NMLP P-041738 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Bean Eaters

Gwendolyn Brooks · Harper & Brothers, New York · 1960

Under the Harper & Brothers code the first letter is the month of printing and the second the year (the letter J is skipped throughout); on the post-1937 cycle C = March and K = 1960, so C-K reads March 1960 and is correct for the first printing

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-041738 for "The Bean Eaters" by Gwendolyn Brooks (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041738, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).