NMLP P-039010 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green · Dutton Books (New York) · 2012
The signature is NOT a first-printing point in the ordinary sense and must not be used as one on its own — Green announced he would hand-sign the entire first print run of 150,000 copies, and he did so by signing the sheets at his home in Indianapolis before the books were bound, so the signature is on an integral leaf of the first printing rather than a tipped-in slip; because every first-printing copy is signed, an unsigned copy with a full number line still warrants scrutiny, and a signed copy without the number line is a later state or a tour signature
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-039010 for "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-039010, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).