NMLP P-037851 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Lottery; or, The Adventures of James Harris

Shirley Jackson · Farrar, Straus and Company, New York · 1949

The first-issue dust jacket has the price present at the flap and gives the publisher's address as 53 East 34th Street, New York, on the rear panel; a second-issue jacket shows a Fifth Avenue address and a raised price, and is the single most common way a later copy is passed off

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-037851 for "The Lottery; or, The Adventures of James Harris" by Shirley Jackson (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-037851, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).