NMLP P-039215 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Ask the Dust

John Fante · Stackpole Sons, New York · 1939

Stackpole stated its later printings on the copyright page: examined copies of the second printing carry a 'Second Printing' statement, so a first printing is identified by the ABSENCE of any later-printing statement, not by a positive 'first edition' declaration

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-039215 for "Ask the Dust" by John Fante (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-039215, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).