NMLP P-038789 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Fifth Head of Cerberus

Gene Wolfe · Charles Scribner's Sons (New York) · 1972

Scribner's used this letter-plus-month.year system from 1930 until roughly 1973, when it was replaced by a descending number line — so on a 1972 Scribner's book the absence of the A-code, or the presence of a B or later letter, rules out the first printing

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-038789 for "The Fifth Head of Cerberus" by Gene Wolfe (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038789, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).