeray",
   "publisher": "Bradbury & Evans",
   "year": "1847-1848",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued first in 20 monthly parts (in 19, the last a double number) in canary-yellow printed wrappers, 1847-1848, with Thackeray's own illustrations; the same engraved illustration appears on the wrapper of each part, and the wrappers of the final parts occur in dated and undated states. The 1848 first edition in book form carries the three classic first-issue points: the chapter heading on page 1 in rustic type; the woodcut of the Marquis of Steyne present on page 336 (this plate was suppressed and removed from later issues); and the reading 'Mr. Pitt' for 'Sir Pitt' on page 453.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/vanity-fair"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-history-of-henry-esmond",
   "title": "The History of Henry Esmond",
   "author": "William Makepeace Thackeray",
   "publisher": "Smith, Elder & Co.",
   "year": "1852",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Three volumes, printed in antique/old-face type to evoke the early eighteenth century, with sixteen pages of publisher's advertisements at the rear of Volume III; issued in publisher's cloth. The antique-type setting is original to this first edition (cited in Thackeray bibliography as Van Duzer 85).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-history-of-henry-esmond"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-warden",
   "title": "The Warden",
   "author": "Anthony Trollope",
   "publisher": "Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans",
   "year": "1855",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Single octavo volume, the first of the Barsetshire novels. First-issue identification rests on the inserted publisher's advertisement catalogue dated September 1854 (Sadleir's variety B), bound at the rear; brown publisher's cloth, blind-stamped with gilt spine lettering, and coated yellow endpapers. Half-title present. The standard reference is Sadleir 16-17.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-warden"
  },
  {
   "slug": "barchester-towers",
   "title": "Barchester Towers",
   "author": "Anthony Trollope",
   "publisher": "Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts",
   "year": "1857",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Three octavo volumes with 1857 title pages and half-titles. Documented first-issue textual point: the misprint 'tattooed' for 'tabooed' at volume II, page 269, line 24. The earliest copies have brick-red endpapers and retain the publisher's advertisements, including the advertisement for The Warden in volume I (often later excised). Collation: Vol. I half-title, title, viii, 305 pp.; Vol. II title, iv, 299 pp.; Vol. III title, iv, 321 pp.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/barchester-towers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lady-windermeres-fan",
   "title": "Lady Windermere's Fan",
   "author": "Oscar Wilde",
   "publisher": "Elkin Mathews and John Lane (Bodley Head)",
   "year": "1893",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Published 9 November 1893 by Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Bodley Head. Limited to 500 ordinary copies plus 50 large-paper copies on handmade paper. Salmon-pink cloth boards with gilt lettering and floral cover design by Charles Ricketts; 1893 title page; Elkin Mathews and John Lane imprint. The 50 large-paper copies are the premier state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lady-windermeres-fan"
  },
  {
   "slug": "treasure-island",
   "title": "Treasure Island",
   "author": "Robert Louis Stevenson",
   "publisher": "Cassell & Company",
   "year": "1883",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First book edition, published 14 November 1883 (first printing of 2,000 copies), following serialization in Young Folks (1881-82) as 'The Sea Cook.' Documented first-issue points include: 'dead man's chest' in lowercase on pages 2 and 7; the numeral '7' absent from the pagination on page 127; the '8' absent from pagination on page 83 (variable between copies); 'a' lacking in line 6 of page 63; no full stop after 'opportunity' in line 20 of page 178; and 'worse' for 'worst' in line 3 of page 197. Earliest copies carry the 5R-1083 dated advertisements.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/treasure-island"
  },
  {
   "slug": "strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde",
   "title": "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde",
   "author": "Robert Louis Stevenson",
   "publisher": "Longmans, Green, and Co.",
   "year": "1886",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued simultaneously in light tan printed paper wrappers and in salmon-colored cloth. The book was originally prepared for December 1885; because the date had passed, the '5' in the date on the front wrapper was altered by hand to '6,' so the earliest wrappered copies show this hand-corrected '1886' date. Title reads 'Strange Case' without a leading 'The.' Wrappers are generally taken to precede cloth within the Longmans issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde"
  },
  {
   "slug": "kidnapped",
   "title": "Kidnapped",
   "author": "Robert Louis Stevenson",
   "publisher": "Cassell & Company",
   "year": "1886",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First book edition, London 1886. The first-issue points are textual: page 40 line 11 reads 'business'; page 64 line 1 reads 'nine o'clock'; page 101 lines 9-10 read 'Long Islands' (these readings were altered in later printings). The folding map of David Balfour's wanderings is present as a frontispiece and the half-title is present; green cloth gilt. Rear publisher's advertisements bear date codes (such as 5G.4.86 and 5B.4.86) consistent with early 1886 issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/kidnapped"
  },
  {
   "slug": "through-the-looking-glass-and-what-alice-found-there",
   "title": "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There",
   "author": "Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson)",
   "publisher": "Macmillan and Co.",
   "year": "1872 (dated 1871)",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition with title page dated 1871 (issued December 1871). The decisive first-issue point is that page 21 PRESENTS the misprint 'wade' for 'wabe' in the gloss to the 'Jabberwocky' verse; this was corrected to 'wabe' in later printings. Tenniel illustrations throughout; red cloth gilt. Catalogued as Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 84.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/through-the-looking-glass-and-what-alice-found-there"
  },
  {
   "slug": "plain-tales-from-the-hills",
   "title": "Plain Tales from the Hills",
   "author": "Rudyard Kipling",
   "publisher": "Thacker, Spink and Co. (Calcutta) / W. Thacker & Co. (London)",
   "year": "1888",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition printed and published in Calcutta, 1888 — Kipling's first prose collection. Imprint reads 'Thacker, Spink and Co.' (Calcutta) on the title page, with W. Thacker & Co. as the London agent. Collation pp. xii, 283, with a 32-page publisher's catalogue dated December 1887 at the rear. A noted first-issue point is the page number on page 192 printed at the inner edge of the top margin. Issued in olive/grey-brown cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/plain-tales-from-the-hills"
  },
  {
   "slug": "departmental-ditties-and-other-verses",
   "title": "Departmental Ditties and Other Verses",
   "author": "Rudyard Kipling",
   "publisher": "Civil and Military Gazette Press, Lahore",
   "year": "1886",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Kipling's first separately published book. The true first is the Lahore issue printed in narrow octavo and bound in printed light-brown wrappers made to imitate an official Indian Civil Service envelope, with an overlapping flap bearing a seal device, the leaves stapled as issued and a ribbon passed through a slit in the flap. Imprint of the Civil and Military Gazette Press. The edition was small (about 500 copies), making the wrapper issue extremely scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/departmental-ditties-and-other-verses"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-jungle-book",
   "title": "The Jungle Book",
   "author": "Rudyard Kipling",
   "publisher": "Macmillan and Co.",
   "year": "1894",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in original blue cloth, pictorially decorated and lettered in gilt with an elephant-and-rider design and gilt top edge. Illustrations by J. L. Kipling, W. H. Drake, and P. Frenzeny. Dated 1894 on the title page. Macmillan and Co., London.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-jungle-book"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mary-barton-a-tale-of-manchester-life",
   "title": "Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life",
   "author": "Elizabeth Gaskell (anonymous)",
   "publisher": "Chapman and Hall",
   "year": "1848",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Two volumes, published anonymously (Gaskell's first novel), Chapman and Hall, London, 1848. Issued in publisher's plum/purple cloth with gilt spine lettering and blind-stamped covers. No author name on the title pages. Published October 1848.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mary-barton-a-tale-of-manchester-life"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cranford",
   "title": "Cranford",
   "author": "Elizabeth Gaskell",
   "publisher": "Chapman and Hall",
   "year": "1853",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First book edition, one volume, Chapman and Hall, London, 1853, in original cloth. Follows the serialization in Dickens's Household Words (1851-53). Title page dated 1853; first published June 1853 (a second printing followed in August 1853).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cranford"
  },
  {
   "slug": "north-and-south",
   "title": "North and South",
   "author": "Elizabeth Gaskell",
   "publisher": "Chapman and Hall",
   "year": "1855",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Two volumes, first book edition, Chapman and Hall, London, 1855, in original brown cloth lettered in gilt with blind decoration. Follows serialization in Household Words (1854-55). The book text is revised and expanded over the serial: Gaskell's preface notes that short passages were inserted and new chapters added because the magazine format had constrained the story.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/north-and-south"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-woman-in-white",
   "title": "The Woman in White",
   "author": "Wilkie Collins",
   "publisher": "Sampson Low, Son & Co.",
   "year": "1860",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Three volumes, Sampson Low, Son & Co., London, 1860 (following serialization in All the Year Round). The two reliable first-issue points are: the original cloth with the figure of the woman stamped in WHITE on the spine (later issues have her stamped in blind), and the 16-page publisher's catalogue at the rear of volume III dated August 1860 (catalogues dated later, such as November 1860, indicate a later issue). References: Sadleir 605a; Wolff 1377; Parrish.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-woman-in-white"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-moonstone",
   "title": "The Moonstone",
   "author": "Wilkie Collins",
   "publisher": "Tinsley Brothers",
   "year": "1868",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Three volumes, Tinsley Brothers, London, 1868 (following serialization in Dickens's All the Year Round). Verified first-issue points: in Volume I, pages 10 and 11 are transposed; Volume II has the misprint 'treachesrouly' for 'treacherously' at page 129; and Volume III shows a broken bracket at the tail of the title-page. Half-titles present in each volume. Original Tinsley cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-moonstone"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-mayor-of-casterbridge",
   "title": "The Mayor of Casterbridge",
   "author": "Thomas Hardy",
   "publisher": "Smith, Elder & Co.",
   "year": "1886",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Two volumes, Smith, Elder & Co., London, dated 1886 (first edition in book form, published May 1886, in a small printing). Issued in publisher's dark blue cloth blocked in black with gilt spine lettering. Half-title in Volume I; publisher's advertisement leaves at the ends of the volumes, though copies are recorded both with and without ads, so their presence is not a reliable single point.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-mayor-of-casterbridge"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-tale-of-two-cities",
   "title": "A Tale of Two Cities",
   "author": "Charles Dickens",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall",
   "year": "1859",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued in eight monthly parts (in seven, the last a double number) in printed wrappers, June to December 1859, with frontispiece, added engraved title, and plates by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne), concurrent with serialization in All the Year Round. The bound first volume (Chapman & Hall, 1859) carries the same plates. Verified textual points in the first printing: page 213 misnumbered '113', and 'affectionately' misprinted as 'affetcionately' at page 134, line 12. In the parts, the original blue-green wrappers and the called-for advertisements and inserted slips are the collation points.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-tale-of-two-cities"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-return-of-the-native",
   "title": "The Return of the Native",
   "author": "Thomas Hardy",
   "publisher": "Smith, Elder & Co.",
   "year": "1878",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Three volumes, Smith, Elder & Co., London, dated 1878 (first edition in book form, about 1,000 copies). The decisive first-issue point is on the Volume I title-page: the closing single quotation mark after 'A Pair of Blue Eyes' (in the list of the author's works) is absent in the first issue. The folding 'Sketch Map of the Scene of the Story' by Hardy is present as a frontispiece in Volume I and should be present, but its presence alone is not the distinguishing point. Original cloth; half-titles.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-return-of-the-native"
  },
  {
   "slug": "silas-marner",
   "title": "Silas Marner",
   "author": "George Eliot",
   "publisher": "William Blackwood and Sons",
   "year": "1861",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "One volume, William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, dated 1861 (published 2 April 1861). Verified first-edition collation features: half-title present; a four-page advertisement leaf for 'The Autobiography of Dr. Alexander Carlyle' bound in the front matter; and a terminal section of publisher's advertisements. Original cloth. The title-page carries no edition statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/silas-marner"
  },
  {
   "slug": "villette",
   "title": "Villette",
   "author": "Charlotte Brontë (as 'Currer Bell')",
   "publisher": "Smith, Elder & Co.",
   "year": "1853",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Three volumes, octavo, 'by Currer Bell', London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1853, printed by Stewart and Murray. The first edition was issued WITHOUT half-titles; the publisher's advertisement catalogue, when present, is dated January 1853 and bound at the end of volume one (some copies lack the catalogue). Standard collation: vol. I [iv], 324; vol. II [iv], 319; vol. III [iv], 350. Original cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/villette"
  },
  {
   "slug": "shirley",
   "title": "Shirley",
   "author": "Charlotte Brontë (as 'Currer Bell')",
   "publisher": "Smith, Elder & Co.",
   "year": "1849",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Three volumes, 'A Tale. By Currer Bell', London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1849 (published 26 October 1849). The first edition was issued WITHOUT half-titles. Volume I carries a 16-page advertisement catalogue dated September 1849; volume III ends with a few leaves of notices (including reviews and an advertisement for the third edition of Jane Eyre). References: Sadleir 348; Wise 6; Smith 5; Parrish p. 93. Original cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/shirley"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hunting-of-the-snark",
   "title": "The Hunting of the Snark",
   "author": "Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson)",
   "publisher": "Macmillan and Co.",
   "year": "1876",
   "genre": "pre-1900-british",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1876, octavo, with nine wood-engraved illustrations by Henry Holiday. Bound in pictorial buff (pale brown) cloth gilt designed by Holiday, showing the Bellman on the ship's yardarm within a ruled border, all edges gilt, black endpapers. The key first-issue text point is 'Baker' (not 'Butcher') on page 83. Carroll also had a small number of copies bound in red, blue, green, and white cloth for presentation; these are not a separate edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hunting-of-the-snark"
  },
  {
   "slug": "synners",
   "title": "Synners",
   "author": "Pat Cadigan",
   "publisher": "Bantam Spectra",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Bantam Spectra mass-market paperback original, 1991. First printing identified by the full descending number line ending in '1' on the copyright page (standard Bantam first-printing convention).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/synners"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-child-garden",
   "title": "The Child Garden",
   "author": "Geoff Ryman",
   "publisher": "Unwin Hyman",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Unwin Hyman hardcover, London 1989, with pictorial dust jacket; full title The Child Garden, or A Low Comedy. Unwin Hyman was a short-lived imprint, making clean jacketed firsts relatively scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-child-garden"
  },
  {
   "slug": "fairyland",
   "title": "Fairyland",
   "author": "Paul J. McAuley",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Gollancz hardcover, London 1995, with pictorial dust jacket (cover art by Steve Crisp). First printing per the Gollancz number line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/fairyland"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-separation",
   "title": "The Separation",
   "author": "Christopher Priest",
   "publisher": "Scribner (Simon & Schuster UK)",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Scribner (Simon & Schuster UK) trade paperback, 2002, is the true first edition; it was issued in wrappers, not as a hardcover. The first hardcover appearance was the Gollancz edition published in London in 2003.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-separation"
  },
  {
   "slug": "four-hundred-billion-stars",
   "title": "Four Hundred Billion Stars",
   "author": "Paul J. McAuley",
   "publisher": "Del Rey / Ballantine",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Del Rey (Ballantine) mass-market paperback original, first printing dated April 1988; first printing identified by a complete number line. This is McAuley's debut novel and the true first edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/four-hundred-billion-stars"
  },
  {
   "slug": "through-the-heart",
   "title": "Through the Heart",
   "author": "Richard Grant",
   "publisher": "Bantam Spectra",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Bantam Spectra mass-market paperback original; the first printing is dated January 1992 although the book carries a 1991 copyright; first printing identified by a complete number line ending in 1. Cover art by Wil Cormier.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/through-the-heart"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-time-ships",
   "title": "The Time Ships",
   "author": "Stephen Baxter",
   "publisher": "HarperPrism",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US HarperPrism paperback, 1995 (early/January 1995); first printing indicated by the publisher number line counting down to 1. This is the authorized sequel to Wells's The Time Machine, issued for the centenary of the original.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-time-ships"
  },
  {
   "slug": "vacuum-diagrams",
   "title": "Vacuum Diagrams",
   "author": "Stephen Baxter",
   "publisher": "Voyager (HarperCollins UK)",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Voyager (HarperCollins) hardcover, April 1997, ISBN 0-00-225425-5; Xeelee-sequence story collection; dust jacket; first printing per the number line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/vacuum-diagrams"
  },
  {
   "slug": "only-forward",
   "title": "Only Forward",
   "author": "Michael Marshall Smith",
   "publisher": "HarperCollins UK",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK HarperCollins mass-market paperback original, 1994, ISBN 0-586-21774-6; Smith's debut novel; first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/only-forward"
  },
  {
   "slug": "altered-carbon",
   "title": "Altered Carbon",
   "author": "Richard K. Morgan",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Gollancz hardcover, 28 February 2002, ISBN 0-575-07321-7; dust jacket; first printing per the Gollancz number line. Morgan's debut; signed copies are common from launch.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/altered-carbon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "life-gwyneth-jones",
   "title": "Life",
   "author": "Gwyneth Jones",
   "publisher": "Aqueduct Press",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Aqueduct Press trade paperback original, 2004 (ISBN 0-9746559-2-9); first printing. A full-length standalone novel, not part of Aqueduct's short-form Conversation Pieces series.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/life-gwyneth-jones"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nova-swing",
   "title": "Nova Swing",
   "author": "M. John Harrison",
   "publisher": "Gollancz",
   "year": "2006",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Gollancz hardcover, 9 November 2006, in dust jacket; first printing per the Gollancz number line. Set in the same universe as Light.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nova-swing"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-strange-affair-of-spring-heeled-jack",
   "title": "The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack",
   "author": "Mark Hodder",
   "publisher": "Snowbooks",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Snowbooks edition, April 2010, is the true first. Snowbooks issued the title in two simultaneous April 2010 formats: a trade paperback (ISBN 9781906727208, about 511 pp) and a hardcover (ISBN 9781906727505). Hodder's debut and Burton & Swinburne #1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-strange-affair-of-spring-heeled-jack"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bannerless",
   "title": "Bannerless",
   "author": "Carrie Vaughn",
   "publisher": "John Joseph Adams Books / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt",
   "year": "2017",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "John Joseph Adams Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) trade paperback original, July 2017; first volume of the Bannerless Saga. No hardcover edition was issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bannerless"
  },
  {
   "slug": "theory-of-bastards",
   "title": "Theory of Bastards",
   "author": "Audrey Schulman",
   "publisher": "Europa Editions",
   "year": "2018",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Europa Editions trade paperback original, April 2018; first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/theory-of-bastards"
  },
  {
   "slug": "road-out-of-winter",
   "title": "Road Out of Winter",
   "author": "Alison Stine",
   "publisher": "Mira Books (Harlequin / HarperCollins)",
   "year": "2020",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Mira Books (Harlequin / HarperCollins) trade paperback original, September 2020; first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/road-out-of-winter"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sea-and-summer",
   "title": "The Sea and Summer",
   "author": "George Turner",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Faber & Faber hardcover, 1987, with dust jacket. This is the first edition of the book and the first appearance under this title.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sea-and-summer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "iron-council",
   "title": "Iron Council",
   "author": "China Miéville",
   "publisher": "Macmillan",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Macmillan hardcover, 2004, with dust jacket. A signed, slipcased Macmillan limited edition of 1,000 copies was also issued in 2004. Third Bas-Lag / New Crobuzon novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/iron-council"
  },
  {
   "slug": "zoo-city",
   "title": "Zoo City",
   "author": "Lauren Beukes",
   "publisher": "Jacana Media (Johannesburg) and Angry Robot (UK), both 2010",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Two near-simultaneous 2010 editions. The South African Jacana Media trade paperback (Johannesburg, ISBN 9781770098183) appeared in June 2010. The UK Angry Robot trade paperback original (ISBN 9780857660541) followed within months; first printing carries the Angry Robot number line with no later-impression statement. Watch for the Angry Robot second impression of August 2010, which is a reprint.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/zoo-city"
  },
  {
   "slug": "children-of-time",
   "title": "Children of Time",
   "author": "Adrian Tchaikovsky",
   "publisher": "Tor (Pan Macmillan UK)",
   "year": "2015",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Tor (Pan Macmillan) hardcover, published 4 June 2015, in dust jacket priced 18.99 pounds. First impression identified by the Pan Macmillan number line with no later-printing statement. Signed first-edition hardcovers exist and remain first printings if the number line is intact.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/children-of-time"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sparrow",
   "title": "The Sparrow",
   "author": "Mary Doria Russell",
   "publisher": "Villard (Random House)",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Villard (Random House) hardcover, 1996, in illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards (about 408 pages, ISBN 9780679451501). First printing has 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with a number line that ENDS in '2' (a Random House/Villard convention), not in '1.' First-issue text points: 'karstic' (for 'karst') at page 16, and a physics phrasing slip at page 95. First-state jacket credits the cover photograph to 'Dina Rossi.' Russell's debut.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sparrow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-calcutta-chromosome",
   "title": "The Calcutta Chromosome",
   "author": "Amitav Ghosh",
   "publisher": "Ravi Dayal Publisher (Delhi)",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Indian first edition, Ravi Dayal Publisher (Delhi), 1995, hardcover in dust jacket. UK Picador and US Avon editions followed in 1996. The Ravi Dayal Indian first is markedly scarcer than the Western editions.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-calcutta-chromosome"
  },
  {
   "slug": "light",
   "title": "Light",
   "author": "M. John Harrison",
   "publisher": "Gollancz",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Gollancz hardcover, London, 2002; issued in dust jacket. First book of the Kefahuchi Tract trilogy. Confirm a true first by the 2002 Gollancz title page and the absence of any later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/light"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ash-a-secret-history",
   "title": "Ash: A Secret History",
   "author": "Mary Gentle",
   "publisher": "Gollancz",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "sff-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Gollancz hardcover, London, 2000, is the first appearance of the complete novel in a single volume; issued in dust jacket. Identify by the 2000 Gollancz title page and no later-printing statement. The US Avon Eos edition split the text into four mass-market paperbacks, a materially different form.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ash-a-secret-history"
  },
  {
   "slug": "trents-last-case",
   "title": "Trent's Last Case",
   "author": "E. C. Bentley",
   "publisher": "Thomas Nelson & Sons (London)",
   "year": "1913",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Nelson first, 1913: blue cloth boards with gilt spine titling, colour frontispiece, and printed pictorial endpapers; the Nelson imprint on the title page. Dust jackets rarely survive. The US Century edition of the same year carries the variant title The Woman in Black.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/trents-last-case"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-cask",
   "title": "The Cask",
   "author": "Freeman Wills Crofts",
   "publisher": "W. Collins Sons & Co. (London)",
   "year": "1920",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Collins first edition, 1920, in publisher's red cloth lettered in black; the author's first book and a Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. It was issued with a dust wrapper. The Collins Crime Club imprint did not exist until 1930, so no genuine 1920 first carries Crime Club branding.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-cask"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-benson-murder-case",
   "title": "The Benson Murder Case",
   "author": "S. S. Van Dine",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1926",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Scribner first, 1926: the first-printing point for a Scribner book of this date is the Scribner seal on the copyright page together with the 1926 date matching the title page and no indication of a later printing. There is no 'A' on a genuine 1926 first. The first Philo Vance novel and a Haycraft-Queen cornerstone, in publisher's cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-benson-murder-case"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-roman-hat-mystery",
   "title": "The Roman Hat Mystery",
   "author": "Ellery Queen",
   "publisher": "Frederick A. Stokes (New York)",
   "year": "1929",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1929 is the true first edition, octavo, publisher's red cloth lettered in black, 325 pages. This is the first Ellery Queen novel and a Haycraft-Queen cornerstone title. The book's well-known textual features, the J.J. McC. introduction, the printed List of Characters, and the Challenge to the Reader that breaks before the solution, are present in the text and help confirm the title and edition, but they are not points that distinguish the first printing from later impressions; they appear in reprints as well. The genuine scarcity lies in a first printing in the original printed dust jacket, since the jacket rarely survives. Confirm the Stokes imprint on the title page and the absence of any later-impression notice on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-roman-hat-mystery"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-little-walls",
   "title": "The Little Walls",
   "author": "Winston Graham",
   "publisher": "Hodder & Stoughton (London)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Hodder & Stoughton first edition, London, 1955, publisher's cloth with pictorial dust jacket, around 256 pages. This novel won the inaugural Crime Writers' Association award for 1955, then called the Crossed Red Herring Award and later renamed the Gold Dagger, making it the first title in that award lineage. Confirm the Hodder & Stoughton imprint and 1955 dating with no later-impression statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-little-walls"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-drink-before-the-war",
   "title": "A Drink Before the War",
   "author": "Dennis Lehane",
   "publisher": "Harcourt Brace & Company (New York)",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Harcourt Brace first, 1994, with 'First edition' stated on the copyright page followed by an ascending letter line reading A B C D E (the present 'A' marking the first printing). Quarter black cloth over green paper boards with metallic green spine lettering; ISBN 0-15-100093-X. Lehane's debut and the first Kenzie and Gennaro novel; won the 1995 Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-drink-before-the-war"
  },
  {
   "slug": "silent-joe",
   "title": "Silent Joe",
   "author": "T. Jefferson Parker",
   "publisher": "Hyperion (New York)",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Hyperion first edition, 2001, with the 'First Edition' statement and a number line ending in 1. Won the 2002 Edgar Award for Best Novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/silent-joe"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-death-of-the-detective",
   "title": "The Death of the Detective",
   "author": "Mark Smith",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Knopf first edition, 1974, with the 'First Edition' statement on the copyright page and the Borzoi colophon, per Knopf's practice of stating 'First Edition' on the first printing and removing it on later impressions.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-death-of-the-detective"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-eye-of-the-needle",
   "title": "The Eye of the Needle",
   "author": "Ken Follett",
   "publisher": "Arbor House (New York) — first US edition; Macdonald & Jane's (London), as 'Storm Island' — true first",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Arbor House first US edition, 1978, titled 'Eye of the Needle,' with the 'First Edition' statement. This is the edition under the awarded title; the novel won the 1979 Edgar Award for Best Novel. The earlier UK Macdonald & Jane's edition, 1978, was published under the original title 'Storm Island.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-eye-of-the-needle"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-suspect",
   "title": "The Suspect",
   "author": "L. R. Wright",
   "publisher": "Doubleday Canada (Toronto) — true first; Viking (New York) — first US edition",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The Doubleday Canada (Toronto) 1985 edition is the true first. The US Viking (New York) 1985 edition is the first US edition, with the 'FIRST EDITION' statement and a number line ending in 1. Won the 1986 Edgar Award for Best Novel (for the best novel of 1985); Wright was the first Canadian to win in that category. First Karl Alberg novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-suspect"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-beautiful-mystery",
   "title": "The Beautiful Mystery",
   "author": "Louise Penny",
   "publisher": "Minotaur Books / St. Martin's Press (New York)",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Minotaur/St. Martin's first, 2012 (ISBN 9780312655464), with 'First Edition' on the copyright page and a number line. The eighth Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novel; it won the 2012 Agatha Award and the 2013 Anthony and Macavity Awards for Best Novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-beautiful-mystery"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-monkeys-raincoat",
   "title": "The Monkey's Raincoat",
   "author": "Robert Crais",
   "publisher": "Bantam Books (New York)",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Bantam mass-market paperback original, 1987, a true paperback original with no preceding hardcover. It is Crais's debut and the first Elvis Cole and Joe Pike novel. The first printing is identified by a complete number line ending in 1 and the original Bantam cover art. It won the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original and the Macavity Award for Best First Novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-monkeys-raincoat"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bury-your-dead",
   "title": "Bury Your Dead",
   "author": "Louise Penny",
   "publisher": "Minotaur Books / St. Martin's Press (New York)",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Minotaur first, 2010. The copyright page reads 'First Edition' with a number line that includes the 1, and the first issue has an unclipped jacket carrying the original price. It is the sixth Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novel and won the 2011 Anthony, Macavity, and Agatha awards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bury-your-dead"
  },
  {
   "slug": "booked-to-die",
   "title": "Booked to Die",
   "author": "John Dunning",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Charles Scribner's Sons first, 1992: 'First Edition' stated with a complete number line counting down to 1 on the copyright page; dust jacket priced for 1992. The first Cliff Janeway bookman mystery, prized by collectors for its rare-book subject. It won the Nero Award and was an Anthony Award nominee.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/booked-to-die"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-last-coyote-the-black-echo",
   "title": "The Last Coyote (The Black Echo)",
   "author": "Michael Connelly",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown (Boston)",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The Last Coyote is the fourth Harry Bosch novel (not Connelly's debut). The true first is the US Little, Brown edition, 1995: copyright page states 'First Edition' with a complete number line ending in 1; quarter blue cloth over blue paper-covered boards with gilt spine lettering; first-issue jacket priced for 1995. It won the 1996 Dilys Award. Note: the record as supplied described The Black Echo, which is Connelly's 1992 debut and a different book entirely.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-last-coyote-the-black-echo"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mallorys-oracle",
   "title": "Mallory's Oracle",
   "author": "Carol O'Connell",
   "publisher": "Hutchinson (London)",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "O'Connell's debut, Kathleen Mallory #1. The true first is the UK Hutchinson edition, published May 1994, which precedes the US G. P. Putnam's Sons edition (August 1994) by roughly three months. The UK first reads 'First published 1994' by Hutchinson. The US Putnam edition is an Edgar-nominated first American edition but is a first-thus, not the true first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mallorys-oracle"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gallows-view",
   "title": "Gallows View",
   "author": "Peter Robinson",
   "publisher": "Viking / Penguin Books Canada (Markham, Ontario)",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "crime-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the Canadian hardcover issued under the Viking imprint of Penguin Books Canada, 1987 — Robinson's debut and the first Inspector Banks novel. Identify it by the price stated in British pounds at the lower right of the dust-jacket flap and the Canadian Cataloguing in Publication data on the title-page verso. Bound in quarter green cloth with yellow spine lettering over yellow boards, with a full-page black-and-white map at the rear.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gallows-view"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-virginian",
   "title": "The Virginian",
   "author": "Owen Wister",
   "publisher": "Macmillan",
   "year": "1902",
   "genre": "romance-western-awards",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has a copyright page reading 'Copyright, 1902, By The Macmillan Company. Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1902' with no later months listed. Issued in tan cloth, the upper cover lettered in red with a red, black, and gilt pictorial design of a holstered pistol intertwined with a lariat. Collation xiv, 504, [6] pp; eight black-and-white plates by Arthur I. Keller. Later 1902 printings add subsequent months (June, July, August, and onward) to the copyright statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-virginian"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dragonwyck",
   "title": "Dragonwyck",
   "author": "Anya Seton",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1944",
   "genre": "romance-western-awards",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1944 first edition; an early gothic-romance landmark and the basis of the 1946 film. First printing per Houghton Mifflin's copyright-page convention (no added-printing statements), in rose-orange/red cloth with titling stamped in burgundy/maroon on spine and front cover; deckled pages with a red-tinted top edge. The first-issue jacket carries a synopsis on the front flap, an advertisement for the author's earlier novel My Theodosia on the rear flap, and an author biography on the rear panel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dragonwyck"
  },
  {
   "slug": "monster",
   "title": "Monster",
   "author": "Walter Dean Myers (illus. Christopher Myers)",
   "publisher": "HarperCollins",
   "year": "1999",
   "genre": "childrens-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing with a complete number line descending to 1 on the copyright page; pictorial boards in the photo-illustrated screenplay format; original price on the jacket flap; the first-printing jacket carries NO Printz seal (the first Printz was awarded in 2000).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/monster"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-man-who-walked-between-the-towers",
   "title": "The Man Who Walked Between the Towers",
   "author": "Mordicai Gerstein",
   "publisher": "Roaring Brook Press",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "childrens-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing is identified by the number line 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 on the copyright page (note that it does NOT contain a 1; the lowest number is 3). Roaring Brook Press imprint, then based in Brookfield, Connecticut. Picture-book format with pictorial laminated boards and gatefold spreads; issued without a separate dust jacket as a jacketless laminated picture book. The true-first boards carry no Caldecott Medal seal, awarded in 2004.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-man-who-walked-between-the-towers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dont-let-the-pigeon-drive-the-bus",
   "title": "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!",
   "author": "Mo Willems",
   "publisher": "Hyperion Books for Children",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "childrens-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has a number line that includes the 1 on the copyright page; Hyperion Books for Children imprint; sketchy crayon-and-marker style art with color illustrations throughout. The book was issued WITHOUT a dust jacket as a laminated pictorial-board picture book, so the first-printing boards carry no Caldecott Honor seal (the honor was awarded in 2004). Author's picture-book debut.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dont-let-the-pigeon-drive-the-bus"
  },
  {
   "slug": "there-is-a-bird-on-your-head-elephant-piggie",
   "title": "There Is a Bird on Your Head! (Elephant & Piggie)",
   "author": "Mo Willems",
   "publisher": "Hyperion Books for Children",
   "year": "2007",
   "genre": "childrens-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has a number line that includes the 1 on the copyright page; Hyperion Books for Children imprint; early-reader Elephant & Piggie format. Issued as a laminated pictorial hardcover without a separate dust jacket, so the first-printing boards carry no Geisel Medal seal (awarded 2008).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/there-is-a-bird-on-your-head-elephant-piggie"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-sick-day-for-amos-mcgee",
   "title": "A Sick Day for Amos McGee",
   "author": "Philip C. Stead (illus. Erin E. Stead)",
   "publisher": "Roaring Brook Press / Neal Porter Books",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "childrens-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing is identified by the number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 on the copyright page (it contains the 1; note it does not literally end in 1). Neal Porter Books / Roaring Brook Press imprint; Erin Stead's woodblock-and-pencil illustrations; priced dust jacket. The true-first jacket carries no Caldecott Medal seal, awarded in 2011.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-sick-day-for-amos-mcgee"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-crossover-companion-brown-bear-brown-bear-what-do-you-se",
   "title": "The Crossover companion — Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?",
   "author": "Bill Martin Jr. (illus. Eric Carle)",
   "publisher": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1967 true first); later reissued by Henry Holt",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "childrens-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1967 Holt, Rinehart and Winston edition, stating the Holt, Rinehart and Winston imprint and dated 1967. Carle's original collage uses commercially available tissue papers, giving a flatter, muddier palette than the later repainted artwork. Confirm both the 1967 date and the HRW imprint.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-crossover-companion-brown-bear-brown-bear-what-do-you-se"
  },
  {
   "slug": "smoky-night",
   "title": "Smoky Night",
   "author": "Eve Bunting (illus. David Diaz)",
   "publisher": "Harcourt Brace & Company",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "childrens-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing is identified by Harcourt's letter line ending in A (not a number line); Harcourt Brace & Company imprint (San Diego); Diaz acrylic-and-collage illustrations on glossy laminated pictorial boards. True first jacket has no Caldecott seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/smoky-night"
  },
  {
   "slug": "skellig",
   "title": "Skellig",
   "author": "David Almond",
   "publisher": "Hodder Children's Books",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "childrens-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Hodder Children's Books first printing with a full number line counting down to 1; true-first jacket bears NO Carnegie Medal or Whitbread award sticker, as those were awarded in 1998/1999.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/skellig"
  },
  {
   "slug": "junk-us-title-smack",
   "title": "Junk (US title: Smack)",
   "author": "Melvin Burgess",
   "publisher": "Andersen Press",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "childrens-awards-deep",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Andersen Press first printing with a full number line counting down to 1; true-first jacket bears NO Carnegie Medal or Guardian Prize sticker.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/junk-us-title-smack"
  },
  {
   "slug": "migration-new-and-selected-poems",
   "title": "Migration: New and Selected Poems",
   "author": "W. S. Merwin",
   "publisher": "Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA)",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "poetry-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has a full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; clothbound in dust jacket. ISBN 9781556592188. The National Book Award seal is a publisher-applied sticker, not a printing point.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/migration-new-and-selected-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "erosion",
   "title": "Erosion",
   "author": "Jorie Graham",
   "publisher": "Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ)",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "poetry-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. Issued simultaneously in cloth and in wrappers. Cloth issue: ISBN 0691065705 (ISBN-13 9780691065700), bound in cloth (black or light gray, no established priority) with dust jacket. Wrappers issue: ISBN 0691014051 (ISBN-13 9780691014050). The cloth-in-jacket copy is the collector's preferred form.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/erosion"
  },
  {
   "slug": "neon-vernacular-new-and-selected-poems",
   "title": "Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems",
   "author": "Yusef Komunyakaa",
   "publisher": "Wesleyan University Press / University Press of New England",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "poetry-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Wesleyan Poetry Series. Issued in cloth (ISBN 0819512117 / 9780819512116) and in wrappers (ISBN 0819522082 / 9780819522085). The hardcover was issued WITHOUT a dust jacket, so a clean cloth copy (no jacket called for) is the scarce collector's form; signed first-printing copies exist.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/neon-vernacular-new-and-selected-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "glass-irony-and-god",
   "title": "Glass, Irony and God",
   "author": "Anne Carson",
   "publisher": "New Directions (New York)",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "poetry-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "New Directions Paperbook original (NDP 808), issued in wrappers with an introduction by Guy Davenport; ISBN 0811213021. First printing carries a full number line on the copyright page descending to 1; confirm it reaches 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/glass-irony-and-god"
  },
  {
   "slug": "what-work-is",
   "title": "What Work Is",
   "author": "Philip Levine",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "poetry-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition so stated on the copyright page with a full number line descending to 1; cloth-and-boards binding in dust jacket with original price. Confirm the number line reaches 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/what-work-is"
  },
  {
   "slug": "angels-in-america-part-one-millennium-approaches",
   "title": "Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches",
   "author": "Tony Kushner",
   "publisher": "Theatre Communications Group (TCG)",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "drama-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "TCG hardcover (ISBN 1-55936-060-7) and a simultaneous wrappered issue (ISBN 1-55936-061-5). Copyright page of the first printing states 'First Edition, April 1993' with no later-printing line. The true-first hardcover dust jacket carries the original price on the front flap. 119 pp. The hardcover is the more collectible state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/angels-in-america-part-one-millennium-approaches"
  },
  {
   "slug": "angels-in-america-part-two-perestroika",
   "title": "Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika",
   "author": "Tony Kushner",
   "publisher": "Theatre Communications Group (TCG)",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "drama-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "TCG edition, 1994 (ISBN 1-55936-073-9), issued in hardcover and in wrappers. Copyright page carries 1992/1994 (and later 1995) copyright dates; the true first printing states 'First Edition' for 1994 with no later printing noted, and the hardcover dust jacket carries the original price on the front flap. The text was still being revised, so later printings (for example 'Fourth printing, November 1994') differ; the first printing is scarcer.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/angels-in-america-part-two-perestroika"
  },
  {
   "slug": "glengarry-glen-ross",
   "title": "Glengarry Glen Ross",
   "author": "David Mamet",
   "publisher": "Methuen (UK) / Grove Press (US)",
   "year": "1983-1984",
   "genre": "drama-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Methuen, London, published the play in wrappers around the September 1983 Cottesloe/Royal National Theatre premiere, with the title-verso stating first publication in Great Britain and no later-printing line. Grove Press, New York, issued the US edition in 1984 in hardcover (with dust jacket) and in wrappers; the Grove hardcover is the desirable US state and carries a stated first-edition designation. Confirm the Grove hardcover by the printer's number line running to 1 on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/glengarry-glen-ross"
  },
  {
   "slug": "american-buffalo",
   "title": "American Buffalo",
   "author": "David Mamet",
   "publisher": "Grove Press",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "drama-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Grove Press, New York, hardcover, copyright and published 1976, the author's first book; issued in hardcover with dust jacket and concurrently in wrappers. ISBN 0-394-17016-4. The hardcover with dust jacket is the collectible state. The play won the 1976 Obie and the 1977 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/american-buffalo"
  },
  {
   "slug": "buried-child",
   "title": "Buried Child",
   "author": "Sam Shepard",
   "publisher": "Urizen Books",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "drama-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first book appearance is the Urizen Books volume 'Buried Child & Seduced & Suicide in Bb' (New York, 1979), ISBN 0-89396-011-X, issued in hardcover (the only hardcover of the Pulitzer-winning play) and in wrappers. The hardcover is the desirable state. The play is collected here with two other Shepard plays rather than published standalone.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/buried-child"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-america-play",
   "title": "The America Play",
   "author": "Suzan-Lori Parks",
   "publisher": "Theatre Communications Group (TCG)",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "drama-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'The America Play and Other Works' (TCG, 1995, ISBN 1-55936-092-5 / 9781559360920), trade paperback original collecting The America Play, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, and other plays and essays ('Possession,' 'from Elements of Style,' 'An Equation for Black People Onstage'). First printing without a later-printing line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-america-play"
  },
  {
   "slug": "top-girls",
   "title": "Top Girls",
   "author": "Caryl Churchill",
   "publisher": "Methuen (London)",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "drama-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Methuen, London, 1982. The first edition is the softcover playscript in wrappers, copyright page stating 'First published in 1982 by Methuen London' with no later-printing line; a simultaneous hardcover in boards was also issued and is the scarcer state. Premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1982.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/top-girls"
  },
  {
   "slug": "plenty",
   "title": "Plenty",
   "author": "David Hare",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (London)",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "drama-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber & Faber, London, 1978. Copyright page states 'First published in 1978 by Faber and Faber'; issued in wrappers, with a scarcer hardcover-in-cloth state. Premiered at the Lyttelton, National Theatre, in April 1978. Per Faber convention the first printing carries no later-printing line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/plenty"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-beauty-queen-of-leenane",
   "title": "The Beauty Queen of Leenane",
   "author": "Martin McDonagh",
   "publisher": "Methuen Drama (London)",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "drama-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Methuen Drama, London, 1996, slim individual playscript in wrappers, stating 'First published 1996 by Methuen.' Issued around the Druid Theatre premiere (Town Hall Theatre, Galway, February 1996) and the Royal Court run. The true first is the individual wrappered playscript, not the later collected volume.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-beauty-queen-of-leenane"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-pillowman",
   "title": "The Pillowman",
   "author": "Martin McDonagh",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (London)",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "drama-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber & Faber, London, 2003, playscript in wrappers (ISBN 0-571-22032-3), stating 'First published in 2003 by Faber and Faber.' Issued around the Cottesloe / National Theatre premiere, November 2003. Note the publisher shift from Methuen to Faber for this title.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-pillowman"
  },
  {
   "slug": "night-mother",
   "title": "'night, Mother",
   "author": "Marsha Norman",
   "publisher": "Hill and Wang (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "drama-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hill and Wang, New York, 1983, in Hill and Wang's drama line (issued in cloth and in wrappers), gray cloth hardcover, 89 pages, ISBN 0-8090-7361-7. The first edition states 'First edition' on the copyright page. Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; first staged at the American Repertory Theatre (Cambridge) in late 1982 and on Broadway in 1983.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/night-mother"
  },
  {
   "slug": "encounters-with-the-archdruid",
   "title": "Encounters with the Archdruid",
   "author": "John McPhee",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Brown cloth (cloth-backed boards), gilt-lettered spine; first-issue dust jacket with price present. The first printing carries NO printing statement on the copyright page; later printings add a printing/number statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/encounters-with-the-archdruid"
  },
  {
   "slug": "basin-and-range",
   "title": "Basin and Range",
   "author": "John McPhee",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-backed boards; first-state dust jacket with price present. Copyright reads 'Copyright 1980, 1981 by John McPhee.' The first printing carries NO printing statement on the copyright page; later printings add a printing/number statement. First volume of the geology series later collected in Annals of the Former World.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/basin-and-range"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ever-since-darwin-reflections-in-natural-history",
   "title": "Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History",
   "author": "Stephen Jay Gould",
   "publisher": "W. W. Norton",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Orange paper-covered boards with embossed 'SJG' initials and a brown cloth spine lettered in gilt; full number line on the copyright page descending to '1'; first-state dust jacket with price present. Gould's first essay collection, drawn from his Natural History magazine columns.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ever-since-darwin-reflections-in-natural-history"
  },
  {
   "slug": "g-del-escher-bach-an-eternal-golden-braid",
   "title": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid",
   "author": "Douglas R. Hofstadter",
   "publisher": "Basic Books",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Brown cloth (not cloth-backed boards); copyright page with a complete number line descending to 1; first-state dust jacket priced and not clipped. Illustrated throughout.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/g-del-escher-bach-an-eternal-golden-braid"
  },
  {
   "slug": "let-us-now-praise-famous-men",
   "title": "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men",
   "author": "James Agee and Walker Evans",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1941",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Black cloth-covered boards stamped on spine in silver; a front block of 31 Walker Evans photographs (not 32), unpaginated; 'First Printing' indicated on the copyright page per Houghton Mifflin practice; first-issue photo-illustrated dust jacket priced 3.50. Genuinely scarce (small printing of roughly 2,400 copies, only about 600 sold before remaindering).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/let-us-now-praise-famous-men"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-founding-of-new-england",
   "title": "The Founding of New England",
   "author": "James Truslow Adams",
   "publisher": "Atlantic Monthly Press",
   "year": "1921",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth; 1921 title-page date with no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-founding-of-new-england"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-death-and-life-of-great-american-cities",
   "title": "The Death and Life of Great American Cities",
   "author": "Jane Jacobs",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Black patterned cloth (brick-pattern design), spine lettered in gilt and red, red topstain. The copyright page reads 'First Printing' (Random House's first-printing statement), not 'First Edition.' First-state dust jacket priced 5.95 on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-death-and-life-of-great-american-cities"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-education-of-henry-adams",
   "title": "The Education of Henry Adams",
   "author": "Henry Adams",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1918",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade edition, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin (copyright Massachusetts Historical Society), 1918, published posthumously. The first printing is identified by the date in Roman numerals at the foot of the title page; later printings lack that dated title page. The true first overall is the 1907 privately printed edition of about 100 copies.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-education-of-henry-adams"
  },
  {
   "slug": "battle-cry-of-freedom-companion-the-ants-companion-not-neede",
   "title": "Battle Cry of Freedom companion — The Ants companion not needed; instead: Gulag: A History",
   "author": "Anne Applebaum",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth or cloth-backed boards; copyright page states 'First Edition' with a full descending number line; first-state dust jacket priced. Published by Doubleday, New York, April 2003.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/battle-cry-of-freedom-companion-the-ants-companion-not-neede"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-warmth-of-other-suns-the-epic-story-of-americas-great-mi",
   "title": "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration",
   "author": "Isabel Wilkerson",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-backed boards; copyright page states 'First Edition' with the Random House number line whose lowest digit is 2 (Random House trade convention), not 1; first-state dust jacket priced. Published New York, 2010.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-warmth-of-other-suns-the-epic-story-of-americas-great-mi"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gulag-archipelago-instead-the-beak-of-the-finch-a-story-of-e",
   "title": "Gulag Archipelago — instead: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time",
   "author": "Jonathan Weiner",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-backed boards (black cloth spine over blue paper boards, gilt finch to front). Copyright page states First Edition with the Borzoi colophon. First-state dust jacket present. Illustrated.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gulag-archipelago-instead-the-beak-of-the-finch-a-story-of-e"
  },
  {
   "slug": "among-schoolchildren",
   "title": "Among Schoolchildren",
   "author": "Tracy Kidder",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin Company",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-backed boards (red cloth spine, speckled paper-covered boards). Copyright page carries a number line descending to 1. First-state dust jacket present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/among-schoolchildren"
  },
  {
   "slug": "midnight-in-the-garden-of-good-and-evil",
   "title": "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil",
   "author": "John Berendt",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-backed boards. Copyright page states First Edition; Random House first printing does NOT carry a 1 in the number line (the stated First Edition plus the absence of a 1 marks the first printing). First-state dust jacket bears the Jack Leigh Bird Girl statue photograph (from Bonaventure Cemetery) and the Ann Beattie blurb at the top of the rear panel. Early text states show the typographical error repeated on page 11 and page 214.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/midnight-in-the-garden-of-good-and-evil"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-control-of-nature-companion-instead-a-civil-action",
   "title": "The Control of Nature companion — instead: A Civil Action",
   "author": "Jonathan Harr",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-backed boards. Copyright page states First Edition with the Random House number line whose lowest digit is 2 (the first printing reads down to 2, not 1, per Random House practice of this era). First-state dust jacket is the plain beige design used before the jacket was redesigned, with the price intact on the front flap. National Book Critics Circle Award winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-control-of-nature-companion-instead-a-civil-action"
  },
  {
   "slug": "truman",
   "title": "Truman",
   "author": "David McCullough",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Light blue boards backed in navy cloth with silver spine lettering. Copyright page carries a full number line reading down to 1. First-state dust jacket designed by Wendell Minor with the price intact on the front flap. Illustrated; roughly 1100 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/truman"
  },
  {
   "slug": "genius-the-life-and-science-of-richard-feynman",
   "title": "Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman",
   "author": "James Gleick",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Black cloth binding with deckled fore-edge. Copyright page states First Edition with the number line. First-state dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. Illustrated with black-and-white plates; about 532 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/genius-the-life-and-science-of-richard-feynman"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pilgrim-companion-instead-the-worst-hard-time",
   "title": "Pilgrim companion — instead: The Worst Hard Time",
   "author": "Timothy Egan",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2005 (hardcover published November 2005). The first printing carries a complete descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page and a priced first-state dust jacket on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pilgrim-companion-instead-the-worst-hard-time"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-souls-of-black-folk",
   "title": "The Souls of Black Folk",
   "author": "W. E. B. Du Bois",
   "publisher": "A. C. McClurg & Co.",
   "year": "1903",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1903, in decorated cloth stamped in gilt on spine and front cover. The first printing is identified by the copyright-page reading Published April, 1903 with no statement of a later edition or printing. The book reprinted rapidly, so later impressions and editions add edition or date statements on the title page or copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-souls-of-black-folk"
  },
  {
   "slug": "black-boy",
   "title": "Black Boy",
   "author": "Richard Wright",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers",
   "year": "1945",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth binding; the first printing carries the Harper publisher's code 'M-T' (signifying December 1944) on the copyright page, with the date '1945' present. The first-issue dust jacket is priced. The stated code, not the year alone, distinguishes the first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/black-boy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-periodic-table",
   "title": "The Periodic Table",
   "author": "Primo Levi",
   "publisher": "Schocken Books",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Schocken Books edition is the first English-language edition, translated by Raymond Rosenthal; cloth-backed boards; first-state dust jacket priced. Later printings add impression statements.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-periodic-table"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bury-my-heart-at-wounded-knee-an-indian-history-of-the-ameri",
   "title": "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West",
   "author": "Dee Brown",
   "publisher": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Quarter black cloth over orange cloth with decorations to front board and spine; 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page; first-state dust jacket priced ten dollars ninety-five cents on the front flap and bearing the code '0171' at the foot of the front flap (second-state jackets lack this code).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bury-my-heart-at-wounded-knee-an-indian-history-of-the-ameri"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-cold-blood-a-true-account-of-a-multiple-murder-and-its-co",
   "title": "In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences",
   "author": "Truman Capote",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Maroon cloth, title gilt to spine, author's initials to front board; 'First Printing' stated on the copyright page with the Random House colophon on the title page; first-state dust jacket priced five dollars ninety-five cents on the front flap with the code '1/66' at the foot of the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-cold-blood-a-true-account-of-a-multiple-murder-and-its-co"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-transformation-of-virginia-1740-1790",
   "title": "The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790",
   "author": "Rhys Isaac",
   "publisher": "University of North Carolina Press (for the Institute of Early American History and Culture)",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth; published by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, for the Institute of Early American History and Culture (ISBN 0-8078-1489-X); first-state dust jacket priced and not clipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-transformation-of-virginia-1740-1790"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-gulag-companion-instead-the-brothers-ashkenazi-n-a-use-h",
   "title": "The Gulag companion — instead: The Brothers Ashkenazi; n/a — use: Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan",
   "author": "Herbert P. Bix",
   "publisher": "HarperCollins",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Quarter-cloth over boards. Copyright page carries a full number line ending in 1; first-state jacket is priced on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-gulag-companion-instead-the-brothers-ashkenazi-n-a-use-h"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-beautiful-cure-n-a-instead-the-immense-journey",
   "title": "The Beautiful Cure — n/a; instead: The Immense Journey",
   "author": "Loren Eiseley",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Quarter-cloth over boards. Copyright page states First Printing with the Random House colophon; first-state jacket is priced on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-beautiful-cure-n-a-instead-the-immense-journey"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-outermost-house-a-year-of-life-on-the-great-beach-of-cap",
   "title": "The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod",
   "author": "Henry Beston",
   "publisher": "Doubleday, Doran",
   "year": "1928",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in blue cloth, 8vo, with the Doubleday, Doran imprint on the title page. Books of this era carried no printed First Edition statement; the true first is identified by the early imprint reading Doubleday, Doran (not the later Doubleday and Company) and by the absence of later printing or reissue notices on the copyright page. Issued in a pictorial dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-outermost-house-a-year-of-life-on-the-great-beach-of-cap"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-naturalist-on-lake-maracaibo-n-a-instead-the-outermost-com",
   "title": "A Naturalist on Lake Maracaibo — n/a; instead: The Outermost companion: Gift from the Sea",
   "author": "Anne Morrow Lindbergh",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in half blue cloth over pictorial paper-covered boards decorated with sea shells, 127 pages. Pantheon used no First Edition designation at this date, so the true first printing carries NO printing statement on the copyright page; later printings are explicitly marked (for example Fifth Printing with a date). First-issue dust jacket carries the original price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-naturalist-on-lake-maracaibo-n-a-instead-the-outermost-com"
  },
  {
   "slug": "seeing-voices-a-journey-into-the-world-of-the-deaf",
   "title": "Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf",
   "author": "Oliver Sacks",
   "publisher": "University of California Press",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover in dust jacket; University of California Press (Berkeley/Los Angeles) imprint and 1989 copyright; first-state jacket priced. The UC Press 1989 issue is the true first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/seeing-voices-a-journey-into-the-world-of-the-deaf"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hot-zone-a-terrifying-true-story",
   "title": "The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story",
   "author": "Richard Preston",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Black cloth-backed boards in priced dust jacket; copyright page states 'First Edition' together with a Random House number line whose lowest number is 2 (e.g. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2). Both the stated 'First Edition' and the line must be present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hot-zone-a-terrifying-true-story"
  },
  {
   "slug": "silent-spring-legacy-instead-braiding-sweetgrass",
   "title": "Silent Spring legacy — instead: Braiding Sweetgrass",
   "author": "Robin Wall Kimmerer",
   "publisher": "Milkweed Editions",
   "year": "2013",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by 'First Edition' with a complete number line on the copyright page, descending to 1. Issued in hardcover with dust jacket and as a trade paperback; the first hardcover printing was small. First-state copies retain the original jacket without later printing dates added.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/silent-spring-legacy-instead-braiding-sweetgrass"
  },
  {
   "slug": "why-we-sleep-n-a-instead-the-beak-companion-river-of-doubt",
   "title": "Why We Sleep — n/a; instead: The Beak companion: River of Doubt",
   "author": "Candice Millard",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "nonfiction-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-backed boards; 'First Edition' stated with a complete number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; first-state dust jacket with original unclipped price. Includes maps and plates.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/why-we-sleep-n-a-instead-the-beak-companion-river-of-doubt"
  },
  {
   "slug": "building-stories",
   "title": "Building Stories",
   "author": "Chris Ware",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books (New York)",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Large hardboard boxed set of 14 separately bound printed elements (cloth/board-bound books, broadsheets, pamphlets, an accordion-fold board). First printing identified by the complete number line printed on the inside of the box; Pantheon imprint.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/building-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "david-boring",
   "title": "David Boring",
   "author": "Daniel Clowes",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books (New York)",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover, Pantheon Books, 2000 (ISBN 0-375-40692-1). First printing identified by a complete number line ending in 1 on the copyright page. Collects the David Boring storyline from Eightball #19-21. Issued in dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/david-boring"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ice-haven",
   "title": "Ice Haven",
   "author": "Daniel Clowes",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books (New York)",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Oversized hardcover, Pantheon Books, 2005 (ISBN 0-375-42332-X), a reworking and expansion of the material from Eightball #22 (2001). First printing has a full number line ending in 1. Issued in illustrated laminated boards without a separate dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ice-haven"
  },
  {
   "slug": "wilson",
   "title": "Wilson",
   "author": "Daniel Clowes",
   "publisher": "Drawn & Quarterly (Montreal)",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Oversized hardcover, Drawn & Quarterly, 2010 (ISBN 978-1-77046-007-2). First printing identified by a complete number line ending in 1. Drawn & Quarterly indicia; thick boards per Clowes's request.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/wilson"
  },
  {
   "slug": "safe-area-gora-de",
   "title": "Safe Area Goražde",
   "author": "Joe Sacco",
   "publisher": "Fantagraphics Books (Seattle)",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover, Fantagraphics Books, 2000 (ISBN 1-56097-392-7), with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens. The deluxe hardcover was published June 2000 and preceded the softcover (ISBN 1-56097-470-2).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/safe-area-gora-de"
  },
  {
   "slug": "persepolis-english-vol-1",
   "title": "Persepolis (English, Vol. 1)",
   "author": "Marjane Satrapi",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books (New York)",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US English edition, Pantheon Books, 2003 (ISBN 0-375-42230-4, hardcover; ISBN-13 978-0-375-42230-0). First printing identified by a number line ending in 1. Translated by Blake Ferris and Mattias Ripa; edited by Anjali Singh. This volume combines the first two French L'Association volumes.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/persepolis-english-vol-1"
  },
  {
   "slug": "killing-and-dying",
   "title": "Killing and Dying",
   "author": "Adrian Tomine",
   "publisher": "Drawn & Quarterly (Montreal)",
   "year": "2015",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First book edition: Drawn & Quarterly hardcover, 2015, bound in color pictorial boards under a printed translucent mylar dust jacket through which the boards show, with color pictorial endpapers. A first printing carries no later-printing statement on the indicia.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/killing-and-dying"
  },
  {
   "slug": "love-and-rockets-vol-1-music-for-mechanics",
   "title": "Love and Rockets, Vol. 1 (Music for Mechanics)",
   "author": "Gilbert, Jaime & Mario Hernandez",
   "publisher": "Fantagraphics Books (Seattle)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First collected edition, Fantagraphics, October 1985, an oversized softcover trade paperback collecting Love and Rockets (1982 magazine series) issues 1 and 2. The original 1985 edition was titled simply Music for Mechanics (also styled Love and Rockets: Book 1); the 'Vol. 1' numbering belongs to the later reissue program. A first printing carries no later-printing statement on the indicia/copyright page; a December 1986 second printing followed and is noted as such.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/love-and-rockets-vol-1-music-for-mechanics"
  },
  {
   "slug": "march-book-one",
   "title": "March: Book One",
   "author": "John Lewis, Andrew Aydin & Nate Powell",
   "publisher": "Top Shelf Productions (Marietta, GA)",
   "year": "2013",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Softcover with French flaps, Top Shelf Productions, 2013, ISBN 978-1-60309-300-2. First printing copies carry a first-printing indication on the copyright page dated 2013 with no statement of a later printing. Examine the indicia and confirm the absence of any additional-printing line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/march-book-one"
  },
  {
   "slug": "boxers-saints",
   "title": "Boxers & Saints",
   "author": "Gene Luen Yang",
   "publisher": "First Second (New York)",
   "year": "2013",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Second (an imprint of Roaring Brook Press / Macmillan), 2013. Issued both as individual softcover volumes and as a two-volume boxed set in an illustrated wrap-around slipcase (boxed-set ISBN 978-1-59643-924-5). First printing identified by the copyright-page indicia showing no statement of a later printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/boxers-saints"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sandman-the-dolls-house",
   "title": "Sandman: The Doll's House",
   "author": "Neil Gaiman et al.",
