NMLP P-039562 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Murphy

Samuel Beckett · George Routledge & Sons (London) · 1938

The decisive point is the cloth: first-issue copies are bound in smooth green cloth with the spine lettered in gilt, while the unsold balance was bound up in coarse, rough-textured green cloth and released as a "cheap edition" in 1942 — the same sheets in a later binding

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-039562 for "Murphy" by Samuel Beckett (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-039562, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).