NMLP P-040799 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Thomas Berryman Number

James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company (Boston) · 1976

The first printing states "First Edition" / "First Printing" on the copyright page with the printing code "T03/76" set below the statement — the code is the operative point, since Little, Brown did not add number rows until the late 1970s, so a genuine 1976 first carries no number line at all

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-040799 for "The Thomas Berryman Number" by James Patterson (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-040799, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).