   "publisher": "DC Comics (New York)",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "comics-deep-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade paperback collecting Sandman 8-16, DC Comics, 1990, ISBN 0-930289-59-1 (9780930289591), with a foreword by Clive Barker. First printing identified by the 1990 indicia with no later-printing statement and the original cover. The ISBN 1-56389-016-9 found on many copies belongs to a later DC/Vertigo printing, not the 1990 first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sandman-the-dolls-house"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mystery-train-images-of-america-in-rock-n-roll-music",
   "title": "Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music",
   "author": "Greil Marcus",
   "publisher": "E. P. Dutton",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "music-film-pop",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US E. P. Dutton hardcover, 1975; octavo, approximately xii plus 375 pages with index. First edition so stated, with no additional printings indicated on the copyright page. The book was revised repeatedly across later editions plus a 50th-anniversary edition, so reprints and revised texts are abundant; a first must be the original unrevised 1975 Dutton text.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mystery-train-images-of-america-in-rock-n-roll-music"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lyrics-1962-1985",
   "title": "Lyrics, 1962-1985",
   "author": "Bob Dylan",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "music-film-pop",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Knopf, 1985; incorporates all of 'Writings and Drawings' plus roughly 120 new pieces, additional full-page illustrations, and an index; ISBN 0-394-54278-9 (9780394542782). Borzoi imprint with stated 'First Edition'. Octavo in dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lyrics-1962-1985"
  },
  {
   "slug": "beautiful-losers",
   "title": "Beautiful Losers",
   "author": "Leonard Cohen",
   "publisher": "McClelland & Stewart",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "music-film-pop",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first: McClelland & Stewart (Toronto), 1966 — black cloth boards, gilt spine lettering, blind-stamped figure on the front board; dust jacket drawing by Harold Town, jacket design by Frank Newfeld. The most reliable internal point is the presence of typographical extras dropped from all later editions: the mock comic-book captions, the Charles Axis bodybuilding parody advertisement, the radio transcript of 'Gavin and the Goddesses,' and the Greek-English phrasebook passage. The first-printing sheets were printed by Viking and bound by M&S, so US Viking sheets in a Canadian jacket also occur.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/beautiful-losers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "scrambles-amongst-the-alps-in-the-years-1860-69",
   "title": "Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69",
   "author": "Edward Whymper",
   "publisher": "John Murray (London)",
   "year": "1871",
   "genre": "nature-sports-outdoor",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, London: John Murray, 1871, octavo, pp. xviii, [2], 432; printed by R. Clark, Edinburgh. Illustrated with full-page plates (commonly cited as roughly 22 to 23, one folding), about 90 to 100-plus in-text wood engravings, and five folding maps at the rear (one printed in color), plus a folding snow-section chart. Original green pictorial cloth with blind-ruled borders, gilt-lettered spine, and black-coated endpapers. The first issue/earliest state has NO printed thousand-count on the title page; a title page reading 'Fifth Thousand' indicates a LATER printing within 1871 (struck off after the first roughly 4,000 copies), not the earliest state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/scrambles-amongst-the-alps-in-the-years-1860-69"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-sportsmans-sketches-sketches-from-a-hunters-album",
   "title": "A Sportsman's Sketches (Sketches from a Hunter's Album)",
   "author": "Ivan Turgenev",
   "publisher": "University Printing House (Universitetskaya Tipografiya), Moscow",
   "year": "1852",
   "genre": "nature-sports-outdoor",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the Russian first book edition, 'Zapiski okhotnika,' two volumes, printed at the University Printing House (Universitetskaya Tipografiya), Moscow, 1852. It collects the hunting sketches first serialized in the journal 'Sovremennik' (The Contemporary) from 1847 to 1851, beginning with 'Khor and Kalinych' (January 1847). English-language appearances such as 'A Sportsman's Sketches' are later translations and are therefore 'first thus.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-sportsmans-sketches-sketches-from-a-hunters-album"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-maine-woods",
   "title": "The Maine Woods",
   "author": "Henry David Thoreau",
   "publisher": "Ticknor and Fields (Boston)",
   "year": "1864",
   "genre": "nature-sports-outdoor",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1864 (published posthumously, edited by William Ellery Channing and Sophia Thoreau); BAL 20113. The key first-printing point is the list of Thoreau's books on page [ii]: it is PRICED in the first printing and unpriced in the second. Copies appear in several cloth colors (green, purple, brown) among multiple cloth grains, with no established priority between binding states; spine cartouche variants ('Author of Walden' versus 'Author of Excursions') and presence or absence of a center wreath stamp likewise carry no priority.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-maine-woods"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-joy-of-cooking-first-trade-edition",
   "title": "The Joy of Cooking (first trade edition)",
   "author": "Irma S. Rombauer",
   "publisher": "The Bobbs-Merrill Company (Indianapolis)",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "cookbooks-collectible",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Expanded edition of roughly 628 pages; first printing of 10,000 copies released May 1, 1936. Copyright page reads 'Copyright 1931, 1936' with no additional printings listed and no printing number on the copyright page. First-state dust jacket lists the price of two dollars seventy-five on the front flap (later changed to two dollars fifty). Plaid-patterned cloth; illustrations and cover (St. Martha and the tarasque) by Marion Rombauer Becker.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-joy-of-cooking-first-trade-edition"
  },
  {
   "slug": "larousse-gastronomique-first-english-language-edition",
   "title": "Larousse Gastronomique (first English-language edition)",
   "author": "Prosper Montagné (edited/translated by Nina Froud and Charlotte Turgeon; introductions by Escoffier and Philéas Gilbert)",
   "publisher": "Crown Publishers (New York)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "cookbooks-collectible",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English-language edition: Crown Publishers, New York, 1961; thick quarto encyclopedia, an Anglo-American translation of the 1938 French text with added food-science entries and English/American measurements. Copyright page without later-printing data. Blue cloth binding with a row of fleurs-de-lis and white inlay lettering on the front board and spine.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/larousse-gastronomique-first-english-language-edition"
  },
  {
   "slug": "fight-club",
   "title": "Fight Club",
   "author": "Chuck Palahniuk",
   "publisher": "W. W. Norton & Company (New York)",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "gaps-signed-limited: collectible debut novels and signed/limited-edition landmarks (late 20th / early 21st c.), with verified points of issue. Franklin Library / Easton Press cases addressed honestly (facsimile signatures; trade firsts usually precede).",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Stated 'First Edition' with a complete number line ending in 1. The load-bearing binding point: quarter MAROON cloth spine over black paper-covered boards, spine lettered in silver. Later bindings switched to yellow cloth. Dust jacket priced $21.00 on the flap, unclipped. First printing was modest; the maroon binding plus the full number line together identify the true first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/fight-club"
  },
  {
   "slug": "jazz-franklin-library-signed-first-edition-society",
   "title": "Jazz (Franklin Library Signed First Edition Society)",
   "author": "Toni Morrison",
   "publisher": "The Franklin Library (Franklin Center, PA)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "gaps-signed-limited: collectible debut novels and signed/limited-edition landmarks (late 20th / early 21st c.), with verified points of issue. Franklin Library / Easton Press cases addressed honestly (facsimile signatures; trade firsts usually precede).",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Full brown morocco, gilt-decorated (trumpet motif on covers), three raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; issued as a Signed First Edition Society volume and hand-signed by Morrison on a bound-in limitation page. Distinguish from the trade Knopf first, which is cloth, states 'First Trade Edition' on the copyright page, and carries a 4/92 code with a Maya Angelou photo on the rear jacket panel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/jazz-franklin-library-signed-first-edition-society"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-witches-of-eastwick-franklin-library-signed-first-editio",
   "title": "The Witches of Eastwick (Franklin Library Signed First Edition)",
   "author": "John Updike",
   "publisher": "The Franklin Library (Franklin Center, PA)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "gaps-signed-limited: collectible debut novels and signed/limited-edition landmarks (late 20th / early 21st c.), with verified points of issue. Franklin Library / Easton Press cases addressed honestly (facsimile signatures; trade firsts usually precede).",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Full gilt-decorated leather, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, bound-in silk ribbon marker, illustrations by Michael Deas; issued as a Franklin Library Signed First Edition Society volume and hand-signed by Updike on a bound-in limitation page. The trade textual first is Alfred A. Knopf (1984), 'First Edition' stated, cloth boards with silver lettering.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-witches-of-eastwick-franklin-library-signed-first-editio"
  },
  {
   "slug": "appointment-in-samarra",
   "title": "Appointment in Samarra",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page. Glazed black cloth, spine titles in gilt, yellow topstain; [viii],301,[3]pp. Earliest state has an errata slip tipped in following the copyright page. First-issue dust jacket priced $2.50 with \"Recent Fiction\" on the rear panel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/appointment-in-samarra"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-doctors-son-and-other-stories",
   "title": "The Doctor's Son and Other Stories",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page. O'Hara's first collection of short stories. Particularly scarce in the dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-doctors-son-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hope-of-heaven",
   "title": "Hope of Heaven",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company",
   "year": "1938",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page (verso of title). Glossy black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; 182pp. O'Hara's third novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hope-of-heaven"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hellbox",
   "title": "Hellbox",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House first printing, with no later-printing statement on the copyright page. O'Hara's first postwar short-story collection. Black cloth lettered in silver, top edge stained blue, in the original dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hellbox"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-farmers-hotel",
   "title": "The Farmers Hotel",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing stated on the copyright page, with no later-printing statement. Short novel of roughly 150 pages, blue cloth boards with a facsimile signature in black on the front board, top edge stained blue, in the dust jacket with art by John O'Hara Cosgrave II.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-farmers-hotel"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sweet-and-sour",
   "title": "Sweet and Sour",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing stated on the copyright page. Collection of O'Hara's Sweet and Sour columns originally written for the Trenton Times-Advertiser. Russet paper-covered boards with brown cloth backstrip, navy topstain, in the dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sweet-and-sour"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-family-party",
   "title": "A Family Party",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of this slim novella, presented as a single after-dinner monologue, in paper-covered boards with cloth spine and dust jacket. The copyright page of the first printing carries no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-family-party"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ourselves-to-know",
   "title": "Ourselves to Know",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing states 'First Printing' on the copyright page with no later-printing statement. Issued in burgundy cloth lettered in gilt with a stained top edge and dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ourselves-to-know"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sermons-and-soda-water",
   "title": "Sermons and Soda-Water",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Three short novels issued together as a three-volume set housed in a publisher's slipcase: 'The Girl on the Baggage Truck,' 'Imagine Kissing Pete,' and 'We're Friends Again.' First printing carries no later-printing statement. A signed issue with a tipped-in leaf signed by O'Hara in the first volume was prepared for the Kroch's & Brentano's First Edition Circle.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sermons-and-soda-water"
  },
  {
   "slug": "assembly",
   "title": "Assembly",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of this collection of twenty-six stories, O'Hara's return to short fiction, with 'First Printing' stated on the copyright page and no later-printing slug.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/assembly"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-big-laugh",
   "title": "The Big Laugh",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing states 'First Printing' on the copyright page with no later-printing statement. Issued in black cloth boards with a red title panel and gilt spine lettering, red endpapers, and dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-big-laugh"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-cape-cod-lighter",
   "title": "The Cape Cod Lighter",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Collection of twenty-three stories. The true first carries the words FIRST PRINTING on the copyright page; this is the identifying point, as O'Hara's Random House titles of this period were so marked. Later printings note a printing history instead.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-cape-cod-lighter"
  },
  {
   "slug": "elizabeth-appleton",
   "title": "Elizabeth Appleton",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Novel. The true first carries FIRST PRINTING on the copyright page; absence of that line indicates a later state or a book club copy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/elizabeth-appleton"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hat-on-the-bed",
   "title": "The Hat on the Bed",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Collection of twenty-four stories. The true first carries FIRST PRINTING on the copyright page; later printings substitute a printing history.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hat-on-the-bed"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-horse-knows-the-way",
   "title": "The Horse Knows the Way",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Collection of stories. The true first carries FIRST PRINTING on the copyright page; later printings carry a printing history instead.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-horse-knows-the-way"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lockwood-concern",
   "title": "The Lockwood Concern",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Novel. The trade first carries FIRST PRINTING on the copyright page. There is also a signed limited issue of 300 numbered copies signed by the author, with the limitation leaf bound in ahead of the half-title and issued in a publisher's slipcase.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lockwood-concern"
  },
  {
   "slug": "waiting-for-winter",
   "title": "Waiting for Winter",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Collection of twenty-one stories. The true first carries FIRST PRINTING on the copyright page; later printings substitute a printing history.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/waiting-for-winter"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-instrument",
   "title": "The Instrument",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition stated on the copyright page, with no later-printing indication. Issued in light-green cloth lettered in gilt with a first-issue dust jacket bearing the original unclipped price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-instrument"
  },
  {
   "slug": "and-other-stories",
   "title": "And Other Stories",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing as stated on the copyright page. Green linen binding lettered in gilt, green topstain, with a first-issue dust jacket carrying the original unclipped price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-ewings",
   "title": "The Ewings",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing as stated on the copyright page, with no later-printing indication. Mustard cloth stamped in blue and gilt, green endpapers and topstain, with a first-issue dust jacket bearing the original unclipped price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-ewings"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-time-element-and-other-stories",
   "title": "The Time Element and Other Stories",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing as stated on the copyright page, with no later-printing indication. Green cloth with gilt lettering and green topstain, in a first-issue dust jacket bearing the original unclipped price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-time-element-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cock-pit",
   "title": "Cock Pit",
   "author": "James Gould Cozzens",
   "publisher": "William Morrow",
   "year": "1928",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, New York: William Morrow & Company, 1928. Identified by the absence of any later-printing notice on the copyright page. Original black cloth, titles in red, orange-printed map endpapers, top edge red, others untrimmed.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cock-pit"
  },
  {
   "slug": "men-and-brethren",
   "title": "Men and Brethren",
   "author": "James Gould Cozzens",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Edition stated on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/men-and-brethren"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ask-me-tomorrow",
   "title": "Ask Me Tomorrow",
   "author": "James Gould Cozzens",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Edition stated on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ask-me-tomorrow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "children-and-others",
   "title": "Children and Others",
   "author": "James Gould Cozzens",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace & World",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Edition stated on the copyright page. A collection of sixteen stories.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/children-and-others"
  },
  {
   "slug": "morning-noon-and-night",
   "title": "Morning Noon and Night",
   "author": "James Gould Cozzens",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace & World",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Edition stated on the copyright page. Cozzens's last novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/morning-noon-and-night"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lucy-crown",
   "title": "Lucy Crown",
   "author": "Irwin Shaw",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first issued in red cloth. Identify by the explicit 'First Printing' statement on the copyright page, with no later-printing line. Shaw's third novel, 339 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lucy-crown"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tip-on-a-dead-jockey-and-other-stories",
   "title": "Tip on a Dead Jockey and Other Stories",
   "author": "Irwin Shaw",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of Shaw's story collection (ten stories, including the title piece first collected here). Random House first identified by the copyright-page printing statement with no later-printing slug.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tip-on-a-dead-jockey-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "two-weeks-in-another-town",
   "title": "Two Weeks in Another Town",
   "author": "Irwin Shaw",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, 370 pages. Identify by the copyright-page printing statement with no later-printing line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/two-weeks-in-another-town"
  },
  {
   "slug": "selected-short-stories-of-irwin-shaw",
   "title": "Selected Short Stories of Irwin Shaw",
   "author": "Irwin Shaw",
   "publisher": "Modern Library / Random House",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First-thus only: a Modern Library compilation (number 319) of previously published stories, with an author preface, red cloth, approximately 426 pages. The first Modern Library printing is dated by the dust-jacket spine title list and the jacket's catalogue listing rather than by any copyright-page printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/selected-short-stories-of-irwin-shaw"
  },
  {
   "slug": "voices-of-a-summer-day",
   "title": "Voices of a Summer Day",
   "author": "Irwin Shaw",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, 223 pages, navy cloth spine over yellow boards with gilt facsimile signature, untrimmed fore-edge. Identify by the absence of any later-printing statement on the copyright page and a matching first-issue dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/voices-of-a-summer-day"
  },
  {
   "slug": "love-on-a-dark-street-and-other-stories",
   "title": "Love on a Dark Street and Other Stories",
   "author": "Irwin Shaw",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the US story collection. Identify by the absence of any later-printing statement on the copyright page and the first-issue dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/love-on-a-dark-street-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rich-man-poor-man",
   "title": "Rich Man, Poor Man",
   "author": "Irwin Shaw",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing is identified by the words First printing stated on the copyright page, with no later printings listed. Delacorte of this era used a stated First printing line rather than a number row. Issued in red cloth boards with gilt spine lettering in a dust jacket carrying the original price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/rich-man-poor-man"
  },
  {
   "slug": "evening-in-byzantium",
   "title": "Evening in Byzantium",
   "author": "Irwin Shaw",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing is identified by First printing stated on the copyright page with no later printings listed. Delacorte of this era used a stated First printing line rather than a number row.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/evening-in-byzantium"
  },
  {
   "slug": "acceptable-losses",
   "title": "Acceptable Losses",
   "author": "Irwin Shaw",
   "publisher": "Arbor House",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by the publisher's number line descending to 1 on the copyright page. Shaw's last novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/acceptable-losses"
  },
  {
   "slug": "aurora-dawn",
   "title": "Aurora Dawn",
   "author": "Herman Wouk",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing with no later-printing statement on the copyright page. Wouk's debut novel (full title 'Aurora Dawn, or, The True History of Andrew Reale').",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/aurora-dawn"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-city-boy",
   "title": "The City Boy",
   "author": "Herman Wouk",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1948",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing with no later-printing statement on the copyright page. Wouk's second novel (full title 'The City Boy: The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder').",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-city-boy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "this-is-my-god",
   "title": "This Is My God",
   "author": "Herman Wouk",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page. Non-fiction account of Judaism from a Modern Orthodox perspective.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/this-is-my-god"
  },
  {
   "slug": "youngblood-hawke",
   "title": "Youngblood Hawke",
   "author": "Herman Wouk",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page. Trade first lacks a board blind-stamp.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/youngblood-hawke"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dont-stop-the-carnival",
   "title": "Don't Stop the Carnival",
   "author": "Herman Wouk",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page. Doubleday's Garden City imprint, with map endpapers and the dust jacket bearing its original price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dont-stop-the-carnival"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hope",
   "title": "The Hope",
   "author": "Herman Wouk",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by \"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page with the full descending number line ending in 1. Novel of Israel's founding years; Boston, Little, Brown.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hope"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-glory",
   "title": "The Glory",
   "author": "Herman Wouk",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by \"First Edition\" stated with the full descending number line ending in 1. Sequel to The Hope; Boston, Little, Brown. A signed deluxe limited edition (about 200 copies, issued without dust jacket) was also produced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-glory"
  },
  {
   "slug": "from-here-to-eternity",
   "title": "From Here to Eternity",
   "author": "James Jones",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries the Scribner's 'A' on the copyright page with the publisher's seal beneath it. 861 pages. First-state dust jacket priced 4.50 on the front flap with the author photograph on the rear panel. Jones's debut novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/from-here-to-eternity"
  },
  {
   "slug": "some-came-running",
   "title": "Some Came Running",
   "author": "James Jones",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing shows the Scribner's 'A' with the printing code 'A-10.57[H]' on the copyright page and the publisher's seal. A very long novel of roughly xii plus 1266 pages in red and black cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/some-came-running"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-thin-red-line",
   "title": "The Thin Red Line",
   "author": "James Jones",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing shows the Scribner's 'A' with the printing code 'A-6.62[H]' on the copyright page and the publisher's seal. WWII Guadalcanal novel; first edition includes the Rafael Palacios endpaper maps and the sheet music in the rear.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-thin-red-line"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-ice-cream-headache-and-other-stories",
   "title": "The Ice-Cream Headache and Other Stories",
   "author": "James Jones",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing states 'First printing' on the copyright page. Jones's only collection of short stories, thirteen tales with an author's introduction; roughly xvi plus 238 pages, red cloth with gilt spine lettering and a pictorial jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-ice-cream-headache-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-merry-month-of-may",
   "title": "The Merry Month of May",
   "author": "James Jones",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering, 361 pages, dust jacket priced 7.95 and not clipped. Novel of the 1968 Paris student uprising.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-merry-month-of-may"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-touch-of-danger",
   "title": "A Touch of Danger",
   "author": "James Jones",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page, Doubleday's standard practice. Maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering, 431 pages, map endpapers. His mystery novel featuring the detective Lobo.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-touch-of-danger"
  },
  {
   "slug": "viet-journal",
   "title": "Viet Journal",
   "author": "James Jones",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, 268 pages. Non-fiction day-by-day account of Jones's 1973 reportorial trip to South Vietnam for the New York Times Magazine.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/viet-journal"
  },
  {
   "slug": "whistle",
   "title": "Whistle",
   "author": "James Jones",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing. Published posthumously, the final chapters completed from Jones's notes by Willie Morris. Third novel of the army war trilogy following From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/whistle"
  },
  {
   "slug": "somebody-in-boots",
   "title": "Somebody in Boots",
   "author": "Nelson Algren",
   "publisher": "Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in orange cloth with black spine lettering and a reddish-brown top stain, 322 pages. The scarce original dust jacket is very hard to find. Algren's debut novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/somebody-in-boots"
  },
  {
   "slug": "never-come-morning",
   "title": "Never Come Morning",
   "author": "Nelson Algren",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers",
   "year": "1942",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries the Harper letter code on the copyright page indicating a 1942 production date, found together with the words FIRST EDITION (the date code on first printings of this title is C-R). Introduction by Richard Wright. Issued in dust jacket priced 2.50.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/never-come-morning"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-neon-wilderness",
   "title": "The Neon Wilderness",
   "author": "Nelson Algren",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Edition stated on the copyright page, per Doubleday's consistent 1940s practice of printing First Edition on firsts and removing it from later printings. Green cloth lettered in brown on spine. His first short-story collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-neon-wilderness"
  },
  {
   "slug": "chicago-city-on-the-make",
   "title": "Chicago: City on the Make",
   "author": "Nelson Algren",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Edition stated on the copyright page (Doubleday convention). Slim prose-poem essay in grey paper-covered boards with black cloth backstrip, titles stamped in silver on the spine, grey top stain; dust jacket priced 1.50.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/chicago-city-on-the-make"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nelson-algrens-own-book-of-lonesome-monsters",
   "title": "Nelson Algren's Own Book of Lonesome Monsters",
   "author": "Nelson Algren",
   "publisher": "Bernard Geis Associates",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, 1962. Anthology edited by Algren. Orange boards backed with a black cloth spine, issued in a printed brown dust wrapper. Notable for including Thomas Pynchon's story 'Entropy' alongside work by Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, Bruce Jay Friedman and others.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nelson-algrens-own-book-of-lonesome-monsters"
  },
  {
   "slug": "who-lost-an-american",
   "title": "Who Lost an American?",
   "author": "Nelson Algren",
   "publisher": "Macmillan",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing. Published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1963. Quarter cloth over paper boards; dust jacket with the publisher's price on the front flap. A travel and essay collection of Algren's wanderings through Europe.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/who-lost-an-american"
  },
  {
   "slug": "conversations-with-nelson-algren",
   "title": "Conversations with Nelson Algren",
   "author": "Nelson Algren",
   "publisher": "Hill & Wang",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing. Published by Hill & Wang, New York, 1964. A book-length series of interviews conducted by H. E. F. Donohue; cloth binding with gilt spine lettering and pictorial dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/conversations-with-nelson-algren"
  },
  {
   "slug": "notes-from-a-sea-diary-hemingway-all-the-way",
   "title": "Notes from a Sea Diary: Hemingway All the Way",
   "author": "Nelson Algren",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing. Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1965. Navy cloth with gilt spine lettering; dust jacket with the publisher's price on the flap. Per Putnam practice of the period, the first printing carries no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/notes-from-a-sea-diary-hemingway-all-the-way"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-last-carousel",
   "title": "The Last Carousel",
   "author": "Nelson Algren",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing. Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1973. Identified by 1973 on the copyright page with no subsequent printings listed. White linen cloth stamped in blue and red on the spine; dust jacket with the publisher's price on the flap. A collection of fiction and reportage.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-last-carousel"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-harder-they-fall",
   "title": "The Harder They Fall",
   "author": "Budd Schulberg",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Stated First Printing on the copyright page; the statement is dropped on later printings (Random House of this era did not use number lines). Black cloth lettered in red and white, top edge stained red, dust jacket designed by Louis Glanzman.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-harder-they-fall"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-disenchanted",
   "title": "The Disenchanted",
   "author": "Budd Schulberg",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Stated First Printing on the copyright page; blue cloth stamped in gold, 388 pages, dust jacket priced 2.95 at the upper flap. Roman a clef drawing on F. Scott Fitzgerald.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-disenchanted"
  },
  {
   "slug": "some-faces-in-the-crowd",
   "title": "Some Faces in the Crowd",
   "author": "Budd Schulberg",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Stated First Printing on the copyright page; story collection of twenty stories, 309 pages, dust jacket designed by Riki Levinson. Includes 'Your Arkansas Traveler,' later the basis for the film A Face in the Crowd.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/some-faces-in-the-crowd"
  },
  {
   "slug": "waterfront",
   "title": "Waterfront",
   "author": "Budd Schulberg",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Stated First Printing on the copyright page; 322 pages. Novel expanding Schulberg's On the Waterfront screenplay.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/waterfront"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-four-seasons-of-success",
   "title": "The Four Seasons of Success",
   "author": "Budd Schulberg",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition stated 'First Edition' on the copyright page, with the statement removed on later printings, per Doubleday's convention of this era. A collection of Schulberg's reminiscences of six American writers (Sinclair Lewis, William Saroyan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanael West, Thomas Heggen, and John Steinbeck).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-four-seasons-of-success"
  },
  {
   "slug": "everything-that-moves",
   "title": "Everything That Moves",
   "author": "Budd Schulberg",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, Doubleday, Garden City, 1980, with the 'First Edition' statement on the copyright page per Doubleday convention and removed on later printings. A documentary novel on the labor-union and organized-crime nexus.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/everything-that-moves"
  },
  {
   "slug": "moving-pictures-memories-of-a-hollywood-prince",
   "title": "Moving Pictures: Memories of a Hollywood Prince",
   "author": "Budd Schulberg",
   "publisher": "Stein and Day",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, Stein and Day, New York, 1981. Illustrated with thirty black-and-white photographs and facsimile autographs on the endpapers; dust jacket designed by Tim Gaydos. Memoir of Schulberg's Hollywood childhood as the son of a studio mogul.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/moving-pictures-memories-of-a-hollywood-prince"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bastard",
   "title": "The Bastard",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Heron Press",
   "year": "1929",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Heron Press, New York, 1929, illustrated by Ty Mahon, with a frontispiece and five plates and the title page set within a decorative border. The entire edition totaled 1,100 numbered copies in two states: copies 1 to 200 printed on American Handcraft paper and bound in balloon cloth, signed by author and illustrator on the limitation page; copies 201 to 1,100 (900 copies) printed on Mellow Book paper and bound in Holliston cloth. Caldwell's first book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bastard"
  },
  {
   "slug": "poor-fool",
   "title": "Poor Fool",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Rariora Press",
   "year": "1930",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Rariora Press, New York, 1930, limited to 1,000 numbered copies which constituted the entire edition (no trade printing). Illustrated by Alexander Couard, printed from Caslon type on Utopian laid paper, bound in blue buckram with gilt spine lettering. A boxing novel; Caldwell's second book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/poor-fool"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gods-little-acre",
   "title": "God's Little Acre",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1933",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing; black cloth lettered and decorated in orange/yellow and green, top edge stained pink, fore edge untrimmed; no statement of later printing on the copyright page. Dust jacket priced at two-fifty.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gods-little-acre"
  },
  {
   "slug": "some-american-people",
   "title": "Some American People",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Robert M. McBride & Company",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, published 1935 by Robert M. McBride & Company, New York. Non-fiction Depression-era reportage; Caldwell's first collection of non-fiction pieces.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/some-american-people"
  },
  {
   "slug": "you-have-seen-their-faces",
   "title": "You Have Seen Their Faces",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Viking Press",
   "year": "1937",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, Viking Press, November 1937. Photo-text collaboration with Margaret Bourke-White; tan cloth lettered in red, with the original pictorial dust jacket. Landmark Depression-era documentary photo book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/you-have-seen-their-faces"
  },
  {
   "slug": "southways",
   "title": "Southways",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1938",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, The Viking Press, 1938. Short-story collection of roughly 16 stories, about 206 pages, in cloth with the original dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/southways"
  },
  {
   "slug": "north-of-the-danube",
   "title": "North of the Danube",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, The Viking Press, 1939. Second photo-text collaboration with Margaret Bourke-White, documenting Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Nazi invasion; text by Caldwell with black-and-white photogravures by Bourke-White, in cloth with dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/north-of-the-danube"
  },
  {
   "slug": "trouble-in-july",
   "title": "Trouble in July",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Duell, Sloan and Pearce",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940. Novel of a Deep South lynching, about 241 pages, in cloth with the original dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/trouble-in-july"
  },
  {
   "slug": "jackpot-the-short-stories-of-erskine-caldwell",
   "title": "Jackpot: The Short Stories of Erskine Caldwell",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Duell, Sloan and Pearce",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the omnibus gathering seventy-five stories, each introduced by Caldwell's own comment; nine appeared in book form for the first time. Issued in navy buckram with silver lettering.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/jackpot-the-short-stories-of-erskine-caldwell"
  },
  {
   "slug": "georgia-boy",
   "title": "Georgia Boy",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Duell, Sloan and Pearce",
   "year": "1943",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the linked-story novel; 'first edition' stated on the copyright page, orange cloth with silver spine lettering.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/georgia-boy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tragic-ground",
   "title": "Tragic Ground",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Duell, Sloan and Pearce",
   "year": "1944",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing with no later-printing notice on the copyright page; later printings are designated 'Second Printing.' Grey cloth with green spine lettering, 237 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tragic-ground"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-house-in-the-uplands",
   "title": "A House in the Uplands",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Duell, Sloan and Pearce",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing of the Southern plantation novel; green cloth over boards with silver lettering, 238 pages, in pictorial dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-house-in-the-uplands"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sure-hand-of-god",
   "title": "The Sure Hand of God",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Duell, Sloan and Pearce",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1947. Copyright page carries the firm's First Edition statement with no later-printing notations. Issued in green cloth lettered in black on front and spine, in dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sure-hand-of-god"
  },
  {
   "slug": "this-very-earth",
   "title": "This Very Earth",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Duell, Sloan and Pearce",
   "year": "1948",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1948. Copyright page states First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket; 254 pp.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/this-very-earth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "place-called-estherville",
   "title": "Place Called Estherville",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Duell, Sloan and Pearce",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1949. Copyright page carries the First Edition statement. Octavo in light blue cloth, titles stamped in red on spine and front cover, red top stain, in dust jacket; collation runs to 244 pp.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/place-called-estherville"
  },
  {
   "slug": "episode-in-palmetto",
   "title": "Episode in Palmetto",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Duell, Sloan and Pearce",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1950. Copyright page states First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/episode-in-palmetto"
  },
  {
   "slug": "call-it-experience",
   "title": "Call It Experience",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Duell, Sloan and Pearce",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1951. Full title Call It Experience: The Years of Learning How to Write, Caldwell's memoir of his apprenticeship as a writer. Copyright page states First Edition; 239 pp., hardcover in dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/call-it-experience"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-lamp-for-nightfall",
   "title": "A Lamp for Nightfall",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Duell, Sloan and Pearce",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1952. Copyright page states First Edition; 211 pp., hardcover in dust jacket. The novel was written roughly two decades earlier and held unpublished until this 1952 appearance.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-lamp-for-nightfall"
  },
  {
   "slug": "love-and-money",
   "title": "Love and Money",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Duell, Sloan and Pearce",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, with the Duell, Sloan and Pearce imprint. By the mid-1950s the firm's books were manufactured and distributed under arrangement with Little, Brown, and first printings carry the publisher's first-edition statement on the copyright page with no later-printing notice.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/love-and-money"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gulf-coast-stories",
   "title": "Gulf Coast Stories",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition stated; Little, Brown first printings of this period carry 'First Edition' or 'First Printing' on the copyright page. Story collection; green cloth in dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gulf-coast-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "claudelle-inglish",
   "title": "Claudelle Inglish",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition stated; Little, Brown first printings of this period carry 'First Edition' or 'First Printing' on the copyright page. 208 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/claudelle-inglish"
  },
  {
   "slug": "when-you-think-of-me",
   "title": "When You Think of Me",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition stated; Little, Brown first printings of this period carry 'First Edition' or 'First Printing' on the copyright page. Short story collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/when-you-think-of-me"
  },
  {
   "slug": "close-to-home",
   "title": "Close to Home",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Cudahy",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, with no statement of later printing on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/close-to-home"
  },
  {
   "slug": "around-about-america",
   "title": "Around About America",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Company",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, with no statement of later printing on the copyright page. Travel non-fiction illustrated with drawings by Virginia M. Caldwell.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/around-about-america"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-search-of-bisco",
   "title": "In Search of Bisco",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, with no statement of later printing on the copyright page. Civil-rights-era reportage in which Caldwell searches the South for a Black boyhood friend.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-search-of-bisco"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-deer-at-our-house",
   "title": "The Deer at Our House",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Collier Books",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing. Children's picture book illustrated by Ben Wohlberg.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-deer-at-our-house"
  },
  {
   "slug": "miss-mamma-aimee",
   "title": "Miss Mamma Aimee",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "New American Library",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states first printing on the copyright page. Issued in red cloth boards with yellow spine lettering and an orange flower device, in unclipped pictorial dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/miss-mamma-aimee"
  },
  {
   "slug": "writing-in-america",
   "title": "Writing in America",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Phaedra",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by Phaedra Publishers, New York, 1967; a collection of essays on writing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/writing-in-america"
  },
  {
   "slug": "deep-south-memory-and-observation",
   "title": "Deep South: Memory and Observation",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Weybright and Talley",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition, Weybright and Talley, New York, 1968; nonfiction on Southern Protestantism, 257 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/deep-south-memory-and-observation"
  },
  {
   "slug": "annette",
   "title": "Annette",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "New American Library",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, New American Library, New York, 1973; Caldwell's final novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/annette"
  },
  {
   "slug": "afternoons-in-mid-america",
   "title": "Afternoons in Mid-America",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Dodd, Mead",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, issued in cloth by Dodd, Mead, New York, 1976. A volume of travel impressions of ordinary Americans, illustrated with photographs.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/afternoons-in-mid-america"
  },
  {
   "slug": "young-lonigan-a-boyhood-in-chicago-streets",
   "title": "Young Lonigan: A Boyhood in Chicago Streets",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "The Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1932",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in brown woven cloth with pale orange paper labels, xii plus 308 pages. Farrell's first novel; reportedly only about 533 copies sold, making it scarce. No later-printing statement on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/young-lonigan-a-boyhood-in-chicago-streets"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gas-house-mcginty",
   "title": "Gas-House McGinty",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "The Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1933",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, The Vanguard Press, New York, 1933. Farrell's second novel. No later-printing statement on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gas-house-mcginty"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-young-manhood-of-studs-lonigan",
   "title": "The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "The Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, The Vanguard Press, New York, 1934. Second volume of the Studs Lonigan trilogy. No later-printing statement on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-young-manhood-of-studs-lonigan"
  },
  {
   "slug": "guillotine-party-and-other-stories",
   "title": "Guillotine Party and Other Stories",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "The Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, published by The Vanguard Press, New York, 1935; a collection of nineteen short stories.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/guillotine-party-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-world-i-never-made",
   "title": "A World I Never Made",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "The Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, published by The Vanguard Press, New York, 1936; the first novel of the Danny O'Neill pentalogy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-world-i-never-made"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-note-on-literary-criticism",
   "title": "A Note on Literary Criticism",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "The Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, published by The Vanguard Press, New York, 1936; a volume of literary-critical essays defending Marxist literary criticism.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-note-on-literary-criticism"
  },
  {
   "slug": "can-all-this-grandeur-perish-and-other-stories",
   "title": "Can All This Grandeur Perish? and Other Stories",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "The Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1937",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, published by The Vanguard Press, New York, 1937; a collection of seventeen short stories previously published in magazines.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/can-all-this-grandeur-perish-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tommy-gallaghers-crusade",
   "title": "Tommy Gallagher's Crusade",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "The Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, published by The Vanguard Press, New York, 1939; a short antifascist novel of ninety-one pages in original tan cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tommy-gallaghers-crusade"
  },
  {
   "slug": "father-and-son",
   "title": "Father and Son",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "The Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has no statement of a later printing on the copyright page. Vanguard typically named subsequent printings; absence of any such statement indicates the first. Third novel in Farrell's Danny O'Neill pentalogy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/father-and-son"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ellen-rogers",
   "title": "Ellen Rogers",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "The Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1941",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries no later-printing statement on the copyright page. A standalone novel of about 429 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ellen-rogers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "1000-a-week-and-other-stories",
   "title": "$1000 a Week and Other Stories",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "The Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1942",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries no later-printing statement on the copyright page. A short-story collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/1000-a-week-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "my-days-of-anger",
   "title": "My Days of Anger",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "The Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1943",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries no later-printing statement on the copyright page. Fourth novel in Farrell's Danny O'Neill pentalogy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/my-days-of-anger"
  },
  {
   "slug": "to-whom-it-may-concern-and-other-stories",
   "title": "To Whom It May Concern and Other Stories",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "The Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1944",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries no later-printing statement on the copyright page. A short-story collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/to-whom-it-may-concern-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-league-of-frightened-philistines",
   "title": "The League of Frightened Philistines",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "The Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1945",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries no later-printing statement on the copyright page. A collection of essays and papers; the full title on the title page is The League of Frightened Philistines and Other Papers, collation roughly xiv, 210 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-league-of-frightened-philistines"
  },
  {
   "slug": "literature-and-morality",
   "title": "Literature and Morality",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "The Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing; collection of critical essays.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/literature-and-morality"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-life-adventurous-and-other-stories",
   "title": "The Life Adventurous and Other Stories",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "The Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing; short-story collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-life-adventurous-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-road-between",
   "title": "The Road Between",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "The Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing; second novel of the Bernard Carr trilogy (following Bernard Clare).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-road-between"
  },
  {
   "slug": "yet-other-waters",
   "title": "Yet Other Waters",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "The Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing; third and final novel of the Bernard Carr trilogy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/yet-other-waters"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-face-of-time",
   "title": "The Face of Time",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "The Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, Vanguard Press, New York, 1953. The fifth and final volume of Farrell's O'Neill-O'Flaherty pentalogy (the Danny O'Neill series). Later printings and the University of Illinois Press reissue are clearly distinguishable.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-face-of-time"
  },
  {
   "slug": "reflections-at-fifty-and-other-essays",
   "title": "Reflections at Fifty and Other Essays",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, Vanguard Press, New York, 1954. Collection of personal and critical essays.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/reflections-at-fifty-and-other-essays"
  },
  {
   "slug": "french-girls-are-vicious-and-other-stories",
   "title": "French Girls Are Vicious and Other Stories",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "The Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, Vanguard Press, New York, 1955. Story collection of nine stories (several previously appearing in magazines, all first collected in this hardcover).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/french-girls-are-vicious-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "an-omnibus-of-short-stories",
   "title": "An Omnibus of Short Stories",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, Vanguard Press, New York, 1956. Omnibus gathering of previously published Farrell short stories (first-thus collection).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/an-omnibus-of-short-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-dangerous-woman-and-other-stories",
   "title": "A Dangerous Woman and Other Stories",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, Vanguard Press, New York, 1957. Story collection, approximately 160 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-dangerous-woman-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "my-baseball-diary",
   "title": "My Baseball Diary",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "A.S. Barnes",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, A.S. Barnes, New York, 1957, with 1957 on the verso of the title page. Baseball memoir, approximately 276 pages. First of two baseball books Farrell contracted to write for A.S. Barnes.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/my-baseball-diary"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-silence-of-history",
   "title": "The Silence of History",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page (Doubleday convention). First volume of the late 'A Universe of Time' sequence.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-silence-of-history"
  },
  {
   "slug": "what-time-collects",
   "title": "What Time Collects",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page (Doubleday convention).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/what-time-collects"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lonely-for-the-future",
   "title": "Lonely for the Future",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page (Doubleday convention).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lonely-for-the-future"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-brand-new-life",
   "title": "A Brand New Life",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-brand-new-life"
  },
  {
   "slug": "judith-and-other-stories",
   "title": "Judith and Other Stories",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page; short-story collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/judith-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dunne-family",
   "title": "The Dunne Family",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dunne-family"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-death-of-nora-ryan",
   "title": "The Death of Nora Ryan",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page; late novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-death-of-nora-ryan"
  },
  {
   "slug": "think-fast-mr-moto",
   "title": "Think Fast, Mr. Moto",
   "author": "John P. Marquand",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1937",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the US Little, Brown printing, with the copyright-page publication statement and no later-printing notice. This is the third Mr. Moto novel; the original binding is blue cloth lettered in red.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/think-fast-mr-moto"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mr-moto-is-so-sorry",
   "title": "Mr. Moto Is So Sorry",
   "author": "John P. Marquand",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1938",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the US Little, Brown printing, with the copyright-page statement Published August, 1938 and no later-printing notice. This is the fourth Mr. Moto novel; the original binding is green cloth lettered in red on spine and front cover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mr-moto-is-so-sorry"
  },
  {
   "slug": "wickford-point",
   "title": "Wickford Point",
   "author": "John P. Marquand",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the first Little, Brown printing, identified by the copyright-page publication statement with no later-printing notice. Multiple printings were run in 1939, so the absence of any added printing line is the key point. Original plum cloth over boards with gilt lettering, top edge stained, deckle edges.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/wickford-point"
  },
  {
   "slug": "so-little-time",
   "title": "So Little Time",
   "author": "John P. Marquand",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1943",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by the Little, Brown first-edition statement on the copyright page, with no later-printing notice present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/so-little-time"
  },
  {
   "slug": "repent-in-haste",
   "title": "Repent in Haste",
   "author": "John P. Marquand",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1945",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by the Little, Brown first-edition statement on the copyright page, with no later-printing notice present. A short novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/repent-in-haste"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bfs-daughter",
   "title": "B.F.'s Daughter",
   "author": "John P. Marquand",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by the Little, Brown first-edition statement on the copyright page, with no later-printing notice present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bfs-daughter"
  },
  {
   "slug": "melville-goodwin-usa",
   "title": "Melville Goodwin, USA",
   "author": "John P. Marquand",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by the Little, Brown first-edition statement on the copyright page, with no later-printing notice present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/melville-goodwin-usa"
  },
  {
   "slug": "thirty-years",
   "title": "Thirty Years",
   "author": "John P. Marquand",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, stated First Edition on the copyright page. A collection of Marquand's stories, articles and essays gathered in book form for the first time, with an Introduction by Clifton Fadiman. Gray cloth with black spine label and gilt lettering.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/thirty-years"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sincerely-willis-wayde",
   "title": "Sincerely, Willis Wayde",
   "author": "John P. Marquand",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, with First Edition stated and no later-printing notice. Trade issue in cloth with a George Salter dust-jacket design.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sincerely-willis-wayde"
  },
  {
   "slug": "life-at-happy-knoll",
   "title": "Life at Happy Knoll",
   "author": "John P. Marquand",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, stated First Edition. A set of linked epistolary country-club stories (originally serialized in Sports Illustrated), illustrated with line drawings.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/life-at-happy-knoll"
  },
  {
   "slug": "women-and-thomas-harrow",
   "title": "Women and Thomas Harrow",
   "author": "John P. Marquand",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, with First Edition stated on the copyright page. Marquand's last novel published in his lifetime.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/women-and-thomas-harrow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "timothy-dexter-revisited",
   "title": "Timothy Dexter Revisited",
   "author": "John P. Marquand",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, stated First Edition. Beige cloth with red and gilt titling, red top-stain, illustrated endpapers, and line drawings by Philip Kappel. An expansion of Marquand's 1925 study of the Newburyport eccentric Timothy Dexter.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/timothy-dexter-revisited"
  },
  {
   "slug": "diversey",
   "title": "Diversey",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Coward-McCann",
   "year": "1928",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, identified by the torch colophon on the title page. Kantor's debut novel, set in Chicago; notably the first novel issued by the newly founded Coward-McCann.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/diversey"
  },
  {
   "slug": "el-goes-south",
   "title": "El Goes South",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Coward-McCann",
   "year": "1930",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition issued by Coward-McCann, New York, in 1930; orange cloth lettered in black, 298 pages. Coward-McCann firsts of this period carry no number line, so a first is identified by the 1930 title-page date with the publisher imprint and the absence of any later-printing or reprint notice on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/el-goes-south"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-jaybird",
   "title": "The Jaybird",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Coward-McCann",
   "year": "1932",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition issued by Coward-McCann, New York, in 1932; blue cloth-covered boards with white titles on front and spine, 294 pages. No number line was used; a first shows the 1932 imprint with no later-printing notice on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-jaybird"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-romance-of-rosy-ridge",
   "title": "The Romance of Rosy Ridge",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Coward-McCann",
   "year": "1937",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing issued by Coward-McCann, New York, in 1937; short novel of post-Civil War Missouri, 96 pages, illustrated by Will Crawford, beige cloth-covered boards with brown spine titles. A first shows the 1937 imprint with no later-printing notice on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-romance-of-rosy-ridge"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-noise-of-their-wings",
   "title": "The Noise of Their Wings",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Coward-McCann",
   "year": "1938",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in publisher's cloth, with the Coward-McCann imprint on the title page and no statement of later printing on the copyright page. The novel centers on one man's obsession with restoring the extinct passenger pigeon.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-noise-of-their-wings"
  },
  {
   "slug": "valedictory",
   "title": "Valedictory",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Coward-McCann",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in publisher's cloth bearing the Coward-McCann imprint on the title page, with no later-printing statement on the copyright page. A short work illustrated by Amos Sewell, the story told through the eyes of a retiring school janitor on graduation evening.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/valedictory"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cuba-libre",
   "title": "Cuba Libre",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Coward-McCann",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in publisher's cloth with the Coward-McCann imprint on the title page and no later-printing statement on the copyright page. A short novel of turn-of-the-century Cuba, illustrated by Ruth Lepper.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cuba-libre"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gentle-annie",
   "title": "Gentle Annie",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Coward-McCann",
   "year": "1942",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in publisher's cloth bearing the Coward-McCann imprint, with no later-printing statement on the copyright page. Subtitled a Western novel; the basis for the 1944 MGM film.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gentle-annie"
  },
  {
   "slug": "happy-land",
   "title": "Happy Land",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Coward-McCann",
   "year": "1943",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First book edition in publisher's cloth (commonly maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering), Coward-McCann imprint on the title page. A short World War II home-front story. Note that the work first appeared as a magazine serial before book publication.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/happy-land"
  },
  {
   "slug": "authors-choice",
   "title": "Author's Choice",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Coward-McCann",
   "year": "1944",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of this collection of forty selected stories, each accompanied by the author's own notes and commentary on why it was written. Coward-McCann, New York, 1944, in black cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/authors-choice"
  },
  {
   "slug": "glory-for-me",
   "title": "Glory for Me",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Coward-McCann",
   "year": "1945",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the novel in verse that became the basis for the film 'The Best Years of Our Lives.' Coward-McCann, New York, 1945, bound in black cloth with gilt spine lettering.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/glory-for-me"
  },
  {
   "slug": "but-look-the-morn",
   "title": "But Look, the Morn",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Coward-McCann",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of this autobiographical account of the author's Iowa childhood (full title 'But Look, the Morn: The Story of a Childhood'). Coward-McCann, New York, 1947.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/but-look-the-morn"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-good-family",
   "title": "The Good Family",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Coward-McCann",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of this novel following Martha and Larry Barden and their twins. Coward-McCann, New York, 1949.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-good-family"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dont-touch-me",
   "title": "Don't Touch Me",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first edition has the words First Printing stated on the copyright page, with no later printing notice. Issued in tan cloth with dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dont-touch-me"
  },
  {
   "slug": "warwhoop",
   "title": "Warwhoop",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first edition has First Printing stated on the copyright page. Full title is Warwhoop: Two Short Novels of the Frontier, roughly 246 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/warwhoop"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-daughter-of-bugle-ann",
   "title": "The Daughter of Bugle Ann",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first edition has First Printing stated on the copyright page; about 122 pages. Sequel to The Voice of Bugle Ann.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-daughter-of-bugle-ann"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gettysburg",
   "title": "Gettysburg",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Random House (Landmark Books)",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in the Landmark Books series, number 23, illustrated by Donald McKay. On the true first the dust jacket back panel lists no Landmark title numbered higher than this volume, and the copyright page carries no later printing notice.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gettysburg"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lee-and-grant-at-appomattox",
   "title": "Lee and Grant at Appomattox",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Random House (Landmark Books)",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in the Landmark Books series, number 8, illustrated by Donald McKay, about 175 pages. On the true first the dust jacket back panel lists no Landmark title numbered higher than this volume, and the copyright page bears no later printing notice.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lee-and-grant-at-appomattox"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-work-of-saint-francis",
   "title": "The Work of Saint Francis",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "World Publishing",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by The World Publishing Company in 1958, illustrated by Johannes Troyer. A standalone story set in Spain.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-work-of-saint-francis"
  },
  {
   "slug": "spirit-lake",
   "title": "Spirit Lake",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "The World Publishing Company",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, World Publishing, Cleveland, 1961. Thick volume of roughly 957 pages in publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine titling, issued with a folding or full-page map. A sprawling historical novel of the 1857 Spirit Lake massacre in Iowa.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/spirit-lake"
  },
  {
   "slug": "if-the-south-had-won-the-civil-war",
   "title": "If the South Had Won the Civil War",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Bantam Books",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First book form is the Bantam paperback original, Bantam number A2241, dated April 1961, a mass-market paperback of about 112 pages with black-and-white illustrations by Isa Barnett. An alternate-history piece expanded from its magazine appearance.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/if-the-south-had-won-the-civil-war"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mission-with-lemay-with-curtis-lemay",
   "title": "Mission with LeMay (with Curtis LeMay)",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Full title is Mission with LeMay: My Story. First edition states 'First Edition' on the copyright page (standard Doubleday convention of the period). A thick octavo of roughly 581 pages in blue cloth. Memoir of General Curtis E. LeMay written with Kantor.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mission-with-lemay-with-curtis-lemay"
  },
  {
   "slug": "story-teller",
   "title": "Story Teller",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Doubleday, Garden City, 1967, about 462 pages. States 'First Edition' on the copyright page per Doubleday convention. A collection of stories and autobiographical pieces.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/story-teller"
  },
  {
   "slug": "beauty-beast",
   "title": "Beauty Beast",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1968, about 382 pages, in black cloth with gilt lettering and a red title field to the spine; dust jacket designed by John Sposato. A novel of slavery set on a Deep South plantation on the eve of the Civil War.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/beauty-beast"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-children-sing",
   "title": "The Children Sing",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Hawthorn Books",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the Hawthorn Books edition, New York, 1973, in publisher's cloth with dust jacket. No distinctive textual issue points are documented for this title; identify the first by the Hawthorn imprint and 1973 date with no later-printing statements on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-children-sing"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lost-in-the-funhouse",
   "title": "Lost in the Funhouse",
   "author": "John Barth",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page; subtitle 'Fiction for Print, Tape, Live Voice'; black cloth with gilt spine lettering; jacket designed by George Giusti with the printed price 4.95.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lost-in-the-funhouse"
  },
  {
   "slug": "chimera",
   "title": "Chimera",
   "author": "John Barth",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries the Random House number line whose lowest surviving digit is the figure 2 (Random House removed numbers as printings advanced, so a true first retains the 2). The dust jacket is priced on the front flap and is not price-clipped. Won the 1973 National Book Award for fiction.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/chimera"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sabbatical-a-romance",
   "title": "Sabbatical: A Romance",
   "author": "John Barth",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the Putnam first-edition statement on the copyright page. Issued in three-quarter cloth with a priced, unclipped dust jacket. A signed, numbered limited edition with slipcase was also published.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sabbatical-a-romance"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-friday-book-essays-and-other-nonfiction",
   "title": "The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction",
   "author": "John Barth",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the Putnam first-edition statement on the copyright page and a priced, unclipped dust jacket. Barth's first collection of nonfiction.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-friday-book-essays-and-other-nonfiction"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-last-voyage-of-somebody-the-sailor",
   "title": "The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor",
   "author": "John Barth",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the Little, Brown first-edition statement with a complete number line descending to 1, and a priced, unclipped dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-last-voyage-of-somebody-the-sailor"
  },
  {
   "slug": "once-upon-a-time-a-floating-opera",
   "title": "Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera",
   "author": "John Barth",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First U.S. edition published 1994 by Little, Brown (ISBN 0316082627). The first printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a complete number line; the dust jacket carries the original price on the front flap. A memoir-and-novel hybrid.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/once-upon-a-time-a-floating-opera"
