NMLP P-040245 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Memoirs of a Geisha

Arthur Golden · Alfred A. Knopf, New York · 1997

Knopf removed that statement on later printings and substituted an explicit printing record — sixteenth-printing copies, for example, read "Published October 6, 1997 / Reprinted Fourteen Times / Sixteenth Printing, March 1998" — so the presence of the bare "First Edition" line with no printing history is the primary test

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-040245 for "Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-040245, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).