NMLP P-040793 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Wrong Case

James Crumley · Random House (New York) · 1975

Dealer copies of the first printing also report a full Random House number line beginning with 2 (the house form "2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3"), but the guides disagree on when Random House adopted the number line — one places the practice from about 1970, another from 1976 — so on a 1975 book treat the "First Edition" statement as the required point and the number line as corroborating rather than mandatory

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-040793 for "The Wrong Case" by James Crumley (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-040793, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).