  },
  {
   "slug": "on-with-the-story",
   "title": "On with the Story",
   "author": "John Barth",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First U.S. edition published 1996 by Little, Brown (ISBN 0316082635). First printing states 'First Edition' with a complete number line on the copyright page; dust jacket carries the original price. A story collection (framed as tales exchanged by a vacationing couple).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/on-with-the-story"
  },
  {
   "slug": "coming-soon-a-narrative",
   "title": "Coming Soon!!!: A Narrative",
   "author": "John Barth",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First U.S. edition published 2001 by Houghton Mifflin (ISBN 0618131655). Per Houghton Mifflin's standard convention of this era, the first printing carries a copyright-page number line descending to 1; the dust jacket carries the original price. Dealers describe first/first copies consistent with this.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/coming-soon-a-narrative"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-book-of-ten-nights-and-a-night-eleven-stories",
   "title": "The Book of Ten Nights and a Night: Eleven Stories",
   "author": "John Barth",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First U.S. edition published 2004 by Houghton Mifflin (ISBN 0618405666). First printing carries a copyright-page number line descending to 1 per Houghton Mifflin convention; the dust jacket carries the original price. A story collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-book-of-ten-nights-and-a-night-eleven-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "where-three-roads-meet-novellas",
   "title": "Where Three Roads Meet: Novellas",
   "author": "John Barth",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First U.S. edition published 2005 by Houghton Mifflin (ISBN 0618610162). First printing carries a copyright-page number line descending to 1 per Houghton Mifflin convention; the dust jacket carries the original price. Three metafictional novellas.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/where-three-roads-meet-novellas"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-development-nine-stories",
   "title": "The Development: Nine Stories",
   "author": "John Barth",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin Harcourt",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First U.S. edition published 2008 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (ISBN 0547072481). First printing carries a copyright-page number line descending to 1 per the publisher's convention; the dust jacket carries the original price. Nine interrelated stories set in a Maryland gated community.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-development-nine-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "every-third-thought-a-novel-in-five-seasons",
   "title": "Every Third Thought: A Novel in Five Seasons",
   "author": "John Barth",
   "publisher": "Counterpoint",
   "year": "2011",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Counterpoint first printing, identified by the 'First Edition' statement with a full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; issued in trade cloth with a priced dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/every-third-thought-a-novel-in-five-seasons"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-slightly-irregular-fire-engine-or-the-hithering-thitheri",
   "title": "The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine, or The Hithering Thithering Djinn",
   "author": "Donald Barthelme",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by a 'First printing, 1971' statement on the copyright page; oblong illustrated children's book with collage illustrations by the author, in cloth with a priced dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-slightly-irregular-fire-engine-or-the-hithering-thitheri"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sadness",
   "title": "Sadness",
   "author": "Donald Barthelme",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First printing, 1972.' Dust jacket priced 5.95 at upper corner of front flap; unclipped on the true first. Collection of short stories.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sadness"
  },
  {
   "slug": "guilty-pleasures",
   "title": "Guilty Pleasures",
   "author": "Donald Barthelme",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First printing, 1974.' Yellow cloth boards; price-intact dust jacket on the true first. Collection of satire and parody pieces.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/guilty-pleasures"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dead-father",
   "title": "The Dead Father",
   "author": "Donald Barthelme",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First printing, 1975.' Dust jacket priced 7.95; unclipped on the true first. Novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dead-father"
  },
  {
   "slug": "amateurs",
   "title": "Amateurs",
   "author": "Donald Barthelme",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First printing, 1976.' Price-intact dust jacket on the true first. Collection of short stories, many first appearing in The New Yorker.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/amateurs"
  },
  {
   "slug": "great-days",
   "title": "Great Days",
   "author": "Donald Barthelme",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First printing, 1979.' Yellow cloth, red spine lettering, red top stain; price-intact dust jacket on the true first. Collection of short stories.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/great-days"
  },
  {
   "slug": "overnight-to-many-distant-cities",
   "title": "Overnight to Many Distant Cities",
   "author": "Donald Barthelme",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade edition states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a descending number line; first-issue dust jacket carries the original price. Barthelme's final mixed collection of stories and short prose pieces.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/overnight-to-many-distant-cities"
  },
  {
   "slug": "forty-stories",
   "title": "Forty Stories",
   "author": "Donald Barthelme",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a descending number line; first-issue dust jacket carries the original price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/forty-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-king",
   "title": "The King",
   "author": "Donald Barthelme",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a number line descending to 1; first-issue dust jacket carries the original price. Posthumous Arthurian novel, illustrated by Barry Moser.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-king"
  },
  {
   "slug": "god-bless-you-mr-rosewater",
   "title": "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Full title 'God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine.' First edition states 'First Edition' on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket priced 4.95. Published April 1965.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/god-bless-you-mr-rosewater"
  },
  {
   "slug": "welcome-to-the-monkey-house",
   "title": "Welcome to the Monkey House",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First hardcover states 'First printing' (given as 'First Delacorte printing') on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket priced 5.95. Collection of twenty-five stories; eleven were drawn from 'Canary in a Cat House.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/welcome-to-the-monkey-house"
  },
  {
   "slug": "happy-birthday-wanda-june",
   "title": "Happy Birthday, Wanda June",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade hardcover states 'First printing' on the copyright page; first-state dust jacket carries the original price and is unclipped. Black cloth with red foil trident on the front board; Vonnegut's first published play.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/happy-birthday-wanda-june"
  },
  {
   "slug": "between-time-and-timbuktu-or-prometheus-5",
   "title": "Between Time and Timbuktu, or Prometheus-5",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "States 'First printing' on the copyright page. Issued in two states: a hardcover (three-quarter black cloth with silver pictorial upper board) and a softcover/wraps issue. Illustrated teleplay with photographs by Jill Krementz; first-state jacket unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/between-time-and-timbuktu-or-prometheus-5"
  },
  {
   "slug": "breakfast-of-champions",
   "title": "Breakfast of Champions",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "States 'First printing -- 1973' on the copyright page with no later printings listed; first-state dust jacket priced and unclipped (jacket design by Bob Giusti). Author's felt-tip pen illustrations throughout.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/breakfast-of-champions"
  },
  {
   "slug": "wampeters-foma-granfalloons-opinions",
   "title": "Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions)",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "States 'First printing' on the copyright page; first-state dust jacket priced and unclipped. Black cloth boards with silver and blue lettering; Vonnegut's first essay/nonfiction collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/wampeters-foma-granfalloons-opinions"
  },
  {
   "slug": "slapstick-or-lonesome-no-more",
   "title": "Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "States 'First Delacorte printing' on the copyright page; first-state dust jacket priced and unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/slapstick-or-lonesome-no-more"
  },
  {
   "slug": "jailbird",
   "title": "Jailbird",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "States 'First printing' on the copyright page; first-state trade dust jacket priced and unclipped. Full black cloth lettered in gilt with orange top stain.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/jailbird"
  },
  {
   "slug": "palm-sunday-an-autobiographical-collage",
   "title": "Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing stated on the copyright page; priced dust jacket. Nonfiction autobiographical collage of essays, speeches, letters, and other pieces.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/palm-sunday-an-autobiographical-collage"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gal-pagos",
   "title": "Galápagos",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing stated on the copyright page; priced trade dust jacket. A Franklin Library signed limited edition, full leather with all-edges-gilt and marbled endpapers, was issued for its Signed First Edition Society.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gal-pagos"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hocus-pocus",
   "title": "Hocus Pocus",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Full number line 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 on the copyright page (ending in 1) indicates the first printing; priced trade dust jacket. A signed/numbered limited slipcased issue of 250 copies was produced, and the Franklin Library issued a signed deluxe edition with a Special Message by Vonnegut.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hocus-pocus"
  },
  {
   "slug": "fates-worse-than-death-an-autobiographical-collage-of-the-19",
   "title": "Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade edition identified by a complete number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; issued in cloth-backed boards with an unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Nonfiction autobiographical collage. A signed limited edition of 200 copies was issued simultaneously.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/fates-worse-than-death-an-autobiographical-collage-of-the-19"
  },
  {
   "slug": "timequake",
   "title": "Timequake",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade edition identified by a number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; issued in a priced, unclipped dust jacket. A signed limited edition was also issued. Vonnegut's last novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/timequake"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bagombo-snuff-box-uncollected-short-fiction",
   "title": "Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1999",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade edition identified by a number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; issued in a priced, unclipped dust jacket. Collects early uncollected magazine short fiction.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bagombo-snuff-box-uncollected-short-fiction"
  },
  {
   "slug": "god-bless-you-dr-kevorkian",
   "title": "God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "Seven Stories Press",
   "year": "1999",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Seven Stories Press edition (New York), slim volume in half blue cloth over white paper boards with a Jules Feiffer jacket illustration; priced, unclipped jacket. Based on short fictional interviews first broadcast on WNYC.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/god-bless-you-dr-kevorkian"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-man-without-a-country",
   "title": "A Man Without a Country",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "Seven Stories Press",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Seven Stories Press edition (New York) identified by a number line ending in 1; priced, unclipped jacket. Essay/observations collection. Last book published in Vonnegut's lifetime.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-man-without-a-country"
  },
  {
   "slug": "armageddon-in-retrospect",
   "title": "Armageddon in Retrospect",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade edition identified by a number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; priced, unclipped jacket. Posthumous collection of new and unpublished writings on war and peace, with an introduction by Mark Vonnegut.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/armageddon-in-retrospect"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-confederate-general-from-big-sur",
   "title": "A Confederate General from Big Sur",
   "author": "Richard Brautigan",
   "publisher": "Grove Press",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by Grove Press, New York, 1964, in blue cloth with silver lettering, 159 pages, jacket art by Larry Rivers and jacket photograph by Erik Weber. The copyright page carries no printing statement; the first issue jacket has the printed price on the front flap. Brautigan's first published novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-confederate-general-from-big-sur"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-watermelon-sugar",
   "title": "In Watermelon Sugar",
   "author": "Richard Brautigan",
   "publisher": "Four Seasons Foundation",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by Four Seasons Foundation, San Francisco, 1968, as 'Writing 21' in their Writing series. Trade issue in pictorial stiff wraps; a simultaneous signed limited edition of 50 copies was bound in blue cloth-backed boards. Later printings are noted on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-watermelon-sugar"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-abortion-an-historical-romance-1966",
   "title": "The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966",
   "author": "Richard Brautigan",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by Simon & Schuster, New York, March 1971, with 'First printing' stated on the copyright page, 226 pages, cover photography by Edmund Shea. Issued simultaneously in a hardcover (printed cloth boards with photo-illustrated dust jacket) and in printed photo-illustrated wrappers. Brautigan's first trade hardcover from a major house.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-abortion-an-historical-romance-1966"
  },
  {
   "slug": "willard-and-his-bowling-trophies-a-perverse-mystery",
   "title": "Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery",
   "author": "Richard Brautigan",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by the complete number line on the copyright page; original price-intact (unclipped) dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/willard-and-his-bowling-trophies-a-perverse-mystery"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sombrero-fallout-a-japanese-novel",
   "title": "Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel",
   "author": "Richard Brautigan",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by the number line on the copyright page; original unclipped dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sombrero-fallout-a-japanese-novel"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dreaming-of-babylon-a-private-eye-novel-1942",
   "title": "Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942",
   "author": "Richard Brautigan",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by the number line on the copyright page; black cloth-backed binding with lavender top-stain and endpapers; original unclipped dust jacket, jacket design by Craig Nelson.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dreaming-of-babylon-a-private-eye-novel-1942"
  },
  {
   "slug": "june-30th-june-30th",
   "title": "June 30th, June 30th",
   "author": "Richard Brautigan",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued simultaneously in wrappers (the primary trade format, quarter-cloth-style decorative wrappers) and in a smaller cloth issue produced largely for libraries; first printing identified by the number line on the copyright page. His final poetry collection published in his lifetime.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/june-30th-june-30th"
  },
  {
   "slug": "so-the-wind-wont-blow-it-all-away",
   "title": "So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away",
   "author": "Richard Brautigan",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing so stated on the copyright page with the descending number line ending in 1, in the priced dust jacket (cover photograph by Roger Ressmeyer). This was the last novel Brautigan published in his lifetime.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/so-the-wind-wont-blow-it-all-away"
  },
  {
   "slug": "steps",
   "title": "Steps",
   "author": "Jerzy Kosinski",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing so stated on the copyright page, in the priced illustrated dust jacket. Won the 1969 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/steps"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-devil-tree",
   "title": "The Devil Tree",
   "author": "Jerzy Kosinski",
   "publisher": "Harcourt Brace Jovanovich",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition so stated on the copyright page, in the priced dust jacket. This is the original 1973 text; a substantially revised and expanded edition was issued by St. Martin's Press in 1981.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-devil-tree"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cockpit",
   "title": "Cockpit",
   "author": "Jerzy Kosinski",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries the publisher's first-edition statement with a full number line on the copyright page; the dust jacket is price-clipped only when later. Issued in black cloth with an orange topstain. Hardcover original.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cockpit"
  },
  {
   "slug": "blind-date",
   "title": "Blind Date",
   "author": "Jerzy Kosinski",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries the publisher's first-edition statement with a number line on the copyright page; priced dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/blind-date"
  },
  {
   "slug": "passion-play",
   "title": "Passion Play",
   "author": "Jerzy Kosinski",
   "publisher": "St. Martin's Press",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries a number line ending in 1 with a priced dust jacket. A separate signed and numbered limited issue of 500 copies also exists, signed by Kosinski.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/passion-play"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pinball",
   "title": "Pinball",
   "author": "Jerzy Kosinski",
   "publisher": "Bantam Books",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued as a Bantam hardcover original; first printing carries the publisher's first-edition statement and a priced dust jacket. Black cloth-and-board binding with silver spine stamping.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pinball"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hermit-of-69th-street-the-working-papers-of-norbert-kosk",
   "title": "The Hermit of 69th Street: The Working Papers of Norbert Kosky",
   "author": "Jerzy Kosinski",
   "publisher": "Seaver Books / Henry Holt",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries a number line ending in 1 on the copyright page with a priced dust jacket. Kosinski's last novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hermit-of-69th-street-the-working-papers-of-norbert-kosk"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-future-is-ours-comrade-conversations-with-the-russians",
   "title": "The Future Is Ours, Comrade: Conversations with the Russians",
   "author": "Jerzy Kosinski (as Joseph Novak)",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition carries the publisher's 'First Edition' statement with a priced dust jacket. Nonfiction published under the pseudonym Joseph Novak, with an introduction by Irving R. Levine; 286 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-future-is-ours-comrade-conversations-with-the-russians"
  },
  {
   "slug": "no-third-path",
   "title": "No Third Path",
   "author": "Jerzy Kosinski (as Joseph Novak)",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Edition stated on the copyright page; issued in Garden City, NY by Doubleday with a priced dust jacket. Nonfiction (essay collection) published under the Joseph Novak pseudonym.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/no-third-path"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sky-changes",
   "title": "The Sky Changes",
   "author": "Gilbert Sorrentino",
   "publisher": "Hill & Wang",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing; Hill & Wang, New York, with a priced dust jacket. Sorrentino's first novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sky-changes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "steelwork",
   "title": "Steelwork",
   "author": "Gilbert Sorrentino",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing stated; Pantheon, New York, with a priced dust jacket. Jacket art depicts the 68th Street and Fourth Avenue street signs in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/steelwork"
  },
  {
   "slug": "imaginative-qualities-of-actual-things",
   "title": "Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things",
   "author": "Gilbert Sorrentino",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition stated; Pantheon, New York, with a priced dust jacket. Issued September 1971.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/imaginative-qualities-of-actual-things"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mulligan-stew",
   "title": "Mulligan Stew",
   "author": "Gilbert Sorrentino",
   "publisher": "Grove Press",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing; Grove Press, New York, 1979, with a priced pictorial dust jacket (jacket design and photography by Michael Werner). Red cloth boards with gilt spine lettering. First printing was 8,000 copies; the second Grove printing was 7,000. Sorrentino's best-known novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mulligan-stew"
  },
  {
   "slug": "crystal-vision",
   "title": "Crystal Vision",
   "author": "Gilbert Sorrentino",
   "publisher": "North Point Press",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First North Point Press printing, San Francisco, 1981. As was North Point's practice, issued simultaneously in cloth (with dust jacket) and in printed wraps; ISBN 0-86547-041-3.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/crystal-vision"
  },
  {
   "slug": "blue-pastoral",
   "title": "Blue Pastoral",
   "author": "Gilbert Sorrentino",
   "publisher": "North Point Press",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First North Point Press printing, 1983; ISBN 0-86547-095-2. Issued in cloth (with dust jacket) and, per North Point practice, in wraps. Later reprinted by Dalkey Archive Press.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/blue-pastoral"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rose-theatre",
   "title": "Rose Theatre",
   "author": "Gilbert Sorrentino",
   "publisher": "Dalkey Archive Press",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Dalkey Archive Press printing, 1987; ISBN 0-916583-23-6. Second volume of the 'Pack of Lies' trilogy. Issued in wraps (Dalkey also issued a cloth state for some titles of this period).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/rose-theatre"
  },
  {
   "slug": "misterioso",
   "title": "Misterioso",
   "author": "Gilbert Sorrentino",
   "publisher": "Dalkey Archive Press",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Dalkey Archive Press printing, Elmwood Park, Illinois, 1989. Third and concluding volume of the 'Pack of Lies' trilogy. Issued in wraps.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/misterioso"
  },
  {
   "slug": "red-the-fiend",
   "title": "Red the Fiend",
   "author": "Gilbert Sorrentino",
   "publisher": "Fromm International",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Fromm International edition, 1995. Hardcover in dust jacket (red cloth spine over taupe boards), ISBN 0-88064-163-0. Confirm via the Fromm imprint and a first-printing dust jacket without later-printing notations.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/red-the-fiend"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gold-fools",
   "title": "Gold Fools",
   "author": "Gilbert Sorrentino",
   "publisher": "Green Integer",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Green Integer edition (series number 80), 2001. Small-format trade paperback (wraps), ISBN 1-892295-67-9. The novel is written entirely in interrogative sentences, a reliable internal identifier. Confirm via the Green Integer imprint and series number on a priced wrappers copy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gold-fools"
  },
  {
   "slug": "little-casino",
   "title": "Little Casino",
   "author": "Gilbert Sorrentino",
   "publisher": "Coffee House Press",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Coffee House Press edition, 2002. Trade paperback original (wraps), ISBN 1-56689-126-4, stated First Edition on the copyright page. Confirm via the Coffee House imprint and a priced first-printing wrappers copy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/little-casino"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-moon-in-its-flight",
   "title": "The Moon in Its Flight",
   "author": "Gilbert Sorrentino",
   "publisher": "Coffee House Press",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Coffee House Press edition, 2004. Trade paperback original (wraps), ISBN 1-56689-152-3, stated First Edition. The author's first collected volume of short stories, gathering work spanning about thirty-five years. Confirm via the Coffee House imprint on a priced first-printing wrappers copy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-moon-in-its-flight"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lunar-follies",
   "title": "Lunar Follies",
   "author": "Gilbert Sorrentino",
   "publisher": "Coffee House Press",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Coffee House Press edition, 2005. Trade paperback original (wraps), ISBN 1-56689-169-8, stated First Edition. The book comprises fifty-three short satirical 'reviews' named after lunar geographic features. Confirm via the Coffee House imprint on a priced first-printing wrappers copy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lunar-follies"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-abyss-of-human-illusion",
   "title": "The Abyss of Human Illusion",
   "author": "Gilbert Sorrentino",
   "publisher": "Coffee House Press",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Coffee House Press printing; issued as a paperback original in wraps, priced on the lower cover. Title taken from a line by Henry James; carries a preface by Christopher Sorrentino.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-abyss-of-human-illusion"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-free-lance-pallbearers",
   "title": "The Free-Lance Pallbearers",
   "author": "Ishmael Reed",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page; dust jacket priced. Reed's first novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-free-lance-pallbearers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "yellow-back-radio-broke-down",
   "title": "Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down",
   "author": "Ishmael Reed",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page; dust jacket priced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/yellow-back-radio-broke-down"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mumbo-jumbo",
   "title": "Mumbo Jumbo",
   "author": "Ishmael Reed",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page; illustrated, with pictorial dust jacket; black cloth binding with red endpapers. Reed's best-known novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mumbo-jumbo"
  },
  {
   "slug": "conjure-selected-poems-1963-1970",
   "title": "Conjure: Selected Poems, 1963-1970",
   "author": "Ishmael Reed",
   "publisher": "University of Massachusetts Press",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing; issued simultaneously in cloth (red cloth boards) and in illustrated wraps; priced. Reed's first poetry collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/conjure-selected-poems-1963-1970"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-last-days-of-louisiana-red",
   "title": "The Last Days of Louisiana Red",
   "author": "Ishmael Reed",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House New York, 1974, first printing. Quarter red cloth over red paper boards, gold spine lettering, red topstain; priced dust jacket. Random House of this period states First Edition on the copyright page with the number line retaining the lowest figure on the first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-last-days-of-louisiana-red"
  },
  {
   "slug": "flight-to-canada",
   "title": "Flight to Canada",
   "author": "Ishmael Reed",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House New York, 1976, first printing. Cloth-backed boards; priced dust jacket. Copyright page states First Edition with the number line retaining the lowest figure on the first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/flight-to-canada"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-secretary-to-the-spirits",
   "title": "A Secretary to the Spirits",
   "author": "Ishmael Reed",
   "publisher": "NOK Publishers",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "NOK Publishers, New York, 1978, first edition. Collection of poems illustrated with collage graphics by Betye Saar; issued simultaneously in cloth and in wrappers. Scarce title in Reed's canon.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-secretary-to-the-spirits"
  },
  {
   "slug": "shrovetide-in-old-new-orleans",
   "title": "Shrovetide in Old New Orleans",
   "author": "Ishmael Reed",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday, Garden City, 1978, first printing with First Edition stated on the copyright page; priced dust jacket. Reed's first essay collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/shrovetide-in-old-new-orleans"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-terrible-twos",
   "title": "The Terrible Twos",
   "author": "Ishmael Reed",
   "publisher": "St. Martin's Press / Marek",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "St. Martin's / Marek, New York, 1982, first printing. Copyright page carries the publisher's number line retaining the lowest figure on the first printing; priced dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-terrible-twos"
  },
  {
   "slug": "reckless-eyeballing",
   "title": "Reckless Eyeballing",
   "author": "Ishmael Reed",
   "publisher": "St. Martin's Press",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing stated with a number line descending to 1; dust jacket present and priced. Hardcover, 148 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/reckless-eyeballing"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-terrible-threes",
   "title": "The Terrible Threes",
   "author": "Ishmael Reed",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition so stated with number line descending to 1; dust jacket priced. Sequel to 'The Terrible Twos.' A wrappered issue followed in 1990.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-terrible-threes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "japanese-by-spring",
   "title": "Japanese by Spring",
   "author": "Ishmael Reed",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition so stated with number line descending to 1; dust jacket priced. Hardcover (ISBN 0689120729).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/japanese-by-spring"
  },
  {
   "slug": "blood-and-guts-in-high-school",
   "title": "Blood and Guts in High School",
   "author": "Kathy Acker",
   "publisher": "Grove Press",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Grove Press (New York) edition is the US first; issued in cloth and in wraps, priced. Written in the 1970s and copyrighted 1978.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/blood-and-guts-in-high-school"
  },
  {
   "slug": "kathy-goes-to-haiti",
   "title": "Kathy Goes to Haiti",
   "author": "Kathy Acker",
   "publisher": "Rumour Publications",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, Rumour Publications (Toronto), illustrated wrappers (softcover), with drawings by Robert Kushner. A small print run of roughly one thousand copies.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/kathy-goes-to-haiti"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hannibal-lecter-my-father",
   "title": "Hannibal Lecter, My Father",
   "author": "Kathy Acker",
   "publisher": "Semiotext(e)",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Semiotext(e) printing, issued in wraps (paperback) with printed price, in the Semiotext(e) / Native Agents series; edited by Sylvere Lotringer. Gathers early 1970s texts and a long interview with Lotringer.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hannibal-lecter-my-father"
  },
  {
   "slug": "portrait-of-an-eye-three-novels",
   "title": "Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels",
   "author": "Kathy Acker",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First collected edition, issued in publisher's illustrated wrappers (paperback) as issued, with printed price. Collects 'The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula,' 'I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac,' and 'The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/portrait-of-an-eye-three-novels"
  },
  {
   "slug": "my-mother-demonology",
   "title": "My Mother: Demonology",
   "author": "Kathy Acker",
   "publisher": "Pantheon Books",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing; Pantheon number line reading down to 1; priced dust jacket. Orange boards with gilt spine titles. Sometimes cataloged under the full title My Mother: Demonology, A Novel (ISBN 0679403493). The Grove trade paperback (ISBN beginning 0802134) is a later, separate format.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/my-mother-demonology"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pussy-king-of-the-pirates",
   "title": "Pussy, King of the Pirates",
   "author": "Kathy Acker",
   "publisher": "Grove Press",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing; Grove Press number line down to 1; priced dust jacket on the hardcover. Issued in both cloth (hardcover in dust jacket) and trade wrappers in the same year. Illustrated by S. Clay Wilson. Acker's last novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pussy-king-of-the-pirates"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bodies-of-work-essays",
   "title": "Bodies of Work: Essays",
   "author": "Kathy Acker",
   "publisher": "Serpent's Tail",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition; paperback original bound in paper wrappers; priced. Acker's only essay collection (ISBN 1852424257). Pieces grouped under headings such as art and artists, the city, and bodies of work.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bodies-of-work-essays"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pricksongs-descants",
   "title": "Pricksongs & Descants",
   "author": "Robert Coover",
   "publisher": "E.P. Dutton",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing; priced dust jacket (5.95 on front flap). Off-white cloth with brown cloth spine. Full title on title page is Pricksongs & Descants: Fictions. Coover's first story collection, including The Babysitter.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pricksongs-descants"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-theological-position",
   "title": "A Theological Position",
   "author": "Robert Coover",
   "publisher": "E.P. Dutton",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition; issued simultaneously in cloth-backed boards with priced dust jacket and in trade wrappers. Collects four plays: The Kid, Love Scene, Rip Awake, and A Theological Position. 172 pp.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-theological-position"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-political-fable",
   "title": "A Political Fable",
   "author": "Robert Coover",
   "publisher": "Viking Press",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First book edition; Viking number line down to 1; priced dust jacket. Slim volume. The text first appeared, in slightly different form, in New American Review (1968) as 'The Cat in the Hat for President.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-political-fable"
  },
  {
   "slug": "spanking-the-maid",
   "title": "Spanking the Maid",
   "author": "Robert Coover",
   "publisher": "Bruccoli Clark / Grove Press",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the Bruccoli Clark Publishers limited edition of 1981, a signed and numbered issue of 600 copies illustrated by Rikki Ducornet (copies I to XCV specially bound with a leaf of the author's manuscript). The Grove Press trade hardcover of 1982 follows, identified by a number line including 1 and a priced dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/spanking-the-maid"
  },
  {
   "slug": "geralds-party",
   "title": "Gerald's Party",
   "author": "Robert Coover",
   "publisher": "Linden Press / Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by a complete number line including 1 on the copyright page and a priced dust jacket. Issued in publisher's cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/geralds-party"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-night-at-the-movies-or-you-must-remember-this",
   "title": "A Night at the Movies, or, You Must Remember This",
   "author": "Robert Coover",
   "publisher": "Linden Press / Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by a full number line including 1 and a priced dust jacket. Story collection issued in publisher's cloth (red cloth, half bound in light blue paper, gilt spine lettering).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-night-at-the-movies-or-you-must-remember-this"
  },
  {
   "slug": "whatever-happened-to-gloomy-gus-of-the-chicago-bears",
   "title": "Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears?",
   "author": "Robert Coover",
   "publisher": "Linden Press / Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by a full number line including 1 and a priced dust jacket. Short novel issued in publisher's cloth. An uncorrected proof exists and precedes the published book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/whatever-happened-to-gloomy-gus-of-the-chicago-bears"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pinocchio-in-venice",
   "title": "Pinocchio in Venice",
   "author": "Robert Coover",
   "publisher": "Linden Press / Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by a full number line including 1 and a priced dust jacket. Issued in publisher's boards with cloth spine.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pinocchio-in-venice"
  },
  {
   "slug": "johns-wife",
   "title": "John's Wife",
   "author": "Robert Coover",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by a full number line including 1 and a priced dust jacket. Issued in publisher's cloth (ISBN 0684818418).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/johns-wife"
  },
  {
   "slug": "briar-rose",
   "title": "Briar Rose",
   "author": "Robert Coover",
   "publisher": "Grove Press",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing identified by a complete number line ending in 1. Hardcover in red paper-covered boards with black spine lettering, octavo, 86 pages, in a priced dust jacket. A novella retelling Sleeping Beauty.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/briar-rose"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ghost-town",
   "title": "Ghost Town",
   "author": "Robert Coover",
   "publisher": "Henry Holt",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing identified by a complete number line ending in 1. Cloth-backed boards (maroon boards, black paper spine, gilt spine titling) in a priced dust jacket; 147 pages. A novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ghost-town"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-adventures-of-lucky-pierre-directors-cut",
   "title": "The Adventures of Lucky Pierre: Director's Cut",
   "author": "Robert Coover",
   "publisher": "Grove Press",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing identified by a complete number line ending in 1. Hardcover in a priced dust jacket; 416 pages. A novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-adventures-of-lucky-pierre-directors-cut"
  },
  {
   "slug": "noir",
   "title": "Noir",
   "author": "Robert Coover",
   "publisher": "Overlook Press",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First U.S. trade hardcover from Overlook Press with full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page and a price present on the dust jacket flap. The novel, narrated in the second person, was a simultaneous trade release; the U.K. edition appeared from Duckworth/Overlook around the same time, but the Overlook printing is the standard true first for U.S. collectors.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/noir"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-brunist-day-of-wrath",
   "title": "The Brunist Day of Wrath",
   "author": "Robert Coover",
   "publisher": "Dzanc Books",
   "year": "2014",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Dzanc Books printing, a very large (roughly eleven-hundred-page) hardcover, with the number line present and a price on the dust jacket. Sequel to The Origin of the Brunists.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-brunist-day-of-wrath"
  },
  {
   "slug": "huck-out-west",
   "title": "Huck Out West",
   "author": "Robert Coover",
   "publisher": "W.W. Norton",
   "year": "2017",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First W. W. Norton hardcover (January 2017) with full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page and a price present on the dust jacket flap. A sequel/riff on Twain's Huckleberry Finn.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/huck-out-west"
  },
  {
   "slug": "going-for-a-beer-selected-short-fictions",
   "title": "Going for a Beer: Selected Short Fictions",
   "author": "Robert Coover",
   "publisher": "W.W. Norton",
   "year": "2018",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First W. W. Norton hardcover (February 2018) with full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page and a price on the dust jacket. A career-spanning selection of thirty stories with an introduction by T. C. Boyle.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/going-for-a-beer-selected-short-fictions"
  },
  {
   "slug": "carpenters-gothic",
   "title": "Carpenter's Gothic",
   "author": "William Gaddis",
   "publisher": "Viking Press",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first issued by Viking (Elisabeth Sifton Books imprint) in 1985. Identify by the copyright-page printing statement showing the first printing (number line terminating in 1, with a 'First published in 1985' / first-printing notation) and a first-issue dust jacket carrying the original price on the front flap. A separately issued signed/limited state also exists.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/carpenters-gothic"
  },
  {
   "slug": "agap-agape",
   "title": "Agapē Agape",
   "author": "William Gaddis",
   "publisher": "Viking",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first issued by Viking in 2002 (published October 2002), a thin hardcover with an afterword by Joseph Tabbi. Identify by the first-printing number line terminating in 1 on the copyright page and a first-issue dust jacket bearing the original price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/agap-agape"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-rush-for-second-place-essays-and-occasional-writings",
   "title": "The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings",
   "author": "William Gaddis",
   "publisher": "Penguin Books",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trade paperback original from Penguin Books, 2002 — a posthumous collection of essays and occasional writings edited and introduced by Joseph Tabbi. There is no prior hardcover; the Penguin paperback is the first appearance. Identify by the first Penguin printing statement and number line on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-rush-for-second-place-essays-and-occasional-writings"
  },
  {
   "slug": "everything-that-rises-must-converge",
   "title": "Everything That Rises Must Converge",
   "author": "Flannery O'Connor",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first issued by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1965, a posthumous story collection with an introduction by Robert Fitzgerald. Identify by the first-printing statement on the copyright page (FSG of this era states the first printing, typically with the year) and a first-issue dust jacket carrying the original price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/everything-that-rises-must-converge"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mystery-and-manners-occasional-prose",
   "title": "Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose",
   "author": "Flannery O'Connor",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first issued by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1969, a posthumous collection of essays and lectures selected and edited by Sally and Robert Fitzgerald. Identify by the first-printing statement on the copyright page (FSG of this era states the first printing, typically with the year) and a first-issue dust jacket carrying the original price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mystery-and-manners-occasional-prose"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-complete-stories",
   "title": "The Complete Stories",
   "author": "Flannery O'Connor",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first issued by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1971, with an introduction by Robert Giroux; it won the National Book Award for Fiction and includes several stories appearing in book form for the first time. Identify by the first-printing statement on the copyright page and a first-issue dust jacket (peacock design) carrying the original price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-complete-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-golden-apples",
   "title": "The Golden Apples",
   "author": "Eudora Welty",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"first edition\" stated on the copyright page; linked story cycle set in Morgana, Mississippi. First-issue jacket priced $3.00 on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-golden-apples"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bride-of-the-innisfallen-and-other-stories",
   "title": "The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories",
   "author": "Eudora Welty",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"first edition\" stated on the copyright page; story collection of seven stories. First-issue jacket priced $3.50 on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bride-of-the-innisfallen-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-shoe-bird",
   "title": "The Shoe Bird",
   "author": "Eudora Welty",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace & World",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"first edition\" stated on the copyright page; Welty's only children's book, illustrated by Beth Krush. First-issue jacket priced $3.50 on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-shoe-bird"
  },
  {
   "slug": "losing-battles",
   "title": "Losing Battles",
   "author": "Eudora Welty",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page (no number line on this era of Random House firsts). First-issue dust jacket carries the 7.95 price and a 4/70 printing code on the rear flap; binding is gilt-stamped olive cloth, jacket designed by John Kashiwabara. Published April 1970.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/losing-battles"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-eye-of-the-story-selected-essays-and-reviews",
   "title": "The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews",
   "author": "Eudora Welty",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page. First-issue dust jacket priced 10.00 on the front flap. Welty's first gathering of her selected essays and reviews.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-eye-of-the-story-selected-essays-and-reviews"
  },
  {
   "slug": "one-writers-beginnings",
   "title": "One Writer's Beginnings",
   "author": "Eudora Welty",
   "publisher": "Harvard University Press",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trade first printing shows a full number line on the copyright page (later printings show a higher low number, e.g. ending in 4 for the fourth printing); first-state dust jacket priced 10.00 on the front flap. Memoir drawn from Welty's William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization. Bound in quarter brown cloth over grey cloth, gilt lettering.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/one-writers-beginnings"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-message-in-the-bottle",
   "title": "The Message in the Bottle",
   "author": "Walker Percy",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First printing, 1975\" stated on the copyright page. Bound in orange cloth boards with gilt spine titling; first printing has an UNstained top edge (the absence of a top stain is a supporting first-printing point). First-issue jacket priced 10.00. Full title: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-message-in-the-bottle"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lancelot",
   "title": "Lancelot",
   "author": "Walker Percy",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First printing, 1977\" stated on the copyright page. Bright orange cloth with gilt spine lettering. First-issue dust jacket designed by Jacqueline Schuman, priced 8.95 on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lancelot"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lost-in-the-cosmos-the-last-self-help-book",
   "title": "Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book",
   "author": "Walker Percy",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First printing\" stated on the copyright page. Gray boards with black cloth spine, silver-stamped. First-issue dust jacket designed by Sigrid Spaeth, priced 14.95 (should be unclipped). A signed, slipcased limited edition of 350 copies was also issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lost-in-the-cosmos-the-last-self-help-book"
  },
  {
   "slug": "into-the-stone-and-other-poems-in-poets-of-today-vii",
   "title": "Into the Stone and Other Poems (in Poets of Today VII)",
   "author": "James Dickey",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Dickey's first appearance in book form, gathered in the 'Poets of Today VII' volume with Paris Leary and Jon Swan and introduced by John Hall Wheelock. Scribner's first printings of this era carry an 'A' on the copyright page as the first-printing tell.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/into-the-stone-and-other-poems-in-poets-of-today-vii"
  },
  {
   "slug": "helmets",
   "title": "Helmets",
   "author": "James Dickey",
   "publisher": "Wesleyan University Press",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Poetry; Dickey's third collection. Per the Wesleyan first-printing convention, issued simultaneously in cloth (light grey, spine stamped in black and green) and in wrappers. The cloth first printing was a small impression in light grey cloth with a price-printed dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/helmets"
  },
  {
   "slug": "poems-1957-1967",
   "title": "Poems 1957-1967",
   "author": "James Dickey",
   "publisher": "Wesleyan University Press",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Collected poems gathering work from his first four Wesleyan volumes plus new poems. Per the Wesleyan first-printing convention, issued in cloth and in wrappers. The cloth trade first printing dated 1967 is the standard collected first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/poems-1957-1967"
  },
  {
   "slug": "deliverance",
   "title": "Deliverance",
   "author": "James Dickey",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin Company",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Author's first novel. \"First Printing\" stated on the copyright page; olive cloth, title stamped in green on the spine, green endpapers and a green top-stain. Issued in a price-printed first-state dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/deliverance"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-zodiac",
   "title": "The Zodiac",
   "author": "James Dickey",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page; a single long poem in red cloth with gilt lettering. Issued as a trade hardcover and as a separate signed limited issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-zodiac"
  },
  {
   "slug": "alnilam",
   "title": "Alnilam",
   "author": "James Dickey",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated per Doubleday convention; Dickey's second novel, following Deliverance. First-issue jacket priced on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/alnilam"
  },
  {
   "slug": "to-the-white-sea",
   "title": "To the White Sea",
   "author": "James Dickey",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin Company",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Full number line present on the copyright page; Dickey's third novel. First-issue jacket priced on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/to-the-white-sea"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-tree-of-night-and-other-stories",
   "title": "A Tree of Night and Other Stories",
   "author": "Truman Capote",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"FIRST PRINTING\" stated on the copyright page; Capote's second book, a story collection in black cloth. First-issue jacket priced on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-tree-of-night-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-muses-are-heard",
   "title": "The Muses Are Heard",
   "author": "Truman Capote",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states \"FIRST PRINTING\" (Random House practice of this era). Capote's reportage account of the Everyman Opera company's Porgy and Bess tour of the USSR. Dust jacket designed by Philip Grushkin with English lettering to the front and Slavonic to the rear.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-muses-are-heard"
  },
  {
   "slug": "breakfast-at-tiffanys-a-short-novel-and-three-stories",
   "title": "Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories",
   "author": "Truman Capote",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states \"FIRST PRINTING\"; publisher's canary-yellow cloth with gilt titles blocked on a black spine panel. First-state dust jacket carries the date code 10/58 at the bottom of the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/breakfast-at-tiffanys-a-short-novel-and-three-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "family-linen",
   "title": "Family Linen",
   "author": "Lee Smith",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries the Putnam convention of a complete number line including the digit 1 on the copyright page, with no stated later printing. Issued in a price-clipped-vulnerable dust jacket with the price printed on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/family-linen"
  },
  {
   "slug": "fair-and-tender-ladies",
   "title": "Fair and Tender Ladies",
   "author": "Lee Smith",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries a complete number line including the digit 1 on the copyright page, with no later-printing statement. Blue cloth boards in a pictorial dust jacket with the price on the front flap. First printing is noted as elusive.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/fair-and-tender-ladies"
  },
  {
   "slug": "me-and-my-baby-view-the-eclipse",
   "title": "Me and My Baby View the Eclipse",
   "author": "Lee Smith",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Story collection (subtitled Stories). First printing carries a complete number line including the digit 1 on the copyright page, with the price on the dust-jacket front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/me-and-my-baby-view-the-eclipse"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-devils-dream",
   "title": "The Devil's Dream",
   "author": "Lee Smith",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Novel of a country-music family. First printing carries a complete number line including the digit 1 on the copyright page, with the price on the dust-jacket front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-devils-dream"
  },
  {
   "slug": "saving-grace",
   "title": "Saving Grace",
   "author": "Lee Smith",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries a complete number line including the digit 1 on the copyright page, with the price on the dust-jacket front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/saving-grace"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-country",
   "title": "In Country",
   "author": "Bobbie Ann Mason",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by the Harper first-printing code line on the copyright page and the first-issue jacket carrying its original price on the front flap. Mason's first novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-country"
  },
  {
   "slug": "spence-lila",
   "title": "Spence + Lila",
   "author": "Bobbie Ann Mason",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by the Harper first-printing code line on the copyright page. An illustrated short novel (drawings by LaNelle Mason), issued in the Harper Short Novel Series; first-issue jacket priced on the flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/spence-lila"
  },
  {
   "slug": "love-life-stories",
   "title": "Love Life: Stories",
   "author": "Bobbie Ann Mason",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by the Harper first-printing code line on the copyright page. A collection of stories; first-issue jacket priced on the flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/love-life-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-long-and-happy-life",
   "title": "A Long and Happy Life",
   "author": "Reynolds Price",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states First Edition per Atheneum convention. First issue has a bright red top-edge stain (later issues a duller orange stain) and the names of the contributors of the jacket blurbs (including Eudora Welty, Harper Lee, and Stephen Spender) printed in yellow-green ink. First-issue dust jacket carries the original price on the front flap. Author's first novel; won the William Faulkner Award.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-long-and-happy-life"
  },
  {
   "slug": "good-hearts",
   "title": "Good Hearts",
   "author": "Reynolds Price",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Atheneum first printing identified by the number line on the copyright page containing a 1 (Atheneum adopted number lines for first editions from the late 1980s). Sequel to A Long and Happy Life, continuing the story of Rosacoke Mustian and Wesley Beavers. Original unclipped dust jacket with the publisher's price intact.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/good-hearts"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-tongues-of-angels",
   "title": "The Tongues of Angels",
   "author": "Reynolds Price",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Atheneum first printing identified by the number line on the copyright page containing a 1. Original unclipped dust jacket with the publisher's price intact. A signed limited edition was also issued; the points above describe the standard trade first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-tongues-of-angels"
  },
  {
   "slug": "blue-calhoun",
   "title": "Blue Calhoun",
   "author": "Reynolds Price",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Atheneum first printing identified by the number line on the copyright page containing a 1. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering; original unclipped pictorial dust jacket with the publisher's price intact. A signed limited slipcased edition was also issued; the points above describe the standard trade first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/blue-calhoun"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-collected-stories",
   "title": "The Collected Stories",
   "author": "Reynolds Price",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Atheneum first printing identified by the number line on the copyright page containing a 1. Gathers fifty stories, including the earlier collections The Names and Faces of Heroes and Permanent Errors plus previously uncollected stories, so it is a first-thus gathering. Original unclipped dust jacket with the publisher's price intact.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-collected-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tournament",
   "title": "Tournament",
   "author": "Shelby Foote",
   "publisher": "The Dial Press",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Dial Press first printing with no statement of a later printing on the copyright page (Copyright 1949, Dial Press, New York). Grey cloth, octavo, 242 pages. First-issue dust jacket carries the publisher's price on the front flap. Foote's first novel; characters who recur in his later fiction appear here first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tournament"
  },
  {
   "slug": "follow-me-down",
   "title": "Follow Me Down",
   "author": "Shelby Foote",
   "publisher": "The Dial Press",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing in red cloth lettered in blue on the spine. The copyright page lists no additional printings; later printings are noted on the copyright page. First-issue dust jacket carries the price on the front flap (price-clipped or unpriced jackets are later or compromised states).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/follow-me-down"
  },
  {
   "slug": "love-in-a-dry-season",
   "title": "Love in a Dry Season",
   "author": "Shelby Foote",
   "publisher": "The Dial Press",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing in original cloth (octavo). The copyright page carries no later-printing notation; subsequent printings are so noted. First-issue dust jacket is priced on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/love-in-a-dry-season"
  },
  {
   "slug": "jordan-county-a-landscape-in-narrative",
   "title": "Jordan County: A Landscape in Narrative",
   "author": "Shelby Foote",
   "publisher": "The Dial Press",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing. The copyright page bears no later-printing notation; later printings are so noted. A linked sequence of seven narratives set in fictional Jordan County, Mississippi. First-issue dust jacket is priced on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/jordan-county-a-landscape-in-narrative"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-name-of-action",
   "title": "The Name of Action",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1930",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing in dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, 344 pages. Greene's second novel, later suppressed by the author and not reprinted in his lifetime, making the first edition scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-name-of-action"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rumour-at-nightfall",
   "title": "Rumour at Nightfall",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1931",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing in maroon cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, viii plus 300 pages; the first impression was a small printing (about 1,200 copies). Greene's third novel, suppressed and disowned by the author and not reprinted in his lifetime, making the first edition scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/rumour-at-nightfall"
  },
  {
   "slug": "its-a-battlefield",
   "title": "It's a Battlefield",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first impression in black cloth with the publisher's device blind-stamped to the lower front board. Dust jacket designed by Youngman Carter and priced 7s 6d. Greene extensively revised the text in 1948, so first-impression copies retain the original unrevised text.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/its-a-battlefield"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bear-fell-free",
   "title": "The Bear Fell Free",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "Grayson & Grayson (UK)",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Limited edition of 285 copies signed and numbered by Greene, issued in publisher's brown cloth gilt with a full-page illustration by Joy Lloyd and a pictorial dust jacket. A separately issued short story; part of the Grayson Books series.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bear-fell-free"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lawless-roads",
   "title": "The Lawless Roads",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "Longmans, Green (UK)",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing. Greene's Mexico travel book based on his 1938 journey, which also fed the novel The Power and the Glory. Issued in red cloth with map endpapers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lawless-roads"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-confidential-agent",
   "title": "The Confidential Agent",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing. One of Greene's 'entertainments,' an espionage novel set against the Spanish Civil War. Blue cloth, spine titled in red.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-confidential-agent"
  },
  {
   "slug": "british-dramatists",
   "title": "British Dramatists",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "William Collins (UK)",
   "year": "1942",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in the 'Britain in Pictures' series. Slim, illustrated with colour plates and monochrome illustrations; paper-covered boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/british-dramatists"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-little-train",
   "title": "The Little Train",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "Eyre & Spottiswoode (UK)",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of Greene's first children's picture book, issued anonymously with neither Greene's name on the book nor jacket. Illustrated by Dorothy Craigie (pseudonym of Dorothy Glover).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-little-train"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nineteen-stories",
   "title": "Nineteen Stories",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the story collection, a cheaply produced postwar volume in navy cloth lettered in silver with a typographic dust jacket. Includes 'The Basement Room.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nineteen-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-third-man-and-the-fallen-idol",
   "title": "The Third Man and The Fallen Idol",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in black cloth with silver spine lettering, in pictorial dust jacket. The first book appearance of The Third Man, set from Greene's original manuscript (the film treatment). Paired with The Fallen Idol.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-third-man-and-the-fallen-idol"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lost-childhood-and-other-essays",
   "title": "The Lost Childhood and Other Essays",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "Eyre & Spottiswoode (UK)",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of this collection of essays and book reviews, in original cloth with dust jacket; collation viii, [4], 191 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lost-childhood-and-other-essays"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-living-room",
   "title": "The Living Room",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of Greene's first play (subtitle: A Play in Two Acts), in publisher's red cloth with gilt spine lettering and pictorial dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-living-room"
  },
  {
   "slug": "twenty-one-stories",
   "title": "Twenty-One Stories",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing; revised and expanded from Nineteen Stories (1947): two stories dropped ('The Lottery Ticket' and 'The Other Side of the Border') and four added ('The Hint of an Explanation,' 'The Blue Film,' 'Special Duties,' 'The Destructors').",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/twenty-one-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "loser-takes-all",
   "title": "Loser Takes All",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of this slim 'entertainment' (about 140 pages), in dark blue boards lettered in gilt, in a blue and yellow pictorial dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/loser-takes-all"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-potting-shed",
   "title": "The Potting Shed",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "Viking (US)",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Viking edition (1957) precedes the UK Heinemann edition (1958). A play in three acts. Note: the third act differs between the two editions; the American first prints the version produced in New York in 1957, and the British edition carries Greene's later, revised third act.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-potting-shed"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-complaisant-lover",
   "title": "The Complaisant Lover",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first impression, published by Heinemann in London in June 1959. A two-act comedy in blue cloth with a printed dust jacket priced 8/6.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-complaisant-lover"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-search-of-a-character-two-african-journals",
   "title": "In Search of a Character: Two African Journals",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "The Bodley Head (UK)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first impression, The Bodley Head, London, 1961. Red quarter cloth over green paper-covered boards, gilt spine titles, 228 pages, in a yellow dust jacket with black lettering. Among Greene's earliest titles for The Bodley Head, his new publisher after leaving Heinemann.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-search-of-a-character-two-african-journals"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-sense-of-reality",
   "title": "A Sense of Reality",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "The Bodley Head (UK)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first impression, The Bodley Head, London, 1963. A collection of three stories and the novella Under the Garden, in cloth boards with a pictorial dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-sense-of-reality"
  },
  {
   "slug": "carving-a-statue",
   "title": "Carving a Statue",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "The Bodley Head (UK)",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, The Bodley Head, London, 1964. A three-act play in green cloth boards with gilt spine titling, 82 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/carving-a-statue"
  },
  {
   "slug": "may-we-borrow-your-husband-and-other-comedies-of-the-sexual",
   "title": "May We Borrow Your Husband? and Other Comedies of the Sexual Life",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "The Bodley Head (UK)",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first impression, The Bodley Head, London, 1967. A collection of twelve stories, 188 pages, green cloth with gilt spine lettering and a dust jacket designed by Stephen Russ.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/may-we-borrow-your-husband-and-other-comedies-of-the-sexual"
  },
  {
   "slug": "collected-essays",
   "title": "Collected Essays",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "The Bodley Head (UK)",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, copyright page stating 'First published 1969'. Green cloth, gilt spine lettering, top edge stained pink, dust jacket designed by Michael Harvey. Collects nearly eighty essays and reviews; first-thus collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/collected-essays"
  },
  {
   "slug": "travels-with-my-aunt",
   "title": "Travels with My Aunt",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "The Bodley Head (UK)",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, copyright page stating 'First published 1969' (published 2 October 1969). Green cloth with pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Stephen Russ; jacket priced 30s net. Comic novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/travels-with-my-aunt"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-sort-of-life",
   "title": "A Sort of Life",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "The Bodley Head (UK)",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, copyright page stating 'First published 1971'. First volume of Greene's autobiography.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-sort-of-life"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-honorary-consul",
   "title": "The Honorary Consul",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "The Bodley Head (UK)",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, copyright page stating 'First published 1973'. Green cloth, gilt spine lettering; 335 pages. Novel set in Argentina.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-honorary-consul"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lord-rochesters-monkey",
   "title": "Lord Rochester's Monkey",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "The Bodley Head (UK)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, copyright page stating 'First published 1974'. Quarto, cloth binding, illustrated; a biography of John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, written in the 1930s and first published in 1974.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lord-rochesters-monkey"
  },
  {
   "slug": "doctor-fischer-of-geneva-or-the-bomb-party",
   "title": "Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "The Bodley Head (UK)",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the novella; The Bodley Head issued in original green cloth with gilt spine lettering and a Michael Harvey dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/doctor-fischer-of-geneva-or-the-bomb-party"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-tenth-man",
   "title": "The Tenth Man",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "The Bodley Head in association with Anthony Blond (UK)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First book printing of the rediscovered 1940s MGM-era novella, with the author's introduction including film sketches 'Jim Braddon and the war criminal' and 'Nobody to blame'; paper-over-boards, jacket priced 6.95.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-tenth-man"
  },
  {
   "slug": "labels-a-mediterranean-journal",
   "title": "Labels: A Mediterranean Journal",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Duckworth (UK)",
   "year": "1930",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first impression, published by Duckworth, London, in 1930. Waugh's first travel book, an account of a Mediterranean cruise. Retitled A Bachelor Abroad for the American edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/labels-a-mediterranean-journal"
  },
  {
   "slug": "remote-people",
   "title": "Remote People",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Duckworth (UK)",
   "year": "1931",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first impression, published by Duckworth, London, in 1931. Travel narrative of Waugh's journey to Abyssinia for the coronation of Haile Selassie and onward through East and Central Africa. Retitled They Were Still Dancing in the United States.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/remote-people"
  },
  {
   "slug": "black-mischief",
   "title": "Black Mischief",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall (UK)",
   "year": "1932",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade edition published by Chapman & Hall, London, in 1932. A signed limited issue of 250 large-paper copies was also produced, signed on the limitation leaf and containing additional illustrations by the author not present in the trade edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/black-mischief"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ninety-two-days",
   "title": "Ninety-Two Days",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Duckworth (UK)",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first impression, published by Duckworth, London, in 1934. Travel account of Waugh's journey through British Guiana and Brazil; complete copies include twenty-four photographic plates by the author and a folding map.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ninety-two-days"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mr-lovedays-little-outing-and-other-sad-stories",
   "title": "Mr. Loveday's Little Outing and Other Sad Stories",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall (UK)",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first impression, published by Chapman & Hall, London, in 1936. Waugh's first collection of short fiction, with a dust-wrapper design by the author.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mr-lovedays-little-outing-and-other-sad-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "waugh-in-abyssinia",
   "title": "Waugh in Abyssinia",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Longmans, Green (UK)",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in red cloth, gilt spine, top edge red; reportage of the Italo-Abyssinian war. A genuine point of issue exists in the dust-jacket front flap: Waugh objected to the publisher's blurb, and Longmans attempted to recall distributed copies and paste a cancel flap over the original; the uncorrected first-state flap is the scarcer form.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/waugh-in-abyssinia"
  },
  {
   "slug": "robbery-under-law",
   "title": "Robbery Under Law",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall (UK)",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in original blue-grey canvas cloth, black spine titling; full UK title and subtitle 'Robbery Under Law: The Mexican Object-Lesson'. Travel/politics on the Cardenas-era nationalization and persecution of Catholics in Mexico.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/robbery-under-law"
  },
  {
   "slug": "put-out-more-flags",
   "title": "Put Out More Flags",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall (UK)",
   "year": "1942",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing on wartime-economy paper, grey mottled cloth boards lettered black to spine, navy-blue top edge; pictorial dust jacket priced 8/- (eight shillings) to the front flap. Dedicated to Randolph Churchill.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/put-out-more-flags"
  },
  {
   "slug": "work-suspended-two-chapters-of-an-unfinished-novel",
   "title": "Work Suspended: Two Chapters of an Unfinished Novel",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall (UK)",
   "year": "1942",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition limited to 500 copies, published 21 December 1942; red cloth gilt-lettered to spine. The unfinished-novel fragment; many copies are author presentation copies inscribed at Christmas 1942.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/work-suspended-two-chapters-of-an-unfinished-novel"
  },
  {
   "slug": "when-the-going-was-good",
   "title": "When the Going Was Good",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Duckworth (UK)",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in yellow cloth, with colour frontispiece portrait of Waugh (after Henry Lamb) and a fold-out map; first-thus collection drawn from the 1930s travel books Labels, Remote People, Ninety-Two Days and Waugh in Abyssinia. A separate large-paper deluxe issue of 20 copies on hand-made paper also exists.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/when-the-going-was-good"
