NMLP P-042851 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Catherine Carmier

Ernest J. Gaines · Atheneum (New York) · 1964

The first printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page — this is the primary and decisive point, and it accords with documented Atheneum practice for the period: Atheneum stated first edition on the copyright page and did not adopt a number row until the mid-1980s, so no number line should be present on a 1964 first

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-042851 for "Catherine Carmier" by Ernest J. Gaines (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-042851, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).