NMLP P-038136 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

Common Sense

Thomas Paine · R. Bell, Philadelphia · 1776

No book-club issue exists for a 1776 pamphlet. The reprint tells are imprint and setting: the first is Bell's Philadelphia imprint conforming to Gimbel CS-1. Everything else - Bell's "Second Edition," the Bradford enlarged edition, the Anderson New York reprint, the London reprints, and the endless modern facsimiles and reading editions - is a separate edition. Any copy naming Paine as author on the title is not the first, which is anonymous.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-038136 for "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038136, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).