NMLP P-040824 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Alienist

Caleb Carr · Random House (New York) · 1994

The first printing states "FIRST EDITION" on the copyright page together with a full number line running to "2" — Random House's convention from 1970 to roughly 2002, in which the words "First Edition" stand in place of the "1", so a line ending in 2 accompanied by the statement is the first printing, and the same line without the statement is the second

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-040824 for "The Alienist" by Caleb Carr (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-040824, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).