  },
  {
   "slug": "scott-kings-modern-europe",
   "title": "Scott-King's Modern Europe",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall (UK)",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in cloth with dust jacket, roughly 88 pages with colour frontispiece; novella, subtitled 'A Sojourn in Neutralia'. Note the text first appeared in abridged form in Cornhill Magazine in 1947 before the Chapman & Hall book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/scott-kings-modern-europe"
  },
  {
   "slug": "work-suspended-and-other-stories",
   "title": "Work Suspended and Other Stories",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall (UK)",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition of this collection, in navy-blue cloth with dust jacket, 239 pages. Gathers the revised Work Suspended fragment with eight other pre-war stories including Mr Loveday's Little Outing, Cruise, An Englishman's Home, and Excursion in Reality. This is the first appearance of the assembled collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/work-suspended-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "helena",
   "title": "Helena",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall (UK)",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, in navy cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, with dust jacket. Historical novel, Waugh's personal favorite among his works. A large-paper signed issue of about 50 copies on handmade paper, specially bound, was also produced and given as presentation copies.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/helena"
  },
  {
   "slug": "men-at-arms",
   "title": "Men at Arms",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall (UK)",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in publisher's cloth with dust jacket designed by Val Biro. Volume one of the Sword of Honour trilogy. Awarded the 1952 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/men-at-arms"
  },
  {
   "slug": "officers-and-gentlemen",
   "title": "Officers and Gentlemen",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall (UK)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in blue publisher's cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, 335 pages, with dust jacket designed by Val Biro priced 12s 6d on the front flap. Volume two of the Sword of Honour trilogy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/officers-and-gentlemen"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-ordeal-of-gilbert-pinfold",
   "title": "The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall (UK)",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, published July 1957. The full title on the title page reads The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold: A Conversation Piece. Issued in blue cloth with a pictorial dust jacket. Waugh's largely autobiographical novel of his bromide-induced hallucinations.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-ordeal-of-gilbert-pinfold"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-life-of-the-right-reverend-ronald-knox",
   "title": "The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall (UK)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, Chapman & Hall 1959. Full title-page reads The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford and Pronotary Apostolic to His Holiness Pope Pius XII. A separate small deluxe issue of 29 copies was printed for presentation by the author.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-life-of-the-right-reverend-ronald-knox"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-tourist-in-africa",
   "title": "A Tourist in Africa",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall (UK)",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, Chapman & Hall 1960. Octavo in blue cloth with gilt spine title, in pictorial dust jacket; frontispiece plus eight pages of photographic plates. Waugh's last travel book, a diary of an East African tour.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-tourist-in-africa"
  },
  {
   "slug": "unconditional-surrender",
   "title": "Unconditional Surrender",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall (UK)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, Chapman & Hall 1961. Third and final volume of the Sword of Honour trilogy. The US edition was retitled The End of the Battle.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/unconditional-surrender"
  },
  {
   "slug": "basil-seal-rides-again",
   "title": "Basil Seal Rides Again",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall (UK)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued only as a signed limited edition: 750 copies from Chapman & Hall (London) and 1000 copies from Little, Brown (US), each signed by Waugh on the limitation page. Full title Basil Seal Rides Again, or The Rake's Regress; blue cloth, gilt, with a color frontispiece by Kathleen Hale. First book appearance of a story first printed in Esquire and the Sunday Telegraph. Waugh's last published fiction.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/basil-seal-rides-again"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-little-learning",
   "title": "A Little Learning",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall (UK)",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, Chapman & Hall 1964. Full title A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography. The only completed volume of Waugh's autobiography, covering childhood through Oxford and schoolmastering; illustrated with photographs and drawings.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-little-learning"
  },
  {
   "slug": "afternoon-men",
   "title": "Afternoon Men",
   "author": "Anthony Powell",
   "publisher": "Gerald Duckworth (UK)",
   "year": "1931",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First impression; Powell's first novel, published while he worked at Duckworth. Issued in cloth (commonly pale green); roughly 2,000 copies printed. Scarce in jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/afternoon-men"
  },
  {
   "slug": "from-a-view-to-a-death",
   "title": "From a View to a Death",
   "author": "Anthony Powell",
   "publisher": "Gerald Duckworth (UK)",
   "year": "1933",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing. Powell's third novel; set around the Passenger family's country seat.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/from-a-view-to-a-death"
  },
  {
   "slug": "whats-become-of-waring",
   "title": "What's Become of Waring",
   "author": "Anthony Powell",
   "publisher": "Cassell (UK)",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing; Powell's fifth and last pre-war novel and the first not published by Duckworth, after Duckworth rejected it. Issued in russet/brick-red cloth with blue spine titling. Sold fewer than a thousand copies, with many lost early in the war, so scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/whats-become-of-waring"
  },
  {
   "slug": "john-aubrey-and-his-friends",
   "title": "John Aubrey and His Friends",
   "author": "Anthony Powell",
   "publisher": "Eyre & Spottiswoode (UK)",
   "year": "1948",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing; Powell's biography of the seventeenth-century antiquary John Aubrey. Illustrated in black-and-white with two fold-out Aubrey family trees.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/john-aubrey-and-his-friends"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-question-of-upbringing",
   "title": "A Question of Upbringing",
   "author": "Anthony Powell",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the London Heinemann 1951 hardcover, first impression, with no statement of a later printing. Volume one of the twelve-novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time and the most sought-after volume as the cycle's opener. The dust jacket was designed by James Broom-Lynne and priced 9s 6d.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-question-of-upbringing"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-buyers-market",
   "title": "A Buyer's Market",
   "author": "Anthony Powell",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the London Heinemann 1952 hardcover, first impression, in red cloth with gilt spine titling, with no statement of a later printing. Volume two of A Dance to the Music of Time.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-buyers-market"
  },
  {
   "slug": "at-lady-mollys",
   "title": "At Lady Molly's",
   "author": "Anthony Powell",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the London Heinemann 1957 hardcover, first impression, in red cloth with gilt spine lettering, with no statement of a later printing. Volume four of A Dance to the Music of Time; the novel won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/at-lady-mollys"
  },
  {
   "slug": "casanovas-chinese-restaurant",
   "title": "Casanova's Chinese Restaurant",
   "author": "Anthony Powell",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the London Heinemann 1960 hardcover, first impression, in deep red cloth with the spine blocked in black and lettered in gilt, jacket by Broom-Lynne, with no statement of a later printing. Volume five of A Dance to the Music of Time.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/casanovas-chinese-restaurant"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-kindly-ones",
   "title": "The Kindly Ones",
   "author": "Anthony Powell",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the London Heinemann 1962 hardcover, first impression, with no statement of a later printing. Volume six of A Dance to the Music of Time.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-kindly-ones"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-valley-of-bones",
   "title": "The Valley of Bones",
   "author": "Anthony Powell",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the seventh volume of A Dance to the Music of Time; the first book of the war trilogy. Issued in publisher's cloth with dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-valley-of-bones"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-soldiers-art",
   "title": "The Soldier's Art",
   "author": "Anthony Powell",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the eighth volume of A Dance to the Music of Time; the second book of the war trilogy. Issued in publisher's cloth with dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-soldiers-art"
  },
  {
   "slug": "books-do-furnish-a-room",
   "title": "Books Do Furnish a Room",
   "author": "Anthony Powell",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the tenth volume of A Dance to the Music of Time; opens the final trilogy of the sequence. Issued in publisher's cloth with dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/books-do-furnish-a-room"
  },
  {
   "slug": "temporary-kings",
   "title": "Temporary Kings",
   "author": "Anthony Powell",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the eleventh (penultimate) volume of A Dance to the Music of Time. Issued in publisher's cloth with dust jacket. This volume won the W. H. Smith Literary Award.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/temporary-kings"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hearing-secret-harmonies",
   "title": "Hearing Secret Harmonies",
   "author": "Anthony Powell",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the twelfth and final volume of A Dance to the Music of Time. Issued in publisher's cloth with dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hearing-secret-harmonies"
  },
  {
   "slug": "to-keep-the-ball-rolling-the-memoirs-of-anthony-powell-infan",
   "title": "To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell (Infants of the Spring)",
   "author": "Anthony Powell",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing; volume one of Powell's four-volume memoirs, titled Infants of the Spring. Issued in cloth with photographic plates; 209 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/to-keep-the-ball-rolling-the-memoirs-of-anthony-powell-infan"
  },
  {
   "slug": "o-how-the-wheel-becomes-it",
   "title": "O, How the Wheel Becomes It!",
   "author": "Anthony Powell",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing; short novel, Powell's first fiction after concluding A Dance to the Music of Time. Dust jacket illustrated by Barbara Ker-Seymer; 144 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/o-how-the-wheel-becomes-it"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-fisher-king",
   "title": "The Fisher King",
   "author": "Anthony Powell",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, first impression; Powell's last novel. Dark blue boards with silver spine lettering; dust jacket priced at nine pounds ninety-five net.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-fisher-king"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-pothunters",
   "title": "The Pothunters",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Adam & Charles Black (UK)",
   "year": "1902",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing; Wodehouse's first book, a school story set at St. Austin's. Pictorial cloth. Published 18 September 1902. Very scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-pothunters"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-prefects-uncle",
   "title": "A Prefect's Uncle",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Adam & Charles Black (UK)",
   "year": "1903",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing; school story, Wodehouse's second book. Published 11 September 1903 in pictorial red cloth with eight plates by R. Noel Pocock. Scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-prefects-uncle"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tales-of-st-austins",
   "title": "Tales of St. Austin's",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Adam & Charles Black (UK)",
   "year": "1903",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, first issue; school stories collection. Published 10 November 1903 with twelve plates by Whitwell, Pocock, and Skinner. First-issue point: the quotation marks on the title page are left unclosed after the listed earlier titles (corrected in later issues).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tales-of-st-austins"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-gold-bat",
   "title": "The Gold Bat",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Adam & Charles Black (UK)",
   "year": "1904",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, first printing, published 13 September 1904. Wodehouse school story (Wrykyn), the author's third book, with illustrations by T. M. R. Whitwell. First issue carries the two-page terminal advertisements at the rear; original red pictorial cloth lettered in black, blue and yellow. Catalogued McIlvaine A4a.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-gold-bat"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-head-of-kays",
   "title": "The Head of Kay's",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Adam & Charles Black (UK)",
   "year": "1905",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, first printing, published 5 October 1905. Wodehouse school story (Eckleton), serialized earlier in The Captain. Eight black-and-white plates after Whitwell, red pictorial cloth, with a short preface by Wodehouse and dedication 'To my father'.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-head-of-kays"
  },
  {
   "slug": "love-among-the-chickens",
   "title": "Love Among the Chickens",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "George Newnes (UK)",
   "year": "1906",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, first printing, published June 1906 by George Newnes. Wodehouse's first adult novel and the first to feature the character Ukridge, with a frontispiece and three illustrations by H. M. Brock. Substantially rewritten for the revised 1921 edition. Scarce in first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/love-among-the-chickens"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-white-feather",
   "title": "The White Feather",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Adam & Charles Black (UK)",
   "year": "1907",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, first printing, published 9 October 1907. Wodehouse school story set at Wrykyn (as in The Gold Bat), serialized earlier in The Captain, with twelve illustrations by William Townend. Original cloth with a white feather stamped to the spine; among the scarcest of the early school novels.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-white-feather"
  },
  {
   "slug": "not-george-washington",
   "title": "Not George Washington",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Cassell (UK)",
   "year": "1907",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, first printing, published 18 October 1907. Semi-autobiographical novel co-written with Herbert Westbrook. First-issue points include 'Cassell & Company Limited' on the spine and the date code '9-1907' on pages 96-97. Catalogued McIlvaine A9a. Scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/not-george-washington"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-globe-by-the-way-book",
   "title": "The Globe By the Way Book",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Globe Publishing Company (UK)",
   "year": "1908",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, published June 1908 by the Globe Publishing Company, London. A humorous illustrated miscellany co-written with Herbert Westbrook, drawn from Wodehouse's work on the Globe newspaper's 'By the Way' column. Extremely scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-globe-by-the-way-book"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-swoop",
   "title": "The Swoop!",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Alston Rivers (UK)",
   "year": "1909",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing. Issued only in pictorial paper wrappers (orange and black, illustrated by C. Harrison); full title The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England, an invasion-scare satire. Sold cheaply at railway stalls, so very few survived in collectible condition; among the rarest of all Wodehouse items.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-swoop"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mike",
   "title": "Mike",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Adam & Charles Black (UK)",
   "year": "1909",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first issue, published 15 September 1909; full title Mike: A Public School Story. Marks the first book appearance of Psmith. First issue noted with no date to the title verso and no advertisements, with frontispiece and plates by T.M.R. Whitwell, in green pictorial cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mike"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-intrusion-of-jimmy",
   "title": "The Intrusion of Jimmy",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "W.J. Watt (US)",
   "year": "1910",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US W.J. Watt & Co. edition, published 11 May 1910, precedes the UK edition. The UK issue appeared as A Gentleman of Leisure (Alston Rivers, 15 November 1910). Title and precedence are the key points.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-intrusion-of-jimmy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "psmith-in-the-city",
   "title": "Psmith in the City",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Adam & Charles Black (UK)",
   "year": "1910",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, published 23 September 1910; a sequel to Mike. Collates 260 pages plus advertisements, with 12 black-and-white plates by T.M.R. Whitwell, in decorative cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/psmith-in-the-city"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-prince-and-betty",
   "title": "The Prince and Betty",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "W.J. Watt (US)",
   "year": "1912",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Two substantially different book texts. The US edition (W.J. Watt & Co., New York, 14 February 1912) merges the original romance with the plot of Psmith, Journalist and runs to thirty chapters. The UK edition (Mills & Boon, London, 1 May 1912) keeps the shorter twenty-chapter text. The US edition precedes the UK by some months.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-prince-and-betty"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-little-nugget",
   "title": "The Little Nugget",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Methuen (UK)",
   "year": "1913",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, published 28 August 1913. The UK Methuen edition precedes the US W.J. Watt & Co. edition of 10 January 1914.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-little-nugget"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-man-upstairs-and-other-stories",
   "title": "The Man Upstairs and Other Stories",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Methuen (UK)",
   "year": "1914",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, published in London by Methuen on 23 January 1914; a collection of nineteen short stories with no recurring Wodehouse characters.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-man-upstairs-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "something-new",
   "title": "Something New",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "D. Appleton (US)",
   "year": "1915",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Blandings novel. The US edition, titled Something New (D. Appleton, 3 September 1915), precedes the UK edition, titled Something Fresh (Methuen, 16 September 1915), by about two weeks.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/something-new"
  },
  {
   "slug": "psmith-journalist",
   "title": "Psmith, Journalist",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Adam & Charles Black (UK)",
   "year": "1915",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First book-form printing, London, Adam & Charles Black, 29 September 1915; reworked from the 1909-1910 serial in The Captain. Blue pictorial cloth, with frontispiece and plates.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/psmith-journalist"
  },
  {
   "slug": "uneasy-money",
   "title": "Uneasy Money",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "D. Appleton (US)",
   "year": "1916",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US edition (D. Appleton, New York, 17 March 1916) precedes the UK edition (Methuen, London, 4 October 1917).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/uneasy-money"
  },
  {
   "slug": "piccadilly-jim",
   "title": "Piccadilly Jim",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Dodd, Mead (US)",
   "year": "1917",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US edition (Dodd, Mead, New York, 24 February 1917) precedes the UK edition (Herbert Jenkins, London, May 1918).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/piccadilly-jim"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-man-with-two-left-feet-and-other-stories",
   "title": "The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Methuen (UK)",
   "year": "1917",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, London, Methuen, 8 March 1917. Contains 'Extricating Young Gussie,' the first appearance in book form of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. Wartime paper shortages meant small print runs, so the true first is scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-man-with-two-left-feet-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-damsel-in-distress",
   "title": "A Damsel in Distress",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "George H. Doran (US)",
   "year": "1919",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Doran edition (4 October 1919) precedes the UK Herbert Jenkins edition (15 October 1919) by about eleven days.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-damsel-in-distress"
  },
  {
   "slug": "jill-the-reckless",
   "title": "Jill the Reckless",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "George H. Doran (US)",
   "year": "1920",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the US edition titled The Little Warrior (George H. Doran, New York, 8 October 1920), which precedes the UK edition titled Jill the Reckless (Herbert Jenkins, London, 4 July 1921).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/jill-the-reckless"
  },
  {
   "slug": "indiscretions-of-archie",
   "title": "Indiscretions of Archie",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1921",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, Herbert Jenkins, London, 14 February 1921, which precedes the US George H. Doran edition (15 July 1921).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/indiscretions-of-archie"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-clicking-of-cuthbert",
   "title": "The Clicking of Cuthbert",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1922",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, Herbert Jenkins, London, 3 February 1922; ten golf-themed stories. Issued in green pebbled cloth lettered and decorated in dark green. The US edition appeared later as Golf Without Tears (George H. Doran, 28 May 1924).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-clicking-of-cuthbert"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-adventures-of-sally",
   "title": "The Adventures of Sally",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1922",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First published in book form in the UK by Herbert Jenkins on 17 October 1922 under the title The Adventures of Sally; the US edition followed from George H. Doran on 23 March 1923 under the title Mostly Sally.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-adventures-of-sally"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-inimitable-jeeves",
   "title": "The Inimitable Jeeves",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1923",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First published by Herbert Jenkins in London on 17 May 1923; the US edition followed from George H. Doran on 28 September 1923 under the shortened title Jeeves. A major early Jeeves and Wooster collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-inimitable-jeeves"
  },
  {
   "slug": "leave-it-to-psmith",
   "title": "Leave It to Psmith",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1923",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First published by Herbert Jenkins in London on 30 November 1923; the first US edition followed from George H. Doran on 14 March 1924. A Blandings and Psmith crossover novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/leave-it-to-psmith"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bill-the-conqueror",
   "title": "Bill the Conqueror",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Methuen (UK)",
   "year": "1924",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First published by Methuen and Co. in London on 13 November 1924 (full title Bill the Conqueror: His Invasion of England in the Springtime); the first US edition followed from George H. Doran on 20 February 1925. The UK first edition is in red cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bill-the-conqueror"
  },
  {
   "slug": "carry-on-jeeves",
   "title": "Carry On, Jeeves",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1925",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the Herbert Jenkins edition, London, published 9 October 1925. A Jeeves short-story collection that includes 'Jeeves Takes Charge.' The US George H. Doran edition followed nearly two years later (7 October 1927) and is the first American edition, not the true first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/carry-on-jeeves"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sam-the-sudden",
   "title": "Sam the Sudden",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Methuen (UK)",
   "year": "1925",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the Methuen edition, London, published 15 October 1925 under the title 'Sam the Sudden.' The US edition (George H. Doran, 6 November 1925) carries the different title 'Sam in the Suburbs' — the title is the key distinguishing point between the two issues.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sam-the-sudden"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-heart-of-a-goof",
   "title": "The Heart of a Goof",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1926",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the Herbert Jenkins edition, London, published 15 April 1926. A collection of golf stories. The US George H. Doran edition (1927) was published under the different title 'Divots' — the title is the distinguishing point.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-heart-of-a-goof"
  },
  {
   "slug": "meet-mr-mulliner",
   "title": "Meet Mr. Mulliner",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1927",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the Herbert Jenkins edition, London, published 27 September 1927. The first Mr. Mulliner collection. The US edition (Doubleday, Doran, 2 March 1928) followed roughly five months later and is the first American edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/meet-mr-mulliner"
  },
  {
   "slug": "money-for-nothing",
   "title": "Money for Nothing",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1928",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the Herbert Jenkins edition, London, published 27 July 1928. The US Doubleday, Doran edition followed on 28 September 1928 and is the first American edition. The novel was serialized before book publication in London Calling and in Liberty.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/money-for-nothing"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mr-mulliner-speaking",
   "title": "Mr. Mulliner Speaking",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1929",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the second Mulliner story collection. The UK Herbert Jenkins edition (London, 30 April 1929) precedes the US Doubleday, Doran edition (21 February 1930).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mr-mulliner-speaking"
  },
  {
   "slug": "very-good-jeeves",
   "title": "Very Good, Jeeves",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Doubleday, Doran (US)",
   "year": "1930",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the Jeeves story collection. The US Doubleday, Doran edition (New York, 20 June 1930) precedes the UK Herbert Jenkins edition (4 July 1930). The UK edition adds a Wodehouse preface and a dedication not present in the US issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/very-good-jeeves"
  },
  {
   "slug": "big-money",
   "title": "Big Money",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Doubleday, Doran (US)",
   "year": "1931",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing. The US Doubleday, Doran edition (New York, 30 January 1931) precedes the UK Herbert Jenkins edition (20 March 1931).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/big-money"
  },
  {
   "slug": "if-i-were-you",
   "title": "If I Were You",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Doubleday, Doran (US)",
   "year": "1931",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of this novel. The US Doubleday, Doran edition (New York, 3 September 1931) precedes the UK Herbert Jenkins edition (25 September 1931).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/if-i-were-you"
  },
  {
   "slug": "louder-and-funnier",
   "title": "Louder and Funnier",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1932",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of this collection of humorous essays, published in the UK by Faber & Faber (London, 10 March 1932), bound in green cloth lettered in gilt to the spine. No contemporary US edition; the first US appearance is a much later Overlook Press reissue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/louder-and-funnier"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mulliner-nights",
   "title": "Mulliner Nights",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1933",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in original cloth and dust jacket; third Mr Mulliner collection (nine stories). The UK Herbert Jenkins edition (17 January 1933) precedes the US Doubleday, Doran edition (15 February 1933).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mulliner-nights"
  },
  {
   "slug": "heavy-weather",
   "title": "Heavy Weather",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown (US)",
   "year": "1933",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in original cloth and dust jacket; a Blandings Castle novel. The US Little, Brown edition (Boston, 28 July 1933) precedes the UK Herbert Jenkins edition (10 August 1933).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/heavy-weather"
  },
  {
   "slug": "thank-you-jeeves",
   "title": "Thank You, Jeeves",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in original cloth and dust jacket; the first full-length Jeeves and Wooster novel. The UK Herbert Jenkins edition (16 March 1934) precedes the US Little, Brown edition (23 April 1934).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/thank-you-jeeves"
  },
  {
   "slug": "right-ho-jeeves",
   "title": "Right Ho, Jeeves",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in original cloth and dust jacket; the second full-length Jeeves and Wooster novel. The UK Herbert Jenkins edition (5 October 1934) precedes the US Little, Brown edition (15 October 1934), which was issued under the different title Brinkley Manor.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/right-ho-jeeves"
  },
  {
   "slug": "blandings-castle-and-elsewhere",
   "title": "Blandings Castle and Elsewhere",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in original cloth and dust jacket; a collection of stories (Blandings Castle plus Mr Mulliner). The UK Herbert Jenkins edition under the full title Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (12 April 1935) precedes the US Doubleday, Doran edition (20 September 1935), issued under the shortened title Blandings Castle.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/blandings-castle-and-elsewhere"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-luck-of-the-bodkins",
   "title": "The Luck of the Bodkins",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in publisher's cloth. The UK Herbert Jenkins edition (11 October 1935) is the true first and precedes the US Little, Brown edition (3 January 1936). Note that the two editions have substantially different texts: Wodehouse shortened the story for the US market, so the editions are not textually identical.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-luck-of-the-bodkins"
  },
  {
   "slug": "young-men-in-spats",
   "title": "Young Men in Spats",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in publisher's cloth. The UK Herbert Jenkins edition (3 April 1936) is the true first and precedes the US Doubleday, Doran edition (24 July 1936). A collection of Drones Club and Mulliner stories; the US edition has a slightly different selection (two stories held back from the US book), so contents differ between the editions.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/young-men-in-spats"
  },
  {
   "slug": "laughing-gas",
   "title": "Laughing Gas",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in publisher's orange cloth lettered in black. The UK Herbert Jenkins edition (25 September 1936) is the true first and precedes the US Doubleday, Doran edition (19 November 1936).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/laughing-gas"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lord-emsworth-and-others",
   "title": "Lord Emsworth and Others",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1937",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in publisher's cloth. A collection of nine short stories. The title under which these stories appeared as a book is unique to the UK Herbert Jenkins edition (19 March 1937). The US Doubleday, Doran collection titled The Crime Wave at Blandings (25 June 1937) is a substantially different gathering, sharing only some of the contents, so this is a contents difference as well as a title difference.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lord-emsworth-and-others"
  },
  {
   "slug": "summer-moonshine",
   "title": "Summer Moonshine",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Doubleday Doran (US)",
   "year": "1937",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in publisher's cloth. The US Doubleday, Doran edition (8 October 1937) is the true first and precedes the UK Herbert Jenkins edition (11 February 1938).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/summer-moonshine"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-code-of-the-woosters",
   "title": "The Code of the Woosters",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Doubleday Doran (US)",
   "year": "1938",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in publisher's cloth. The US Doubleday, Doran edition and the UK Herbert Jenkins edition were both published on 7 October 1938; the US Doubleday, Doran printing is generally cited by bibliographers as the true first. Confirm any copy against the publisher's imprint, as the two editions appeared the same day.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-code-of-the-woosters"
  },
  {
   "slug": "uncle-fred-in-the-springtime",
   "title": "Uncle Fred in the Springtime",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Doubleday Doran (US)",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition, Doubleday Doran, New York, published 18 August 1939, one week ahead of the UK Herbert Jenkins edition of 25 August 1939. The first Uncle Fred novel and a Blandings Castle story.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/uncle-fred-in-the-springtime"
  },
  {
   "slug": "eggs-beans-and-crumpets",
   "title": "Eggs, Beans and Crumpets",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Herbert Jenkins, London, published 26 April 1940, preceding the US Doubleday Doran edition of 10 May 1940. A collection of Drones Club, Mr Mulliner and Ukridge stories; the US edition carries somewhat different contents.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/eggs-beans-and-crumpets"
  },
  {
   "slug": "quick-service",
   "title": "Quick Service",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, Herbert Jenkins, London, published 4 October 1940, preceding the US Doubleday Doran edition of 27 December 1940.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/quick-service"
  },
  {
   "slug": "joy-in-the-morning",
   "title": "Joy in the Morning",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Co. (US)",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition, Doubleday & Co., New York, published 22 August 1946, with illustrations and dust wrapper by Paul Galdone, preceding the UK Herbert Jenkins edition of 2 June 1947. A Jeeves and Wooster novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/joy-in-the-morning"
  },
  {
   "slug": "full-moon",
   "title": "Full Moon",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Co. (US)",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition, Doubleday & Co., New York, published 22 May 1947, preceding the UK Herbert Jenkins edition of 17 October 1947. A Blandings Castle novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/full-moon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "uncle-dynamite",
   "title": "Uncle Dynamite",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1948",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the UK Herbert Jenkins edition. An Uncle Fred (Lord Ickenham) novel. UK Jenkins (22 October 1948) precedes the US Didier edition (29 November 1948).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/uncle-dynamite"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-mating-season",
   "title": "The Mating Season",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the UK Herbert Jenkins edition. A Jeeves and Bertie Wooster novel. UK Jenkins (9 September 1949) precedes the US Didier edition (29 November 1949).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-mating-season"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nothing-serious",
   "title": "Nothing Serious",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the UK Herbert Jenkins edition. A collection of ten short stories. UK Jenkins (21 July 1950) precedes the US Doubleday edition (24 May 1951).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nothing-serious"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-old-reliable",
   "title": "The Old Reliable",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the UK Herbert Jenkins edition. UK Jenkins (18 April 1951) precedes the US Doubleday edition (11 October 1951).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-old-reliable"
  },
  {
   "slug": "barmy-in-wonderland",
   "title": "Barmy in Wonderland",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the UK Herbert Jenkins edition under the title Barmy in Wonderland (21 April 1952). The US Doubleday edition was published as Angel Cake (8 May 1952) — a title point distinguishing the two issues. UK Jenkins precedes.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/barmy-in-wonderland"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ring-for-jeeves",
   "title": "Ring for Jeeves",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing. UK Herbert Jenkins edition (22 April 1953) is the true first. Issued in the US under the title The Return of Jeeves by Simon & Schuster in 1954. Title point distinguishes the two markets.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ring-for-jeeves"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bring-on-the-girls",
   "title": "Bring On the Girls",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster (US)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing. A theatrical memoir written with Guy Bolton. The US Simon & Schuster edition (5 October 1953) precedes the UK Herbert Jenkins edition (21 May 1954). The US and UK texts differ.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bring-on-the-girls"
  },
  {
   "slug": "jeeves-and-the-feudal-spirit",
   "title": "Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing. UK Herbert Jenkins edition (15 October 1954) is the true first. Issued in the US under the title Bertie Wooster Sees It Through by Simon & Schuster in 1955. Title point distinguishes the two markets.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/jeeves-and-the-feudal-spirit"
  },
  {
   "slug": "french-leave",
   "title": "French Leave",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing. UK Herbert Jenkins edition (20 January 1956) is the true first, preceding the US Simon & Schuster edition (28 September 1959) by over three years.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/french-leave"
  },
  {
   "slug": "something-fishy",
   "title": "Something Fishy",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing. UK Herbert Jenkins edition (18 January 1957) is the true first, preceding the US Simon & Schuster edition (28 January 1957) by about ten days. Issued in the US under the title The Butler Did It. Title point distinguishes the two markets.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/something-fishy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "over-seventy-an-autobiography-with-digressions",
   "title": "Over Seventy: An Autobiography with Digressions",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the considerably expanded and revised UK version. Published 11 October 1957 by Herbert Jenkins, London, under the title Over Seventy. The text is a substantially enlarged reworking of the earlier US book America, I Like You (Simon & Schuster, New York, 3 May 1956).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/over-seventy-an-autobiography-with-digressions"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cocktail-time",
   "title": "Cocktail Time",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing. Uncle Fred novel. Published 20 June 1958 by Herbert Jenkins, London, preceding the US Simon & Schuster edition of 24 July 1958.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cocktail-time"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-few-quick-ones",
   "title": "A Few Quick Ones",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster (US)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the short-story collection. Published 13 April 1959 by Simon & Schuster, New York, preceding the UK Herbert Jenkins edition of 26 June 1959. Contents differ: the US edition contains nine stories; the UK edition adds a tenth, A Tithe for Charity.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-few-quick-ones"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ice-in-the-bedroom",
   "title": "Ice in the Bedroom",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster (US)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing. Published 2 February 1961 by Simon & Schuster, New York, under the title The Ice in the Bedroom (note the leading definite article on the US edition), preceding the UK Herbert Jenkins edition of 15 October 1961, titled Ice in the Bedroom.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ice-in-the-bedroom"
  },
  {
   "slug": "service-with-a-smile",
   "title": "Service with a Smile",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster (US)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing. Blandings Castle novel featuring Uncle Fred. Published 15 October 1961 by Simon & Schuster, New York, preceding the UK Herbert Jenkins edition of 17 August 1962.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/service-with-a-smile"
  },
  {
   "slug": "stiff-upper-lip-jeeves",
   "title": "Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster (US)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the US Simon & Schuster edition, published 22 March 1963, preceding the UK Herbert Jenkins edition of 16 August 1963 by about five months. A Jeeves and Bertie Wooster novel. Simon & Schuster firsts of this period state First Printing on the copyright page with no later printings listed.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/stiff-upper-lip-jeeves"
  },
  {
   "slug": "biffens-millions",
   "title": "Biffen's Millions",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster (US)",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The novel appeared first in the US as Biffen's Millions, published by Simon & Schuster on 14 July 1964, ahead of the UK Herbert Jenkins edition issued 14 August 1964 under the different title Frozen Assets. The two true firsts therefore differ in title; the US Biffen's Millions takes overall precedence by about one month.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/biffens-millions"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-brinkmanship-of-galahad-threepwood",
   "title": "The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster (US)",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "A Blandings Castle novel. The US Simon & Schuster edition is the overall true first; it carries 1965 on the title page and copyright page though it was actually issued at the very end of December 1964, well ahead of the UK Herbert Jenkins edition of 26 August 1965, which appeared under the different title Galahad at Blandings.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-brinkmanship-of-galahad-threepwood"
  },
  {
   "slug": "plum-pie",
   "title": "Plum Pie",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "A collection of short stories. The true first is the UK Barrie & Jenkins (Herbert Jenkins imprint) edition published 22 September 1966, preceding the US Simon & Schuster edition of December 1967 by over a year.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/plum-pie"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-purloined-paperweight",
   "title": "The Purloined Paperweight",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster (US)",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The novel appeared first in the US as The Purloined Paperweight, published by Simon & Schuster on 12 May 1967, ahead of the UK Barrie & Jenkins edition of 26 October 1967, which carried the different title Company for Henry. The US title takes overall precedence.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-purloined-paperweight"
  },
  {
   "slug": "do-butlers-burgle-banks",
   "title": "Do Butlers Burgle Banks?",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster (US)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the US Simon & Schuster edition of 1968, issued about a month ahead of the UK Herbert Jenkins edition of 1968. Same title in both markets, so precedence rests on the US date and the Simon & Schuster First Printing copyright-page wording.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/do-butlers-burgle-banks"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-girl-in-blue",
   "title": "The Girl in Blue",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Barrie & Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, London, Barrie & Jenkins, 29 October 1970. The US first followed from Simon & Schuster on 22 February 1971. Both editions share the same Osbert Lancaster front jacket design and the same Tom Blau rear-panel photograph of Wodehouse walking with a dog.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-girl-in-blue"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pearls-girls-and-monty-bodkin",
   "title": "Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Barrie & Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, London, Barrie & Jenkins, 12 October 1972, with an Osbert Lancaster front jacket illustration. The US edition followed on 6 August 1973 from Simon & Schuster under the title The Plot That Thickened, with a Paul Bacon jacket illustration.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pearls-girls-and-monty-bodkin"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bachelors-anonymous",
   "title": "Bachelors Anonymous",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Barrie & Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, London, Barrie & Jenkins, 15 October 1973, published on Wodehouse's 92nd birthday. The US first followed on 28 August 1974 from Simon & Schuster under the same title.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bachelors-anonymous"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-making-of-a-saint",
   "title": "The Making of a Saint",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "L.C. Page (US)",
   "year": "1898",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US L.C. Page (Boston) edition precedes the UK T. Fisher Unwin edition by roughly a month. Maugham's second book and a historical novel. The first issue has two-color (parti-colored) spine lettering; later states show all-black spine lettering.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-making-of-a-saint"
  },
  {
   "slug": "orientations",
   "title": "Orientations",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "T. Fisher Unwin (UK)",
   "year": "1899",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in green cloth from Unwin's six-shilling library, spine lettered in gilt. Maugham's first collection of short stories (six tales). No American edition was published.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/orientations"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hero",
   "title": "The Hero",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "Hutchinson (UK)",
   "year": "1901",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in dahlia red silk-grained cloth, with Maugham's Moorish symbol blocked in gold on the front cover (its first appearance on one of his books) and gilt spine lettering. Small print run; some early copies show the symbol printed upside down.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hero"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mrs-craddock",
   "title": "Mrs. Craddock",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1902",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in green cloth stamped in black with Maugham's Moorish symbol and gilt title; heavier paper than later printings. The first edition includes the Epistle Dedicatory and the text as cut by Heinemann (passages deemed objectionable were removed for this issue).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mrs-craddock"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-merry-go-round",
   "title": "The Merry-Go-Round",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1904",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine and upper board with the author's gilt-stamped device. 3,000 copies printed; unsold sheets were remaindered to The Times Book Club, which reissued the book with a new binding and title page, so the true first carries the Heinemann title page and binding.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-merry-go-round"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-land-of-the-blessed-virgin",
   "title": "The Land of the Blessed Virgin",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1905",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of Maugham's Andalusia travel sketches, published January 1905 in an edition of 1,250 copies, with a photogravure frontispiece of the Madonna under a tissue guard.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-land-of-the-blessed-virgin"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bishops-apron",
   "title": "The Bishop's Apron",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall (UK)",
   "year": "1906",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in red (rose linen-grain) cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine, with \"Chapman & Hall\" at the foot of the spine. The whole edition (about 1,500 copies) was printed from a single casting of type; the publisher added \"Second Edition,\" \"Third Edition,\" and \"Fourth Edition\" to some title pages to feign strong sales, so the true first bears no edition statement on the title page. Scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bishops-apron"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-explorer",
   "title": "The Explorer",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1908",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the novel. UK Heinemann 1908 precedes the US Baker & Taylor edition of 1909.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-explorer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-magician",
   "title": "The Magician",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1908",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing; the magician Oliver Haddo is modeled on Aleister Crowley. UK Heinemann 1908 precedes the US Duffield edition of 1909.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-magician"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-trembling-of-a-leaf",
   "title": "The Trembling of a Leaf",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "George H. Doran (US)",
   "year": "1921",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the New York George H. Doran edition, issued September 1921 (3000 copies), preceding the English edition. Identified by the publisher's GHD monogram on both the title and copyright pages; this device was first used on a Maugham book here, and later impressions lack it. Contains the story 'Rain' (Miss Thompson).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-trembling-of-a-leaf"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-casuarina-tree",
   "title": "The Casuarina Tree",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1926",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the William Heinemann London edition, published 2 September 1926; a collection of Malayan stories. Preceded the American Doran edition by roughly two weeks.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-casuarina-tree"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ashenden-or-the-british-agent",
   "title": "Ashenden, or The British Agent",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1928",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the William Heinemann London edition, published March 1928; linked spy stories that proved influential on later espionage fiction. The earliest Heinemann impression precedes a same-year second impression.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ashenden-or-the-british-agent"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-gentleman-in-the-parlour",
   "title": "The Gentleman in the Parlour",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1930",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, published by Heinemann in 1930 with the subtitle 'A Record of a Journey from Rangoon to Haiphong'. Issued in black cloth blocked in gilt with a dragon design to the front board and a pagoda design to the spine. A travel narrative of Southeast Asia.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-gentleman-in-the-parlour"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-narrow-corner",
   "title": "The Narrow Corner",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1932",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, published by Heinemann (London) in 1932, a novel set in the Malay Archipelago. Heinemann is Stott A44a; the US Doubleday, Doran edition is Stott A44b.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-narrow-corner"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ah-king",
   "title": "Ah King",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1933",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, full title 'Ah King: Six Stories', published by Heinemann in September 1933; the US Doubleday, Doran edition followed on 8 November 1933. Heinemann also issued a limited edition of 175 numbered copies signed by the author. The six stories are Footprints in the Jungle, The Door of Opportunity, The Vessel of Wrath, The Book-Bag, Back of Beyond, and Neil MacAdam.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ah-king"
  },
  {
   "slug": "don-fernando",
   "title": "Don Fernando",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, full title 'Don Fernando: or Variations on Some Spanish Themes', published by Heinemann in 1935 (268 pp.); the US Doubleday, Doran edition (1935, 307 pp.) is designated 'First American'. A reflective work on Spain in the Golden Age.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/don-fernando"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cosmopolitans",
   "title": "Cosmopolitans",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "Doubleday Doran (US)",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Collection of very short stories. The US Doubleday Doran edition (Garden City, 1936) is the true first; dealer descriptions citing the Stott Maugham bibliography note it preceded the UK Heinemann edition by roughly a week.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cosmopolitans"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-summing-up",
   "title": "The Summing Up",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1938",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Autobiographical and aesthetic memoir. First printing. The UK Heinemann edition (1938) is the standard true first; the US Doubleday Doran edition also appeared in 1938.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-summing-up"
  },
  {
   "slug": "christmas-holiday",
   "title": "Christmas Holiday",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Novel. First printing. The UK Heinemann edition (1939) is the standard true first; the US Doubleday Doran edition also appeared in 1939.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/christmas-holiday"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-mixture-as-before",
   "title": "The Mixture as Before",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Collection of ten short stories. First printing. The UK Heinemann edition (1940) is the standard true first; the US Doubleday Doran edition also appeared in 1940.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-mixture-as-before"
  },
  {
   "slug": "creatures-of-circumstance",
   "title": "Creatures of Circumstance",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition of this collection of short stories, published by William Heinemann (UK) in 1947, preceding the Doubleday first American edition of 1947.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/creatures-of-circumstance"
  },
  {
   "slug": "catalina",
   "title": "Catalina",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1948",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition of Maugham's last novel, published by William Heinemann (UK) in 1948 (256 pp.), preceding the US Doubleday edition (vii, 275 pp.) by about two months.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/catalina"
  },
  {
   "slug": "limbo",
   "title": "Limbo",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (UK)",
   "year": "1920",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Huxley's first published volume of fiction (the short-story collection 'Limbo: Six Stories and a Play'), preceding Crome Yellow. UK Chatto & Windus 1920 is the first issue; a US George H. Doran edition also appeared in 1920.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/limbo"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mortal-coils",
   "title": "Mortal Coils",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (UK)",
   "year": "1922",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Short-story collection of five stories including 'The Gioconda Smile'. UK Chatto & Windus 1922 precedes the US George H. Doran edition of 1922.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mortal-coils"
  },
  {
   "slug": "antic-hay",
   "title": "Antic Hay",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (UK)",
   "year": "1923",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Satirical novel. UK Chatto & Windus 1923 (about 328 pages) precedes the US George H. Doran edition of 1923.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/antic-hay"
  },
  {
   "slug": "little-mexican",
   "title": "Little Mexican",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (UK)",
   "year": "1924",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Third short-story collection, 'Little Mexican and Other Stories' (six stories: Uncle Spencer, Little Mexican, Hubert and Minnie, Fard, The Portrait, Young Archimedes). The US edition was retitled 'Young Archimedes and Other Stories' (George H. Doran, 1924) — a title point distinguishing the two issues.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/little-mexican"
  },
  {
   "slug": "those-barren-leaves",
   "title": "Those Barren Leaves",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (UK)",
   "year": "1925",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Satirical novel in original blue cloth with a paper title label on the spine. UK Chatto & Windus 1925 precedes the US George H. Doran edition of 1925. A signed limited issue of 250 numbered copies was also produced alongside the ordinary trade first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/those-barren-leaves"
  },
  {
   "slug": "along-the-road",
   "title": "Along the Road",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (UK)",
   "year": "1925",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the travel essays (subtitle: Notes and Essays of a Tourist), in publisher's pale grey-green cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/along-the-road"
  },
  {
   "slug": "jesting-pilate",
   "title": "Jesting Pilate",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (UK)",
   "year": "1926",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the travel diary (subtitle: The Diary of a Journey), in publisher's blue cloth with 14 photographic plates.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/jesting-pilate"
  },
  {
   "slug": "two-or-three-graces",
   "title": "Two or Three Graces",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (UK)",
   "year": "1926",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the four stories/novellas (Two or Three Graces; Half Holiday; The Monocle; Fairy Godmother), in publisher's blue cloth with gilt.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/two-or-three-graces"
  },
  {
   "slug": "proper-studies",
   "title": "Proper Studies",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (UK)",
   "year": "1927",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade printing of the essays, in publisher's green cloth, gilt to spine, green topstain.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/proper-studies"
  },
  {
   "slug": "point-counter-point",
   "title": "Point Counter Point",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (UK)",
   "year": "1928",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade edition in green cloth, no further printings stated on the copyright page; a signed limited edition of 256 numbered copies, each signed by Huxley, was issued concurrently by Chatto & Windus.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/point-counter-point"
  },
  {
   "slug": "do-what-you-will",
   "title": "Do What You Will",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (UK)",
   "year": "1929",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the twelve essays. A signed limited edition of 260 copies was also issued by Chatto & Windus.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/do-what-you-will"
  },
  {
   "slug": "brief-candles",
   "title": "Brief Candles",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (UK)",
   "year": "1930",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition of Huxley's collection of four stories (Chawdron; The Rest Cure; The Claxtons; After the Fireworks). The trade first is in red cloth. A signed limited edition of 842 numbered copies, signed by Huxley on the half-title and bound in black cloth, was also issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/brief-candles"
  },
  {
   "slug": "texts-and-pretexts",
   "title": "Texts and Pretexts",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (UK)",
   "year": "1932",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition of the anthology with Huxley's own commentaries (full title Texts and Pretexts: An Anthology with Commentaries). Trade first in green cloth, gilt-lettered spine.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/texts-and-pretexts"
  },
  {
   "slug": "beyond-the-mexique-bay",
   "title": "Beyond the Mexique Bay",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (UK)",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition of Huxley's travel book on Central America (Guatemala and Mexico), in ochre cloth with gilt spine lettering, brown-tinted top edge, with map endpapers and photographic plates. A signed limited edition of about 210 numbered copies was also issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/beyond-the-mexique-bay"
  },
  {
   "slug": "eyeless-in-gaza",
   "title": "Eyeless in Gaza",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (UK)",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition of the novel, in cloth-backed patterned paper boards with gilt-lettered spine and top edge gilt on the limited. A signed limited edition of 200 numbered copies, signed by Huxley on the limitation page, was issued alongside the ordinary trade first; UK Chatto & Windus 1936 precedes the US Harper edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/eyeless-in-gaza"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-olive-tree-and-other-essays",
   "title": "The Olive Tree and Other Essays",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (UK)",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition of the essay collection (includes 'T.H. Huxley as a Literary Man,' 'Time and the Machine,' and the title essay), in olive-green gilt-lettered cloth with top edge gilt on the limited. A signed limited edition of 160 numbered copies, signed by Huxley on the colophon, was also issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-olive-tree-and-other-essays"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ends-and-means",
   "title": "Ends and Means",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (UK)",
   "year": "1937",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of Huxley's volume of pacifist and ethical essays (full title an enquiry into the nature of ideals and into the methods employed for their realization). Issued by Chatto & Windus, London, in 1937.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ends-and-means"
  },
  {
   "slug": "after-many-a-summer",
   "title": "After Many a Summer",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (UK)",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing under the original UK title After Many a Summer (Chatto & Windus, London, 1939). The American edition (Harper & Brothers, 1939) carries the expanded title After Many a Summer Dies the Swan.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/after-many-a-summer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "grey-eminence",
   "title": "Grey Eminence",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (UK)",
   "year": "1941",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of Huxley's biography of Father Joseph (full title Grey Eminence: A Study in Religion and Politics). Chatto & Windus, London, 1941.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/grey-eminence"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-art-of-seeing",
   "title": "The Art of Seeing",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers (US)",
   "year": "1942",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of Huxley's book on the Bates method of vision improvement (full title The Art of Seeing). Harper & Brothers, New York, 1942, preceding the UK edition by a year.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-art-of-seeing"
  },
  {
   "slug": "time-must-have-a-stop",
   "title": "Time Must Have a Stop",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers (US)",
   "year": "1944",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the novel. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1944, preceding the UK edition. Harper first printings carry the issue code on the copyright page identifying the first impression.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/time-must-have-a-stop"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-perennial-philosophy",
   "title": "The Perennial Philosophy",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers (US)",
   "year": "1945",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of Huxley's anthology and commentary on mysticism. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1945, preceding the UK edition. Harper first printings carry the issue code on the copyright page identifying the first impression.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-perennial-philosophy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ape-and-essence",
   "title": "Ape and Essence",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers (US)",
   "year": "1948",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1948 (the post-apocalyptic novel cast partly as a film scenario). The US edition precedes the UK Chatto & Windus edition of 1949.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ape-and-essence"
  },
  {
   "slug": "brave-new-world-revisited",
   "title": "Brave New World Revisited",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers (US)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1958, of this nonfiction reassessment of Brave New World. The US edition precedes the UK Chatto & Windus edition of 1959.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/brave-new-world-revisited"
  },
  {
   "slug": "island",
   "title": "Island",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (UK)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first impression in publisher's cloth with dust jacket. Huxley's last novel, a utopian counterpart to Brave New World. The UK Chatto & Windus edition is the true first; the US Harper edition followed the same year.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/island"
  },
  {
   "slug": "coming-up-for-air",
   "title": "Coming Up for Air",
   "author": "George Orwell",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz (UK)",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, published 12 June 1939 in publisher's green cloth lettered to the spine, priced 7s 6d. The first impression of 2,000 copies was followed later in June by a further printing with minor slipped type. Orwell's last novel under the Gollancz imprint.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/coming-up-for-air"
  },
  {
   "slug": "inside-the-whale-and-other-essays",
   "title": "Inside the Whale and Other Essays",
   "author": "George Orwell",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz (UK)",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, published 11 March 1940 in cloth with dust jacket. A small print run of roughly 1,000 to 1,100 copies; the book went out of print within the year and some copies were destroyed in wartime bombing, making it scarce. Orwell's first essay collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/inside-the-whale-and-other-essays"
  },
  {
   "slug": "critical-essays",
   "title": "Critical Essays",
   "author": "George Orwell",
   "publisher": "Secker & Warburg (UK)",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, published 14 February 1946 in cloth with dust jacket, with a print run of about 3,028 copies. The US edition followed in April 1946 from Reynal & Hitchcock under the different title Dickens, Dali and Others: Studies in Popular Culture.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/critical-essays"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-english-people",
   "title": "The English People",
   "author": "George Orwell",
   "publisher": "William Collins (UK)",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, published August 1947 by Collins in the Britain in Pictures series. A slim illustrated volume of about 48 pages with eight full-page colour plates and additional black-and-white illustrations by artists including Ardizzone, Laura Knight, L. S. Lowry, Henry Moore, John Minton and Topolski.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-english-people"
  },
  {
   "slug": "shooting-an-elephant-and-other-essays",
   "title": "Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays",
   "author": "George Orwell",
   "publisher": "Secker & Warburg (UK)",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, published 5 October 1950. Publisher's pale green cloth lettered in red on the spine, top edge red, in the grey and red pictorial dust wrapper designed by Michael Kennard. The first posthumous collection of Orwell's essays, issued in the same year as his death.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/shooting-an-elephant-and-other-essays"
  },
  {
   "slug": "all-the-conspirators",
   "title": "All the Conspirators",
   "author": "Christopher Isherwood",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (UK)",
   "year": "1928",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing of Isherwood's first novel, published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1928. The book sold poorly and many copies were remaindered, making the true first scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/all-the-conspirators"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-memorial",
   "title": "The Memorial",
   "author": "Christopher Isherwood",
   "publisher": "The Hogarth Press (UK)",
   "year": "1932",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London, 1932, in an edition of 1,222 copies. The dust jacket was designed by John Banting and priced 7/6. Binding states are recorded (an early state in pink woven linen and a later state in ochre cloth lettered in blue).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-memorial"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mr-norris-changes-trains",
   "title": "Mr Norris Changes Trains",
   "author": "Christopher Isherwood",
   "publisher": "The Hogarth Press (UK)",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London, 1935, in an edition of 1,730 copies, bound in green cloth stamped in black. The UK title is Mr Norris Changes Trains.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mr-norris-changes-trains"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sally-bowles",
   "title": "Sally Bowles",
   "author": "Christopher Isherwood",
   "publisher": "The Hogarth Press (UK)",
   "year": "1937",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing published November 1937 in an edition of 2,040 copies. Blue cloth boards lettered in black to the spine, in the peach dust jacket printed in green and designed by Richard Kennedy, with the 3/6 price to the front panel and spine. Issued as a separate slim volume; scarce in the jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sally-bowles"
  },
  {
   "slug": "on-the-frontier",
   "title": "On the Frontier",
   "author": "Christopher Isherwood",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1938",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, 1938, octavo, 120 pages, in publisher's tan cloth with the black-and-tan dust jacket. Edition of 3,000 copies. A verse play, A Melodrama in Three Acts, written jointly with W. H. Auden. Bloomfield & Mendelson A18.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/on-the-frontier"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lions-and-shadows",
   "title": "Lions and Shadows",
   "author": "Christopher Isherwood",
   "publisher": "The Hogarth Press (UK)",
   "year": "1938",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing published March 1938, blue cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the dust jacket printed in brown and designed by Robert Medley. Subtitled An Education in the Twenties; a semi-autobiographical account of the 1920s.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lions-and-shadows"
  },
  {
   "slug": "journey-to-a-war",
   "title": "Journey to a War",
   "author": "Christopher Isherwood",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, 1939, in publisher's cloth with the spine lettered yellow and red, in the illustrated dust jacket priced 12/6. China reportage written with W. H. Auden, illustrated with photographic plates and a folding map at the rear. Bloomfield A20a.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/journey-to-a-war"
  },
  {
   "slug": "prater-violet",
   "title": "Prater Violet",
   "author": "Christopher Isherwood",
   "publisher": "Random House (US)",
   "year": "1945",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, Random House, New York, 1945, blue-grey cloth with violet and cream lettering and the top edge stained grey-violet, in the dust jacket priced 2.00 on the front flap. The US Random House edition precedes the UK Methuen edition of 1946.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/prater-violet"
  },
  {
   "slug": "down-there-on-a-visit",
   "title": "Down There on a Visit",
   "author": "Christopher Isherwood",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster (US)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First American edition, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1962; UK Methuen edition also 1962. The American edition is generally cited as the first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/down-there-on-a-visit"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-meeting-by-the-river",
   "title": "A Meeting by the River",
   "author": "Christopher Isherwood",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster (US)",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First American edition, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1967; UK Methuen edition also 1967. The American edition is generally cited as the first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-meeting-by-the-river"
  },
  {
   "slug": "my-guru-and-his-disciple",
   "title": "My Guru and His Disciple",
   "author": "Christopher Isherwood",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux (US)",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980. The US edition is generally taken as the first edition; the UK Eyre Methuen edition also appeared in 1980. No stated number-line issue points beyond first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/my-guru-and-his-disciple"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-black-book",
   "title": "The Black Book",
   "author": "Lawrence Durrell",
   "publisher": "The Obelisk Press (Paris)",
   "year": "1938",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in printed wrappers, Obelisk Press, Paris, 1938, issued as the first volume in the Villa Seurat Series. The earliest copies were dispatched without the erratum slip that was later added to correct a pagination error, so a copy lacking that slip reflects the earliest state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-black-book"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-private-country",
   "title": "A Private Country",
   "author": "Lawrence Durrell",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1943",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Faber & Faber, London, 1943. A poetry collection and Durrell's first full collection from Faber, printed at the University Press, Glasgow. Issued in grey cloth with a printed dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-private-country"
  },
  {
   "slug": "prosperos-cell",
   "title": "Prospero's Cell",
   "author": "Lawrence Durrell",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1945",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Faber & Faber, London, 1945. Durrell's Corfu travel book (subtitled a guide to the landscape and manners of the island of Corcyra). First printing in cloth with dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/prosperos-cell"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cefal",
