NMLP P-038409 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou · Random House, New York · 1969

The statement is the operative point, not the number line: Random House deleted the "First Printing"/"First Edition" wording on the second printing and left the 2 standing as the lowest numeral, so a copy showing a 2-terminal line WITHOUT the statement is a second printing — this is the single most common misattribution on this title

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-038409 for "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038409, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).