NMLP P-040744 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19
The New Centurions
Joseph Wambaugh · Little, Brown (Boston) · 1970
The decisive jacket point is the author biography on the rear panel, which in the first printing describes Wambaugh as "half-Mexican" — wording removed from later printings — and the first-printing jacket carries no mention anywhere of a Book-of-the-Month Club selection
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-040744 for "The New Centurions" by Joseph Wambaugh (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-040744, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).