NMLP P-041084 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Falling Angel

William Hjortsberg · Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York · 1978

A copy showing "BCDE" is therefore a first printing, not a fifth — the reverse of the intuitive reading, and the trap that causes genuine firsts to be misdescribed as later printings

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-041084 for "Falling Angel" by William Hjortsberg (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041084, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).