   "title": "Cefalû",
   "author": "Lawrence Durrell",
   "publisher": "Editions Poetry London (UK)",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, in original cloth with dust jacket. Issued under the title Cefalu, a title scarce in commerce; the novel was later reissued by Faber and Faber as The Dark Labyrinth. The original title is the collecting point.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cefal"
  },
  {
   "slug": "on-seeming-to-presume",
   "title": "On Seeming to Presume",
   "author": "Lawrence Durrell",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1948",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, in publisher's cloth with dust jacket. Poetry collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/on-seeming-to-presume"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sappho",
   "title": "Sappho",
   "author": "Lawrence Durrell",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, of the verse play, in grey cloth with gilt spine lettering and an unclipped mauve dust jacket. The US Dutton edition followed in 1958.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sappho"
  },
  {
   "slug": "reflections-on-a-marine-venus",
   "title": "Reflections on a Marine Venus",
   "author": "Lawrence Durrell",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, in green cloth with a pictorial dust jacket, with black-and-white photographic plates. Subtitled A Companion to the Landscape of Rhodes; a travel companion to the earlier Prospero's Cell. A US Dutton edition followed later.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/reflections-on-a-marine-venus"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bitter-lemons",
   "title": "Bitter Lemons",
   "author": "Lawrence Durrell",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, of the Cyprus travel memoir, which won the Duff Cooper Prize for 1957. The UK Faber 1957 edition precedes the US Dutton edition of 1958.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bitter-lemons"
  },
  {
   "slug": "justine",
   "title": "Justine",
   "author": "Lawrence Durrell",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, of the opening volume of The Alexandria Quartet, in red cloth with gilt spine lettering and a pictorial dust jacket. The first-issue dust jacket is priced 15s and lacks the printer's hand device on the spine; later jackets are priced 16s. The UK Faber 1957 edition precedes the US Dutton edition of 1957.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/justine"
  },
  {
   "slug": "white-eagles-over-serbia",
   "title": "White Eagles Over Serbia",
   "author": "Lawrence Durrell",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first impression, published by Faber and Faber, London, 1957. An adventure novel pitched at younger readers, featuring the agent Methuen. Reddish-brown cloth with the spine lettered in white; first-issue dust jacket unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/white-eagles-over-serbia"
  },
  {
   "slug": "balthazar",
   "title": "Balthazar",
   "author": "Lawrence Durrell",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first impression, Faber and Faber, London, 1958. Volume two of The Alexandria Quartet. Issued in cloth with a dust jacket priced at fifteen shillings on the unclipped flap. The UK Faber printing precedes the US E. P. Dutton edition of the same year.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/balthazar"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mountolive",
   "title": "Mountolive",
   "author": "Lawrence Durrell",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first impression, Faber and Faber, London, 1958. Volume three of The Alexandria Quartet. Octavo in gilt-lettered cloth uniform with the other volumes, with an unclipped pictorial dust jacket. The UK Faber printing precedes the US E. P. Dutton edition of 1959.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mountolive"
  },
  {
   "slug": "clea",
   "title": "Clea",
   "author": "Lawrence Durrell",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first impression, Faber and Faber, London, 1960. The fourth and final volume of The Alexandria Quartet. Red cloth with a pictorial dust jacket; the unclipped jacket carries the original British price. The UK Faber printing precedes the US E. P. Dutton edition, also dated 1960.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/clea"
  },
  {
   "slug": "esprit-de-corps",
   "title": "Esprit de Corps",
   "author": "Lawrence Durrell",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Faber and Faber, London, 1957. Comic sketches of diplomatic life centered on the character Antrobus, with illustrations by V. H. Drummond in the UK edition. The UK Faber printing precedes the US E. P. Dutton edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/esprit-de-corps"
  },
  {
   "slug": "stiff-upper-lip",
   "title": "Stiff Upper Lip",
   "author": "Lawrence Durrell",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, Faber and Faber, London, 1958. Second collection of Antrobus diplomatic sketches (following Esprit de Corps), with line illustrations and jacket by Nicolas Bentley.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/stiff-upper-lip"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sauve-qui-peut",
   "title": "Sauve Qui Peut",
   "author": "Lawrence Durrell",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, Faber and Faber, London, 1966. Third collection of Antrobus diplomatic stories (after Esprit de Corps and Stiff Upper Lip), with illustrations by Nicolas Bentley; original pink cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sauve-qui-peut"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tunc",
   "title": "Tunc",
   "author": "Lawrence Durrell",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, Faber and Faber, London, 1968. First volume of The Revolt of Aphrodite duology; red cloth with gilt spine titling, dustwrapper sometimes with a Book Society Choice wraparound band.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tunc"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nunquam",
   "title": "Nunquam",
   "author": "Lawrence Durrell",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, Faber and Faber, London, 1970. Second volume of The Revolt of Aphrodite, completing the story begun in Tunc.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nunquam"
  },
  {
   "slug": "monsieur-or-the-prince-of-darkness",
   "title": "Monsieur, or The Prince of Darkness",
   "author": "Lawrence Durrell",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, Faber and Faber, London, 1974. First volume of The Avignon Quintet; original boards, dust-jacket illustration by David Gentleman. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/monsieur-or-the-prince-of-darkness"
  },
  {
   "slug": "livia-or-buried-alive",
   "title": "Livia, or Buried Alive",
   "author": "Lawrence Durrell",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, Faber and Faber, London, 1978. Second volume of The Avignon Quintet; publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt, dust-jacket designed by David Gentleman.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/livia-or-buried-alive"
  },
  {
   "slug": "constance-or-solitary-practices",
   "title": "Constance, or Solitary Practices",
   "author": "Lawrence Durrell",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first impression in publisher's cloth with unclipped dust jacket. Volume 3 (the central volume) of The Avignon Quintet; Booker Prize shortlist 1982.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/constance-or-solitary-practices"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sebastian-or-ruling-passions",
   "title": "Sebastian, or Ruling Passions",
   "author": "Lawrence Durrell",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in publisher's cloth with dust jacket designed by David Gentleman. Volume 4 of The Avignon Quintet. ISBN 0571131115.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sebastian-or-ruling-passions"
  },
  {
   "slug": "quinx-or-the-rippers-tale",
   "title": "Quinx, or The Ripper's Tale",
   "author": "Lawrence Durrell",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first impression in publisher's cloth with unclipped dust jacket (David Gentleman watercolour, Pentagram design). Volume 5, the final volume, of The Avignon Quintet. ISBN 0571134440.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/quinx-or-the-rippers-tale"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-enemy-in-the-blanket",
   "title": "The Enemy in the Blanket",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in publisher's blue boards with silver lettering to the spine, with dust jacket. Volume 2 of The Malayan Trilogy. Scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-enemy-in-the-blanket"
  },
  {
   "slug": "beds-in-the-east",
   "title": "Beds in the East",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing; the third and final volume of the Malayan Trilogy (collectively The Long Day Wanes), following Time for a Tiger (1956) and The Enemy in the Blanket (1958). Octavo, 237 pp, original pictorial dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/beds-in-the-east"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-right-to-an-answer",
   "title": "The Right to an Answer",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing; black cloth, spine lettered in silver, dust jacket illustrated by John Rowland. UK Heinemann 1960 precedes US Norton 1961.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-right-to-an-answer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-worm-and-the-ring",
   "title": "The Worm and the Ring",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, 1961. Withdrawn after a libel action by Gwendoline Bustin (secretary of Banbury Grammar School); Heinemann recalled and pulped the remaining stock, making the original first issue scarce. A bowdlerised/revised text appeared in 1970. No US edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-worm-and-the-ring"
  },
  {
   "slug": "devil-of-a-state",
   "title": "Devil of a State",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing; original Heinemann jacket illustrated by John Rowland. UK Heinemann 1961 precedes US Norton 1962 (US jacket by Larry Lubin).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/devil-of-a-state"
  },
  {
   "slug": "one-hand-clapping",
   "title": "One Hand Clapping",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "Peter Davies (UK)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing published under the pseudonym 'Joseph Kell' (Burgess's first of two Kell novels, the other being Inside Mr Enderby). First-issue point: title page and binding credit Joseph Kell, not Burgess.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/one-hand-clapping"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-wanting-seed",
   "title": "The Wanting Seed",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing; dystopian novel. Green cloth boards, black spine titling, dust jacket by Brian Russell. UK Heinemann 1962 precedes US Norton 1963 (US jacket by Larry Lurin).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-wanting-seed"
  },
  {
   "slug": "honey-for-the-bears",
   "title": "Honey for the Bears",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in orange cloth with gilt spine lettering, London 1963. The UK Heinemann edition precedes the US W. W. Norton edition of 1964.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/honey-for-the-bears"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nothing-like-the-sun",
   "title": "Nothing Like the Sun",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the Shakespeare novel, London 1964. The UK Heinemann edition precedes the US W. W. Norton edition, which appeared later in 1964.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nothing-like-the-sun"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-eve-of-saint-venus",
   "title": "The Eve of Saint Venus",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "Sidgwick & Jackson (UK)",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the illustrated novella, London 1964, in publisher's cloth with gilt spine lettering and a pictorial dust jacket, illustrated by Edward Pagram.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-eve-of-saint-venus"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-vision-of-battlements",
   "title": "A Vision of Battlements",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "Sidgwick & Jackson (UK)",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, London 1965, in yellow cloth with black spine lettering, illustrated by Edward Pagram. Written in 1949, this was Burgess's earliest-composed novel though published later. The UK Sidgwick & Jackson edition precedes the US W. W. Norton edition of 1966.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-vision-of-battlements"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tremor-of-intent",
   "title": "Tremor of Intent",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the spy novel, London 1966. The UK Heinemann edition is the priority issue; the US W. W. Norton edition, also 1966, adds the subtitle 'An Eschatological Spy Novel' on its jacket, which does not appear on the UK first edition's title page or jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tremor-of-intent"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-novel-now",
   "title": "The Novel Now",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing. A guide to contemporary fiction (criticism). The UK Faber and Faber edition, published January 1967, precedes the US W. W. Norton edition of the same year.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-novel-now"
  },
  {
   "slug": "enderby-outside",
   "title": "Enderby Outside",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing. Second of the Enderby novels, bound in brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. The UK Heinemann edition is the true first; there was no separate first US hardcover under this title.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/enderby-outside"
  },
  {
   "slug": "urgent-copy",
   "title": "Urgent Copy",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (UK)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing. A collection of Burgess's literary essays and reviews. The UK Jonathan Cape edition of 1968 precedes the US W. W. Norton edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/urgent-copy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-clockwork-testament-or-enderbys-end",
   "title": "The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "Hart-Davis, MacGibbon (UK)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, the third Enderby novel. The London Hart-Davis MacGibbon edition of 1974 precedes the American Alfred A. Knopf edition of 1975. The UK first runs to 126 pages in blue boards; the later Knopf edition adds illustrations by the Quay brothers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-clockwork-testament-or-enderbys-end"
  },
  {
   "slug": "beards-roman-women",
   "title": "Beard's Roman Women",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "McGraw-Hill (US)",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing. The American McGraw-Hill edition of 1976 precedes the UK Hutchinson edition of 1977. Illustrated with photographs by David Robinson; the McGraw-Hill first runs to roughly 155 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/beards-roman-women"
  },
  {
   "slug": "abba-abba",
   "title": "Abba Abba",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the Keats and Belli novella with the sequence of translated sonnets. The London Faber and Faber edition of 1977, an octavo of about 127 pages in papered boards, is the originating edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/abba-abba"
  },
  {
   "slug": "1985",
   "title": "1985",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "Hutchinson (UK)",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, combining an Orwell critique with a novella. The London Hutchinson edition of 1978, in blue cloth boards stamped in silver, runs to roughly 240 pages and precedes the American Little, Brown edition of 1978.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/1985"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ernest-hemingway-and-his-world",
   "title": "Ernest Hemingway and His World",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "Thames & Hudson (UK)",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the illustrated biography, about 128 pages with roughly 116 illustrations. Issued in 1978 by Thames & Hudson in London and by Scribner in New York; the Scribner issue carries a number line beginning with 1 on the copyright page. As a Thames & Hudson illustrated biography the London issue is generally treated as the originating first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ernest-hemingway-and-his-world"
  },
  {
   "slug": "man-of-nazareth",
   "title": "Man of Nazareth",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "McGraw-Hill (US)",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition, McGraw-Hill hardcover, 1979 (357 pp., ISBN 0-07-008962-0). A novelization developed from Burgess's screenplay for Franco Zeffirelli's television film Jesus of Nazareth. The US McGraw-Hill hardcover is the true first; the UK Magnum issue of 1979 was a paperback.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/man-of-nazareth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-end-of-the-world-news",
   "title": "The End of the World News",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "Hutchinson (UK)",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Hutchinson, London, 1982, in publisher's cloth with dust jacket (subtitle: An Entertainment; ISBN 0-09-150540-2). The UK Hutchinson edition precedes the US McGraw-Hill edition of 1983.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-end-of-the-world-news"
  },
  {
   "slug": "this-man-and-music",
   "title": "This Man and Music",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "Hutchinson (UK)",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Hutchinson, London, 1982, hardcover (192 pp., ISBN 0-09-149610-1). A work of music criticism and autobiography expanding Burgess's 1980 T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures. The UK Hutchinson edition precedes the US McGraw-Hill edition of 1983.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/this-man-and-music"
  },
  {
   "slug": "enderbys-dark-lady-or-no-end-to-enderby",
   "title": "Enderby's Dark Lady, or No End to Enderby",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "Hutchinson (UK)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Hutchinson, London, 1984, hardcover; the fourth and final Enderby novel. The UK Hutchinson edition precedes the US McGraw-Hill edition, also dated 1984. Both editions carry the 1984 date, so distinguish by publisher imprint on the title page and verso.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/enderbys-dark-lady-or-no-end-to-enderby"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-kingdom-of-the-wicked",
   "title": "The Kingdom of the Wicked",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "Hutchinson (UK)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Hutchinson, London, 1985, hardcover. A historical novel of the early Christian church. The UK Hutchinson edition precedes (or is contemporaneous with) the first American edition, Arbor House, New York, 1985 (379 pp., ISBN 0-87795-753-3). A separate Franklin Library signed limited edition also appeared in 1985 but is not the trade first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-kingdom-of-the-wicked"
  },
  {
   "slug": "flame-into-being-the-life-and-work-of-dh-lawrence",
   "title": "Flame Into Being: The Life and Work of D.H. Lawrence",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, William Heinemann, London, 1985, hardcover; a biographical and critical study issued to mark the centenary of D.H. Lawrence's birth. The UK Heinemann edition precedes (or is contemporaneous with) the first American edition, Arbor House, New York, 1985 (276 pp., ISBN 0-87795-766-5).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/flame-into-being-the-life-and-work-of-dh-lawrence"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-pianoplayers",
   "title": "The Pianoplayers",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "Hutchinson (UK)",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing. The UK Hutchinson 1986 edition is the accepted first edition; dealers describe it as first edition, first printing. A US Arbor House edition also appeared in 1986; the exact month-level order of the two 1986 issues is not firmly documented, so the Hutchinson UK printing is treated as the collector's first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-pianoplayers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "any-old-iron",
   "title": "Any Old Iron",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "Hutchinson (UK)",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing; the novel reworking the Excalibur legend through a Welsh-Jewish family. UK Hutchinson 1989 is the accepted first; a US Random House edition also appeared in 1989.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/any-old-iron"
  },
  {
   "slug": "youve-had-your-time",
   "title": "You've Had Your Time",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing; volume two of Burgess's autobiography, 'Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess.' UK William Heinemann 1990 precedes the US Grove Weidenfeld edition of 1991.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/youve-had-your-time"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-dead-man-in-deptford",
   "title": "A Dead Man in Deptford",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "Hutchinson (UK)",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing; Burgess's novel on the life and death of Christopher Marlowe, the last of his novels published in his lifetime. UK Hutchinson 1993 precedes the US Carroll & Graf edition of 1995.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-dead-man-in-deptford"
  },
  {
   "slug": "byrne",
   "title": "Byrne",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "Hutchinson (UK)",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing; a verse novel in the manner of Byron's 'Don Juan,' completed shortly before Burgess's death and published posthumously. UK Hutchinson 1995 is the first edition; a US Carroll & Graf edition followed in 1997.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/byrne"
  },
  {
   "slug": "or-shall-we-die",
   "title": "Or Shall We Die?",
   "author": "Ian McEwan",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Libretto/oratorio text (words by McEwan, music by Michael Berkeley); slim volume of about 32 pages; copyright page reads 'First published 1983'. A separate Oxford University Press musical score followed in 1984.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/or-shall-we-die"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-ploughmans-lunch",
   "title": "The Ploughman's Lunch",
   "author": "Ian McEwan",
   "publisher": "Methuen (London)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Original screenplay issued as a Methuen Paperback original (about 34 pages) with an introduction by McEwan; copyright page reads 'First published 1985'. No hardcover was issued, so the paperback is the true first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-ploughmans-lunch"
  },
  {
   "slug": "soursweet",
   "title": "Soursweet",
   "author": "Ian McEwan",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (London)",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Screenplay adapted from Timothy Mo's novel 'Sour Sweet' (1982); Faber paperback original with a preface by McEwan; copyright page reads 'First published 1988'. No hardcover issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/soursweet"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sweet-tooth",
   "title": "Sweet Tooth",
   "author": "Ian McEwan",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Boards, gilt spine; full number line ending in 1; jacket priced £18.99 net (ISBN 9780224097376).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sweet-tooth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-children-act",
   "title": "The Children Act",
   "author": "Ian McEwan",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2014",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Boards, gilt spine; full number line ending in 1 with 'first published' on copyright page; jacket priced £16.99 net (216 pp, ISBN 9780224101998).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-children-act"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nutshell",
   "title": "Nutshell",
   "author": "Ian McEwan",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2016",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pink cloth boards, black spine titling, red endpapers; full number line ending in 1; typographic jacket priced £16.99 net.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nutshell"
  },
  {
   "slug": "machines-like-me",
   "title": "Machines Like Me",
   "author": "Ian McEwan",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2019",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Boards, gilt spine; full number line ending in 1 (first impression); jacket priced £18.99 net (ISBN 9781787331662).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/machines-like-me"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-moronic-inferno-and-other-visits-to-america",
   "title": "The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America",
   "author": "Martin Amis",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Essay collection in hardcover boards with gilt-lettered spine and dust jacket. First edition states first publication in 1986 with no later-impression statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-moronic-inferno-and-other-visits-to-america"
  },
  {
   "slug": "visiting-mrs-nabokov-and-other-excursions",
   "title": "Visiting Mrs Nabokov and Other Excursions",
   "author": "Martin Amis",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Non-fiction collection in hardcover boards with gilt-lettered spine and dust jacket. First-printing copies carry the full number line; later impressions are stated.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/visiting-mrs-nabokov-and-other-excursions"
  },
  {
   "slug": "night-train",
   "title": "Night Train",
   "author": "Martin Amis",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Short novel in hardcover boards with gilt-lettered spine and dust jacket. First-printing copies carry the full number line ending in 1; later impressions are stated.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/night-train"
  },
  {
   "slug": "heavy-water-and-other-stories",
   "title": "Heavy Water and Other Stories",
   "author": "Martin Amis",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Story collection in hardcover boards with gilt-lettered spine and dust jacket. First-printing copies carry the full number line; later impressions add an impression statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/heavy-water-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "experience",
   "title": "Experience",
   "author": "Martin Amis",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Memoir. Black boards, spine lettered in silver/gilt; full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; dust jacket priced £18.00 net. Won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/experience"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-war-against-clich-essays-and-reviews-1971-2000",
   "title": "The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971–2000",
   "author": "Martin Amis",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Essay collection. Boards with gilt-lettered spine; full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; dust jacket priced £20.00 net. Published 26 April 2001.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-war-against-clich-essays-and-reviews-1971-2000"
  },
  {
   "slug": "koba-the-dread-laughter-and-the-twenty-million",
   "title": "Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million",
   "author": "Martin Amis",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Non-fiction. Black boards, spine lettered in silver with publisher's device in silver, dark-blue endpapers; full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; dust jacket priced £16.99 net.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/koba-the-dread-laughter-and-the-twenty-million"
  },
  {
   "slug": "house-of-meetings",
   "title": "House of Meetings",
   "author": "Martin Amis",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2006",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Novel. Black cloth boards stamped in silver, red endpapers; full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; dust jacket priced £15.99 net. Published September 2006.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/house-of-meetings"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-pregnant-widow",
   "title": "The Pregnant Widow",
   "author": "Martin Amis",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Black boards stamped in gilt on the spine; full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; dust jacket priced 18.99 net.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-pregnant-widow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "inside-story",
   "title": "Inside Story",
   "author": "Martin Amis",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2020",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Autobiographical novel; boards with gilt-lettered spine; full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; dust jacket priced 20.00 net (ISBN 978-1-78733-275-1).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/inside-story"
  },
  {
   "slug": "duffy",
   "title": "Duffy",
   "author": "Dan Kavanagh (Julian Barnes)",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Crime novel issued under the 'Dan Kavanagh' pseudonym; boards with gilt-lettered spine; copyright page states first published 1980 (ISBN 0-224-01822-1); original dust wrapper. First of the Duffy series.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/duffy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "fiddle-city",
   "title": "Fiddle City",
   "author": "Dan Kavanagh (Julian Barnes)",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Second Duffy novel under the Dan Kavanagh pseudonym. Black boards, gilt-lettered spine; title page reads Jonathan Cape, Thirty Bedford Square, London. Copyright page states 'First published 1981' with no later impressions noted.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/fiddle-city"
  },
  {
   "slug": "before-she-met-me",
   "title": "Before She Met Me",
   "author": "Julian Barnes",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Author's second novel under his own name. Black boards with gilt-blocked spine titling; copyright page states 'First published 1982'. Issued in original dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/before-she-met-me"
  },
  {
   "slug": "putting-the-boot-in",
   "title": "Putting the Boot In",
   "author": "Dan Kavanagh (Julian Barnes)",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Third Duffy novel under the Dan Kavanagh pseudonym. Boards with gilt spine; copyright page states 'First published 1985' with no later impressions noted.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/putting-the-boot-in"
  },
  {
   "slug": "staring-at-the-sun",
   "title": "Staring at the Sun",
   "author": "Julian Barnes",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Boards with gilt spine; first printing identified by a complete number line ending in 1. Original dust jacket priced 9.95 net.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/staring-at-the-sun"
  },
  {
   "slug": "going-to-the-dogs",
   "title": "Going to the Dogs",
   "author": "Dan Kavanagh (Julian Barnes)",
   "publisher": "Viking (London)",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Fourth and final Duffy novel under the Dan Kavanagh pseudonym. Boards with gilt spine; copyright page states 'First published 1987'. Octavo, 208 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/going-to-the-dogs"
  },
  {
   "slug": "talking-it-over",
   "title": "Talking It Over",
   "author": "Julian Barnes",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Boards with gilt spine; first printing identified by a complete number line ending in 1. Dust jacket illustrated by Fraser Taylor, priced 13.99 net.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/talking-it-over"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-porcupine",
   "title": "The Porcupine",
   "author": "Julian Barnes",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Short novel issued by Cape in cloth-backed boards with gilt spine lettering, in a dust jacket, with the Cape number line reading 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 on the copyright page and First published 1992. Published in early November 1992.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-porcupine"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cross-channel",
   "title": "Cross Channel",
   "author": "Julian Barnes",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First story collection, issued by Cape in cloth-backed boards with gilt spine lettering and a dust jacket. Copyright page reads First published 1996 with the Cape number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2; jacket priced at 13.99 net.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cross-channel"
  },
  {
   "slug": "england-england",
   "title": "England, England",
   "author": "Julian Barnes",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Novel issued by Cape in cloth-backed boards with gilt spine lettering and a dust jacket; copyright page reads First published 1998 with the Cape number line counting down to 1. The first-issue jacket notes the title was shortlisted for the 1998 Booker Prize. ISBN 0 224 05275 6.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/england-england"
  },
  {
   "slug": "love-etc",
   "title": "Love, etc",
   "author": "Julian Barnes",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Sequel to Talking It Over, issued by Cape in cloth-backed boards with gilt spine lettering and a dust jacket; copyright page reads First published 2000 with the Cape number line counting down to 1; jacket priced at 15.99 net. ISBN 0 224 06109 7.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/love-etc"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lemon-table",
   "title": "The Lemon Table",
   "author": "Julian Barnes",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Collection of eleven stories; cloth boards, gilt spine lettering; full number line descending to 1 with Cape 'First published' statement on the copyright page; dust jacket priced 15.99 net.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lemon-table"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nothing-to-be-frightened-of",
   "title": "Nothing to Be Frightened Of",
   "author": "Julian Barnes",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Memoir/meditation on death; cloth-backed pictorial boards, gilt spine lettering; full number line descending to 1 with Cape 'First published' statement; dust jacket priced 16.99 net.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nothing-to-be-frightened-of"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pulse",
   "title": "Pulse",
   "author": "Julian Barnes",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2011",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Collection of fourteen stories; cloth boards, gilt spine lettering; full number line descending to 1 with Cape 'First published' statement; dust jacket priced 16.99 net.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pulse"
  },
  {
   "slug": "through-the-window",
   "title": "Through the Window",
   "author": "Julian Barnes",
   "publisher": "Vintage (London)",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Seventeen essays on literature and one short story ('Homage to Hemingway'); trade paperback original with full number line. The US Vintage International paperback followed. Minor title.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/through-the-window"
  },
  {
   "slug": "when-we-were-orphans",
   "title": "When We Were Orphans",
   "author": "Kazuo Ishiguro",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (London)",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-backed boards, gilt spine lettering; copyright page carries a full number line ending in 1 with no statement of later impression; dust jacket priced 16.99 net on the front flap. Booker Prize shortlisted.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/when-we-were-orphans"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nocturnes-five-stories-of-music-and-nightfall",
   "title": "Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall",
   "author": "Kazuo Ishiguro",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (London)",
   "year": "2009",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ishiguro's first story collection; boards with gilt spine lettering; copyright page carries a full number line ending in 1 (first impression) with no later-impression statement; dust jacket priced 14.99 net.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nocturnes-five-stories-of-music-and-nightfall"
  },
  {
   "slug": "haroun-and-the-sea-of-stories",
   "title": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories",
   "author": "Salman Rushdie",
   "publisher": "Granta Books in association with Penguin (London)",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Rushdie's first children's book; cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; copyright page carries a full number line ending in 1 (first printing) with no later-printing statement; dust jacket priced accordingly.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/haroun-and-the-sea-of-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "imaginary-homelands-essays-and-criticism-1981-1991",
   "title": "Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981–1991",
   "author": "Salman Rushdie",
   "publisher": "Granta Books in association with Penguin (London)",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Collected essays and criticism; navy cloth-covered boards with silver spine lettering; copyright page carries a full number line ending in 1 (first printing); dust jacket priced 17.99 net.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/imaginary-homelands-essays-and-criticism-1981-1991"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-wizard-of-oz-bfi-film-classics",
   "title": "The Wizard of Oz (BFI Film Classics)",
   "author": "Salman Rushdie",
   "publisher": "British Film Institute (London)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Slim BFI Film Classics monograph of roughly 69 pages, issued only in illustrated wrappers; first printing. Contains Rushdie's essay on the 1939 MGM film plus his short story 'At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers.' ISBN 0851703003.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-wizard-of-oz-bfi-film-classics"
  },
  {
   "slug": "joseph-anton-a-memoir",
   "title": "Joseph Anton: A Memoir",
   "author": "Salman Rushdie",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition in boards with gilt-lettered spine and dust jacket; complete number line descending to 1; dust jacket priced £25.00 net.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/joseph-anton-a-memoir"
  },
  {
   "slug": "languages-of-truth-essays-2003-2020",
   "title": "Languages of Truth: Essays 2003–2020",
   "author": "Salman Rushdie",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2021",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Essay collection in cloth-backed boards with gilt spine lettering; full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; original dust jacket. ISBN 9781787331938. Published May 2021.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/languages-of-truth-essays-2003-2020"
  },
  {
   "slug": "victory-city",
   "title": "Victory City",
   "author": "Salman Rushdie",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2023",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Boards with gilt spine lettering; full number line ending in 1; original dust jacket priced 22.00 net on the front flap. ISBN 9781787333444. Published February 2023.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/victory-city"
  },
  {
   "slug": "knife-meditations-after-an-attempted-murder",
   "title": "Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder",
   "author": "Salman Rushdie",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2024",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Memoir in boards with gilt spine lettering; full number line ending in 1; original dust jacket. ISBN 9781787334793. Published April 2024.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/knife-meditations-after-an-attempted-murder"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sweet-shop-owner",
   "title": "The Sweet Shop Owner",
   "author": "Graham Swift",
   "publisher": "Allen Lane (London)",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Swift's debut novel; brown boards lettered in gilt at the spine, 221 pages; copyright page reads 'First published 1980'; original dust jacket (the spine panel is prone to fading). ISBN 0713912472.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sweet-shop-owner"
  },
  {
   "slug": "shuttlecock",
   "title": "Shuttlecock",
   "author": "Graham Swift",
   "publisher": "Allen Lane (London)",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Boards with gilt spine lettering; copyright page reads 'First published 1981'; original dust jacket. Swift's second novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/shuttlecock"
  },
  {
   "slug": "out-of-this-world",
   "title": "Out of This World",
   "author": "Graham Swift",
   "publisher": "Viking (London)",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth-covered boards with gilt spine lettering; dust jacket with UK price. Later printings break the number line or state a later impression.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/out-of-this-world"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ever-after",
   "title": "Ever After",
   "author": "Graham Swift",
   "publisher": "Picador (London)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardback in black cloth with gilt spine titles, decorated endpapers; full number line down to 1; dust jacket with UK price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ever-after"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tomorrow",
   "title": "Tomorrow",
   "author": "Graham Swift",
   "publisher": "Picador (London)",
   "year": "2007",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardback in boards with gilt spine lettering; full number line down to 1; dust jacket with UK price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tomorrow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "making-an-elephant-writing-from-within",
   "title": "Making an Elephant: Writing from Within",
   "author": "Graham Swift",
   "publisher": "Picador (London)",
   "year": "2009",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Essays/memoir (Swift's first non-fiction). Hardback in boards with gilt spine lettering; full number line; dust jacket with UK price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/making-an-elephant-writing-from-within"
  },
  {
   "slug": "wish-you-were-here",
   "title": "Wish You Were Here",
   "author": "Graham Swift",
   "publisher": "Picador (London)",
   "year": "2011",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardback in cloth-covered boards with gilt spine lettering; full number line down to 1; dust jacket with UK price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/wish-you-were-here"
  },
  {
   "slug": "england-and-other-stories",
   "title": "England and Other Stories",
   "author": "Graham Swift",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster UK (London)",
   "year": "2014",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Story collection (25 stories). Hardback in boards with gilt spine lettering; full number line down to 1; dust jacket with UK price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/england-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mothering-sunday-a-romance",
   "title": "Mothering Sunday: A Romance",
   "author": "Graham Swift",
   "publisher": "Scribner UK (London)",
   "year": "2016",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Novella in hardcover; boards with gilt-lettered spine; full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; price-clipped or priced jacket as issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mothering-sunday-a-romance"
  },
  {
   "slug": "here-we-are",
   "title": "Here We Are",
   "author": "Graham Swift",
   "publisher": "Scribner UK (London)",
   "year": "2020",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover in boards with gilt-lettered spine; full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; jacket priced as issued (ISBN 9781471188930).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/here-we-are"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-great-fire-of-london",
   "title": "The Great Fire of London",
   "author": "Peter Ackroyd",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ackroyd's first novel; hardcover in boards with gilt-lettered spine; copyright page reads 'First published 1982' (ISBN 0241107040); original priced dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-great-fire-of-london"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-last-testament-of-oscar-wilde",
   "title": "The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde",
   "author": "Peter Ackroyd",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover in boards with gilt-lettered spine; copyright page reads 'First published 1983' (ISBN 0241109647); original priced dust jacket. Won the 1984 Somerset Maugham Award.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-last-testament-of-oscar-wilde"
  },
  {
   "slug": "chatterton",
   "title": "Chatterton",
   "author": "Peter Ackroyd",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover in boards with gilt spine lettering, in pictorial dust jacket with the price present on the jacket flap. The Hamish Hamilton first impression carries a full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page. Booker Prize shortlisted.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/chatterton"
  },
  {
   "slug": "first-light",
   "title": "First Light",
   "author": "Peter Ackroyd",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover in publisher's cloth-covered boards with gilt spine, in dust jacket with the price present on the flap. The first impression shows a full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/first-light"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dickens",
   "title": "Dickens",
   "author": "Peter Ackroyd",
   "publisher": "Sinclair-Stevenson (London)",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Large single-volume biography in boards with gilt spine, in dust jacket with the price present on the flap. The first impression carries a full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page. A separate signed limited issue of 150 numbered copies in quarter cloth with marbled boards also exists.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dickens"
  },
  {
   "slug": "english-music",
   "title": "English Music",
   "author": "Peter Ackroyd",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover in boards with gilt spine, in dust jacket with the price present on the flap. First impression shows a full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; published 28 May 1992.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/english-music"
  },
  {
   "slug": "blake",
   "title": "Blake",
   "author": "Peter Ackroyd",
   "publisher": "Sinclair-Stevenson (London)",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Illustrated biography of 399 pages in boards with gilt spine, in dust jacket with the price present on the flap. First impression carries a full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/blake"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dan-leno-and-the-limehouse-golem",
   "title": "Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem",
   "author": "Peter Ackroyd",
   "publisher": "Sinclair-Stevenson (London)",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover in boards with gilt spine lettering, in dust jacket priced accordingly. The UK first uses the title Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem; the US edition was retitled The Trial of Elizabeth Cree.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dan-leno-and-the-limehouse-golem"
  },
  {
   "slug": "milton-in-america",
   "title": "Milton in America",
   "author": "Peter Ackroyd",
   "publisher": "Sinclair-Stevenson (London)",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover in boards with gilt spine lettering, in dust jacket priced accordingly. UK first issued under ISBN 1856196968.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/milton-in-america"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-life-of-thomas-more",
   "title": "The Life of Thomas More",
   "author": "Peter Ackroyd",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (London)",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Biography in hardcover boards with gilt spine lettering, in dust jacket priced accordingly; jacket features a Hans Holbein portrait. UK first issued under ISBN 1856197115.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-life-of-thomas-more"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-plato-papers",
   "title": "The Plato Papers",
   "author": "Peter Ackroyd",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (London)",
   "year": "1999",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover in boards with gilt spine lettering, in dust jacket priced accordingly. UK first issued under ISBN 1856197018.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-plato-papers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "london-the-biography",
   "title": "London: The Biography",
   "author": "Peter Ackroyd",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (London)",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Large non-fiction volume in hardcover boards with gilt spine lettering, in dust jacket priced accordingly; includes plates. UK first issued under ISBN 1856197166.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/london-the-biography"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-clerkenwell-tales",
   "title": "The Clerkenwell Tales",
   "author": "Peter Ackroyd",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (London)",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover in black paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine lettering, in dust jacket priced accordingly. UK first issued under ISBN 1856197069.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-clerkenwell-tales"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lambs-of-london",
   "title": "The Lambs of London",
   "author": "Peter Ackroyd",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (London)",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover in grey faux-cloth boards with gilt spine lettering, in dust jacket; 216 pp. First Chatto & Windus printing, with the publisher's number line ending in 1. ISBN 0701177446.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lambs-of-london"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-fall-of-troy",
   "title": "The Fall of Troy",
   "author": "Peter Ackroyd",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (London)",
   "year": "2006",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover in cloth-effect boards with gilt spine lettering, in dust jacket; first Chatto & Windus printing with the publisher's number line ending in 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-fall-of-troy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-casebook-of-victor-frankenstein",
   "title": "The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein",
   "author": "Peter Ackroyd",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (London)",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover in boards with gilt spine lettering, in dust jacket; first Chatto & Windus printing with the publisher's number line ending in 1. ISBN 9780701182953.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-casebook-of-victor-frankenstein"
  },
  {
   "slug": "three-brothers",
   "title": "Three Brothers",
   "author": "Peter Ackroyd",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (London)",
   "year": "2013",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover in boards with gilt spine lettering, in dust jacket; first Chatto & Windus printing with the publisher's number line ending in 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/three-brothers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cock-and-bull",
   "title": "Cock and Bull",
   "author": "Will Self",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury (London)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Two novellas; first edition hardcover in boards with gilt spine lettering, in dust jacket; 224 pp. First Bloomsbury printing with the price on the jacket. ISBN 0747512744.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cock-and-bull"
  },
  {
   "slug": "my-idea-of-fun",
   "title": "My Idea of Fun",
   "author": "Will Self",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury (London)",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Self's first novel (subtitled A Cautionary Tale). Black boards with gilt titling to the spine; full number line ending in 1; price-clipped or priced dust jacket present. Octavo, 309 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/my-idea-of-fun"
  },
  {
   "slug": "great-apes",
   "title": "Great Apes",
   "author": "Will Self",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury (London)",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Boards with gilt titling to the spine; full number line ending in 1; priced dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/great-apes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tough-tough-toys-for-tough-tough-boys",
   "title": "Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys",
   "author": "Will Self",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury (London)",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Story collection; publisher's black cloth with gilt titling to the spine; full number line ending in 1; dust jacket designed by William Webb, priced accordingly.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tough-tough-toys-for-tough-tough-boys"
  },
  {
   "slug": "how-the-dead-live",
   "title": "How the Dead Live",
   "author": "Will Self",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury (London)",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Black cloth with silver titling to the spine; pictorial/illustrated endpapers; full number line ending in 1; priced dust jacket. 404 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/how-the-dead-live"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dorian-an-imitation",
   "title": "Dorian: An Imitation",
   "author": "Will Self",
   "publisher": "Viking (London)",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover in boards with gilt-lettered spine and pictorial jacket. First printing carries a full descending number line ending in 1; later printings show a higher lowest digit.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dorian-an-imitation"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dr-mukti-and-other-tales-of-woe",
   "title": "Dr. Mukti and Other Tales of Woe",
   "author": "Will Self",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury (London)",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Story collection in hardcover, boards with gilt-lettered spine and pictorial jacket. First printing carries a full descending number line ending in 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dr-mukti-and-other-tales-of-woe"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-book-of-dave",
   "title": "The Book of Dave",
   "author": "Will Self",
   "publisher": "Viking (London)",
   "year": "2006",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover in boards with gilt-lettered spine and pictorial jacket. First printing carries a full descending number line ending in 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-book-of-dave"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-butt-an-exit-strategy",
   "title": "The Butt: An Exit Strategy",
   "author": "Will Self",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury (London)",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover in boards with gilt-lettered spine and pictorial jacket. First printing carries a full descending number line ending in 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-butt-an-exit-strategy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "liver-a-fictional-organ-with-a-surface-anatomy-of-four-lobes",
   "title": "Liver: A Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes",
   "author": "Will Self",
   "publisher": "Viking (London)",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Story collection in hardcover, boards with gilt-lettered spine and pictorial jacket. First printing carries a full descending number line ending in 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/liver-a-fictional-organ-with-a-surface-anatomy-of-four-lobes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "walking-to-hollywood",
   "title": "Walking to Hollywood",
   "author": "Will Self",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury (London)",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover in boards with gilt-lettered spine and pictorial jacket. First printing carries a full descending number line ending in 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/walking-to-hollywood"
  },
  {
   "slug": "umbrella",
   "title": "Umbrella",
   "author": "Will Self",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury (London)",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover in cloth/paper-covered boards with gilt spine lettering; full number line including 1 on the copyright page; price-printed dust jacket not clipped. Booker-shortlisted.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/umbrella"
  },
  {
   "slug": "shark",
   "title": "Shark",
   "author": "Will Self",
   "publisher": "Viking (London)",
   "year": "2014",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover in boards with gilt spine lettering; full number line including 1 on the copyright page; price-printed dust jacket not clipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/shark"
  },
  {
   "slug": "phone",
   "title": "Phone",
   "author": "Will Self",
   "publisher": "Viking (London)",
   "year": "2017",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover in boards with gilt spine lettering; full number line including 1 on the copyright page; price-printed dust jacket not clipped. Concludes the Umbrella/Shark/Phone trilogy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/phone"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ghostwritten-a-novel-in-nine-parts",
   "title": "Ghostwritten: A Novel in Nine Parts",
   "author": "David Mitchell",
   "publisher": "Sceptre (London)",
   "year": "1999",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued in stiff card wraps (a trade paperback original; no UK hardcover was published); full number line including 1 confirms the first printing. Mitchell's debut.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ghostwritten-a-novel-in-nine-parts"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-thousand-autumns-of-jacob-de-zoet",
   "title": "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet",
   "author": "David Mitchell",
   "publisher": "Sceptre (London)",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardback in boards with gilt-titled spine, in dust jacket; first printing identified by a complete number line ending in 1 on the copyright page. Booker-longlisted.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-thousand-autumns-of-jacob-de-zoet"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bone-clocks",
   "title": "The Bone Clocks",
   "author": "David Mitchell",
   "publisher": "Sceptre (London)",
   "year": "2014",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardback in boards with gilt-titled spine, in dust jacket; first printing identified by a complete number line ending in 1. Booker-longlisted.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bone-clocks"
  },
  {
   "slug": "utopia-avenue",
   "title": "Utopia Avenue",
   "author": "David Mitchell",
   "publisher": "Sceptre (London)",
   "year": "2020",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardback in boards with gilt-titled spine, in dust jacket; first printing identified by a complete number line ending in 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/utopia-avenue"
  },
  {
   "slug": "other-stories-and-other-stories",
   "title": "Other Stories and Other Stories",
   "author": "Ali Smith",
   "publisher": "Granta (London)",
   "year": "1999",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Smith's first story collection. UK Granta first edition, 1999, in cloth boards with gilt-stamped spine and a priced dust jacket. Later printings note the impression on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/other-stories-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hotel-world",
   "title": "Hotel World",
   "author": "Ali Smith",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth boards with gilt-stamped spine and a priced dust jacket. Booker-shortlisted and Whitbread-shortlisted.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hotel-world"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-whole-story-and-other-stories",
   "title": "The Whole Story and Other Stories",
   "author": "Ali Smith",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Story collection. Cloth boards with gilt-stamped spine and a priced dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-whole-story-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-accidental",
   "title": "The Accidental",
   "author": "Ali Smith",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Cloth boards with gilt-stamped spine and a priced dust jacket. Won the Whitbread Novel Award; Booker-shortlisted.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-accidental"
  },
  {
   "slug": "girl-meets-boy",
   "title": "Girl Meets Boy",
   "author": "Ali Smith",
   "publisher": "Canongate (Edinburgh)",
   "year": "2007",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Part of the Canongate Myths series. Cloth boards with gilt-stamped spine and a priced dust jacket; first-edition jacket art by Tracey Emin.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/girl-meets-boy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-first-person-and-other-stories",
   "title": "The First Person and Other Stories",
   "author": "Ali Smith",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Story collection. Black cloth boards with silver-stamped spine, burnt-orange endpapers, and a priced dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-first-person-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "there-but-for-the",
   "title": "There but for the",
   "author": "Ali Smith",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "2011",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardback in boards with gilt spine lettering, in dust jacket. First impression carries a complete number line ending in 1. Note the title is intentionally rendered without a final word.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/there-but-for-the"
  },
  {
   "slug": "artful",
   "title": "Artful",
   "author": "Ali Smith",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardback in boards with gilt spine lettering, in dust jacket. A genre-blurring work adapted from four Oxford lectures (On Time, On Form, On Edge, On Offer and On Reflection), framed within a fictional narrative. First impression carries a complete number line ending in 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/artful"
  },
  {
   "slug": "how-to-be-both",
   "title": "How to Be Both",
   "author": "Ali Smith",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "2014",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardback in boards with gilt spine lettering, in dust jacket. First impression carries a complete number line ending in 1. Issued in two variant printings with the book's two halves in reversed order; the two states are distinguished by a small icon on the cover and title page (an eye for the half that opens with the Renaissance painter, a camera for the half that opens with the contemporary teenager). Both variants are legitimate firsts.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/how-to-be-both"
  },
  {
   "slug": "public-library-and-other-stories",
   "title": "Public Library and Other Stories",
   "author": "Ali Smith",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "2015",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Story collection. Hardback in boards with gilt spine lettering, in dust jacket. First impression carries a complete number line ending in 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/public-library-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "autumn",
   "title": "Autumn",
   "author": "Ali Smith",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "2016",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardback in boards with gilt spine lettering, in dust jacket. First impression carries a complete number line ending in 1. First volume of the Seasonal Quartet; published in October 2016.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/autumn"
  },
  {
   "slug": "winter",
   "title": "Winter",
   "author": "Ali Smith",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "2017",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardback in boards with gilt spine lettering, in dust jacket. First impression carries a complete number line ending in 1. Second volume of the Seasonal Quartet.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/winter"
  },
  {
   "slug": "spring",
   "title": "Spring",
   "author": "Ali Smith",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "2019",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Boards with gilt spine lettering; full number line counting down to 1 on the copyright page; dust jacket priced. Third volume of the Seasonal Quartet, published 28 March 2019.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/spring"
  },
  {
   "slug": "summer",
   "title": "Summer",
   "author": "Ali Smith",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "2020",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Boards with gilt spine lettering; full number line counting down to 1; dust jacket priced. Concludes the Seasonal Quartet.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/summer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "companion-piece",
   "title": "Companion Piece",
   "author": "Ali Smith",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "2022",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Boards with gilt spine lettering; full number line counting down to 1; dust jacket priced. Published 7 April 2022.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/companion-piece"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-autograph-man",
   "title": "The Autograph Man",
   "author": "Zadie Smith",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Boards with gilt spine lettering; full number line counting down to 1; dust jacket priced. Published September 2002.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-autograph-man"
  },
  {
   "slug": "swing-time",
   "title": "Swing Time",
   "author": "Zadie Smith",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "2016",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Boards with gilt spine lettering; full number line counting down to 1; dust jacket priced. Booker-longlisted.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/swing-time"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-embassy-of-cambodia",
   "title": "The Embassy of Cambodia",
   "author": "Zadie Smith",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "2013",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Single short story (first published in The New Yorker) issued as a slim standalone hardcover; full number line counting down to 1. Published 7 November 2013.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-embassy-of-cambodia"
  },
  {
   "slug": "grand-union-stories",
   "title": "Grand Union: Stories",
   "author": "Zadie Smith",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "2019",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Zadie Smith's first short-story collection (nineteen stories). UK Hamish Hamilton hardcover with the publisher's full number line counting down to 1 on the copyright page; boards in dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/grand-union-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "intimations-six-essays",
   "title": "Intimations: Six Essays",
   "author": "Zadie Smith",
   "publisher": "Penguin (London)",
   "year": "2020",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Slim collection of six essays written during the early COVID-19 lockdown; issued as a paperback original in wrappers with the full number line counting down to 1 on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/intimations-six-essays"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-stars-like-dust",
   "title": "The Stars, Like Dust",
   "author": "Isaac Asimov",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page. Issued in cloth with a dust jacket carrying a $2.50 price on the front flap (first-issue jacket unclipped).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-stars-like-dust"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-currents-of-space",
   "title": "The Currents of Space",
   "author": "Isaac Asimov",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page. First-issue dust jacket priced $2.75 on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-currents-of-space"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-martian-way-and-other-stories",
   "title": "The Martian Way and Other Stories",
   "author": "Isaac Asimov",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page. First-issue dust jacket priced $2.95 on the front flap. A collection of stories.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-martian-way-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-naked-sun",
   "title": "The Naked Sun",
   "author": "Isaac Asimov",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page. Issued in yellow cloth lettered in red, with a first-issue dust jacket priced $2.95 on the front flap. The second Elijah Baley / R. Daneel Olivaw novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-naked-sun"
  },
  {
   "slug": "earth-is-room-enough",
   "title": "Earth Is Room Enough",
   "author": "Isaac Asimov",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page. Issued with a first-issue dust jacket priced $2.95 on the front flap. A collection of fifteen stories and two poems.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/earth-is-room-enough"
  },
  {
   "slug": "fantastic-voyage",
   "title": "Fantastic Voyage",
   "author": "Isaac Asimov",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has no statement of a later printing on the copyright page; trade dust jacket is priced (3.95) at the top of the front flap. Cover art by Dale Hennesy. A novelization of the 1966 film.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/fantastic-voyage"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-robots-of-dawn",
   "title": "The Robots of Dawn",
   "author": "Isaac Asimov",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states \"First Edition\" with no number line reaching 1 (Doubleday convention of the period). Trade dust jacket is priced on the front flap. Third Lije Baley / R. Daneel Olivaw robot-detective novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-robots-of-dawn"
  },
  {
   "slug": "robots-and-empire",
   "title": "Robots and Empire",
   "author": "Isaac Asimov",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states \"First Edition\" with no number line reaching 1 (Doubleday convention). Trade dust jacket is priced on the front flap. Bridges the Robot and Foundation series.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/robots-and-empire"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rocket-ship-galileo",
   "title": "Rocket Ship Galileo",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries the Scribner's 'A' together with the Scribner seal on the copyright page. Heinlein's first novel and the first of his Scribner juveniles.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/rocket-ship-galileo"
  },
  {
   "slug": "beyond-this-horizon",
   "title": "Beyond This Horizon",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "Fantasy Press",
   "year": "1948",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Fantasy Press first edition (Reading, Pennsylvania). Issued in a trade state and a signed/numbered limited issue of 500 copies with a tipped-in signature leaf, within a total run reported around 3,000 copies.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/beyond-this-horizon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "space-cadet",
   "title": "Space Cadet",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1948",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries the Scribner's 'A' together with the Scribner seal on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/space-cadet"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-man-who-sold-the-moon",
   "title": "The Man Who Sold the Moon",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "Shasta",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Shasta Publishers first edition, stated. Issued in a trade state and a signed limited issue (reported as 500 copies) with a tipped-in signature leaf. Publisher's 'Future History' stickers affixed at the foot of the endpapers as issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-man-who-sold-the-moon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "waldo-and-magic-inc",
   "title": "Waldo and Magic, Inc.",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page. Collects the two novellas 'Waldo' and 'Magic, Inc.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/waldo-and-magic-inc"
  },
  {
   "slug": "farmer-in-the-sky",
   "title": "Farmer in the Sky",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries the Scribner's 'A' together with the Scribner seal on the copyright page. Illustrated by Clifford Geary.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/farmer-in-the-sky"
  },
  {
   "slug": "between-planets",
   "title": "Between Planets",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Scribner's first printing carries the letter 'A' on the copyright page together with the Scribner seal; jacket priced. Absence of the 'A', or added printing designations, indicates a later printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/between-planets"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-puppet-masters",
   "title": "The Puppet Masters",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page; copyright date 1951 with a number line showing 17 to 22. Original dust jacket priced 2.75 on the front flap. Publisher's tan cloth, spine lettered in brown.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-puppet-masters"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-rolling-stones",
   "title": "The Rolling Stones",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Scribner's first printing carries the letter 'A' on the copyright page together with the Scribner seal; jacket priced. Absence of the 'A' indicates a later printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-rolling-stones"
  },
  {
   "slug": "revolt-in-2100",
   "title": "Revolt in 2100",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "Shasta Publishers",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Shasta Publishers first edition, Chicago, 1953, with the trade issue carrying a stated first edition / first printing on the copyright page. Black spine over red cloth boards; jacket by Hubert Rogers priced 3.50. Contains the novel-length 'If This Goes On—' plus 'Coventry' and 'Misfit', with an introduction by Henry Kuttner. A separate subscriber's issue was signed by Heinlein on an inserted leaf. Part of the Future History series.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/revolt-in-2100"
  },
  {
   "slug": "starman-jones",
   "title": "Starman Jones",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Scribner's first printing carries the letter 'A' on the copyright page together with the Scribner seal; jacket priced. Absence of the 'A' indicates a later printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/starman-jones"
  },
  {
   "slug": "assignment-in-eternity",
   "title": "Assignment in Eternity",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "Fantasy Press",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Fantasy Press first; trade issue in cloth with dust jacket priced 3.00 on flap. Collection of four novellas/novelettes. Issued in the usual Fantasy Press dual format: a trade printing and a separate signed, numbered limited issue of 500 copies (signed on the limitation leaf); both are the true first edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/assignment-in-eternity"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-star-beast",
   "title": "The Star Beast",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the letter 'A' on the copyright page together with the Scribner Press seal/medallion; dust jacket priced. The 'A' appears to the right of 'Printed in the United States of America'.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-star-beast"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tunnel-in-the-sky",
   "title": "Tunnel in the Sky",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the letter 'A' on the copyright page together with the Scribner Press seal; dust jacket priced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tunnel-in-the-sky"
  },
  {
   "slug": "time-for-the-stars",
   "title": "Time for the Stars",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the letter 'A' on the copyright page together with the Scribner Press seal; dust jacket priced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/time-for-the-stars"
  },
  {
   "slug": "methuselahs-children",
   "title": "Methuselah's Children",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "Gnome Press",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Gnome Press first; first book form of the Lazarus Long material. First-state dust jacket priced 3.00 on the front flap and lists roughly 35 titles on the rear panel, with the full Gnome Press address. Black boards, spine lettered.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/methuselahs-children"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-unpleasant-profession-of-jonathan-hoag",
   "title": "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "Gnome Press",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the Gnome Press hardcover (Gnome title number 80), with First Edition stated on the copyright page and the price on the unclipped jacket. Tan cloth, jacket by W. I. van der Poel. This story collection was later reissued in paperback under the alternate title 6xH; that is a separate later edition, not a state of the Gnome first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-unpleasant-profession-of-jonathan-hoag"
  },
  {
   "slug": "podkayne-of-mars",
   "title": "Podkayne of Mars",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam first printing has no statement of printing on the copyright page; identification rests on the dust jacket, which carries the first-issue price on the front flap (the jacket art is by Irv Doktor). Bound in charcoal cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/podkayne-of-mars"
  },
  {
   "slug": "farnhams-freehold",
   "title": "Farnham's Freehold",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam first printing has no statement of printing on the copyright page; identification rests on the dust jacket, which carries the first-issue price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/farnhams-freehold"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-past-through-tomorrow",
   "title": "The Past Through Tomorrow",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam first printing has no statement of printing on the copyright page; the first-issue dust jacket carries the price on the front flap. Bound in navy cloth with the top edge stained green; a gutter code on the final text page is associated with the first printing. This is the first collected Future History omnibus, gathering twenty stories plus the novel Methuselah's Children.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-past-through-tomorrow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "i-will-fear-no-evil",
   "title": "I Will Fear No Evil",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam first printing has no statement of printing on the copyright page; identification rests on the dust jacket, which carries the first-issue price on the front flap. Jacket design by Paul Bacon Studio.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/i-will-fear-no-evil"
  },
  {
   "slug": "friday",
   "title": "Friday",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states First Edition and carries a full descending number line ending in 1. First-issue jacket is unclipped with the original printed price. Quarter red cloth over grey paper boards with gilt spine lettering; wraparound jacket illustration by Richard M. Powers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/friday"
  },
  {
   "slug": "job-a-comedy-of-justice",
   "title": "Job: A Comedy of Justice",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "Del Rey / Ballantine",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page reads First Edition: September 1984 with a full descending number line ending in 1. First-issue jacket is unclipped with the original printed price. Quarter cloth over paper boards with spine lettering.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/job-a-comedy-of-justice"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-cat-who-walks-through-walls",
   "title": "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page carries a complete descending number line ending in 1. First-issue jacket is unclipped with the original printed price. The earliest printing is also noted to carry the full text of the third line on page 300, present without an errata slip.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-cat-who-walks-through-walls"
  },
  {
   "slug": "to-sail-beyond-the-sunset",
   "title": "To Sail Beyond the Sunset",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "Ace/Putnam (G.P. Putnam's Sons)",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Title page bears the Ace/Putnam imprint; copyright page carries a full descending number line ending in 1. First-issue jacket is unclipped with the original printed price; jacket art by Boris Vallejo.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/to-sail-beyond-the-sunset"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sands-of-mars",
   "title": "The Sands of Mars",
   "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
   "publisher": "Sidgwick and Jackson",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Sidgwick and Jackson first edition, issued in cloth with a priced dust jacket. Clarke's first published novel in hardcover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sands-of-mars"
  },
  {
   "slug": "against-the-fall-of-night",
   "title": "Against the Fall of Night",
   "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
   "publisher": "Gnome Press",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Gnome Press first edition in cloth with a priced dust jacket. Clarke later expanded and rewrote the work as The City and the Stars (1956).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/against-the-fall-of-night"
  },
  {
   "slug": "expedition-to-earth",
   "title": "Expedition to Earth",
   "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
   "publisher": "Ballantine Books",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Ballantine Books first edition, Clarke's first short-story collection. Ballantine issued it simultaneously in a cloth hardcover and in paperback wrappers, so neither format has clear priority. The collection includes The Sentinel, the story that later seeded 2001: A Space Odyssey.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/expedition-to-earth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "reach-for-tomorrow",
   "title": "Reach for Tomorrow",
   "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
   "publisher": "Ballantine",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ballantine first, 1956, issued simultaneously in hardcover (cloth) and paperback (Ballantine number 135). Clarke's second story collection, twelve tales. Cover art by Richard Powers. Among hardcover copies a cloth-color variant is noted, with yellow cloth scarcer than the more common green.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/reach-for-tomorrow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lion-of-comarre-against-the-fall-of-night",
   "title": "The Lion of Comarre & Against the Fall of Night",
   "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace & World",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Harcourt first edition with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page; first book appearance of 'The Lion of Comarre.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lion-of-comarre-against-the-fall-of-night"
  },
  {
   "slug": "2061-odyssey-three",
   "title": "2061: Odyssey Three",
   "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
   "publisher": "Del Rey",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing has the complete Del Rey number line counting down to 1 on the copyright page, with the price present on the jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/2061-odyssey-three"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-ghost-from-the-grand-banks",
   "title": "The Ghost from the Grand Banks",
   "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz (UK) / Bantam Spectra (US)",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The US Bantam printing carries a full number line on the copyright page; the UK Gollancz printing states First published 1990 with no later-printing markers. Both have the price present on the jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-ghost-from-the-grand-banks"
  },
  {
   "slug": "3001-the-final-odyssey",
   "title": "3001: The Final Odyssey",
   "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
   "publisher": "Del Rey",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing has the full Del Rey number line ending in 1 on the copyright page, with the price present on the jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/3001-the-final-odyssey"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dark-carnival",
   "title": "Dark Carnival",
   "author": "Ray Bradbury",
   "publisher": "Arkham House",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Arkham House first edition; the colophon states an edition of 3,000 though roughly 3,112 copies were actually printed. Black cloth, jacket carries the three-dollar price. This is Bradbury's first book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dark-carnival"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-golden-apples-of-the-sun",
   "title": "The Golden Apples of the Sun",
   "author": "Ray Bradbury",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' is stated on the copyright page; the jacket carries the three-dollar price. A short-story collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-golden-apples-of-the-sun"
  },
  {
   "slug": "r-is-for-rocket",
   "title": "R Is for Rocket",
   "author": "Ray Bradbury",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page. First-state dust jacket carries the original printed price and lacks the later library-recommendation box on the lower front flap. Story collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/r-is-for-rocket"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-vintage-bradbury",
   "title": "The Vintage Bradbury",
   "author": "Ray Bradbury",
   "publisher": "Vintage/Random House",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Vintage paperback original, V-294, September 1965, with an introduction by Gilbert Highet. A scarce simultaneous buckram-bound issue also exists. First thus selection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-vintage-bradbury"
  },
  {
   "slug": "s-is-for-space",
   "title": "S Is for Space",
   "author": "Ray Bradbury",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page. First-issue dust jacket priced, with jacket art by Joe Mugnaini and design by William Wondriska. Bound in blue cloth. Story collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/s-is-for-space"
  },
  {
   "slug": "i-sing-the-body-electric",
   "title": "I Sing the Body Electric!",
   "author": "Ray Bradbury",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with the Borzoi colophon and no later-printing notice; trade dust jacket is priced. Short-story collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/i-sing-the-body-electric"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-halloween-tree",
   "title": "The Halloween Tree",
   "author": "Ray Bradbury",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with the Borzoi colophon; trade dust jacket carries the original printed price. Illustrated by Joseph Mugnaini.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-halloween-tree"
  },
  {
   "slug": "long-after-midnight",
   "title": "Long After Midnight",
   "author": "Ray Bradbury",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with the Borzoi colophon and no later-printing line; trade dust jacket is priced. Short-story collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/long-after-midnight"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-stories-of-ray-bradbury",
   "title": "The Stories of Ray Bradbury",
   "author": "Ray Bradbury",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with the Borzoi colophon; trade dust jacket is priced. Large career-retrospective collection of one hundred stories, with title stamped in yellow-gold on the trade binding.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-stories-of-ray-bradbury"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-graveyard-for-lunatics",
   "title": "A Graveyard for Lunatics",
   "author": "Ray Bradbury",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with the Borzoi colophon and no later-printing notice; the trade dust jacket is priced. Subtitle: Another Tale of Two Cities.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-graveyard-for-lunatics"
  },
  {
   "slug": "green-shadows-white-whale",
   "title": "Green Shadows, White Whale",
   "author": "Ray Bradbury",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with the Borzoi colophon and carries a complete number line ending in 1; dust jacket is priced. By 1992 Knopf first printings show both the 'First Edition' statement and the full number row, so both should be present. Illustrated by Edward Sorel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/green-shadows-white-whale"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-world-jones-made",
   "title": "The World Jones Made",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace Double D-150, a dos-a-dos paperback original bound back-to-back with Margaret St. Clair's 'Agent of the Unknown'; issued March 1956.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-world-jones-made"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-man-who-japed",
   "title": "The Man Who Japed",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace Double D-193, a dos-a-dos paperback original bound back-to-back with E.C. Tubb's 'The Space-Born'; issued late 1956, cover art by Ed Emshwiller.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-man-who-japed"
  },
  {
   "slug": "eye-in-the-sky",
   "title": "Eye in the Sky",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace single full-length paperback original, D-211 (an 'Ace Double-Size Book,' i.e. a single novel rather than a dos-a-dos Double); cover art by Ed Valigursky.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/eye-in-the-sky"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-cosmic-puppets",
   "title": "The Cosmic Puppets",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace Double D-249, a dos-a-dos paperback original bound back-to-back with 'Sargasso of Space' by Andre Norton writing as Andrew North; cover art by Ed Emshwiller.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-cosmic-puppets"
  },
  {
   "slug": "time-out-of-joint",
   "title": "Time Out of Joint",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "J.B. Lippincott",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing per Lippincott convention, with no later-printing statement on the copyright page; dust jacket priced. This was Dick's first US hardcover novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/time-out-of-joint"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dr-futurity",
   "title": "Dr. Futurity",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace Double D-421 paperback original, bound dos-a-dos with John Brunner's Slavers of Space. February 1960, cover price 35 cents.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dr-futurity"
  },
  {
   "slug": "vulcans-hammer",
   "title": "Vulcan's Hammer",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace Double D-457 paperback original, bound dos-a-dos with John Brunner's The Skynappers. 1960, cover price 35 cents.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/vulcans-hammer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-game-players-of-titan",
   "title": "The Game-Players of Titan",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace single-volume paperback original, F-251, cover and title-page art by Jack Gaughan, cover price 40 cents.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-game-players-of-titan"
  },
  {
   "slug": "martian-time-slip",
   "title": "Martian Time-Slip",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Ballantine",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ballantine paperback original, U2191, cover art by Ralph Brillhart. Issued 1964.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/martian-time-slip"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-simulacra",
   "title": "The Simulacra",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace single-volume paperback original, F-301, cover art by Ed Emshwiller (Emsh), cover price 40 cents.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-simulacra"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-penultimate-truth",
   "title": "The Penultimate Truth",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Belmont",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Belmont single-volume paperback original, 92-603, cover price 50 cents. New York: Belmont, 1964.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-penultimate-truth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "clans-of-the-alphane-moon",
   "title": "Clans of the Alphane Moon",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace paperback original, catalog number F-309, with forty-cent cover price; cover art by Ed Valigursky.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/clans-of-the-alphane-moon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dr-bloodmoney-or-how-we-got-along-after-the-bomb",
   "title": "Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace paperback original, catalog number F-337, with forty-cent cover price; cover art by Jack Gaughan.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dr-bloodmoney-or-how-we-got-along-after-the-bomb"
  },
  {
   "slug": "now-wait-for-last-year",
   "title": "Now Wait for Last Year",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page; gutter code (reported as H9) on the final text page; first-issue jacket carries the original Doubleday price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/now-wait-for-last-year"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-unteleported-man",
   "title": "The Unteleported Man",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace Double, catalog number G-602, bound dos-a-dos with 'The Mind Monsters' by Howard L. Cory, with fifty-cent cover price. This is the first book publication of the original (shorter) text. Later revised and expanded, and posthumously published as 'Lies, Inc.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-unteleported-man"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-zap-gun",
   "title": "The Zap Gun",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Pyramid",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pyramid Books paperback original, catalog number R-1569, fifty-cent cover price, cover art by Jack Gaughan. The novel had earlier appeared as the two-part magazine serial 'Project Plowshare' in Worlds of Tomorrow (1965-1966), which precedes any book form.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-zap-gun"
  },
  {
   "slug": "counter-clock-world",
   "title": "Counter-Clock World",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Berkley",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Berkley Medallion paperback original, catalog number X1372, sixty-cent cover price, published February 1967. Expands the earlier short story 'Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday' (Amazing Stories, August 1966).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/counter-clock-world"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-ganymede-takeover",
   "title": "The Ganymede Takeover",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace Books paperback original, catalog number G-637, written with co-author Ray Nelson, cover art by Jack Gaughan. One of only two novels Dick co-authored.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-ganymede-takeover"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-maze-of-death",
   "title": "A Maze of Death",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday first hardcover, published July 1970, royal blue cloth with silver spine lettering, 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page, a date code (L21) at the lower margin of the last text page (page 216), and a priced dust jacket. Most of the print run was reportedly pulped, leaving mainly library and review copies in circulation.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-maze-of-death"
  },
  {
   "slug": "our-friends-from-frolix-8",
   "title": "Our Friends from Frolix 8",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace Books paperback original, catalog number 64400, sixty-cent cover price, cover art by John Schoenherr.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/our-friends-from-frolix-8"
  },
  {
   "slug": "flow-my-tears-the-policeman-said",
   "title": "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page; date code '050' (50th week of 1973) at the lower margin of the final text page; jacket carries the price (not clipped). Bound in rust cloth with silver spine lettering. John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/flow-my-tears-the-policeman-said"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-divine-invasion",
   "title": "The Divine Invasion",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Timescape/Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Timescape (Simon & Schuster) first hardcover; full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; jacket priced (not clipped). Second book of the VALIS trilogy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-divine-invasion"
  },
  {
   "slug": "valis",
   "title": "VALIS",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Bantam",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Bantam paperback original, February 1981; first book of the VALIS trilogy. As a paperback original there is no number line; the first Bantam printing is the issue point.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/valis"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-transmigration-of-timothy-archer",
   "title": "The Transmigration of Timothy Archer",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Timescape/Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Timescape (Simon & Schuster) first hardcover; full number line on the copyright page; jacket priced (not clipped). Bound in quarter black cloth over red boards with gilt spine titling. Dick's final novel, published the year he died.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-transmigration-of-timothy-archer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rocannons-world",
   "title": "Rocannon's World",
   "author": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace Double G-574 paperback original, bound dos-a-dos with 'The Kar-Chee Reign' by Avram Davidson; 50-cent cover price; cover art by Jack Gaughan and Gerald McConnell. Le Guin's first novel, expanded from the story 'Dowry of the Angyar' (Amazing, Sept 1964).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/rocannons-world"
  },
  {
   "slug": "planet-of-exile",
   "title": "Planet of Exile",
   "author": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace Double paperback original, catalog number G-597, bound tete-beche with 'Mankind Under the Leash' by Thomas M. Disch. Cover price 50 cents. This is the only printing pairing the two novels and the true first book publication of each.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/planet-of-exile"
  },
  {
   "slug": "city-of-illusions",
   "title": "City of Illusions",
   "author": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace single-novel paperback original, catalog number G-626, 1967. The first hardcover (Victor Gollancz) did not appear until 1971.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/city-of-illusions"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-word-for-world-is-forest",
   "title": "The Word for World Is Forest",
   "author": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
   "publisher": "Berkley/Putnam",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Berkley/Putnam first separate hardcover edition, 1976, with priced dust jacket. The text first appeared earlier in the anthology 'Again, Dangerous Visions' (1972), which precedes this first stand-alone hardcover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-word-for-world-is-forest"
  },
  {
   "slug": "orsinian-tales",
   "title": "Orsinian Tales",
   "author": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has a complete number line reading 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 (ending in 1) on the copyright page, in a price-clipped-or-not priced dust jacket designed by Muriel Nasser. A collection of linked short stories.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/orsinian-tales"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-eye-of-the-heron",
   "title": "The Eye of the Heron",
   "author": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by a complete number line ending in 1 on the copyright page, in a priced pictorial dust jacket. First appeared in the anthology Millennial Women (1978); the Harper & Row hardcover is the first separate book edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-eye-of-the-heron"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-beginning-place",
   "title": "The Beginning Place",
   "author": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has a complete number line ending in 1 on the copyright page, in a priced dust jacket. Published in the UK as Threshold.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-beginning-place"
  },
  {
   "slug": "always-coming-home",
   "title": "Always Coming Home",
   "author": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade printing has a number line ending in 1 on the copyright page, in a priced dust jacket. A separate boxed/slipcased issue bundling the book with the 'Music and Poetry of the Kesh' audiocassette was also produced and is a distinct collectible state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/always-coming-home"
  },
  {
   "slug": "world-of-ptavvs",
   "title": "World of Ptavvs",
   "author": "Larry Niven",
   "publisher": "Ballantine",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ballantine Science Fiction paperback original, catalogue number U2328, with the original printed cover price. Niven's first novel and first published book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/world-of-ptavvs"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-world-out-of-time",
   "title": "A World Out of Time",
   "author": "Larry Niven",
   "publisher": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with no later printing line; dust jacket priced 7.95 with cover art by Rick Sternbach. Octavo in blue quarter cloth over blue paper boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-world-out-of-time"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lucifers-hammer",
   "title": "Lucifer's Hammer",
   "author": "Larry Niven",
   "publisher": "Playboy Press",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Playboy Press first hardcover, stated first edition; 494 pages; red boards with black cloth backstrip and gilt spine titles; jacket priced. Co-written with Jerry Pournelle.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lucifers-hammer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-smoke-ring",
   "title": "The Smoke Ring",
   "author": "Larry Niven",
   "publisher": "Del Rey (Ballantine)",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First hardcover printing states 'First Edition: May 1987' on the copyright page with the full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 beneath it. Quarter blue cloth over light blue boards, Michael Whelan jacket art, jacket price present on the front flap. Sequel to The Integral Trees.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-smoke-ring"
  },
  {
   "slug": "this-immortal",
   "title": "This Immortal",
   "author": "Roger Zelazny",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace paperback original, F-393, July 1966, Gray Morrow cover. Zelazny's first novel. Expands the abridged magazine serial '...And Call Me Conrad' (F&SF, October and November 1965), restoring most of the cut text. Joint 1966 Hugo winner (with Dune).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/this-immortal"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dream-master",
   "title": "The Dream Master",
   "author": "Roger Zelazny",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace paperback original, F-403, October 1966, Kelly Freas cover. Expanded from the novella 'He Who Shapes' (Amazing Stories, 1965; 1965 Nebula winner).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dream-master"
  },
  {
   "slug": "four-for-tomorrow",
   "title": "Four for Tomorrow",
   "author": "Roger Zelazny",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace paperback original, H-25, 1967. Zelazny's first story collection, with an introduction by Theodore Sturgeon; gathers 'The Furies,' 'The Graveyard Heart,' 'The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth,' and 'A Rose for Ecclesiastes.' UK edition retitled A Rose for Ecclesiastes (1969).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/four-for-tomorrow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "creatures-of-light-and-darkness",
   "title": "Creatures of Light and Darkness",
   "author": "Roger Zelazny",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page; printing code (K30) at the foot of the last text leaf; price present on the dust jacket flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/creatures-of-light-and-darkness"
  },
  {
   "slug": "damnation-alley",
   "title": "Damnation Alley",
   "author": "Roger Zelazny",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition has no later-printing statement on the copyright page; first-issue jacket is priced on the front flap (4.95). Red cloth; jacket art by Jack Gaughan. Expanded from the Galaxy novella. Currey 570.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/damnation-alley"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nine-princes-in-amber",
   "title": "Nine Princes in Amber",
   "author": "Roger Zelazny",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page, with no Doubleday gutter code on the last text page; jacket priced. Blue cloth, spine lettered in silver. First Amber novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nine-princes-in-amber"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-guns-of-avalon",
   "title": "The Guns of Avalon",
   "author": "Roger Zelazny",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page; later printings drop the statement and show a Doubleday gutter code on the last text page. Jacket priced. Second Amber novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-guns-of-avalon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "jack-of-shadows",
   "title": "Jack of Shadows",
   "author": "Roger Zelazny",
   "publisher": "Walker",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Walker & Company first hardcover, 1971; white boards lettered black to spine; first-issue jacket priced (5.95), art by Judith Loeser. Prior F&SF serialization differs slightly in text.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/jack-of-shadows"
  },
  {
   "slug": "to-die-in-italbar",
   "title": "To Die in Italbar",
   "author": "Roger Zelazny",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page, with no Doubleday gutter code on the last text page; jacket priced. Jacket art by Margo Herr.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/to-die-in-italbar"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sign-of-the-unicorn",
   "title": "Sign of the Unicorn",
   "author": "Roger Zelazny",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday hardcover with \"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page and a printing code on the last page of text (the first printing carries the code Q1). The dust jacket is priced. Third Amber novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sign-of-the-unicorn"
  },
  {
   "slug": "doorways-in-the-sand",
   "title": "Doorways in the Sand",
   "author": "Roger Zelazny",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Harper & Row hardcover; first printing identified by the complete number-line/code line ending in 1 on the copyright page. The dust jacket is priced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/doorways-in-the-sand"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bridge-of-ashes",
   "title": "Bridge of Ashes",
   "author": "Roger Zelazny",
   "publisher": "Signet/NAL",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Signet (New American Library) mass-market paperback original; first printing so stated on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bridge-of-ashes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "my-name-is-legion",
   "title": "My Name Is Legion",
   "author": "Roger Zelazny",
   "publisher": "Ballantine/Del Rey",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ballantine mass-market paperback original (April 1976); first printing so stated on the copyright page. Linked story collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/my-name-is-legion"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hand-of-oberon",
   "title": "The Hand of Oberon",
   "author": "Roger Zelazny",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday hardcover with \"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page and a printing code on the last page of text. The dust jacket is priced. Fourth Amber novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hand-of-oberon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-courts-of-chaos",
   "title": "The Courts of Chaos",
   "author": "Roger Zelazny",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday hardcover with \"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page and a printing code on the last page of text. The dust jacket is priced. Fifth Amber novel, completing the first Corwin cycle.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-courts-of-chaos"
  },
  {
   "slug": "roadmarks",
   "title": "Roadmarks",
   "author": "Roger Zelazny",
   "publisher": "Del Rey / Ballantine",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing in hardcover from Del Rey; number line present on the copyright page and dust jacket priced (unclipped). Quarter cloth over paper-covered boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/roadmarks"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-last-defender-of-camelot",
   "title": "The Last Defender of Camelot",
   "author": "Roger Zelazny",
   "publisher": "Pocket Books (Timescape imprint)",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Paperback original; first printing from Pocket Books under its Timescape imprint, cover art by Carl Lundgren. Story collection assembled by Zelazny.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-last-defender-of-camelot"
  },
  {
   "slug": "trumps-of-doom",
   "title": "Trumps of Doom",
   "author": "Roger Zelazny",
   "publisher": "Arbor House; Underwood-Miller (signed limited)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing from Arbor House with a number line on the copyright page and an unclipped, priced dust jacket. First Merlin novel and seventh Amber book. A parallel Underwood-Miller signed/limited edition was also issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/trumps-of-doom"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-deadly-streets",
   "title": "The Deadly Streets",
   "author": "Harlan Ellison",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace paperback original, catalog number D-312, with 35-cent cover price. Collection of Ellison's own juvenile-delinquent and street-crime stories; cover art by Barclay Shaw. The original gathers eleven stories.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-deadly-streets"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-juvies",
   "title": "The Juvies",
   "author": "Harlan Ellison",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace paperback original, catalog number D-513, with 35-cent cover price. Collection of Ellison's own crime and juvenile-delinquent stories; front-cover tagline 'Life and Death of the Gutter Kids.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-juvies"
  },
  {
   "slug": "paingod-and-other-delusions",
   "title": "Paingod and Other Delusions",
   "author": "Harlan Ellison",
   "publisher": "Pyramid",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pyramid Books paperback original, catalog number R-1270, first printing 1965. Science-fiction story collection; cover art by Jack Gaughan.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/paingod-and-other-delusions"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dangerous-visions",
   "title": "Dangerous Visions",
   "author": "Harlan Ellison (editor)",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing states First Edition on the copyright page, with the standard Doubleday letter or numeral code on the final text page, and a priced dust jacket. Landmark original anthology of 33 stories, edited by Ellison, with illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dangerous-visions"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-glass-teat",
   "title": "The Glass Teat",
   "author": "Harlan Ellison",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace paperback original, catalog number 29350, with cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon. Ellison's first collection of television criticism, drawn from his Los Angeles Free Press column.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-glass-teat"
  },
  {
   "slug": "over-the-edge",
   "title": "Over the Edge",
   "author": "Harlan Ellison",
   "publisher": "Belmont",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Belmont paperback original, catalog number B75-1091, with cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon. Collection of twelve stories with a foreword by Norman Spinrad.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/over-the-edge"
  },
  {
   "slug": "partners-in-wonder",
   "title": "Partners in Wonder",
   "author": "Harlan Ellison",
   "publisher": "Walker",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Walker and Company first hardcover, 1971. Red paper-covered boards stamped in black, deckled fore-edge; copyright page reads first published in 1971 by the Walker Publishing Company; dust jacket priced on the front flap. Fourteen collaborative stories with cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/partners-in-wonder"
  },
  {
   "slug": "alone-against-tomorrow",
   "title": "Alone Against Tomorrow",
   "author": "Harlan Ellison",
   "publisher": "Macmillan",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The Macmillan Company first hardcover, 1971 (published March 1971). Cloth, 312 pages; first printing stated on the copyright page; dust jacket priced on the front flap. Collects twenty stories including 'I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream' and '“Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/alone-against-tomorrow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "again-dangerous-visions",
   "title": "Again, Dangerous Visions",
   "author": "Harlan Ellison (editor)",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Doubleday first hardcover, 1972. 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page together with Doubleday's letter-and-number printing code on the last text page; dust jacket priced. Anthology of forty-six original stories edited by Ellison, illustrated by Ed Emshwiller.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/again-dangerous-visions"
  },
  {
   "slug": "approaching-oblivion",
   "title": "Approaching Oblivion",
   "author": "Harlan Ellison",
   "publisher": "Walker",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Walker and Company first hardcover, 1974. Orange paper-covered boards stamped in purple, octavo, 238 pages; dust jacket priced on the front flap. Eleven stories with a foreword by Michael Crichton and Dillon cover art.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/approaching-oblivion"
  },
  {
   "slug": "deathbird-stories",
   "title": "Deathbird Stories",
   "author": "Harlan Ellison",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Harper & Row first hardcover, 1975. True first printing has the printing code ending in '1' at the foot of the last text page (p. 336) and 'E-241' code on the jacket; first-state binding has a purple cloth spine over gray paper-covered boards; dust jacket priced. Collects nineteen stories.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/deathbird-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "no-doors-no-windows",
   "title": "No Doors, No Windows",
   "author": "Harlan Ellison",
   "publisher": "Pyramid",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pyramid Books paperback original, November 1975 (catalog number A3799), first printing stated. Collects sixteen suspense and horror stories including 'The Whimper of Whipped Dogs.' Dillon cover art.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/no-doors-no-windows"
  },
  {
   "slug": "strange-wine",
   "title": "Strange Wine",
   "author": "Harlan Ellison",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Stated First Edition on the copyright page; original dust jacket priced on the front flap. Collection of fifteen stories.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/strange-wine"
  },
  {
   "slug": "shatterday",
   "title": "Shatterday",
   "author": "Harlan Ellison",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Stated First Edition with date on the copyright page per Houghton Mifflin practice; original dust jacket priced. Collection of stories with title novella.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/shatterday"
  },
  {
   "slug": "stalking-the-nightmare",
   "title": "Stalking the Nightmare",
   "author": "Harlan Ellison",
   "publisher": "Phantasia Press",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Phantasia Press first hardcover, issued in a signed/numbered limited binding and an unsigned trade hardcover; foreword by Stephen King. Collection of stories and essays.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/stalking-the-nightmare"
  },
  {
   "slug": "angry-candy",
   "title": "Angry Candy",
   "author": "Harlan Ellison",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Stated First Edition with full number line counting down to 1; original dust jacket priced. Collection of seventeen stories.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/angry-candy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "revolt-on-alpha-c",
   "title": "Revolt on Alpha C",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Thomas Y. Crowell",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Crowell first hardcover; original dust jacket priced. Silverberg's first published book, a juvenile science fiction novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/revolt-on-alpha-c"
  },
  {
   "slug": "master-of-life-and-death",
   "title": "Master of Life and Death",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace Double D-237 paperback original, bound dos-a-dos with The Secret Visitors by James White. First-issue Ace Double wrappers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/master-of-life-and-death"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-13th-immortal",
   "title": "The 13th Immortal",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace Double D-223 paperback original, bound dos-a-dos with This Fortress World by James E. Gunn (the Gunn side abridged from the 1955 Gnome Press text). Cover art by Valigursky and Emshwiller.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-13th-immortal"
  },
  {
   "slug": "invaders-from-earth",
   "title": "Invaders from Earth",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace Double D-286 paperback original, bound dos-a-dos with Across Time by David Grinnell (pseudonym of Donald A. Wollheim). Emsh cover art. Expanded from We, the Marauders (Science Fiction Quarterly, February 1958).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/invaders-from-earth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-masks-of-time",
   "title": "The Masks of Time",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Ballantine",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ballantine Books paperback original, catalog number U6121.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-masks-of-time"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hawksbill-station",
   "title": "Hawksbill Station",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page, with no later printing indicated; jacket priced. Doubleday's first-edition convention for this period also shows a printing code on the last text page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hawksbill-station"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-man-in-the-maze",
   "title": "The Man in the Maze",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Avon",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Avon paperback original, catalog number V2262, with Avon price on cover. No prior book edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-man-in-the-maze"
  },
  {
   "slug": "up-the-line",
   "title": "Up the Line",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Ballantine",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ballantine paperback original, catalog number 01680, Ron Walotsky cover. No prior book edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/up-the-line"
  },
  {
   "slug": "to-live-again",
   "title": "To Live Again",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page with no later printing indicated; a printing code appears on the last text page; jacket priced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/to-live-again"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tower-of-glass",
   "title": "Tower of Glass",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Scribner's seal with the capital 'A' present on the copyright page (Scribner's first-printing convention for this period); priced dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tower-of-glass"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-world-inside",
   "title": "The World Inside",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with no later printing line; gutter code present at the foot of the last page of text; priced dust jacket designed by James Starrett ('Doubleday Science Fiction' at spine tail).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-world-inside"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-second-trip",
   "title": "The Second Trip",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with no later printing line; gutter code 39N at the foot of the last page of text; priced dust jacket with art by Gene Szafran.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-second-trip"
  },
  {
   "slug": "born-with-the-dead",
   "title": "Born with the Dead",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with a complete descending number line (for example 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2) per Random House convention; priced dust jacket. Collects three novellas; the title novella won the Nebula.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/born-with-the-dead"
  },
  {
   "slug": "shadrach-in-the-furnace",
   "title": "Shadrach in the Furnace",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Bobbs-Merrill",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Bobbs-Merrill first hardcover, 1976, in red cloth over yellow papered boards stamped in gold. Dust jacket carries the original printed price, unclipped, on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/shadrach-in-the-furnace"
  },
  {
   "slug": "valentine-pontifex",
   "title": "Valentine Pontifex",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Arbor House",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Arbor House first edition, 1983, with a complete number line ending in 1 on the copyright page and the original printed price on the jacket front flap. Quarter cloth over paper boards. Third Majipoor book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/valentine-pontifex"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gilgamesh-the-king",
   "title": "Gilgamesh the King",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Arbor House",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Arbor House first edition, 1984, with a complete number line ending in 1 on the copyright page and the original printed price on the jacket front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gilgamesh-the-king"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tom-obedlam",
   "title": "Tom O'Bedlam",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Donald I. Fine",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Donald I. Fine first edition, 1985, with a complete number line on the copyright page and the original printed price on the jacket front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tom-obedlam"
  },
  {
   "slug": "star-of-gypsies",
   "title": "Star of Gypsies",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Donald I. Fine",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Donald I. Fine first edition, 1986, with a complete number line on the copyright page and the original printed price on the jacket front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/star-of-gypsies"
  },
  {
   "slug": "burning-chrome",
   "title": "Burning Chrome",
   "author": "William Gibson",
   "publisher": "Arbor House (New York)",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Story collection, Arbor House hardcover. First-printing copies carry a number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; introduction by Bruce Sterling. Later printings remove the low digits from the number line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/burning-chrome"
  },
  {
   "slug": "virtual-light",
   "title": "Virtual Light",
   "author": "William Gibson",
   "publisher": "Bantam Spectra (New York) / Viking (London)",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Bantam Spectra US hardcover with a full number line ending in 1 and the Bantam Spectra colophon. Viking UK hardcover also dated 1993 (different setting, lower page count).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/virtual-light"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pattern-recognition",
   "title": "Pattern Recognition",
   "author": "William Gibson",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons (New York) / Viking (London)",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam US hardcover with a full number line ending in 1; jacket design by Archie Ferguson. Viking UK hardcover also dated 2003.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pattern-recognition"
  },
  {
   "slug": "spook-country",
   "title": "Spook Country",
   "author": "William Gibson",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons (New York) / Viking (London)",
   "year": "2007",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam US hardcover with a full number line ending in 1. Viking UK hardcover also dated 2007, with the number 1 present in the impression line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/spook-country"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-peripheral",
   "title": "The Peripheral",
   "author": "William Gibson",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons (New York) / Viking (London)",
   "year": "2014",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Putnam hardcover identified by a full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page. A Subterranean Press signed limited edition was also issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-peripheral"
  },
  {
   "slug": "agency",
   "title": "Agency",
   "author": "William Gibson",
   "publisher": "Berkley/Penguin (New York) / Viking (London)",
   "year": "2020",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Berkley hardcover identified by a full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page. UK Viking edition also published 2020.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/agency"
  },
  {
   "slug": "archangel",
   "title": "Archangel",
   "author": "William Gibson (with Michael St. John Smith; art Butch Guice)",
   "publisher": "IDW Publishing",
   "year": "2017",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Collected hardcover graphic novel (ISBN 978-1-63140-875-5), published October 3, 2017, gathering the five-issue IDW comic mini-series. First printing identified on the indicia.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/archangel"
  },
  {
   "slug": "involution-ocean",
   "title": "Involution Ocean",
   "author": "Bruce Sterling",
   "publisher": "Jove/HBJ (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) (New York)",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Mass-market paperback original; copyright page reads 'First Jove/HBJ edition published January 1977.' Number 4 in the Harlan Ellison Discovery Series, with an introduction by Harlan Ellison. Sterling's debut novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/involution-ocean"
  },
  {
   "slug": "schismatrix",
   "title": "Schismatrix",
   "author": "Bruce Sterling",
   "publisher": "Arbor House (New York)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Arbor House hardcover with priced dust jacket and a full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; no statement of a later printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/schismatrix"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mirrorshades-the-cyberpunk-anthology",
   "title": "Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology",
   "author": "Bruce Sterling (editor)",
   "publisher": "Arbor House (New York)",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Anthology edited and introduced by Sterling. Arbor House hardcover in gray boards with a priced dust jacket; first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mirrorshades-the-cyberpunk-anthology"
  },
  {
   "slug": "islands-in-the-net",
   "title": "Islands in the Net",
   "author": "Bruce Sterling",
   "publisher": "Arbor House/William Morrow (New York)",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Arbor House/Morrow hardcover with the words First Edition stated on the copyright page together with a full number line ending in 1; priced dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/islands-in-the-net"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hacker-crackdown",
   "title": "The Hacker Crackdown",
   "author": "Bruce Sterling",
   "publisher": "Bantam (New York)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Nonfiction. Bantam hardcover with a number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; orange cloth spine over green boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hacker-crackdown"
  },
  {
   "slug": "holy-fire",
   "title": "Holy Fire",
   "author": "Bruce Sterling",
   "publisher": "Bantam Spectra (New York)",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Bantam Spectra hardcover, number line ending in 1 on the copyright page. ISBN 0-553-09958-2, published October 1996.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/holy-fire"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-good-old-fashioned-future",
   "title": "A Good Old-Fashioned Future",
   "author": "Bruce Sterling",
   "publisher": "Bantam Spectra (New York)",
   "year": "1999",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Story collection. Bantam Spectra paperback original, number line ending in 1 on the copyright page. ISBN 0-553-57642-9, published 1999.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-good-old-fashioned-future"
  },
  {
   "slug": "zeitgeist",
   "title": "Zeitgeist",
   "author": "Bruce Sterling",
   "publisher": "Bantam Spectra (New York)",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Bantam Spectra hardcover, number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; black cloth over blue boards. ISBN 0-553-10493-4.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/zeitgeist"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-zenith-angle",
   "title": "The Zenith Angle",
   "author": "Bruce Sterling",
   "publisher": "Del Rey/Ballantine (New York)",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Del Rey (Ballantine) hardcover with a Del Rey-style 'First Edition' statement and number line ending in 1 on the copyright page. ISBN 0-345-46061-8.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-zenith-angle"
  },
  {
   "slug": "visionary-in-residence",
   "title": "Visionary in Residence",
   "author": "Bruce Sterling",
   "publisher": "Thunder's Mouth Press (New York)",
   "year": "2006",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Story collection, Thunder's Mouth Press trade paperback original, first printing indicated on the copyright page. ISBN 1-56025-841-1, published February 2006.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/visionary-in-residence"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-caryatids",
   "title": "The Caryatids",
   "author": "Bruce Sterling",
   "publisher": "Del Rey / Ballantine (New York)",
   "year": "2009",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Del Rey hardcover stating First Edition on the copyright page with a complete number line ending in 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-caryatids"
  },
  {
   "slug": "zodiac-the-eco-thriller",
   "title": "Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller",
   "author": "Neal Stephenson",
   "publisher": "Atlantic Monthly Press (New York)",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trade paperback original in pictorial wrappers, Atlantic Monthly Press, first printing per the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/zodiac-the-eco-thriller"
  },
  {
   "slug": "quicksilver",
   "title": "Quicksilver",
   "author": "Neal Stephenson",
   "publisher": "William Morrow (New York)",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Morrow hardcover with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page and a full number line descending to 1. Volume one of The Baroque Cycle. First-issue binding is light blue paper boards with a tan cloth spine.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/quicksilver"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-confusion",
   "title": "The Confusion",
   "author": "Neal Stephenson",
   "publisher": "William Morrow (New York)",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Morrow hardcover with 'First Edition' stated and a full number line descending to 1. Volume two of The Baroque Cycle.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-confusion"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-system-of-the-world",
   "title": "The System of the World",
   "author": "Neal Stephenson",
   "publisher": "William Morrow (New York)",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Morrow hardcover with 'First Edition' stated and a full number line descending to 1. Volume three of The Baroque Cycle.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-system-of-the-world"
  },
  {
   "slug": "anathem",
   "title": "Anathem",
   "author": "Neal Stephenson",
   "publisher": "William Morrow (New York)",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Morrow hardcover with 'First Edition' stated and a full number line descending to 1. First-printing copies were issued with a promotional CD and ochre endpapers, though the CD is a feature rather than a state point.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/anathem"
  },
  {
   "slug": "reamde",
   "title": "Reamde",
   "author": "Neal Stephenson",
   "publisher": "William Morrow (New York)",
   "year": "2011",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Morrow hardcover with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page and a full number line descending to 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/reamde"
  },
  {
   "slug": "some-remarks",
   "title": "Some Remarks",
   "author": "Neal Stephenson",
   "publisher": "William Morrow (New York)",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Morrow hardcover with 'First Edition' stated and a full number line descending to 1. Full title is 'Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing'; a collection of essays and short writings. First-issue binding is ivory quarter cloth over red boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/some-remarks"
  },
  {
   "slug": "seventh-son",
   "title": "Seventh Son",
   "author": "Orson Scott Card",
   "publisher": "Tor Books (Tom Doherty Associates), New York",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Tor hardcover in dust jacket; the copyright page states 'First Edition' (Tor's first-printing convention is the stated 'First Edition' with no later-printing number line removing it). Priced jacket. Tales of Alvin Maker, Book I.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/seventh-son"
  },
  {
   "slug": "red-prophet",
   "title": "Red Prophet",
   "author": "Orson Scott Card",
   "publisher": "Tor Books (Tom Doherty Associates), New York",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Tor hardcover in dust jacket; quarter black cloth over grey paper boards, gilt spine lettering, map endpapers. Copyright page states 'First Edition'. Priced jacket. Tales of Alvin Maker, Book II.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/red-prophet"
  },
  {
   "slug": "prentice-alvin",
   "title": "Prentice Alvin",
   "author": "Orson Scott Card",
   "publisher": "Tor Books (Tom Doherty Associates), New York",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Tor hardcover in dust jacket; copyright page states 'First Edition'. Priced jacket. Tales of Alvin Maker, Book III.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/prentice-alvin"
  },
  {
   "slug": "alvin-journeyman",
   "title": "Alvin Journeyman",
   "author": "Orson Scott Card",
   "publisher": "Tor Books (Tom Doherty Associates), New York",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Tor hardcover in dust jacket; copyright page states 'First Edition'. Priced jacket. Tales of Alvin Maker, Book IV. (Won the 1996 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel.)",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/alvin-journeyman"
  },
  {
   "slug": "heartfire",
   "title": "Heartfire",
   "author": "Orson Scott Card",
   "publisher": "Tor Books (Tom Doherty Associates), New York",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Tor hardcover in dust jacket; copyright page states 'First Edition'. Priced jacket. Tales of Alvin Maker, Book V.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/heartfire"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-crystal-city",
   "title": "The Crystal City",
   "author": "Orson Scott Card",
   "publisher": "Tor Books (Tom Doherty Associates), New York",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Tor hardcover in dust jacket; copyright page reads 'First Edition: November 2003'. Priced jacket. Tales of Alvin Maker, Book VI. 384 pp.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-crystal-city"
  },
  {
   "slug": "butterfield-8",
   "title": "Butterfield 8",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page. Black varnished (glazed) cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; 310pp. Dust jacket priced $2.50. Properly styled \"BUtterfield 8\" after the telephone exchange.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/butterfield-8"
  },
  {
   "slug": "files-on-parade",
   "title": "Files on Parade",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page. Original blue cloth; dust jacket priced $2.50. A collection of thirty-five short stories.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/files-on-parade"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pal-joey",
   "title": "Pal Joey",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Duell, Sloan and Pearce",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1940; 195pp. Collects the New Yorker \"Pal Joey\" letters/sketches. First printing carries no statement of a later printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pal-joey"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pipe-night",
   "title": "Pipe Night",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Duell, Sloan and Pearce",
   "year": "1945",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing stated on the copyright page, with no later-printing notice present. Short-story collection with a preface by Wolcott Gibbs. Original cloth in the decorated dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pipe-night"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-rage-to-live",
   "title": "A Rage to Live",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing stated on the copyright page, with no later-printing slug, per the Random House convention of this period. Black cloth with a rural scene blind-stamped on the front board and spine, red topstain, in the original dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-rage-to-live"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ten-north-frederick",
   "title": "Ten North Frederick",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing stated on the copyright page, with no later-printing slug. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, yellow topstain, blue endpapers, title page in orange and black. National Book Award winner. Dust jacket designed by Sam Sugar.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ten-north-frederick"
  },
  {
   "slug": "from-the-terrace",
   "title": "From the Terrace",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Large novel in navy cloth stamped in gilt, with dust jacket. The first printing states 'First Printing' on the copyright page and carries no later-printing slug. Copies signed by O'Hara on the title page exist but are not a separate limited issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/from-the-terrace"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lovey-childs-a-philadelphians-story",
   "title": "Lovey Childs: A Philadelphian's Story",
   "author": "John O'Hara",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trade first issue has First Printing stated on the copyright page with no later-printing indication. Issued in cloth with a first-issue dust jacket bearing the original unclipped price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lovey-childs-a-philadelphians-story"
  },
  {
   "slug": "confusion",
   "title": "Confusion",
   "author": "James Gould Cozzens",
   "publisher": "B. J. Brimmer Company",
   "year": "1924",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, his scarce debut novel, written while a Harvard undergraduate. Issued in publisher's green cloth with the top edge stained red; no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/confusion"
  },
  {
   "slug": "michael-scarlett",
   "title": "Michael Scarlett",
   "author": "James Gould Cozzens",
   "publisher": "Albert & Charles Boni",
   "year": "1925",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, published New York by Albert & Charles Boni in 1925. Full title on the title page is Michael Scarlett: A History. Octavo in black cloth with orange lettering. Cozzens's second novel, an Elizabethan historical novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/michael-scarlett"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-son-of-perdition",
   "title": "The Son of Perdition",
   "author": "James Gould Cozzens",
   "publisher": "William Morrow",
   "year": "1929",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, New York: William Morrow & Company, 1929. Identified by the absence of any later-printing notice on the copyright page. Bright yellow cloth stamped in black, patterned red endpapers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-son-of-perdition"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ss-san-pedro",
   "title": "S.S. San Pedro",
   "author": "James Gould Cozzens",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company",
   "year": "1931",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931. Short novel of about 136 pages. Later printings omit the 'First Edition' statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ss-san-pedro"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-last-adam",
   "title": "The Last Adam",
   "author": "James Gould Cozzens",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company",
   "year": "1933",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933. Pictorial cloth boards, roughly 300 pages. Reprints lack the 'First Edition' statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-last-adam"
  },
  {
   "slug": "castaway",
   "title": "Castaway",
   "author": "James Gould Cozzens",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, New York: Random House, 1934, in small octavo format. Black cloth stamped in silver, dark green top stain, about 181 pages. Bruccoli A9. The dust jacket's rear panel lists books by six Random House authors, as called for.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/castaway"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-just-and-the-unjust",
   "title": "The Just and the Unjust",
   "author": "James Gould Cozzens",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company",
   "year": "1942",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Edition stated on the copyright page. The dust jacket carries the original published retail price on the front flap; an unclipped flap is the desirable state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-just-and-the-unjust"
  },
  {
   "slug": "by-love-possessed",
   "title": "By Love Possessed",
   "author": "James Gould Cozzens",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Edition stated on the copyright page. Published August 26, 1957, in blue cloth with gilt lettering.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/by-love-possessed"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sailor-off-the-bremen-and-other-stories",
   "title": "Sailor Off the Bremen and Other Stories",
   "author": "Irwin Shaw",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the Random House issue. The copyright page of the first printing carries a positive 'First Printing' (Random House) statement; later printings add a printing-history line. This was Shaw's first book of fiction and his first story collection, and it contains 'The Girls in Their Summer Dresses.' Octavo in maroon cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sailor-off-the-bremen-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "welcome-to-the-city-and-other-stories",
   "title": "Welcome to the City and Other Stories",
   "author": "Irwin Shaw",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1942",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House first printing carries a stated 'First Printing'/'First Edition' on the copyright page; later printings add a printing-history line. Shaw's second story collection. Octavo in red cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/welcome-to-the-city-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-young-lions",
   "title": "The Young Lions",
   "author": "Irwin Shaw",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1948",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries a stated 'First Printing' on the copyright page. Octavo, 689 pages, scarlet and black cloth with gilt lettering. The dust jacket bears a Samuel Sugar design and is priced on the front flap; the first-issue jacket price is unclipped. A small Presentation Edition is reported to precede the trade first. His major WWII novel and a key Shaw collectible.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-young-lions"
  },
  {
   "slug": "act-of-faith-and-other-stories",
   "title": "Act of Faith and Other Stories",
   "author": "Irwin Shaw",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House first printing carries a stated 'First Printing'/'First Edition' on the copyright page; later printings add a printing-history line. A collection of WWII-era stories including the title story.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/act-of-faith-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mixed-company-collected-short-stories",
   "title": "Mixed Company: Collected Short Stories",
   "author": "Irwin Shaw",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House first printing carries a stated 'First Printing' on the copyright page; later printings add a printing-history line. An omnibus gathering of Shaw's short fiction, including 'The Girls in Their Summer Dresses' and 'The Eighty-Yard Run.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mixed-company-collected-short-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-troubled-air",
   "title": "The Troubled Air",
   "author": "Irwin Shaw",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries a stated 'First Printing' on the copyright page. Octavo, 418 pages, cloth over boards with top edge stained black and black endpapers. His McCarthy-era novel set in the live-radio industry.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-troubled-air"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nightwork",
   "title": "Nightwork",
   "author": "Irwin Shaw",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing is identified by First printing stated on the copyright page with no later printings listed. Delacorte of this era used a stated First printing line rather than a number row.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nightwork"
  },
  {
   "slug": "beggarman-thief",
   "title": "Beggarman, Thief",
   "author": "Irwin Shaw",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing is identified by First printing stated on the copyright page with no later printings listed. Delacorte of this era used a stated First printing line rather than a number row. Sequel to Rich Man, Poor Man.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/beggarman-thief"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-top-of-the-hill",
   "title": "The Top of the Hill",
   "author": "Irwin Shaw",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing is identified by First printing stated on the copyright page with no later printings listed. Delacorte of this era used a stated First printing line rather than a number row.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-top-of-the-hill"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bread-upon-the-waters",
   "title": "Bread Upon the Waters",
   "author": "Irwin Shaw",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first trade printing is identified by First printing stated on the copyright page with no later printings listed. The specific claim of a number line ending in 1 could not be confirmed and has been removed; verify the stated First printing line on the copyright page instead.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bread-upon-the-waters"
  },
  {
   "slug": "marjorie-morningstar",
   "title": "Marjorie Morningstar",
   "author": "Herman Wouk",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page. Trade first issued in black cloth over blue boards stamped in silver and blue; the dust jacket carries the publisher's printed price on the front flap (photograph by Richard Avedon, jacket design by John Scotford).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/marjorie-morningstar"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-winds-of-war",
   "title": "The Winds of War",
   "author": "Herman Wouk",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page reads \"First Edition\" accompanied by the Little, Brown dating code T11/71 (the T-code indicates November 1971). Bound in red cloth with gilt and black spine lettering.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-winds-of-war"
  },
  {
   "slug": "war-and-remembrance",
   "title": "War and Remembrance",
   "author": "Herman Wouk",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page reads \"First Trade Edition\" with the Little, Brown dating code T10/78 (October 1978); copyright notice reads Copyright 1978 by Herman Wouk. A signed limited edition was also issued and should not be confused with the trade first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/war-and-remembrance"
  },
  {
   "slug": "inside-outside",
   "title": "Inside, Outside",
   "author": "Herman Wouk",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page identifies the first printing by Little, Brown's stated-edition wording and dating code rather than a 1-to-10 number line; published Boston/Toronto, 644 pp. A separate signed limited edition (a special binding of roughly 1,500 copies) was also issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/inside-outside"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-pistol",
   "title": "The Pistol",
   "author": "James Jones",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing shows the Scribner's 'A' with the printing code 'A-10.58[H]' on the copyright page and the publisher's seal. A short novel. First-state dust jacket priced 3.00 on the front flap with an 'A' on the rear flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-pistol"
  },
  {
   "slug": "go-to-the-widow-maker",
   "title": "Go to the Widow-Maker",
   "author": "James Jones",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing is identified by the words 'First printing' stated on the copyright page (Delacorte's convention of the period). 618 pages, black boards with gilt lettering. Jones's first book after leaving Scribner's.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/go-to-the-widow-maker"
  },
  {
   "slug": "wwii",
   "title": "WWII",
   "author": "James Jones",
   "publisher": "Grosset & Dunlap",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the oversized illustrated hardcover (roughly 12 by 9.25 inches), 272 pages, blue cloth, with wartime art by Mauldin, Baker, Brodie and others assembled by Art Weithas. Jones supplied the text.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/wwii"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-man-with-the-golden-arm",
   "title": "The Man with the Golden Arm",
   "author": "Nelson Algren",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Edition stated on the copyright page (Doubleday convention). Title page dated 1949. Beige cloth stamped in green and red, green endpapers, top edge stained green. First-printing text states include 'that that' at page 121 line 31 and 'we' for 'be' at page 180 line 11. Dust jacket priced 3.00 with no mention of the National Book Award.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-man-with-the-golden-arm"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-walk-on-the-wild-side",
   "title": "A Walk on the Wild Side",
   "author": "Nelson Algren",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Cudahy",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing is identified by the words First printing 1956 stated on the copyright page. Aqua/blue-green paper-covered boards quarter-bound in yellow textured paper, lettered in gold and black. Dust jacket priced 4.50 on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-walk-on-the-wild-side"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-devils-stocking",
   "title": "The Devil's Stocking",
   "author": "Nelson Algren",
   "publisher": "Arbor House",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English-language edition. Published by Arbor House, New York, 1983. Posthumous novel based on the life of boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, whose fictional counterpart is named Ruby Calhoun. Confirm the first printing by the copyright-page printing statement, with later printings noted there.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-devils-stocking"
  },
  {
   "slug": "what-makes-sammy-run",
   "title": "What Makes Sammy Run?",
   "author": "Budd Schulberg",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1941",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing. Published by Random House, New York, 1941. The first printing IS stated 'First Printing' on the copyright page (title-page verso) for this title. Octavo in two-tone navy and light-blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine and covers, gray top stain; dust jacket with the publisher's price on the flap. Schulberg's first book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/what-makes-sammy-run"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-face-in-the-crowd-screenplay-book",
   "title": "A Face in the Crowd (screenplay/book)",
   "author": "Budd Schulberg",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Stated First Printing on the copyright page; the published screenplay subtitled A Play for the Screen, with an introduction by director Elia Kazan, 172 pages, dust jacket illustrated by Bill Hofmann. Based on Schulberg's story 'Your Arkansas Traveler.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-face-in-the-crowd-screenplay-book"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sanctuary-v",
   "title": "Sanctuary V",
   "author": "Budd Schulberg",
   "publisher": "World Publishing",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "World Publishing (Cleveland/New York) 1969, stated first printing; black cloth with silver spine lettering, 415 pages. Novel of Latin American revolution and political intrigue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sanctuary-v"
  },
  {
   "slug": "american-earth",
   "title": "American Earth",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1931",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1931, carrying the Scribner's 'A' with the publisher's seal on the copyright page that denotes a first printing in this era. Tan cloth lettered and decorated in green; illustrated dust jacket. Caldwell's first commercially published book and first major story collection (twenty-four stories), edited at Scribner's under Maxwell Perkins.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/american-earth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mamas-little-girl",
   "title": "Mama's Little Girl",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "The Bradford Press",
   "year": "1932",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Slim pamphlet in wrappers; a brief story issued in a tiny limited printing (roughly 75 copies), illustrated by Alfred Morang. Identified by the Bradford Press imprint and the printed wrappers. A scarce ephemeral first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mamas-little-girl"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tobacco-road",
   "title": "Tobacco Road",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1932",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Scribner 'A' with the publisher's seal on the copyright page; terra cotta cloth stamped in blind and gilt with turquoise endpapers; 241 pages. Dust jacket priced at two-fifty.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tobacco-road"
  },
  {
   "slug": "we-are-the-living",
   "title": "We Are the Living",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1933",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "A signed limited edition of 250 copies precedes the first trade printing and is the true first; it is slipcased. The trade first printing carries no statement of later printing on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/we-are-the-living"
  },
  {
   "slug": "journeyman",
   "title": "Journeyman",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the 1935 Viking signed limited edition of 1,475 copies, numbered and issued in a slipcase. There was no contemporaneous 1935 trade printing; Viking issued a revised and expanded edition in 1938, which is a later, textually different edition rather than a first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/journeyman"
  },
  {
   "slug": "kneel-to-the-rising-sun-and-other-stories",
   "title": "Kneel to the Rising Sun and Other Stories",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "A signed limited edition of 300 copies (285 numbered for sale, 15 reserved) precedes the trade and is the true first; issued in a tan paper-covered slipcase with top edge gilt and a yellow silk ribbon marker, signed on the limitation page. The trade first printing carries no statement of later printing on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/kneel-to-the-rising-sun-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sacrilege-of-alan-kent",
   "title": "The Sacrilege of Alan Kent",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Falmouth Book House",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First separate edition, 1936, Falmouth Book House, Portland, Maine. A limited issue of about 300 numbered copies signed by Caldwell, illustrated with wood engravings by Ralph Frizzell. Prose poem of roughly 57 pages in pale green boards with a printed dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sacrilege-of-alan-kent"
  },
  {
   "slug": "say-is-this-the-usa",
   "title": "Say! Is This the U.S.A.?",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Duell, Sloan and Pearce",
   "year": "1941",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White photo-text collaboration; folio format with full-page black-and-white Bourke-White photographs, pictorial cloth boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/say-is-this-the-usa"
  },
  {
   "slug": "all-night-long",
   "title": "All Night Long",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Duell, Sloan and Pearce",
   "year": "1942",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the WWII Russia-front guerrilla-warfare novel, subtitled 'A Novel of Guerrilla Warfare in Russia'; octavo, blue cloth spine with black lettering.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/all-night-long"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gretta",
   "title": "Gretta",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition stated. Little, Brown first printings of this era carry 'First Edition' or 'First Printing' on the copyright page; dealer copies of the true first are described as 'first edition so stated.' Blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, with a dust jacket designed by Edward Karr; 242 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gretta"
  },
  {
   "slug": "certain-women",
   "title": "Certain Women",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition stated; Little, Brown first printings of this period carry 'First Edition' or 'First Printing' on the copyright page. Short story collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/certain-women"
  },
  {
   "slug": "jenny-by-nature",
   "title": "Jenny by Nature",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Cudahy",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, with no statement of later printing on the copyright page. Issued in green boards with silver spine lettering; dust jacket designed by Ben Feder.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/jenny-by-nature"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-last-night-of-summer",
   "title": "The Last Night of Summer",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Company",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, with no statement of later printing on the copyright page. Blue cloth spine with green and white lettering; pictorial dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-last-night-of-summer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-weather-shelter",
   "title": "The Weather Shelter",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "World Publishing",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by The World Publishing Company, New York and Cleveland, 1969. World firsts are identified by a stated First Edition or First Printing line on the copyright page, not by the absence of a number line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-weather-shelter"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-earnshaw-neighborhood",
   "title": "The Earnshaw Neighborhood",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "World Publishing",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, The World Publishing Company, 1971. Identified by the stated First Edition or First Printing line on the copyright page per World convention.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-earnshaw-neighborhood"
  },
  {
   "slug": "with-all-my-might",
   "title": "With All My Might",
   "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
   "publisher": "Peachtree Publishers",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, issued by Peachtree Publishers, Atlanta, 1987. Caldwell's final book, a definitive autobiography expanding on the earlier Call It Experience; illustrated with black-and-white photographs.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/with-all-my-might"
  },
  {
   "slug": "calico-shoes-and-other-stories",
   "title": "Calico Shoes and Other Stories",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "The Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, The Vanguard Press, New York, 1934, 303 pages. Farrell's first story collection, with sixteen stories set on the South Side of Chicago. The dust jacket front flap carries a note cautioning collectors not to overlook the title.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/calico-shoes-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "judgment-day",
   "title": "Judgment Day",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "The Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, published by The Vanguard Press, New York, 1935; the concluding volume of the Studs Lonigan trilogy. The first state is identifiable by the misprint 'thay' for 'they' on page 218.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/judgment-day"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bernard-clare",
   "title": "Bernard Clare",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "The Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, in pictorial dust jacket. First issue lacks the tipped-in disclaimer slip later inserted at the dedication leaf; copies with that slip tipped in represent a later state. First book of the Bernard Carr trilogy; because a living person named Bernard Clare objected to the name, the protagonist and series were subsequently renamed Bernard Carr in later printings and the two sequels.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bernard-clare"
  },
  {
   "slug": "an-american-dream-girl",
   "title": "An American Dream Girl",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "The Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing; short-story collection. Title page reads An American Dream Girl and Other Stories.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/an-american-dream-girl"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-girls-at-the-sphinx",
   "title": "The Girls at the Sphinx",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "Vanguard Press",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of this story collection by Vanguard Press. Vanguard first editions carry no number line; the true first lacks any later-printing notation on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-girls-at-the-sphinx"
  },
  {
   "slug": "boarding-house-blues",
   "title": "Boarding House Blues",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "Paperback Library",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Paperback original. First printing is the Paperback Library wraps edition, catalog number S103, with no hardcover predecessor.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/boarding-house-blues"
  },
  {
   "slug": "when-time-was-born",
   "title": "When Time Was Born",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "The Smith / Horizon Press",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, a prose-poem rendering of the opening chapters of Genesis, illustrated by Stephen Dwoskin. Issued by The Smith in arrangement with Horizon Press as a limited edition of 500 copies (plus a trade issue).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/when-time-was-born"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sam-holman",
   "title": "Sam Holman",
   "author": "James T. Farrell",
   "publisher": "Prometheus Books",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries the 1983 Prometheus Books copyright with no statement of a later printing; posthumous novel (ISBN 0-87975-202-5). No distinctive published point of issue is documented in reliable sources.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sam-holman"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-unspeakable-gentleman",
   "title": "The Unspeakable Gentleman",
   "author": "John P. Marquand",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1922",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Scribner's seal on the copyright page with \"1922\" on the title page identifies the first edition; Marquand's debut novel. Do not look for an \"A\": the Scribner capital-A first-edition code was not used until 1930.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-unspeakable-gentleman"
  },
  {
   "slug": "four-of-a-kind",
   "title": "Four of a Kind",
   "author": "John P. Marquand",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1923",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by the date on the title page matching the copyright page with no statement of a later printing. The Scribner seal alone is not a reliable indicator: it appears on printings other than the first and was not used consistently to mark first editions, so do not rely on it.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/four-of-a-kind"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-black-cargo",
   "title": "The Black Cargo",
   "author": "John P. Marquand",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons",
   "year": "1925",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by the date on the title page matching the copyright page with no statement of a later printing. The Scribner seal is not a dependable first-edition point for this period and should not be relied upon.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-black-cargo"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lord-timothy-dexter-of-newburyport-mass",
   "title": "Lord Timothy Dexter of Newburyport, Mass.",
   "author": "John P. Marquand",
   "publisher": "Minton, Balch & Company",
   "year": "1925",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing carries no printing designation on the verso of the title page. Biography of the eccentric Newburyport merchant, illustrated by Philip Kappel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lord-timothy-dexter-of-newburyport-mass"
  },
  {
   "slug": "warning-hill",
   "title": "Warning Hill",
   "author": "John P. Marquand",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1930",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by 'Published [Month] 1930' stated on the copyright page with no later-printing notice. Marquand's first novel issued under the Little, Brown imprint.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/warning-hill"
  },
  {
   "slug": "havens-end",
   "title": "Haven's End",
   "author": "John P. Marquand",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1933",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by 'Published [Month] 1933' stated on the copyright page with no later-printing notice. Linked stories of a fictional Massachusetts coastal town.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/havens-end"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ming-yellow",
   "title": "Ming Yellow",
   "author": "John P. Marquand",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by 'Published March 1935' stated on the copyright page with no later-printing notice. Adventure novel of a porcelain collector and a Chinese warlord.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ming-yellow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "no-hero",
   "title": "No Hero",
   "author": "John P. Marquand",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the US Little, Brown printing, with the publisher's dated publication statement on the copyright page and no later-printing notice. This is the first Mr. Moto novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/no-hero"
  },
  {
   "slug": "thank-you-mr-moto",
   "title": "Thank You, Mr. Moto",
   "author": "John P. Marquand",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the US Little, Brown printing, with the copyright-page statement Published May, 1936 and no later-printing notice. This is the second Mr. Moto novel. The first printing is genuinely scarce in a jacket because the trade printing was small.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/thank-you-mr-moto"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hm-pulham-esquire",
   "title": "H.M. Pulham, Esquire",
   "author": "John P. Marquand",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1941",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Two early states exist: a presentation issue of about 950 copies preceding general sale, and the trade first printing with the copyright-page statement Published February, 1941 and no later-printing notice. The trade first is the one most collectors record as the first edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hm-pulham-esquire"
  },
  {
   "slug": "last-laugh-mr-moto",
   "title": "Last Laugh, Mr. Moto",
   "author": "John P. Marquand",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1942",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by the Little, Brown first-edition statement on the copyright page, with no later-printing notice present. The fifth and final 1930s-40s Mr. Moto novel, published January 1942.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/last-laugh-mr-moto"
  },
  {
   "slug": "point-of-no-return",
   "title": "Point of No Return",
   "author": "John P. Marquand",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Two first-issue states exist. A signed limited edition of 600 copies, signed on the limitation page, precedes the trade printing. The trade first printing carries the Little, Brown first-edition statement on the copyright page with no later-printing notice.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/point-of-no-return"
  },
  {
   "slug": "long-remember",
   "title": "Long Remember",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Coward-McCann",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition issued by Coward-McCann, New York, in 1934; Kantor's first Civil War novel, set at Gettysburg, 411 pages, dust jacket art by Will Crawford. A first is identified by the 1934 imprint with no later-printing notice on the copyright page. Note that the title was a Literary Guild selection, so a separate book-club issue exists that should not be mistaken for the trade first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/long-remember"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-voice-of-bugle-ann",
   "title": "The Voice of Bugle Ann",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Coward-McCann",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition issued by Coward-McCann, New York, in 1935; short novel (a Missouri foxhound story), tan cloth, 128 pages. A first is identified by the 1935 imprint with no later-printing notice on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-voice-of-bugle-ann"
  },
  {
   "slug": "arouse-and-beware",
   "title": "Arouse and Beware",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Coward-McCann",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition issued by Coward-McCann, New York, in 1936; Civil War escape novel, 332 pages. A first is identified by the 1936 imprint with no later-printing notice on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/arouse-and-beware"
  },
  {
   "slug": "here-lies-holly-springs",
   "title": "Here Lies Holly Springs",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Pynson Printers",
   "year": "1938",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the Pynson Printers signed limited edition: a small quarto designed by Elmer Adler, printed on Italian handmade paper, with a title-page drawing and several text illustrations by Donald McKay. Issued in a small printing (roughly 300 copies) as a Christmas keepsake, typically signed by the author.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/here-lies-holly-springs"
  },
  {
   "slug": "wicked-water",
   "title": "Wicked Water",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House first edition, identified by 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page; this notation is removed on later printings. Subtitle 'An American Primitive.' Copyright 1948, first released in the United States January 1949.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/wicked-water"
  },
  {
   "slug": "signal-thirty-two",
   "title": "Signal Thirty-Two",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Random House first edition of this NYPD novel, identified by 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page; the notation is removed on later printings.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/signal-thirty-two"
  },
  {
   "slug": "valley-forge",
   "title": "Valley Forge",
   "author": "MacKinlay Kantor",
   "publisher": "M. Evans and Company",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "amer-novelists-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Title-page reads Valley Forge: A Novel. First edition, M. Evans and Company, 1975, about 339 pages. M. Evans first editions are identified by 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page together with a '1' present in the number line; no later-printing notice. A novel of the 1777-1778 Continental Army winter encampment, Kantor's last book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/valley-forge"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-floating-opera",
   "title": "The Floating Opera",
   "author": "John Barth",
   "publisher": "Appleton-Century-Crofts",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in publisher's cloth with dust jacket; the printed jacket price on the first issue is 3.95 (the record's 3.75 was incorrect). This 1956 text is the altered version Barth made at the publisher's request, with the ending changed to a less nihilistic close; Barth's preferred text was restored only in the 1967 Doubleday revised edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-floating-opera"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-end-of-the-road",
   "title": "The End of the Road",
   "author": "John Barth",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page; publisher's cloth; the printed jacket price is 3.95 (the record's 3.50 was incorrect). Original unrevised text; jacket designed by Robert Watson.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-end-of-the-road"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sot-weed-factor",
   "title": "The Sot-Weed Factor",
   "author": "John Barth",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page; thick octavo quarter-bound in yellow cloth over blue boards; first-state dust jacket designed by Edward Gorey with the printed price 7.50 (the record's 6.95 was incorrect). Original longer text, later revised and abridged for the 1967 edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sot-weed-factor"
  },
  {
   "slug": "giles-goat-boy",
   "title": "Giles Goat-Boy",
   "author": "John Barth",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Full title 'Giles Goat-Boy: Or, The Revised New Syllabus.' The first trade printing does NOT carry a 'First Edition' statement (the record's claim that it is stated is incorrect); Doubleday departed from its usual convention, and the first printing is identified by the gutter code (reported as H18 or H32) on the final text page. Publisher's cloth; first-issue jacket carries the printed price 6.95 at the top of the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/giles-goat-boy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "letters",
   "title": "LETTERS",
   "author": "John Barth",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the Putnam first-edition statement on the copyright page. The unclipped trade-edition dust jacket flap carries the original published price (verified copies show the original figure intact); priced jackets distinguish the trade first from club issues.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/letters"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-tidewater-tales-a-novel",
   "title": "The Tidewater Tales: A Novel",
   "author": "John Barth",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the Putnam first-edition statement on the copyright page with the full number line, and a priced, unclipped dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-tidewater-tales-a-novel"
  },
  {
   "slug": "come-back-dr-caligari",
   "title": "Come Back, Dr. Caligari",
   "author": "Donald Barthelme",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by the letter 'A' on the copyright page, the Little, Brown / Atlantic Monthly Press convention of the period; dust jacket designed by Milton Glaser and priced 4.95. Barthelme's first book, a collection of short stories.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/come-back-dr-caligari"
  },
  {
   "slug": "snow-white",
   "title": "Snow White",
   "author": "Donald Barthelme",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page; speckled white cloth, jacket designed by Lawrence Ratzkin and priced 4.50 on the front flap. Barthelme's first novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/snow-white"
  },
  {
   "slug": "unspeakable-practices-unnatural-acts",
   "title": "Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts",
   "author": "Donald Barthelme",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by a 'First printing, 1968' statement on the copyright page with no later-printing indicia; note that FSG at this date used no number line. Dust jacket priced 4.95. Barthelme's third book, a story collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/unspeakable-practices-unnatural-acts"
  },
  {
   "slug": "city-life",
   "title": "City Life",
   "author": "Donald Barthelme",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Giroux",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by a 'First printing, 1970' statement on the copyright page with no later-printing indicia; FSG at this date used no number line. Dust jacket priced 5.95. Barthelme's fourth book, a story collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/city-life"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sixty-stories",
   "title": "Sixty Stories",
   "author": "Donald Barthelme",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First printing.' No number line on this title — the original record's reference to a number line was inaccurate and has been removed. Price-intact dust jacket on the true first trade issue. Career-spanning selection of stories.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sixty-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "canary-in-a-cat-house",
   "title": "Canary in a Cat House",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "Fawcett Gold Medal",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Gold Medal paperback original (wraps), catalogue number s1153, priced 35 cents on the cover; no later-printing statement present. Cover art and illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. First story collection, twelve stories.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/canary-in-a-cat-house"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sun-moon-star",
   "title": "Sun Moon Star",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states First Edition (Harper & Row used a stated-edition line for this title, not a number line). Illustrated children's/holiday book with Ivan Chermayeff, who created the abstract images first; Vonnegut then wrote text to fit them. Black cloth boards with sun, star, and moon devices to the front; priced dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sun-moon-star"
  },
  {
   "slug": "deadeye-dick",
   "title": "Deadeye Dick",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing stated on the copyright page; priced trade dust jacket. Blue cloth with a facsimile author signature in gilt on the front board. A separate signed/numbered limited edition of 350 copies in a matching slipcase was issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/deadeye-dick"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bluebeard",
   "title": "Bluebeard",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states First trade edition / first printing (not a number line). Priced trade dust jacket. Quarter black cloth over blue boards with a facsimile author signature in gilt on the front board; red endpapers. A separate signed/numbered limited edition in a slipcase was issued, and the Franklin Library produced a signed leather edition for its Signed First Edition Society with a Special Message by Vonnegut.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bluebeard"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-pill-versus-the-springhill-mine-disaster",
   "title": "The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster",
   "author": "Richard Brautigan",
   "publisher": "Four Seasons Foundation",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by Four Seasons Foundation, San Francisco, 1968, as 'Writing 20' in their Writing series. Trade issue in pictorial wraps; a simultaneous signed limited edition of 50 copies was issued in hardcover. Poetry collection of ninety-eight poems.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-pill-versus-the-springhill-mine-disaster"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rommel-drives-on-deep-into-egypt",
   "title": "Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt",
   "author": "Richard Brautigan",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, New York, first printing dated 1 April 1970, 85 pages, designed by Andrew Hoyem (Grabhorn-Hoyem) and printed in San Francisco. Issued in pictorial paper-covered boards with matching dust jacket (cover photograph of Beverly Allen by Edmund Shea); a Delta trade paperback in illustrated wrappers was published simultaneously, also dated 1 April 1970.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/rommel-drives-on-deep-into-egypt"
  },
  {
   "slug": "revenge-of-the-lawn-stories-1962-1970",
   "title": "Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970",
   "author": "Richard Brautigan",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by Simon & Schuster, New York, October 1971, with 'First printing' stated on the copyright page, green cloth boards with gilt lettering. The first issue has a green top-edge stain; a later state lacks the green topstain. The first-issue jacket carries the printed price on the front flap. Sixty-two stories; the only story collection published in Brautigan's lifetime.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/revenge-of-the-lawn-stories-1962-1970"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hawkline-monster-a-gothic-western",
   "title": "The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western",
   "author": "Richard Brautigan",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by the number line on the copyright page; pictorial dust jacket with color front illustration by Wendell Minor and a rear-panel author photograph by John Fryer. The original jacket carries a printed price on the front flap (do not rely on a specific figure to identify the first; an unclipped, period-appropriate price is the point).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hawkline-monster-a-gothic-western"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-tokyo-montana-express",
   "title": "The Tokyo-Montana Express",
   "author": "Richard Brautigan",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by the number line on the copyright page; original unclipped dust jacket; title stamped in gold on spine and front board.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-tokyo-montana-express"
  },
  {
   "slug": "an-unfortunate-woman-a-journey",
   "title": "An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey",
   "author": "Richard Brautigan",
   "publisher": "St. Martin's Press",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English-language edition: number line ending in 1 on the copyright page, in the priced dust jacket. The text was written in 1982 and published posthumously.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/an-unfortunate-woman-a-journey"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-painted-bird",
   "title": "The Painted Bird",
   "author": "Jerzy Kosinski",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition so stated, first state with the textual point: the final line of type at the foot of page 270 is duplicated at the head of page 271. Issued in brown cloth, front cover blind-stamped, with the first-issue priced pictorial dust jacket. Original 1965 text, later revised with a new Afterword in 1976.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-painted-bird"
  },
  {
   "slug": "being-there",
   "title": "Being There",
   "author": "Jerzy Kosinski",
   "publisher": "Harcourt Brace Jovanovich",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition so stated on the copyright page with the full number line, in the priced dust jacket. Bound in quarter cloth over paper-covered boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/being-there"
  },
  {
   "slug": "splendide-h-tel",
   "title": "Splendide-Hôtel",
   "author": "Gilbert Sorrentino",
   "publisher": "New Directions",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued simultaneously in two states by New Directions in 1973: a clothbound issue that is a signed, numbered limited edition of 350 copies (signed by Sorrentino at the colophon, cream boards with light-blue cloth spine, clear acetate jacket), and the first New Directions paperback in wrappers. The clothbound copies should carry the limitation/signature; an unsigned cloth copy would not be the limited issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/splendide-h-tel"
  },
  {
   "slug": "aberration-of-starlight",
   "title": "Aberration of Starlight",
   "author": "Gilbert Sorrentino",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition stated on the copyright page in the manner used by Random House at the time. The hardcover was issued in a price-clipped-able dust jacket; confirm a first by the stated edition and the absence of any later-printing notice. ISBN 0-394-51189-1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/aberration-of-starlight"
  },
  {
   "slug": "odd-number",
   "title": "Odd Number",
   "author": "Gilbert Sorrentino",
   "publisher": "North Point Press",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, North Point Press, 1985; ISBN 0-86547-212-2. First volume of the 'Pack of Lies' trilogy. Per North Point practice issued in cloth (with dust jacket) and in wraps.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/odd-number"
  },
  {
   "slug": "under-the-shadow",
   "title": "Under the Shadow",
   "author": "Gilbert Sorrentino",
   "publisher": "Dalkey Archive Press",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Dalkey Archive Press edition, 1991. Issued simultaneously in two formats: a green-cloth hardcover (ISBN 0-916583-84-2) and trade wraps. The hardcover is generally treated as the primary collectible first state. Confirm via the 1991 Dalkey imprint with no later-printing or number-line indication.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/under-the-shadow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "chattanooga-poems",
   "title": "Chattanooga: Poems",
   "author": "Ishmael Reed",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with a number line ending in '2' (Random House practice of 1970-2002; a line ending in '1' indicates a LATER printing). Issued simultaneously in cloth and in wraps; priced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/chattanooga-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "god-made-alaska-for-the-indians",
   "title": "God Made Alaska for the Indians",
   "author": "Ishmael Reed",
   "publisher": "Garland Publishing",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Garland Publishing, New York, 1982, first edition. Selected essays. Issued as a scholarly hardcover in publisher's cloth; copies are generally found without a dust jacket. There is no number line to confirm printing, so identify by the 1982 Garland imprint on the title and copyright pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/god-made-alaska-for-the-indians"
  },
  {
   "slug": "writin-is-fightin-thirty-three-years-of-boxing-on-paper",
   "title": "Writin' Is Fightin': Thirty-Three Years of Boxing on Paper",
   "author": "Ishmael Reed",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition so stated with number line; issued in cloth (priced dust jacket) with a simultaneous wrappered issue. Collection of essays and reviews.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/writin-is-fightin-thirty-three-years-of-boxing-on-paper"
  },
  {
   "slug": "don-quixote-which-was-a-dream",
   "title": "Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream",
   "author": "Kathy Acker",
   "publisher": "Grove Press",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition was issued as a Grove Press Evergreen trade-paperback original (wraps), priced on the back cover; 207 pages. A clothbound issue was announced but its existence as a published trade state is not reliably documented, so do not rely on a cloth point.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/don-quixote-which-was-a-dream"
  },
  {
   "slug": "empire-of-the-senseless",
   "title": "Empire of the Senseless",
   "author": "Kathy Acker",
   "publisher": "Grove Press",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified on the copyright page (Grove used a number line on the copyright page in this period). Issued in hardcover: publisher's navy cloth over paper-covered boards, spine stamped in silver, in an illustrated dust jacket with the printed price intact. Later-printing dust jackets carry a small letter code on the rear panel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/empire-of-the-senseless"
  },
  {
   "slug": "literal-madness-three-novels",
   "title": "Literal Madness: Three Novels",
   "author": "Kathy Acker",
   "publisher": "Grove Press",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First combined edition, issued in hardcover (cloth-backed boards) with dust jacket and printed price. Collects 'Kathy Goes to Haiti,' 'My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini,' and 'Florida.' A Grove paperback followed later (1994).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/literal-madness-three-novels"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-memoriam-to-identity",
   "title": "In Memoriam to Identity",
   "author": "Kathy Acker",
   "publisher": "Grove Weidenfeld",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Stated first edition on the copyright page, issued in cloth hardcover with dust jacket and printed price (large octavo, 265 pages).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-memoriam-to-identity"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-grand-hotels-of-joseph-cornell",
   "title": "The Grand Hotels (of Joseph Cornell)",
   "author": "Robert Coover",
   "publisher": "Burning Deck",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued by Burning Deck in 2002 in three simultaneous states from a total edition of 1250: a paperback in wraps, an unsigned cloth hardcover, and a signed cloth hardcover limited to 50 copies. The hardcover states, not the wraps, represent the higher first-edition issue. A slim volume of poetic prose vignettes derived from Joseph Cornell's assemblages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-grand-hotels-of-joseph-cornell"
  },
  {
   "slug": "stepmother",
   "title": "Stepmother",
   "author": "Robert Coover",
   "publisher": "McSweeney's",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First McSweeney's edition (2004), illustrated by Michael Kupperman. Bound in soft cloth with metallic stamping and issued without a dust jacket; 90 pages. A novella. Identification rests on the McSweeney's binding and design rather than a number line, as these titles are typically single-printing objects.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/stepmother"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-child-again",
   "title": "A Child Again",
   "author": "Robert Coover",
   "publisher": "McSweeney's",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First McSweeney's edition (2005), a story collection. As issued, the rear board carries a pocket holding fifteen playing cards printing the story 'Heart Suit' (thirteen middle cards readable in any order), wrapped with an unbroken paper band, no dust jacket. The card deck is present in all first-edition copies, not just some; a complete deck and intact band are integral to the book as issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-child-again"
  },
  {
   "slug": "street-cop",
   "title": "Street Cop",
   "author": "Robert Coover",
   "publisher": "Isolarii",
   "year": "2021",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First Isolarii edition, a deliberately tiny pocket-format softcover (roughly seven by eleven centimeters), illustrated throughout by Art Spiegelman. As a small-press subscription-style art object it does not carry a conventional publisher number line, so identification rests on the Isolarii imprint, the 2021 date, the Spiegelman illustrations, and the matching ISBN rather than on a number line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/street-cop"
  },
  {
   "slug": "open-house",
   "title": "Open House",
   "author": "Robert Coover",
   "publisher": "OR Books (Evergreen Review Books)",
   "year": "2023",
   "genre": "amer-postmodern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition is the 2023 paperback from OR Books under its Evergreen Review Books imprint. As an OR Books trade paperback it carries the OR Books/Evergreen imprint and the matching ISBN rather than a conventional number line. The work is a single short metafiction set in a Manhattan penthouse, not a story collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/open-house"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-habit-of-being-letters-of-flannery-oconnor",
   "title": "The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor",
   "author": "Flannery O'Connor",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition so indicated on the copyright page (printing statement, no number line dropping to a later state); edited and introduced by Sally Fitzgerald. Catalogued as Farmer A8.I.a.1 in the O'Connor bibliography.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-habit-of-being-letters-of-flannery-oconnor"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-wide-net-and-other-stories",
   "title": "The Wide Net and Other Stories",
   "author": "Eudora Welty",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company",
   "year": "1943",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"first edition\" stated on the copyright page; story collection. First-issue jacket priced at $2.50 on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-wide-net-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-ponder-heart",
   "title": "The Ponder Heart",
   "author": "Eudora Welty",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"first edition\" stated on the copyright page; novella with illustrations by Joe Krush. Published January 1954.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-ponder-heart"
  },
  {
   "slug": "one-time-one-place-mississippi-in-the-depression",
   "title": "One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression",
   "author": "Eudora Welty",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page. Small square quarto snapshot album of about 113 pages reproducing Welty's own Depression-era photographs, with her introduction.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/one-time-one-place-mississippi-in-the-depression"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-collected-stories-of-eudora-welty",
   "title": "The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty",
   "author": "Eudora Welty",
   "publisher": "Harcourt Brace Jovanovich",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Two distinct issues. The trade first edition states \"First edition\" with a full number line and carries a first-state dust jacket priced 20.00. The signed limited edition of 500 copies is individually numbered, bound in burgundy cloth, signed by Welty, and issued in a publisher's slipcase WITHOUT a dust jacket (none was issued for the limited).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-collected-stories-of-eudora-welty"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-thanatos-syndrome",
   "title": "The Thanatos Syndrome",
   "author": "Walker Percy",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First printing\" stated on the copyright page; half black cloth with green paper boards. Percy's last novel. First-issue dust jacket priced 17.95. A separate signed limited edition was issued by the Franklin Library (full green leather, raised bands, all edges gilt, with a special message from the author), not by FSG.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-thanatos-syndrome"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lie-down-in-darkness",
   "title": "Lie Down in Darkness",
   "author": "William Styron",
   "publisher": "The Bobbs-Merrill Company",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Bobbs-Merrill bow-tie/torch colophon on the copyright page with no later-printing notation. Tan cloth stamped in gold, with title and author on both spine and front board. First-issue dust jacket designed by George Salter, priced 3.50 on the front flap. Author's first novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lie-down-in-darkness"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-long-march",
   "title": "The Long March",
   "author": "William Styron",
   "publisher": "The Modern Library (Random House)",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the Modern Library paperback original of 1952, catalog number P22, priced 95 cents on the cover. This is a paperback original and is the actual first book appearance. The novella had appeared in the magazine Discovery in 1952.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-long-march"
  },
  {
   "slug": "set-this-house-on-fire",
   "title": "Set This House on Fire",
   "author": "William Styron",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Printing\" stated on the copyright page per Random House convention of the period (no number line). First-issue dust jacket priced 5.95 on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/set-this-house-on-fire"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-the-clap-shack",
   "title": "In the Clap Shack",
   "author": "William Styron",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page; this is Styron's only published play. Issued in hardcover with dust jacket, illustrated with production photographs.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-the-clap-shack"
  },
  {
   "slug": "this-quiet-dust-and-other-writings",
   "title": "This Quiet Dust and Other Writings",
   "author": "William Styron",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page; a collected gathering of Styron's essays and occasional writings. A separately bound signed limited edition of 250 copies was also issued alongside the trade first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/this-quiet-dust-and-other-writings"
  },
  {
   "slug": "darkness-visible-a-memoir-of-madness",
   "title": "Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness",
   "author": "William Styron",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated with a complete number line; quarter maroon cloth over maroon boards with silver lettering. Expanded by Styron from his Vanity Fair essay.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/darkness-visible-a-memoir-of-madness"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-tidewater-morning-three-tales-from-youth",
   "title": "A Tidewater Morning: Three Tales from Youth",
   "author": "William Styron",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated with a number line; three linked autobiographical tales.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-tidewater-morning-three-tales-from-youth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "drowning-with-others",
   "title": "Drowning with Others",
   "author": "James Dickey",
   "publisher": "Wesleyan University Press",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Poetry. Issued simultaneously in cloth (with dust jacket) and in wrappers per Wesleyan University Press practice; the cloth/wrappers distinction is the issue point.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/drowning-with-others"
  },
  {
   "slug": "buckdancers-choice",
   "title": "Buckdancer's Choice",
   "author": "James Dickey",
   "publisher": "Wesleyan University Press",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Poetry; winner of the National Book Award. Per the Wesleyan first-printing convention, issued simultaneously in cloth (light grey, with a white, pale-blue and black dust jacket) and in wrappers. First printing precedes documented later printings (a third printing dated May 1966 is recorded).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/buckdancers-choice"
  },
  {
   "slug": "babel-to-byzantium-poets-poetry-now",
   "title": "Babel to Byzantium: Poets & Poetry Now",
   "author": "James Dickey",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Collected criticism. \"First Printing\" stated on the copyright page; blue cloth boards lettered in gilt and silver on the spine, in a price-printed dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/babel-to-byzantium-poets-poetry-now"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-eye-beaters-blood-victory-madness-buckhead-and-mercy",
   "title": "The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy",
   "author": "James Dickey",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Company",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Poetry. A signed limited edition of 250 copies (two-toned cloth, slipcased, with a signed limitation leaf) precedes the trade issue. The trade first edition has \"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page in a price-printed dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-eye-beaters-blood-victory-madness-buckhead-and-mercy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "local-color",
   "title": "Local Color",
   "author": "Truman Capote",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"FIRST PRINTING\" stated on the copyright page; a collection of illustrated travel impressions with photographs by Cecil Beaton, Cartier-Bresson and others. First-issue jacket priced on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/local-color"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-grass-harp-play-and-a-tree-of-night",
   "title": "The Grass Harp (play) and A Tree of Night",
   "author": "Truman Capote",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Correct book is \"The Grass Harp: A Play\" alone, not a combined volume. First edition in rough beige cloth with a printed paper title label on the front panel, a green topstain, and dust jacket; the dramatized stage version of the 1951 novella, illustrated with scenes from the 1952 Broadway production. A small first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-grass-harp-play-and-a-tree-of-night"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-christmas-memory",
   "title": "A Christmas Memory",
   "author": "Truman Capote",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First separate book edition of the story. The desirable issue is the signed limited edition of 600 copies, signed and numbered by Capote on the limitation page, printed on special paper and specially bound in green cloth with gilt lettering, with clear acetate jacket and housed in the publisher's red card slipcase bearing the photographic label of the child Capote with Nanny Faulk.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-christmas-memory"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-thanksgiving-visitor",
   "title": "The Thanksgiving Visitor",
   "author": "Truman Capote",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued first as a signed limited edition of 300 copies, signed and numbered by Capote on the limitation page, in half red cloth over paper-covered boards, housed in the publisher's pictorial slipcase and issued without a dust jacket. A trade edition followed.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-thanksgiving-visitor"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dogs-bark-public-people-and-private-places",
   "title": "The Dogs Bark: Public People and Private Places",
   "author": "Truman Capote",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Collected nonfiction and profiles, in red cloth. First printing is identified by the number line on the copyright page reading down to \"2\" as the lowest figure, per Random House's first-printing practice of the period; the back panel of the jacket carries a photograph of Capote.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dogs-bark-public-people-and-private-places"
  },
  {
   "slug": "answered-prayers-the-unfinished-novel",
   "title": "Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel",
   "author": "Truman Capote",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US edition states \"First Edition\" with a number line descending to 1 on the copyright page. Posthumous; assembled from the surviving chapters. The US edition uniquely includes a multi-page editor's note by Joseph M. Fox not present in the UK edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/answered-prayers-the-unfinished-novel"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-last-day-the-dogbushes-bloomed",
   "title": "The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed",
   "author": "Lee Smith",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first printing has the words First Edition stated on the copyright page, the Harper & Row convention from 1922 into the early 1970s (number lines did not appear until 1975). Harper books of this era also carry a two-letter month-and-year printing code on the copyright page that can confirm a 1968 printing. First-issue jacket priced on the front flap. The author's first novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-last-day-the-dogbushes-bloomed"
  },
  {
   "slug": "something-in-the-wind",
   "title": "Something in the Wind",
   "author": "Lee Smith",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first printing has First Edition stated on the copyright page per Harper & Row practice of the period (number lines began only in 1975); the copyright page also carries a two-letter month-and-year printing code consistent with a 1971 printing. First-issue jacket priced on the front flap. Her second book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/something-in-the-wind"
  },
  {
   "slug": "fancy-strut",
   "title": "Fancy Strut",
   "author": "Lee Smith",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first printing has First Edition stated on the copyright page (Harper & Row convention before the 1975 switch to number lines); the copyright page also bears a two-letter month-and-year printing code consistent with 1973. First-issue jacket priced on the front flap. A scarce Smith title.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/fancy-strut"
  },
  {
   "slug": "black-mountain-breakdown",
   "title": "Black Mountain Breakdown",
   "author": "Lee Smith",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "For Putnam in this era (1960 to 1988) the first printing carries NO printing statement on the copyright page; later printings add 'second (third, etc.) impression.' There is no number line on a 1980 Putnam first (Putnam number lines began only around 1989). First-issue jacket priced on the front flap, with the Putnam imprint on the title page and spine.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/black-mountain-breakdown"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cakewalk",
   "title": "Cakewalk",
   "author": "Lee Smith",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam first-printing convention of the period (1960 to 1988): the copyright page bears NO later-printing statement, while reprints add 'second impression,' etc. No number line on a 1981 Putnam first. First issue is quarterbound in cream paper over boards with a green cloth spine and gilt lettering, in a first-issue jacket priced on the front flap. Her first short-story collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cakewalk"
  },
  {
   "slug": "oral-history",
   "title": "Oral History",
   "author": "Lee Smith",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam first-printing convention of the period (1960 to 1988): the first printing carries NO later-printing statement on the copyright page; reprints add 'second impression,' etc. There is no number line on a 1983 Putnam first (Putnam number lines began only around 1989). First-issue jacket priced on the front flap. Her breakthrough novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/oral-history"
  },
  {
   "slug": "shiloh-and-other-stories",
   "title": "Shiloh and Other Stories",
   "author": "Bobbie Ann Mason",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Stated 'First Edition' on the copyright page accompanied by a complete number line. Author's first book; sixteen stories; quarter cloth over boards. Issued in a dust jacket with the price on the front flap. Won the Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award (PEN/Hemingway Award) for a first work of fiction.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/shiloh-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "feather-crowns",
   "title": "Feather Crowns",
   "author": "Bobbie Ann Mason",
   "publisher": "HarperCollins",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by the Harper first-printing code line / number line on the copyright page and the first-issue jacket carrying its original price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/feather-crowns"
  },
  {
   "slug": "midnight-magic-selected-stories",
   "title": "Midnight Magic: Selected Stories",
   "author": "Bobbie Ann Mason",
   "publisher": "Ecco Press",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "A first-thus selection of seventeen previously published stories drawn from Shiloh and Other Stories and Love Life, with a new introduction by the author. First printing follows the Ecco number-line convention.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/midnight-magic-selected-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "walking-across-egypt",
   "title": "Walking Across Egypt",
   "author": "Clyde Edgerton",
   "publisher": "Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by the Algonquin number line and by the first-state text reading 'a T-shirt with a pocket' on page 164 (later states alter this passage). First-issue jacket priced on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/walking-across-egypt"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-floatplane-notebooks",
   "title": "The Floatplane Notebooks",
   "author": "Clyde Edgerton",
   "publisher": "Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade edition states \"First Edition\" on the copyright page with a complete number line present (the lowest digit being 1). First-issue dust jacket carries the original price on the front flap, not clipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-floatplane-notebooks"
  },
  {
   "slug": "killer-diller",
   "title": "Killer Diller",
   "author": "Clyde Edgerton",
   "publisher": "Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade edition states \"First Edition\" on the copyright page with a complete number line present (lowest digit 1). Sequel to Walking Across Egypt. First-issue dust jacket carries the original price on the front flap, not clipped; jacket designed by Paul Bacon.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/killer-diller"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-memory-of-junior",
   "title": "In Memory of Junior",
   "author": "Clyde Edgerton",
   "publisher": "Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade edition states \"First Edition\" on the copyright page with a complete number line present (lowest digit 1). First-issue dust jacket carries the original price on the front flap, not clipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-memory-of-junior"
  },
  {
   "slug": "redeye-a-western",
   "title": "Redeye: A Western",
   "author": "Clyde Edgerton",
   "publisher": "Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade edition states \"First Edition\" on the copyright page with a complete number line present (lowest digit 1). First-issue dust jacket carries the original price on the front flap, not clipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/redeye-a-western"
  },
  {
   "slug": "where-trouble-sleeps",
   "title": "Where Trouble Sleeps",
   "author": "Clyde Edgerton",
   "publisher": "Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade edition states \"First Edition\" on the copyright page with a complete number line present (lowest digit 1). First-issue dust jacket carries the original price on the front flap, not clipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/where-trouble-sleeps"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-names-and-faces-of-heroes",
   "title": "The Names and Faces of Heroes",
   "author": "Reynolds Price",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition states First Edition on the copyright page; Atheneum used the explicit First Edition statement (no number line) through the mid-1980s. Story collection, the author's second book following A Long and Happy Life. First-issue jacket carries the original price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-names-and-faces-of-heroes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-generous-man",
   "title": "A Generous Man",
   "author": "Reynolds Price",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition states First Edition on the copyright page; Atheneum used the explicit First Edition statement (no number line) through the mid-1980s. Novel continuing the Mustian family begun in A Long and Happy Life; green cloth binding. First-issue jacket carries the original price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-generous-man"
  },
  {
   "slug": "love-and-work",
   "title": "Love and Work",
   "author": "Reynolds Price",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition states First Edition on the copyright page; Atheneum used the explicit First Edition statement (no number line) through the mid-1980s. Novel; original dark blue cloth with gilt spine and front-board lettering. First-issue jacket carries the original price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/love-and-work"
  },
  {
   "slug": "permanent-errors",
   "title": "Permanent Errors",
   "author": "Reynolds Price",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition states First Edition on the copyright page; Atheneum used the explicit First Edition statement (no number line) through the mid-1980s. Collection of stories and a novella. First-issue jacket carries the original price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/permanent-errors"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-surface-of-earth",
   "title": "The Surface of Earth",
   "author": "Reynolds Price",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition states First Edition on the copyright page; Atheneum used the explicit First Edition statement (no number line) through the mid-1980s. First volume of the Mayfield trilogy; copyright page reads Copyright 1973, 1974, 1975. First-issue jacket carries the original price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-surface-of-earth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-source-of-light",
   "title": "The Source of Light",
   "author": "Reynolds Price",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition states First Edition on the copyright page. Atheneum did not adopt a number line until the mid-1980s, so a 1981 first carries the First Edition statement and no number line. Second volume of the Mayfield trilogy, following The Surface of Earth. First-issue jacket carries the original price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-source-of-light"
  },
  {
   "slug": "kate-vaiden",
   "title": "Kate Vaiden",
   "author": "Reynolds Price",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Atheneum first printing. Through 1986 Atheneum stated First Edition on the copyright page (no number line); the original dust jacket is unclipped with the publisher's price intact. The earlier draft cited a number line ending in 1, which is incorrect for a 1986 Atheneum title, and asserted a National Book Critics Circle Award that is disputed in award records; both have been removed.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/kate-vaiden"
  },
  {
   "slug": "september-september",
   "title": "September September",
   "author": "Shelby Foote",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "amer-southern",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page together with a Random House number line beginning with 2 (for example, 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9). Per Random House convention of this era the line does NOT contain a 1; a copy whose lowest number is 1 is not how the first issue is identified. First-issue dust jacket is unclipped. Foote's return to fiction.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/september-september"
  },
  {
   "slug": "england-made-me",
   "title": "England Made Me",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first impression in green cloth with the original dust jacket designed by Philip Youngman Carter, priced 7s 6d.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/england-made-me"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-basement-room-and-other-stories",
   "title": "The Basement Room and Other Stories",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "Cresset Press (UK)",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first impression of Greene's first story collection, issued in first-issue green cloth (later copies in red cloth), pagination vii, 165pp. Contains eight stories including The Basement Room, later filmed as The Fallen Idol.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-basement-room-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "journey-without-maps",
   "title": "Journey Without Maps",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first impression, May 1936. A Freetown doctor, P.D. Oakley, sued over the character Pa Oakley; Heinemann withdrew the book and pulped remaining stock, making the first issue scarce. Travel account of Greene's walk through Liberia.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/journey-without-maps"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-gun-for-sale",
   "title": "A Gun for Sale",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "Doubleday Doran (US)",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the US Doubleday Doran edition titled This Gun for Hire, published June 1936, in beige cloth with dark green blocking and dust jacket. The UK Heinemann edition titled A Gun for Sale followed in July 1936 (priced 7s 6d). Subtitled An Entertainment.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-gun-for-sale"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-ministry-of-fear",
   "title": "The Ministry of Fear",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1943",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of one of Greene's 'entertainments,' produced on wartime paper. Later filmed by Fritz Lang.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-ministry-of-fear"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-burnt-out-case",
   "title": "A Burnt-Out Case",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English edition, first printing, Heinemann, London, 1961. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, 256 pages, dust jacket priced 16s. This was Greene's last title with Heinemann before he moved to The Bodley Head.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-burnt-out-case"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-human-factor",
   "title": "The Human Factor",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "The Bodley Head (UK)",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing identified by the oval device on the title page bearing the head of Sir Thomas Bodley; later impressions show a 'BH' in a box instead. Copyright page states 'First published 1978'. Green cloth; jacket designed by Michael Harvey; 339 pages. Espionage novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-human-factor"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ways-of-escape",
   "title": "Ways of Escape",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "Lester & Orpen Dennys (Canada); The Bodley Head (UK)",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the second volume of autobiography. The Bodley Head UK issue is in green cloth with gilt titling and a Michael Harvey jacket priced 6.95 net; the Canadian Lester & Orpen Dennys issue is the earliest printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ways-of-escape"
  },
  {
   "slug": "monsignor-quixote",
   "title": "Monsignor Quixote",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "Lester & Orpen Dennys (Canada); The Bodley Head (UK)",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing. A signed limited issue of 250 numbered copies in a publisher's slipcase exists; the trade UK Bodley Head issue is in green cloth with gilt spine, green top-stain, jacket priced 5.95 net.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/monsignor-quixote"
  },
  {
   "slug": "getting-to-know-the-general",
   "title": "Getting to Know the General",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "The Bodley Head (UK); Lester & Orpen Dennys (Canada)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the nonfiction account of Greene's friendship with Omar Torrijos of Panama; full title 'Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement.' UK Bodley Head issue in green cloth with gilt spine.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/getting-to-know-the-general"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-captain-and-the-enemy",
   "title": "The Captain and the Enemy",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "Reinhardt Books in association with Viking (UK)",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of Greene's last novel; dark green boards with gilt lettering and gilt publisher's device to spine, dust jacket designed by Michael Harvey.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-captain-and-the-enemy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "edmund-campion",
   "title": "Edmund Campion",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Longmans, Green (UK)",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first impression, published by Longmans, Green, London, in 1935. Waugh's biography of the Elizabethan Jesuit martyr, which won the Hawthornden Prize (awarded 1936). Collectors distinguish the first-issue dust wrapper.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/edmund-campion"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-holy-places",
   "title": "The Holy Places",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Queen Anne Press (UK)",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Limited edition of 950 copies with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone, designed by Robert Harling. Of the total 950, the first 50 copies were specially bound and signed by both author and artist. Two essays on pilgrimage. Title set in Perpetua, text in Pilgrim, printed on mould-made paper.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-holy-places"
  },
  {
   "slug": "love-among-the-ruins",
   "title": "Love Among the Ruins",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall (UK)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition is a signed limited issue of 350 numbered copies (300 for sale, 50 reserved for the author), signed by Waugh, in gilt-stamped red cloth over beveled boards with top edge gilt and untrimmed edges, with decorations partly by the author. Dystopian satirical novella; 49 to 51 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/love-among-the-ruins"
  },
  {
   "slug": "venusberg",
   "title": "Venusberg",
   "author": "Anthony Powell",
   "publisher": "Gerald Duckworth (UK)",
   "year": "1932",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing. Powell's second novel, published by Duckworth where he then worked.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/venusberg"
  },
  {
   "slug": "agents-and-patients",
   "title": "Agents and Patients",
   "author": "Anthony Powell",
   "publisher": "Gerald Duckworth (UK)",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing. Powell's fourth novel, the last of his four pre-war novels issued by Duckworth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/agents-and-patients"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-acceptance-world",
   "title": "The Acceptance World",
   "author": "Anthony Powell",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the London Heinemann 1955 hardcover, first impression, with no statement of a later printing. Volume three of A Dance to the Music of Time.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-acceptance-world"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-military-philosophers",
   "title": "The Military Philosophers",
   "author": "Anthony Powell",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the ninth volume of A Dance to the Music of Time; the third book of the war trilogy. Issued in publisher's cloth with dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-military-philosophers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "my-man-jeeves",
   "title": "My Man Jeeves",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "George Newnes (UK)",
   "year": "1919",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing, George Newnes, London, May 1919 (McIlvaine A22a). Issued in publisher's cloth, not wrappers; the first issue is wine-red cloth, with a later salmon-cloth issue. The first Jeeves book, collecting eight stories (four Jeeves and Bertie, four Reggie Pepper). Scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/my-man-jeeves"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-coming-of-bill",
   "title": "The Coming of Bill",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Boni & Liveright (US)",
   "year": "1919",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the US edition titled Their Mutual Child, published by Boni & Liveright, New York, on 5 August 1919. The UK edition under the title The Coming of Bill (Herbert Jenkins, London) did not appear until 1 July 1920.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-coming-of-bill"
  },
  {
   "slug": "three-men-and-a-maid",
   "title": "Three Men and a Maid",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "George H. Doran (US)",
   "year": "1922",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The US edition under the title Three Men and a Maid was published by George H. Doran on 26 April 1922; the UK edition under the title The Girl on the Boat followed from Herbert Jenkins on 15 June 1922. The US Doran issue therefore precedes the UK Jenkins issue by roughly seven weeks.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/three-men-and-a-maid"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ukridge",
   "title": "Ukridge",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1924",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First published by Herbert Jenkins in London on 3 June 1924; the US edition followed from George H. Doran on 30 July 1925 under the title He Rather Enjoyed It. A collection of Ukridge stories.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ukridge"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-small-bachelor",
   "title": "The Small Bachelor",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Methuen (UK)",
   "year": "1927",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the Methuen edition, London, published 28 April 1927. The US George H. Doran edition followed on 17 June 1927, so the UK Methuen edition is the true first — the original record's suggestion that the US may precede is incorrect. The novel is based on the Bolton/Wodehouse/Kern musical 'Oh, Lady! Lady!!'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-small-bachelor"
  },
  {
   "slug": "summer-lightning",
   "title": "Summer Lightning",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Doubleday, Doran (US), as Fish Preferred",
   "year": "1929",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the US edition, published as Fish Preferred by Doubleday, Doran (New York, 1 July 1929), preceding the UK Herbert Jenkins edition titled Summer Lightning (19 July 1929) by 18 days. The US Fish Preferred has no dedication; the UK Summer Lightning adds a Wodehouse preface and a dedication to Denis Mackail. Both are this Blandings novel under differing titles.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/summer-lightning"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hot-water",
   "title": "Hot Water",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK) / Doubleday, Doran (US)",
   "year": "1932",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in original cloth and dust jacket. The UK Herbert Jenkins and US Doubleday, Doran editions were published simultaneously, both on 17 August 1932, so neither has clear precedence over the other; the two are textually distinct because of differing editorial intervention. Collectors generally treat each as a first edition of its respective issue rather than asserting one true first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hot-water"
  },
  {
   "slug": "money-in-the-bank",
   "title": "Money in the Bank",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Doubleday Doran (US)",
   "year": "1942",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition, Doubleday Doran, New York, published 9 January 1942, with the pictorial dust jacket designed by Donald McKay. The UK Herbert Jenkins edition did not appear until 27 May 1946.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/money-in-the-bank"
  },
  {
   "slug": "spring-fever",
   "title": "Spring Fever",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins (UK) and Doubleday & Co. (US), simultaneous",
   "year": "1948",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The UK Herbert Jenkins edition and the US Doubleday edition were both published on the same day, 20 May 1948. Neither precedes the other; they are simultaneous first editions. Collect either as a first, identified by the publisher's first-printing imprint with no later-impression statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/spring-fever"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pigs-have-wings",
   "title": "Pigs Have Wings",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (US)",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing. A Blandings Castle novel. The US Doubleday edition (published 16 October 1952) precedes the UK Herbert Jenkins edition (31 October 1952) by about two weeks, making the Doubleday issue the true first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pigs-have-wings"
  },
  {
   "slug": "jeeves-in-the-offing",
   "title": "Jeeves in the Offing",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster (US)",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the US edition, published 4 April 1960 by Simon & Schuster, New York, under the title How Right You Are, Jeeves. The UK edition, titled Jeeves in the Offing (Herbert Jenkins, London), did not appear until 12 August 1960, about four months later.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/jeeves-in-the-offing"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-pelican-at-blandings",
   "title": "A Pelican at Blandings",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Herbert Jenkins / Barrie & Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, London, 25 September 1969. The title-page imprint on the first edition reads Herbert Jenkins, the long-time Wodehouse house, though by this date the firm was corporately part of Barrie & Jenkins (a 1964 merger of Herbert Jenkins and Barrie & Rockliff). Either name may appear in catalogue descriptions of the same true first. The first-edition dust jacket carries an Osbert Lancaster front illustration and a Tom Blau photograph of Wodehouse on the rear panel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-pelican-at-blandings"
  },
  {
   "slug": "much-obliged-jeeves",
   "title": "Much Obliged, Jeeves",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Barrie & Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, London, Barrie & Jenkins, 15 October 1971, issued to mark Wodehouse's 90th birthday. The US edition appeared the same day, 15 October 1971, from Simon & Schuster under the title Jeeves and the Tie That Binds.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/much-obliged-jeeves"
  },
  {
   "slug": "aunts-arent-gentlemen",
   "title": "Aunts Aren't Gentlemen",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Barrie & Jenkins (UK)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, London, Barrie & Jenkins, October 1974. This was the last Jeeves and Wooster novel and the last novel Wodehouse completed. The US edition followed under the title The Cat-Nappers from Simon & Schuster on 14 April 1975, not 1974 as sometimes listed.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/aunts-arent-gentlemen"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sunset-at-blandings",
   "title": "Sunset at Blandings",
   "author": "P.G. Wodehouse",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (UK)",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of Wodehouse's unfinished final novel, published posthumously with his working notes and plot outlines, edited by Richard Usborne. The title was supplied by the publisher, not Wodehouse.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sunset-at-blandings"
  },
  {
   "slug": "liza-of-lambeth",
   "title": "Liza of Lambeth",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "T. Fisher Unwin (UK)",
   "year": "1897",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in original green cloth (Maugham's first novel), with about two thousand copies. The first issue carries 'all rights reserved' in brackets on the verso of the title page and six pages of publisher's advertisements at the rear. Later Colonial-issue sheets were drawn upon for subsequent issues.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/liza-of-lambeth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "of-human-bondage",
   "title": "Of Human Bondage",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "George H. Doran (US)",
   "year": "1915",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The US George H. Doran edition precedes the UK Heinemann edition (both 1915). The true first issue is identified by the uncorrected misprint \"help\" for \"helped\" on page 257, line 4, and by the absence of the Doran colophon/monogram on the copyright page; green cloth blocked in gilt on front board and spine.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/of-human-bondage"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-moon-and-sixpence",
   "title": "The Moon and Sixpence",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1919",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the William Heinemann London edition of 1919, in sage/green cloth lettered and decorated in black. The first issue is identified by the publisher's advertisements bound in at the rear (four pages of ads, including titles by Israel Zangwill); later issues alter or omit these ads.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-moon-and-sixpence"
  },
  {
   "slug": "on-a-chinese-screen",
   "title": "On a Chinese Screen",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "George H. Doran (US)",
   "year": "1922",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the New York George H. Doran edition of 1922 (about 2000 copies), a collection of China travel sketches. The English Heinemann edition was printed from stereotype plates made from the American type, with a title-page reset in America, and followed about a month later.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/on-a-chinese-screen"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-painted-veil",
   "title": "The Painted Veil",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "George H. Doran (US)",
   "year": "1925",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the New York George H. Doran edition, issued 20 March 1925. The first issue carries the imaginary colony name 'Tching-Yen' (e.g. on page 16); a later issue substitutes 'Hong-Kong' and adds a publisher's device and a small letter on the copyright page. The name change stems from libel threats over the original Hong Kong setting.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-painted-veil"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cakes-and-ale",
   "title": "Cakes and Ale",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1930",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by Heinemann in September 1930, full title 'Cakes and Ale: or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard'. The recognized first-state point is the missing letter 't' in the word 'won't' on page 147; per Stott's bibliography both the missing-'t' state and the corrected state occur within the first printing and were issued without established precedence, so neither commands priority. There was no signed limited issue of the 1930 trade edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cakes-and-ale"
  },
  {
   "slug": "first-person-singular",
   "title": "First Person Singular",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "Doubleday, Doran (US)",
   "year": "1931",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The US Doubleday, Doran edition, titled 'Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular' (Garden City, 1931), is the true first and precedes the UK Heinemann edition (titled 'First Person Singular') by roughly two weeks. The US first collates x, 299 pp.; the UK Heinemann states 'First Published 1931'. The collection contains six stories: Virtue, The Round Dozen, The Human Element, Jane, The Alien Corn, and The Creative Impulse.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/first-person-singular"
  },
  {
   "slug": "theatre",
   "title": "Theatre",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "Doubleday Doran (US)",
   "year": "1937",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Novel. Contrary to the original record, the US Doubleday Doran edition is the true first: per the Stott bibliography and dealer descriptions, the American edition preceded the UK Heinemann edition by about three weeks. Both appeared in 1937.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/theatre"
  },
  {
   "slug": "up-at-the-villa",
   "title": "Up at the Villa",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "Doubleday Doran (US)",
   "year": "1941",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Novella. Contrary to the original record, the US Doubleday Doran edition is the true first: sources indicate it preceded the UK Heinemann edition by about a month. Both appeared in 1941.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/up-at-the-villa"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hour-before-the-dawn",
   "title": "The Hour Before the Dawn",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "Doubleday, Doran (US)",
   "year": "1942",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by Doubleday, Doran, Garden City, New York, 1942, in black cloth. This American edition is the only contemporary trade edition; there was no British trade edition at all. The wartime propaganda novel was commissioned by the British Ministry of Information.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hour-before-the-dawn"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-razors-edge",
   "title": "The Razor's Edge",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "Doubleday, Doran (US)",
   "year": "1944",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade edition published by Doubleday, Doran in April 1944, preceding the UK Heinemann edition by roughly two months. First-printing points on the copyright page: copyright 1943, 1944 by The McCall Company and 1944 by W. Somerset Maugham, the wartime production-compliance emblem, and the imprint 'Printed in the United States at The Country Life Press, Garden City, N.Y.' Black cloth, [vi], 343 pp. A signed, numbered limited edition of 750 copies (in slipcase) was also issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-razors-edge"
  },
  {
   "slug": "then-and-now",
   "title": "Then and Now",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "Doubleday & Co. (US)",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Historical novel about Machiavelli. Both the US Doubleday & Co. edition and the UK William Heinemann edition appeared in 1946. The US Doubleday printing is widely catalogued as the first American edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/then-and-now"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-writers-notebook",
   "title": "A Writer's Notebook",
   "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Published in 1949 in both London (William Heinemann) and New York (Doubleday & Co.). Each publisher issued an ordinary trade edition and a signed, numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies. Per the Stott bibliography, the Heinemann limited edition (blue cloth, vellum spine, leather label, top edge gilt) was issued simultaneously with but printed after the Heinemann trade edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-writers-notebook"
  },
  {
   "slug": "crome-yellow",
   "title": "Crome Yellow",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (UK)",
   "year": "1921",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Huxley's first novel. First edition in original yellow cloth with a green-printed paper title label on the spine, top edge stained green, fore and lower edges untrimmed; 325 pages, printed by Morrison and Gibb, Edinburgh; no later printings stated on the copyright page. UK Chatto & Windus 1921 precedes the US George H. Doran edition of 1922.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/crome-yellow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "music-at-night-and-other-essays",
   "title": "Music at Night and Other Essays",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "The Fountain Press (US) limited; Chatto & Windus (UK) trade",
   "year": "1931",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first edition is the signed limited issue printed for The Fountain Press, limited to 842 numbered copies signed by Huxley (distributed in America by Random House and in Britain by Chatto & Windus). Chatto & Windus then issued the ordinary trade edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/music-at-night-and-other-essays"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-devils-of-loudun",
   "title": "The Devils of Loudun",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (UK)",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first impression, Chatto & Windus, London, 1952; orange cloth, gilt spine lettering, frontispiece portrait of Urbain Grandier plus further plates and a bibliography. A Harper & Brothers edition also appeared in New York in 1952.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-devils-of-loudun"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-doors-of-perception",
   "title": "The Doors of Perception",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers (US)",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition of the mescaline essay, 1954, issued by Harper & Brothers in New York and by Chatto & Windus in London. The Harper New York edition is the one generally treated as the first; the editions are at best simultaneous and the UK edition does not precede it.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-doors-of-perception"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-genius-and-the-goddess",
   "title": "The Genius and the Goddess",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (UK)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, 1955, published in London by Chatto & Windus and in New York by Harper & Brothers; the US Harper printing carries a 'First edition' statement on the copyright page. Both editions are dated 1955.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-genius-and-the-goddess"
  },
  {
   "slug": "heaven-and-hell",
   "title": "Heaven and Hell",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (UK)",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, 1956, of the sequel essay to The Doors of Perception, published in London by Chatto & Windus and in New York by Harper & Brothers. Both editions are dated 1956.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/heaven-and-hell"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lion-and-the-unicorn-socialism-and-the-english-genius",
   "title": "The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius",
   "author": "George Orwell",
   "publisher": "Secker & Warburg (UK)",
   "year": "1941",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, published 19 February 1941 as the first volume in the Searchlight Books series edited by Orwell and T. R. Fyvel. Issued in publisher's cloth lettered in dark green to the spine, with dust jacket, priced 2s. A slim wartime production, scarce in the jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lion-and-the-unicorn-socialism-and-the-english-genius"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dog-beneath-the-skin",
   "title": "The Dog Beneath the Skin",
   "author": "Christopher Isherwood",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing, published by Faber and Faber, London, May 1935. Full title: The Dog Beneath the Skin, or Where is Francis? A Play in Three Acts. A verse play and the first Auden-Isherwood collaboration; the title page credits both W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, with Auden named first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dog-beneath-the-skin"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-ascent-of-f6",
   "title": "The Ascent of F6",
   "author": "Christopher Isherwood",
   "publisher": "Faber & Faber (UK)",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first impression, published by Faber and Faber, London, 1936. Full title: The Ascent of F6: A Tragedy in Two Acts. A play and the second Auden-Isherwood collaboration; the title page credits both W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, with Auden named first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-ascent-of-f6"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-condor-and-the-cows",
   "title": "The Condor and the Cows",
   "author": "Christopher Isherwood",
   "publisher": "Methuen (UK)",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, 1949, a South American travel diary illustrated with photographs by William Caskey. The Methuen London printing is catalogued as the first English edition; a Random House New York edition also appeared in 1949.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-condor-and-the-cows"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-world-in-the-evening",
   "title": "The World in the Evening",
   "author": "Christopher Isherwood",
   "publisher": "Methuen (UK)",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First British edition published by Methuen, London, 1954; first American edition published by Random House, New York, the same year. Both are dated 1954.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-world-in-the-evening"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-single-man",
   "title": "A Single Man",
   "author": "Christopher Isherwood",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster (US)",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First American edition, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1964; UK Methuen edition also 1964. Both editions are dated 1964.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-single-man"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ramakrishna-and-his-disciples",
   "title": "Ramakrishna and His Disciples",
   "author": "Christopher Isherwood",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster (US)",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1965; UK Methuen edition also 1965. The American Simon & Schuster edition is cited as the true first. Religious biography.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ramakrishna-and-his-disciples"
  },
  {
   "slug": "kathleen-and-frank",
   "title": "Kathleen and Frank",
   "author": "Christopher Isherwood",
   "publisher": "Methuen (UK)",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by Methuen, London, 1971; family memoir and autobiography of a family. A US Simon & Schuster edition also appeared, dated 1971.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/kathleen-and-frank"
  },
  {
   "slug": "christopher-and-his-kind",
   "title": "Christopher and His Kind",
   "author": "Christopher Isherwood",
   "publisher": "Sylvester & Orphanos (Los Angeles), limited edition; trade edition Farrar, Straus & Giroux (US)",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first printing is the signed limited edition of 130 copies issued by Sylvester & Orphanos in 1976 (100 numbered, 26 lettered, 4 with the recipient's printed name), with endpapers and a frontispiece portrait by Don Bachardy. This precedes the Farrar, Straus & Giroux trade edition, which is the first trade printing for general readers. The UK edition followed from Eyre Methuen in 1977.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/christopher-and-his-kind"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pied-piper-of-lovers",
   "title": "Pied Piper of Lovers",
   "author": "Lawrence Durrell",
   "publisher": "Cassell (UK)",
   "year": "1935",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, Cassell, London, 1935. Durrell's first novel. It was published in the ordinary way but sold poorly; most of the stock was later destroyed during the Blitz, and Durrell declined to allow it to be reprinted, leaving very few surviving copies. A notable rarity.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pied-piper-of-lovers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dark-labyrinth",
   "title": "The Dark Labyrinth",
   "author": "Lawrence Durrell",
   "publisher": "Ace Books (UK)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition under this title: Ace Books paperback, London, 1958. The novel was originally published as Cefalu by Editions Poetry London in 1947; the retitled text first appeared in this 1958 Ace paperback. The first hardcover under the Dark Labyrinth title was the Faber and Faber edition of 1961.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dark-labyrinth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "time-for-a-tiger",
   "title": "Time for a Tiger",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in publisher's blue-grey cloth, titles gilt on spine, with dust jacket. Burgess's first novel and volume 1 of The Malayan Trilogy. Octavo, [viii], 214, [2] pp. Genuinely scarce; no contemporary US edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/time-for-a-tiger"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-long-day-wanes-a-malayan-trilogy",
   "title": "The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "W.W. Norton (US)",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First one-volume US edition collecting the three Malayan novels (Time for a Tiger, The Enemy in the Blanket, Beds in the East), New York 1964. This was the first appearance of the trilogy under the collective title The Long Day Wanes, drawn by Burgess from Tennyson's 'Ulysses'. First-thus.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-long-day-wanes-a-malayan-trilogy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mf",
   "title": "MF",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (US) / Jonathan Cape (UK), both 1971",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing. Issued in 1971 by Alfred A. Knopf in the US and Jonathan Cape in the UK. The Knopf jacket styles the title M/F on the spine while the title page reads MF. Precedence between the two 1971 editions is not firmly established.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mf"
  },
  {
   "slug": "shakespeare",
   "title": "Shakespeare",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (UK) / Alfred A. Knopf (US), both 1970",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing. Illustrated biography (a large-format work with 48 color and 97 black-and-white plates, 272 pages). Published in 1970 by Jonathan Cape in the UK and Alfred A. Knopf in the US.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/shakespeare"
  },
  {
   "slug": "napoleon-symphony",
   "title": "Napoleon Symphony",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (US) / Jonathan Cape (UK), both 1974",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing. Subtitled A Novel in Four Movements. Published in 1974 by both Alfred A. Knopf in the US and Jonathan Cape in the UK. The Knopf edition is dated to May 1974; the Cape month is not firmly documented.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/napoleon-symphony"
  },
  {
   "slug": "moses-a-narrative",
   "title": "Moses: A Narrative",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "Stonehill (US) / Dempsey & Squires (UK)",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing of the long narrative poem, written as a preliminary to a screenplay for a television series on Moses. Issued in 1976 by Stonehill in New York and by Dempsey & Squires in London. The two carry different identifiers (the Stonehill issue and the Dempsey & Squires London issue are distinct printings).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/moses-a-narrative"
  },
  {
   "slug": "little-wilson-and-big-god",
   "title": "Little Wilson and Big God",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "Weidenfeld & Nicolson (US, New York)",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "brit-midcentury",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing; volume one of Burgess's autobiography, subtitled 'Being the First Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess.' Unlike most of Burgess's books, the American Weidenfeld & Nicolson (New York) edition appeared first, in 1986, and precedes the UK William Heinemann edition of 1987. Collectors seeking the true first should look for the New York Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1986 issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/little-wilson-and-big-god"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-between-the-sheets",
   "title": "In Between the Sheets",
   "author": "Ian McEwan",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Full title 'In Between the Sheets, and Other Stories'. Cloth-backed boards, gilt spine; copyright page reads 'First published 1978' with no statement of later impression. First-issue dust jacket priced 3.50 net on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-between-the-sheets"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-imitation-game-and-other-plays",
   "title": "The Imitation Game and Other Plays",
   "author": "Ian McEwan",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Full title 'The Imitation Game: Three Plays for Television' (the three plays are Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration, Solid Geometry, and The Imitation Game). Speckled cloth, black spine titles; copyright page reads 'First published 1981'. First-issue dust jacket priced 5.95 net on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-imitation-game-and-other-plays"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-child-in-time",
   "title": "The Child in Time",
   "author": "Ian McEwan",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Boards with gilt spine titling; copyright page reads 'First published 1987' (Cape used a printed first-published statement, not a number line); pictorial dust jacket using a detail from Leonardo's 'Virgin and Child with St Anne'. Whitbread Novel Award winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-child-in-time"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-innocent",
   "title": "The Innocent",
   "author": "Ian McEwan",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Octavo, 231 pp.; cloth-backed boards with gilt spine lettering; copyright page states 'First published 1990' with the printer's key descending to 1. First-issue dust jacket carries the original UK price and is not price-clipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-innocent"
  },
  {
   "slug": "black-dogs",
   "title": "Black Dogs",
   "author": "Ian McEwan",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Octavo; cloth-backed boards with gilt spine lettering; copyright page states 'First published 1992' with the printer's key descending to 1; first-issue dust jacket carries the original UK price unclipped. Booker Prize shortlisted (1992).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/black-dogs"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-daydreamer",
   "title": "The Daydreamer",
   "author": "Ian McEwan",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Octavo; green boards with gilt spine titles; illustrated by Anthony Browne; copyright page states 'First published 1994' with the printer's key descending to 1. McEwan's first book of fiction for children.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-daydreamer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "enduring-love",
   "title": "Enduring Love",
   "author": "Ian McEwan",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Octavo; quarter cloth over boards (blue-grey cloth with silver spine lettering); copyright page states 'First published 1997' with the printer's key descending to 1; first-issue dust jacket carries the original UK price unclipped.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/enduring-love"
  },
  {
   "slug": "saturday",
   "title": "Saturday",
   "author": "Ian McEwan",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Octavo, 279 pp.; cloth with gilt spine lettering; copyright page states 'First published 2005' with the printer's key descending to 1; first-issue dust jacket carries the original UK price unclipped. A Cape signed limited issue also exists.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/saturday"
  },
  {
   "slug": "on-chesil-beach",
   "title": "On Chesil Beach",
   "author": "Ian McEwan",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2007",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Octavo novella; black cloth with gilt spine titles and blue endpapers; copyright page states 'First published 2007' with the printer's key descending to 1; first-issue pictorial matt dust jacket carries the original UK price unclipped. Booker Prize shortlisted (2007).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/on-chesil-beach"
  },
  {
   "slug": "for-you",
   "title": "For You",
   "author": "Ian McEwan",
   "publisher": "Vintage (London)",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Opera libretto for Michael Berkeley's opera; Vintage paperback original (ISBN 9780099526995). Issued in 2008 in two forms: a signed/numbered limited issue of 1000 copies (signed by McEwan and Berkeley on the title page) and the ordinary trade paperback. A minor title in the McEwan canon.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/for-you"
  },
  {
   "slug": "solar",
   "title": "Solar",
   "author": "Ian McEwan",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Black cloth boards, gilt spine titling; full number line ending in 1 and 'first published' statement on copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/solar"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-cockroach",
   "title": "The Cockroach",
   "author": "Ian McEwan",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2019",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Satirical novella in hardcover boards with dust jacket. First-printing copies carry the full number line ending in 1 with no later-impression statement. Published 27 September 2019.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-cockroach"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lessons",
   "title": "Lessons",
   "author": "Ian McEwan",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2022",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Novel in hardcover boards with gilt-lettered spine and dust jacket. First-printing copies show the full number line ending in 1; later impressions add an impression statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lessons"
  },
  {
   "slug": "yellow-dog",
   "title": "Yellow Dog",
   "author": "Martin Amis",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Novel. Boards with gilt-lettered spine; full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; dust jacket priced £16.99 net. Published 4 September 2003.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/yellow-dog"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-second-plane-september-11-2001-2007",
   "title": "The Second Plane: September 11, 2001–2007",
   "author": "Martin Amis",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Collection of essays and stories. Boards with gilt-lettered spine; full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; dust jacket priced £12.99 net. Published April 2008.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-second-plane-september-11-2001-2007"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lionel-asbo-state-of-england",
   "title": "Lionel Asbo: State of England",
   "author": "Martin Amis",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Boards with gilt-lettered spine; full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; original dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lionel-asbo-state-of-england"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-zone-of-interest",
   "title": "The Zone of Interest",
   "author": "Martin Amis",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2014",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Blue cloth boards lettered in gilt on the spine; full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; original dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-zone-of-interest"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-rub-of-time-essays-and-reportage-1986-2016",
   "title": "The Rub of Time: Essays and Reportage 1986–2016",
   "author": "Martin Amis",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2017",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Nonfiction collection; boards with gilt-lettered spine; full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; original dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-rub-of-time-essays-and-reportage-1986-2016"
  },
  {
   "slug": "letters-from-london",
   "title": "Letters from London",
   "author": "Julian Barnes",
   "publisher": "Picador (London)",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Collected New Yorker journalism, full title Letters from London 1990-1995. The UK first edition is a Picador trade paperback (B-format, roughly 19.7 by 12.8 cm) in printed card wrappers, not a cloth hardback. Look for First published 1995 by Picador on the copyright page; ISBN 0 330 34116 2.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/letters-from-london"
  },
  {
   "slug": "something-to-declare",
   "title": "Something to Declare",
   "author": "Julian Barnes",
   "publisher": "Picador (London)",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Second collection of essays on France. The UK first edition is a Picador paperback in card wrappers with French flaps (Howard Hodgkin cover painting in red, blue and white), roughly 19.6 by 12.9 cm, with blue endpapers, not a cloth hardback. Copyright page reads First published 2002 by Picador; ISBN 0 330 48916 X. Collation xviii, 318 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/something-to-declare"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-pedant-in-the-kitchen",
   "title": "The Pedant in the Kitchen",
   "author": "Julian Barnes",
   "publisher": "Atlantic Books (London)",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Collection of food essays, illustrated by Joe Berger. The true first is the Atlantic Books hardback in cloth/boards with dust jacket, 2003. Later issued in paperback by Atlantic; the hardback precedes.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-pedant-in-the-kitchen"
  },
  {
   "slug": "arthur-george",
   "title": "Arthur & George",
   "author": "Julian Barnes",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Mustard decorative cloth boards blocked in black and cream; full number line descending to 1 with Cape 'First published' statement. Issued without a conventional dust jacket: in its place a wraparound advertising band carrying the 17.99 net price. Booker-shortlisted.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/arthur-george"
  },
  {
   "slug": "levels-of-life",
   "title": "Levels of Life",
   "author": "Julian Barnes",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2013",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Essay/memoir in three parts. Hardcover in boards with gilt spine lettering, issued in dust jacket. First printing carries a full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/levels-of-life"
  },
  {
   "slug": "keeping-an-eye-open-essays-on-art",
   "title": "Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art",
   "author": "Julian Barnes",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2015",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Collection of art essays, illustrated in colour throughout (ISBN 9780224102018). Hardcover in illustrated boards, issued in dust jacket. First printing carries a full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/keeping-an-eye-open-essays-on-art"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-noise-of-time",
   "title": "The Noise of Time",
   "author": "Julian Barnes",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2016",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Novel. Hardcover in boards with gilt spine lettering, issued in dust jacket. First printing carries a full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-noise-of-time"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-only-story",
   "title": "The Only Story",
   "author": "Julian Barnes",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2018",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Novel (ISBN 9781787330696). Hardcover in boards with gilt spine lettering, issued in dust jacket. First printing carries a full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-only-story"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-man-in-the-red-coat",
   "title": "The Man in the Red Coat",
   "author": "Julian Barnes",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2019",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Illustrated non-fiction (ISBN 9781787332164). Hardcover in boards, issued in dust jacket. The true first printing has a caption error: the photograph on page 33 is captioned 'Oscar Wilde as Salomé'; in a later first-edition printing the image was changed and recaptioned 'Wilde as a Greek'. First printing also carries a full descending number line ending in 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-man-in-the-red-coat"
  },
  {
   "slug": "elizabeth-finch",
   "title": "Elizabeth Finch",
   "author": "Julian Barnes",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2022",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Novel (ISBN 9781787333932; approx. 179 pp). Hardcover, issued in a pictorial dust jacket designed by Suzanne Dean with cut-away circles revealing the cover beneath. First printing carries a full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/elizabeth-finch"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-jaguar-smile-a-nicaraguan-journey",
   "title": "The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey",
   "author": "Salman Rushdie",
   "publisher": "Picador / Pan Books (London)",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Rushdie's first full-length non-fiction book. The true UK first was issued as a Picador paperback original in printed pictorial wrappers (not a hardcover in boards), with a number line ending in 1 on the copyright page. The Viking (Elisabeth Sifton Books) US edition, also 1987, was the first hardcover printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-jaguar-smile-a-nicaraguan-journey"
  },
  {
   "slug": "east-west",
   "title": "East, West",
   "author": "Salman Rushdie",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Story collection of nine tales. Hardback in boards with gilt-lettered spine, issued in dust jacket. First edition, first impression has the full number line ending in 1; the jacket carries a net price. Later printings state the impression.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/east-west"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-moors-last-sigh",
   "title": "The Moor's Last Sigh",
   "author": "Salman Rushdie",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardback in boards with gilt-lettered spine, issued in dust jacket. First edition, first impression has the full number line ending in 1; later printings state the impression. Booker Prize shortlisted and Whitbread Novel Award winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-moors-last-sigh"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-ground-beneath-her-feet",
   "title": "The Ground Beneath Her Feet",
   "author": "Salman Rushdie",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1999",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardback in boards with gilt-lettered spine, issued in dust jacket. First edition, first impression has the full number line ending in 1; later printings state the impression.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-ground-beneath-her-feet"
  },
  {
   "slug": "fury",
   "title": "Fury",
   "author": "Salman Rushdie",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardback in boards with gilt-lettered spine, issued in dust jacket. First edition, first impression has the full number line ending in 1; later printings state the impression.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/fury"
  },
  {
   "slug": "step-across-this-line-collected-nonfiction-1992-2002",
   "title": "Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992–2002",
   "author": "Salman Rushdie",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Collected essays and nonfiction. Hardback in boards with gilt-lettered spine, issued in dust jacket. First edition, first impression has the full number line; later printings state the impression.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/step-across-this-line-collected-nonfiction-1992-2002"
  },
  {
   "slug": "shalimar-the-clown",
   "title": "Shalimar the Clown",
   "author": "Salman Rushdie",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardback in boards with gilt-lettered spine, issued in dust jacket. First edition, first impression has the full number line ending in 1; later printings state the impression. Booker Prize longlisted.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/shalimar-the-clown"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-enchantress-of-florence",
   "title": "The Enchantress of Florence",
   "author": "Salman Rushdie",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK trade edition in boards with gilt-lettered spine and dust jacket; complete number line descending to 1. A separate signed and numbered limited issue was also produced. The exact trade-jacket price could not be independently confirmed, so no specific figure is asserted here.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-enchantress-of-florence"
  },
  {
   "slug": "luka-and-the-fire-of-life",
   "title": "Luka and the Fire of Life",
   "author": "Salman Rushdie",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition of this children's/young-readers fantasy in boards with gilt-lettered spine and dust jacket; complete number line descending to 1 on the copyright page. The exact jacket price is not asserted here.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/luka-and-the-fire-of-life"
  },
  {
   "slug": "two-years-eight-months-and-twenty-eight-nights",
   "title": "Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights",
   "author": "Salman Rushdie",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2015",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition in boards with gilt-lettered spine and dust jacket; complete number line descending to 1. The exact jacket price is not asserted here.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/two-years-eight-months-and-twenty-eight-nights"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-golden-house",
   "title": "The Golden House",
   "author": "Salman Rushdie",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2017",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition in boards with gilt-lettered spine and dust jacket; complete number line descending to 1. The exact jacket price is not asserted here.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-golden-house"
  },
  {
   "slug": "quichotte",
   "title": "Quichotte",
   "author": "Salman Rushdie",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2019",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition in boards with gilt-lettered spine and dust jacket; complete number line descending to 1. Booker Prize shortlisted, 2019. The exact jacket price is not asserted here.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/quichotte"
  },
  {
   "slug": "learning-to-swim-and-other-stories",
   "title": "Learning to Swim and Other Stories",
   "author": "Graham Swift",
   "publisher": "London Magazine Editions (London)",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Swift's first story collection, issued in a hardcover binding of apple-green cloth with gilt spine lettering, 146 pages; copyright page reads 'First published 1982'; original dust jacket. The print run was small (about 750 copies), which accounts for its scarcity.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/learning-to-swim-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "t-s-eliot-a-life",
   "title": "T. S. Eliot: A Life",
   "author": "Peter Ackroyd",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Biography in hardcover; boards with gilt-lettered spine; copyright page reads 'First published 1984' (ISBN 0241113490, 400 pages); original priced dust jacket. The UK title on the title page is simply 'T. S. Eliot'.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/t-s-eliot-a-life"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hawksmoor",
   "title": "Hawksmoor",
   "author": "Peter Ackroyd",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover in brown cloth/buckram, spine lettered in gilt; copyright page reads 'First published 1985' with a full number line ending in 1; original color-printed priced dust jacket. Won the Whitbread Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hawksmoor"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-house-of-doctor-dee",
   "title": "The House of Doctor Dee",
   "author": "Peter Ackroyd",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover in boards with gilt spine, in dust jacket with the price present on the flap. First impression shows a full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-house-of-doctor-dee"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-quantity-theory-of-insanity",
   "title": "The Quantity Theory of Insanity",
   "author": "Will Self",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury (London)",
   "year": "1991",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Story collection; Will Self's debut book. The true first edition is the Bloomsbury paperback original, issued in pictorial wrappers (not a hardcover), with the price printed on the back cover. ISBN 0747510130.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-quantity-theory-of-insanity"
  },
  {
   "slug": "grey-area-and-other-stories",
   "title": "Grey Area and Other Stories",
   "author": "Will Self",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury (London)",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Self's second story collection. The Bloomsbury first was issued as an original in spiral/ring-bound pictorial card boards with no separate dust jacket as issued; number line ending in 1. Note: hardcover cloth copies with a tan-and-black illustrated jacket also circulate, so confirm the binding before describing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/grey-area-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sweet-smell-of-psychosis",
   "title": "The Sweet Smell of Psychosis",
   "author": "Will Self",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury (London)",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Novella illustrated throughout by Martin Rowson; issued in slim illustrated/laminated boards without a separate dust jacket as issued; number line ending in 1. ISBN 0747531110.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sweet-smell-of-psychosis"
  },
  {
   "slug": "number9dream",
   "title": "number9dream",
   "author": "David Mitchell",
   "publisher": "Sceptre (London)",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued by Sceptre as a trade-paperback original in stiff card wraps; full number line including 1 on the copyright page confirms the first printing. Booker-shortlisted.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/number9dream"
  },
  {
   "slug": "black-swan-green",
   "title": "Black Swan Green",
   "author": "David Mitchell",
   "publisher": "Random House (New York)",
   "year": "2006",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Random House hardcover: stated First Edition with a complete number line including 1 on the copyright page; boards with gilt spine lettering; price-printed dust jacket. The UK Sceptre edition (forest-green boards, metallic blue spine lettering, number line including 1) is a near-simultaneous edition that does not precede.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/black-swan-green"
  },
  {
   "slug": "slade-house",
   "title": "Slade House",
   "author": "David Mitchell",
   "publisher": "Sceptre (London)",
   "year": "2015",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardback in boards with gilt-titled spine, in dust jacket; first printing identified by a complete number line ending in 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/slade-house"
  },
  {
   "slug": "free-love-and-other-stories",
   "title": "Free Love and Other Stories",
   "author": "Ali Smith",
   "publisher": "Virago (London)",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Short story collection of twelve stories; first edition published by Virago in 1995 (ISBN 1-86049-190-1), cover bearing a still of Louise Brooks chosen by the author. Smith's debut book; winner of the Saltire First Book of the Year award and a Scottish Arts Council award.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/free-love-and-other-stories"
  },
  {
   "slug": "like",
   "title": "Like",
   "author": "Ali Smith",
   "publisher": "Virago (London)",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition issued in full cloth with a dust jacket (a hardback, not a paperback original); copyright page stated as first edition. Smith's debut novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/like"
  },
  {
   "slug": "changing-my-mind-occasional-essays",
   "title": "Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays",
   "author": "Zadie Smith",
   "publisher": "Penguin Press (New York)",
   "year": "2009",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Zadie Smith's first essay collection. The US Penguin Press hardcover carries the publisher's full number line counting down to 1 on the copyright page; cloth-backed boards in dust jacket. The UK Hamish Hamilton hardcover is a separate, slightly later issue identified by the Penguin number line and date on its copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/changing-my-mind-occasional-essays"
  },
  {
   "slug": "feel-free-essays",
   "title": "Feel Free: Essays",
   "author": "Zadie Smith",
   "publisher": "Penguin Press (New York)",
   "year": "2018",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Essay collection arranged in five sections. The US Penguin Press hardcover carries the full number line counting down to 1 on the copyright page; cloth-backed boards in dust jacket. The UK Hamish Hamilton hardcover is a closely contemporaneous but slightly later issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/feel-free-essays"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-fraud",
   "title": "The Fraud",
   "author": "Zadie Smith",
   "publisher": "Penguin Press (New York)",
   "year": "2023",
   "genre": "brit-contemporary",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Zadie Smith's first historical novel. The US Penguin Press hardcover carries the full number line counting down to 1 on the copyright page; boards in dust jacket. The UK Hamish Hamilton hardcover is a slightly later, separate issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-fraud"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pebble-in-the-sky",
   "title": "Pebble in the Sky",
   "author": "Isaac Asimov",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (New York)",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page, with 1950 on both the title and copyright pages. Grey cloth with orange spine lettering and a green top stain, in a pictorial dust jacket priced 2.50 on the front flap, the rear panel carrying a photograph and biography of Asimov. Asimov's first published novel in hardcover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pebble-in-the-sky"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nine-tomorrows",
   "title": "Nine Tomorrows",
   "author": "Isaac Asimov",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page. First-issue dust jacket priced $3.50 on the front flap (not $2.95). Includes \"The Last Question.\"",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nine-tomorrows"
  },
  {
   "slug": "foundation-and-earth",
   "title": "Foundation and Earth",
   "author": "Isaac Asimov",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first printing is identified by \"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page. Doubleday number lines of this era never descend to 1, so a stated \"First Edition\" (not a 1 in a number line) is the point of issue. Trade dust jacket is priced on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/foundation-and-earth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "prelude-to-foundation",
   "title": "Prelude to Foundation",
   "author": "Isaac Asimov",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Do not look for a number line ending in 1; Doubleday number lines of this period never reach 1, and the Doubleday trade first does not carry a stated \"First Edition\" on its copyright page. The first printing is identified by the absence of any later-printing indication and the original priced trade dust jacket (raised metallic lettering, Boris Vallejo cover art).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/prelude-to-foundation"
  },
  {
   "slug": "forward-the-foundation",
   "title": "Forward the Foundation",
   "author": "Isaac Asimov",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Do not look for a number line ending in 1 or a stated \"First Edition\". The Doubleday first printing carries neither: the copyright-page number line begins at 2 and there is no \"First Edition\" statement, because first-edition rights had been assigned to Easton Press (whose signed edition was never completed owing to Asimov's final illness). The first printing is identified by that line beginning with 2 and the original priced trade dust jacket. Published posthumously.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/forward-the-foundation"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-green-hills-of-earth",
   "title": "The Green Hills of Earth",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "Shasta Publishers",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Shasta Publishers first edition, Chicago, 1951. Quarter black cloth over green paper-covered boards; cover and jacket art by Hubert Rogers. Jacket priced. A separate issue of subscriber's copies was signed by Heinlein on an inserted leaf; these exist in an undetermined quantity and are not a formally numbered or limited edition. Second volume in the Future History series.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-green-hills-of-earth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-menace-from-earth",
   "title": "The Menace from Earth",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "Gnome Press",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Gnome Press first; story collection of eight stories. Bound in black cloth with spine stamped in silver and gold; yellow endpapers. 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page. Point of issue: the first-issue dust jacket is UNPRICED on the front flap (no price printed there); the rear panel lists other Gnome Press science-fiction titles with their prices.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-menace-from-earth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "glory-road",
   "title": "Glory Road",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam first printing has no statement of printing on the copyright page; identification rests on the dust jacket, which carries the first-issue price on the front flap. Multiple dealer copies confirm the first-issue jacket price, which differs from the figure originally recorded.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/glory-road"
  },
  {
   "slug": "time-enough-for-love",
   "title": "Time Enough for Love",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition has no later-printing statement on the copyright page. The first-issue dust jacket carries the original printed price on the front flap and is unclipped; jacket illustration by Vincent Di Fate. Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering and goldenrod endpapers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/time-enough-for-love"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-number-of-the-beast",
   "title": "The Number of the Beast",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "New English Library (London); Fawcett Columbine (New York)",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first U.S. issue from Fawcett Columbine is a trade paperback, not a standard hardcover, so a softcover priced on the rear cover is the ordinary first U.S. printing; a scarce Fawcett Columbine hardcover issue also exists. The U.K. New English Library hardcover is the first hardcover appearance, with the price printed on the jacket flap. Both were illustrated by Richard M. Powers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-number-of-the-beast"
  },
  {
   "slug": "prelude-to-space",
   "title": "Prelude to Space",
   "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
   "publisher": "World Editions (Galaxy Science Fiction Novel No. 3)",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first appearance is the 1951 World Editions digest-sized paperback, issued as Galaxy Science Fiction Novel No. 3. The UK Sidgwick and Jackson hardcover followed in 1953, and the US Gnome Press hardcover and a Ballantine paperback both appeared in 1954.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/prelude-to-space"
  },
  {
   "slug": "islands-in-the-sky",
   "title": "Islands in the Sky",
   "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
   "publisher": "The John C. Winston Company",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US John C. Winston Company first edition (a juvenile in the Winston SF series for young readers), issued in cloth with a priced dust jacket. The UK Sidgwick and Jackson edition, also 1952, is catalogued by dealers as the first British edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/islands-in-the-sky"
  },
  {
   "slug": "earthlight",
   "title": "Earthlight",
   "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
   "publisher": "Ballantine Books",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Ballantine Books first edition, issued both in cloth hardcover and in paperback wrappers. The cloth hardcover is regarded as the scarcer of the two formats.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/earthlight"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-city-and-the-stars",
   "title": "The City and the Stars",
   "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition stated 'First Edition' on the copyright page (Harcourt practice of this era), priced dust jacket (3.75 on the front flap). Blue marbled cloth, silver spine lettering, jacket art by George Salter. Expanded rewrite of 'Against the Fall of Night.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-city-and-the-stars"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-deep-range",
   "title": "The Deep Range",
   "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition stated 'First Edition' on the copyright page (Harcourt practice of this era), priced dust jacket. Expansion of an earlier short story into a novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-deep-range"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tales-from-the-white-hart",
   "title": "Tales from the White Hart",
   "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
   "publisher": "Ballantine",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Paperback original, Ballantine number 186, 1957. Collection of fifteen 'club tale' stories, two of which ('Moving Spirit' and 'The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch') first appeared here. No simultaneous hardcover was issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tales-from-the-white-hart"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-other-side-of-the-sky",
   "title": "The Other Side of the Sky",
   "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition stated 'First Edition' on the copyright page (Harcourt practice of this era), priced dust jacket (3.95 on the flap). Story collection of twenty-four tales, the author's selection from 1947 to 1957; green boards with teal cloth spine.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-other-side-of-the-sky"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-fall-of-moondust",
   "title": "A Fall of Moondust",
   "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace & World",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition stated 'First Edition' on the copyright page (Harcourt practice of this era), priced dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-fall-of-moondust"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tales-of-ten-worlds",
   "title": "Tales of Ten Worlds",
   "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace & World",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Harcourt first edition. Harcourt, Brace & World from 1960 to 1970 stated 'First Edition' on the copyright page, with no later printing indicated; price-clipped or reprinted jackets occur, so a priced first-edition jacket is preferred. Story collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tales-of-ten-worlds"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dolphin-island",
   "title": "Dolphin Island",
   "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
   "publisher": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Holt first edition, full title 'Dolphin Island: A Story of the People of the Sea,' dust jacket by Alex Schomburg. Juvenile novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dolphin-island"
  },
  {
   "slug": "glide-path",
   "title": "Glide Path",
   "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace & World",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Harcourt first edition with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page (Harcourt, Brace & World practice, 1960-1970), priced jacket preferred. Clarke's only non-science-fiction novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/glide-path"
  },
  {
   "slug": "2010-odyssey-two",
   "title": "2010: Odyssey Two",
   "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
   "publisher": "Del Rey / Ballantine",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Del Rey/Ballantine first hardcover with a complete number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; priced jacket. A Phantasia Press signed limited edition (650 numbered copies signed by Clarke, Paul Lehr frontispiece) was also issued in 1982.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/2010-odyssey-two"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-songs-of-distant-earth",
   "title": "The Songs of Distant Earth",
   "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
   "publisher": "Del Rey / Ballantine",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Del Rey/Ballantine first hardcover with a complete number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; priced jacket; Michael Whelan cover and interior illustrations. A signed limited issue also exists.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-songs-of-distant-earth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-october-country",
   "title": "The October Country",
   "author": "Ray Bradbury",
   "publisher": "Ballantine",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The 1955 Ballantine hardcover is the first edition; the probable earliest state of the trade binding (Currey binding B1) shows the publisher's monogram stamped upside down at the base of the spine, in red cloth with black spine lettering. The volume reprints fifteen of the twenty-seven stories from Dark Carnival and adds four others.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-october-country"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dandelion-wine",
   "title": "Dandelion Wine",
   "author": "Ray Bradbury",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page. First-issue dust jacket present. Bound in yellow cloth, titles in gilt and light blue on spine.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dandelion-wine"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-medicine-for-melancholy",
   "title": "A Medicine for Melancholy",
   "author": "Ray Bradbury",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page. First-issue dust jacket present. Story collection of twenty-two stories.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-medicine-for-melancholy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-machineries-of-joy",
   "title": "The Machineries of Joy",
   "author": "Ray Bradbury",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing with no statement of a later printing on the copyright page. Publisher's quarter yellow cloth over orange boards, stamped in black, top edge stained black. Priced dust jacket present. Story collection of twenty-one stories.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-machineries-of-joy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "death-is-a-lonely-business",
   "title": "Death Is a Lonely Business",
   "author": "Ray Bradbury",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The Knopf trade issue states 'First Trade Edition' on the copyright page (not simply 'First Edition'); the trade dust jacket is priced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/death-is-a-lonely-business"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-three-stigmata-of-palmer-eldritch",
   "title": "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Doubleday",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "\"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page; 1965 on the title page; gutter/printing code on the last text page; price-clipped jackets aside, the first-issue jacket carries the original Doubleday price on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-three-stigmata-of-palmer-eldritch"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-crack-in-space",
   "title": "The Crack in Space",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace paperback original, catalog number F-377, with forty-cent cover price; 190 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-crack-in-space"
  },
  {
   "slug": "galactic-pot-healer",
   "title": "Galactic Pot-Healer",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Berkley",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Berkley Medallion paperback original, catalog number X1705 (not S1681), sixty-cent cover price, published June 1969, cover art by Sandy Kossin.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/galactic-pot-healer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "we-can-build-you",
   "title": "We Can Build You",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "DAW",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "DAW paperback original, DAW SF Books No. 14, catalog code UQ1014, cover art by John Schoenherr; July 1972. Earlier magazine serialization as 'A. Lincoln, Simulacrum' in Amazing Stories (Nov 1969 and Jan 1970) precedes the book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/we-can-build-you"
  },
  {
   "slug": "wild-angels",
   "title": "Wild Angels",
   "author": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
   "publisher": "Capra Press",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Capra Press first edition, Santa Barbara, issued as number 27 in the Capra Chapbook Series. Le Guin's first book of poetry. Issued in printed wrappers, plus a signed and numbered hardbound limited issue of 200 copies hand-bound by Emily Paine.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/wild-angels"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-winds-twelve-quarters",
   "title": "The Wind's Twelve Quarters",
   "author": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Harper & Row first edition with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page accompanied by a complete descending number line including the numeral 1 (Harper & Row's mid-1970s practice placed the number line on the copyright page). Priced dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-winds-twelve-quarters"
  },
  {
   "slug": "very-far-away-from-anywhere-else",
   "title": "Very Far Away from Anywhere Else",
   "author": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
   "publisher": "Atheneum",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Atheneum first edition, 1976, with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page. Priced dust jacket. Young-adult novel; published in the UK by Gollancz as 'A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/very-far-away-from-anywhere-else"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-compass-rose",
   "title": "The Compass Rose",
   "author": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
   "publisher": "Underwood-Miller",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the Underwood-Miller (Pendragon Press) edition: a clothbound issue limited to 550 numbered copies signed by Le Guin, with a bound-in limitation page and Thomas Canty artwork, issued mid-1982 (ISBN 0-934438-60-9). The Harper & Row trade hardcover, with a number line ending in 1 on the copyright page in a priced jacket, followed in July 1982. A collection of twenty short stories.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-compass-rose"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-gift-from-earth",
   "title": "A Gift from Earth",
   "author": "Larry Niven",
   "publisher": "Ballantine",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ballantine Books paperback original, catalog number 72113, September 1968. Wraps; first printing has no statement of later printing on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-gift-from-earth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "neutron-star",
   "title": "Neutron Star",
   "author": "Larry Niven",
   "publisher": "Ballantine",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ballantine Books paperback original, catalog number U6120, April 1968. Wraps; Known Space short-story collection (eight stories, including the Hugo-winning title story).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/neutron-star"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-shape-of-space",
   "title": "The Shape of Space",
   "author": "Larry Niven",
   "publisher": "Ballantine",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ballantine Books paperback original, catalog number 01712, 1969. Wraps; short-story collection of twelve pieces. Not reprinted in English under this title, so the first printing is the only English edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-shape-of-space"
  },
  {
   "slug": "all-the-myriad-ways",
   "title": "All the Myriad Ways",
   "author": "Larry Niven",
   "publisher": "Ballantine",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ballantine Books paperback original, catalog number 02280, 1971. Wraps; collection of stories and essays.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/all-the-myriad-ways"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-flying-sorcerers",
   "title": "The Flying Sorcerers",
   "author": "Larry Niven",
   "publisher": "Ballantine",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ballantine Books paperback original, catalog number 02331, August 1971. Wraps; co-written with David Gerrold. Expanded from the magazine serial 'The Misspelled Magishun' (If, 1970).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-flying-sorcerers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "inconstant-moon",
   "title": "Inconstant Moon",
   "author": "Larry Niven",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Victor Gollancz, London, 1973, first hardcover edition in boards with the original unclipped dust jacket. Collection of twelve stories assembled for the UK market, including the Hugo-winning title story.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/inconstant-moon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "protector",
   "title": "Protector",
   "author": "Larry Niven",
   "publisher": "Ballantine",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ballantine paperback original, catalog number 23486, with 'First Printing: September, 1973' on the copyright page and Dean Ellis wraparound cover art. Incorporates the earlier story 'The Adults' (Galaxy) as its first section.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/protector"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-flight-of-the-horse",
   "title": "The Flight of the Horse",
   "author": "Larry Niven",
   "publisher": "Ballantine",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ballantine paperback original, catalog number 23487, September 1973, with Dean Ellis cover art. Story collection, mostly Hanville Svetz time-travel tales.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-flight-of-the-horse"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-hole-in-space",
   "title": "A Hole in Space",
   "author": "Larry Niven",
   "publisher": "Ballantine",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ballantine paperback original, catalog number 24011, 1974, in pictorial wrappers. Story collection of Known Space material.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-hole-in-space"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-mote-in-gods-eye",
   "title": "The Mote in God's Eye",
   "author": "Larry Niven",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing per Simon & Schuster convention, with no statement of a later printing. The first printing carries the word 'spared' on page 465 (corrected to 'spaced' in later states). Dust jacket priced 9.95 on the flap. Co-written with Jerry Pournelle.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-mote-in-gods-eye"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tales-of-known-space",
   "title": "Tales of Known Space",
   "author": "Larry Niven",
   "publisher": "Ballantine",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ballantine paperback original, full title 'Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven,' catalog number 24563, with 'First printing, August, 1975' on the copyright page. Story collection with a Known Space chronology and Rick Sternbach cover art.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tales-of-known-space"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-magic-goes-away",
   "title": "The Magic Goes Away",
   "author": "Larry Niven",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace 1978, illustrated throughout by Esteban Maroto with a Boris Vallejo cover. Issued both as an illustrated trade paperback and as a hardcover; the paperback is in pictorial wrappers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-magic-goes-away"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-ringworld-engineers",
   "title": "The Ringworld Engineers",
   "author": "Larry Niven",
   "publisher": "Phantasia Press",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Phantasia Press signed/numbered limited edition (500 copies, slipcased, signed by Niven, folded map laid in) is the true first edition in book form, preceding the Holt trade. The Holt, Rinehart and Winston trade hardcover (stated 'First Edition', priced jacket) followed and is the first trade edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-ringworld-engineers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "oath-of-fealty",
   "title": "Oath of Fealty",
   "author": "Larry Niven",
   "publisher": "Phantasia Press",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Phantasia Press first edition, 1981, limited to 750 numbered copies signed by both authors on a bound-in limitation leaf; beige cloth with matching slipcase and wraparound full-color jacket. Co-written with Jerry Pournelle.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/oath-of-fealty"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-integral-trees",
   "title": "The Integral Trees",
   "author": "Larry Niven",
   "publisher": "Del Rey / Ballantine",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition: March 1984' with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1; priced jacket with Michael Whelan cover; green quarter-cloth with gilt spine titles.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-integral-trees"
  },
  {
   "slug": "footfall",
   "title": "Footfall",
   "author": "Larry Niven",
   "publisher": "Del Rey / Ballantine",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with full number line down to 1; priced jacket with Michael Whelan cover. Co-written with Jerry Pournelle.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/footfall"
  },
  {
   "slug": "isle-of-the-dead",
   "title": "Isle of the Dead",
   "author": "Roger Zelazny",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ace paperback original, 1969, Leo and Diane Dillon cover. Nebula nominee for Best Novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/isle-of-the-dead"
  },
  {
   "slug": "today-we-choose-faces",
   "title": "Today We Choose Faces",
   "author": "Roger Zelazny",
   "publisher": "Signet/NAL",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Signet (NAL) paperback original, catalog number 451-Q5435, 95-cent cover, cover art by Dean Ellis. First printing has no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/today-we-choose-faces"
  },
  {
   "slug": "changeling",
   "title": "Changeling",
   "author": "Roger Zelazny",
   "publisher": "Ace Books",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing is the Ace trade paperback original, illustrated by Esteban Maroto, in pictorial wrappers with the cover price printed. There is no priced Ace trade hardcover; the only hardcover is a book club issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/changeling"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-changing-land",
   "title": "The Changing Land",
   "author": "Roger Zelazny",
   "publisher": "Del Rey / Ballantine; Underwood-Miller (signed limited hardcover)",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The Del Rey / Ballantine mass-market paperback original (April 1981, cover art by Michael Herring) is the first published edition. The Underwood-Miller hardcover, illustrated by Thomas Canty, is a signed, numbered limited edition of 200 copies signed by Zelazny and Canty on the limitation page and is the first hardcover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-changing-land"
  },
  {
   "slug": "eye-of-cat",
   "title": "Eye of Cat",
   "author": "Roger Zelazny",
   "publisher": "Timescape / Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing from Timescape (Simon & Schuster) carries the Simon & Schuster gnomonic number line reading 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 on the copyright page, with a priced dust jacket. A separate Underwood-Miller signed, numbered limited edition of 333 copies was also issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/eye-of-cat"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-touch-of-infinity",
   "title": "A Touch of Infinity",
   "author": "Harlan Ellison",
   "publisher": "Ace",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Not a standalone book. A Touch of Infinity is one half of Ace Double D-413, bound dos-a-dos (back-to-back, tete-beche) with The Man With Nine Lives. The number D-413 is the Ace Double designation, and the 35-cent cover price applies to the combined volume. It collects five science-fiction stories and is Ellison's first SF collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-touch-of-infinity"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gentleman-junkie-and-other-stories-of-the-hung-up-generation",
   "title": "Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation",
   "author": "Harlan Ellison",
   "publisher": "Regency Books",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Regency Books paperback original, catalog number RB 102 (not RB 110), published in Evanston, Illinois. Mainstream-fiction collection of social-commentary stories; cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon, introduction by Frank M. Robinson.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gentleman-junkie-and-other-stories-of-the-hung-up-generation"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ellison-wonderland",
   "title": "Ellison Wonderland",
   "author": "Harlan Ellison",
   "publisher": "Paperback Library",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Paperback Library paperback original, catalog number 52-149 (not 52-119), first printing dated June 1962, 50-cent cover price. Collects sixteen mostly-fantasy stories.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ellison-wonderland"
  },
  {
   "slug": "i-have-no-mouth-and-i-must-scream",
   "title": "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream",
   "author": "Harlan Ellison",
   "publisher": "Pyramid",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pyramid Science Fiction paperback original, catalog number X-1611, stating first printing April 1967 on the copyright page. Cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon. Story collection whose title story won the 1968 Hugo for best short story.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/i-have-no-mouth-and-i-must-scream"
  },
  {
   "slug": "from-the-land-of-fear",
   "title": "From the Land of Fear",
   "author": "Harlan Ellison",
   "publisher": "Belmont",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Belmont paperback original, catalog number B60-069, published December 1967. Cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon. Collection of eleven stories.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/from-the-land-of-fear"
  },
  {
   "slug": "love-aint-nothing-but-sex-misspelled",
   "title": "Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelled",
   "author": "Harlan Ellison",
   "publisher": "Trident Press",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trident Press first hardcover, 1968, identified as first edition / first printing by dealers, with a priced dust jacket designed by Leo and Diane Dillon. Collection of twenty-two stories.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/love-aint-nothing-but-sex-misspelled"
  },
  {
   "slug": "recalled-to-life",
   "title": "Recalled to Life",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Lancer",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Lancer paperback original, catalog number 74-810, Emsh cover. The novel was first serialized in Infinity Science Fiction (June and August 1958); the 1962 Lancer is the first book-form edition. Silverberg substantially revised the text for the later Doubleday hardcover (1972).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/recalled-to-life"
  },
  {
   "slug": "to-open-the-sky",
   "title": "To Open the Sky",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Ballantine",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ballantine Books paperback original, catalog number U6093, Richard Powers cover. A fix-up assembled from five novelettes published 1965 to 1966.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/to-open-the-sky"
  },
  {
   "slug": "thorns",
   "title": "Thorns",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Ballantine",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ballantine Books paperback original, catalog number U6097.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/thorns"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nightwings",
   "title": "Nightwings",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Avon",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Avon paperback original, catalog number V2303 (not V2331), Don Ivan Punchatz cover. The title novella won the 1969 Hugo Award.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nightwings"
  },
  {
   "slug": "downward-to-the-earth",
   "title": "Downward to the Earth",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Nelson Doubleday (Science Fiction Book Club)",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first US hardcover was the Science Fiction Book Club edition issued by Nelson Doubleday in 1970. As a book club issue it does NOT state \"First Edition,\" carries an unpriced jacket, and shows the usual book-club blind stamp on the rear board. Do not expect a stated \"First Edition\" or a priced trade jacket for this title.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/downward-to-the-earth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "son-of-man",
   "title": "Son of Man",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Ballantine Books",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ballantine paperback original, catalog number 02277, first printing June 1971; cover art by Gene Szafran. No stated later printing on the copyright page for the first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/son-of-man"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dying-inside-aside-the-stochastic-man",
   "title": "Dying Inside aside — The Stochastic Man",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page together with a number line whose lowest digit is 1 (Harper & Row's 1975 convention combines the printed statement with a year/printing number row); priced dust jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dying-inside-aside-the-stochastic-man"
  },
  {
   "slug": "majipoor-chronicles",
   "title": "Majipoor Chronicles",
   "author": "Robert Silverberg",
   "publisher": "Arbor House",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "sf-authors-1",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Arbor House first edition, 1982, identified by a complete number line on the copyright page and a dust jacket with the original printed price intact. Collection of ten stories set in the Majipoor world.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/majipoor-chronicles"
  },
  {
   "slug": "idoru",
   "title": "Idoru",
   "author": "William Gibson",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons (New York) / Viking (London)",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam US hardcover with a full number line ending in 1. Viking UK hardcover also dated 1996, with the number 1 present in the impression line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/idoru"
  },
  {
   "slug": "all-tomorrows-parties",
   "title": "All Tomorrow's Parties",
   "author": "William Gibson",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons (New York) / Viking (London)",
   "year": "1999",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam US hardcover with a full number line ending in 1. Viking UK hardcover also dated 1999.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/all-tomorrows-parties"
  },
  {
   "slug": "zero-history",
   "title": "Zero History",
   "author": "William Gibson",
   "publisher": "Viking (London) / G.P. Putnam's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Two simultaneous-year hardcover firsts. UK Viking (ISBN 0-670-91952-7) was published September 2, 2010; US Putnam (ISBN 0-399-15682-3) followed September 7, 2010, and is identified by a full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page. By date of publication the UK Viking edition narrowly precedes the US edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/zero-history"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-artificial-kid",
   "title": "The Artificial Kid",
   "author": "Bruce Sterling",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row (New York)",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hardcover in cloth-backed boards with 'First edition' stated on the copyright page accompanied by a complete descending number line ending in 1. Sterling's second book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-artificial-kid"
  },
  {
   "slug": "crystal-express",
   "title": "Crystal Express",
   "author": "Bruce Sterling",
   "publisher": "Arkham House (Sauk City)",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First story collection. Arkham House hardcover in black cloth with gilt-stamped spine; jacket and interior illustrations by Rick Lieder. Single print run of roughly 4,231 copies with no later printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/crystal-express"
  },
  {
   "slug": "globalhead",
   "title": "Globalhead",
   "author": "Bruce Sterling",
   "publisher": "Mark V. Ziesing (Shingletown, CA)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Story collection. Ziesing issued a trade hardcover alongside a signed limited edition of 375 numbered copies in slipcase, signed by Sterling.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/globalhead"
  },
  {
   "slug": "heavy-weather-bruce-sterling",
   "title": "Heavy Weather",
   "author": "Bruce Sterling",
   "publisher": "Bantam Spectra (New York)",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Bantam Spectra hardcover in original cloth, number line ending in 1 on the copyright page. ISBN 0-553-09393-2.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/heavy-weather-bruce-sterling"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gothic-high-tech",
   "title": "Gothic High-Tech",
   "author": "Bruce Sterling",
   "publisher": "Subterranean Press (Burton, MI)",
   "year": "2011",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Story collection issued in two simultaneous first-edition states: a fully cloth-bound trade hardcover and a deluxe signed limited of 200 numbered copies bound in leather, both with a dust jacket and First Edition stated on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gothic-high-tech"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-big-u",
   "title": "The Big U",
   "author": "Neal Stephenson",
   "publisher": "Vintage Books / Random House (New York)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trade paperback original issued only in wrappers, Vintage Books, stated first edition on the copyright page. Stephenson's debut. ISBN 0394723627.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-big-u"
  },
  {
   "slug": "interface",
   "title": "Interface",
   "author": "Stephen Bury (Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George)",
   "publisher": "Bantam (New York)",
   "year": "1994",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trade paperback original in glossy stiff-card pictorial wrappers under the pseudonym Stephen Bury, cover art by Bruce Jensen, stating First Edition on the copyright page. About 583 pages.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/interface"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-cobweb",
   "title": "The Cobweb",
   "author": "Stephen Bury (Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George)",
   "publisher": "Bantam (New York)",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "sf-authors-2",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trade paperback original in pictorial wrappers under the pseudonym Stephen Bury, stating First Edition on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-cobweb"
  }
 ]
}