NMLP P-042914 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Benefactor

Susan Sontag · Farrar, Straus and Company · 1963

The first printing is stated — the copyright page reads "First Printing, 1963." Note the imprint carefully: the firm was Farrar, Straus and Company at this date and did not become Farrar, Straus & Giroux until 1964, so catalogue records and even reference sites that print "Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1963" are normalizing to the later name; the title page is the authority

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-042914 for "The Benefactor" by Susan Sontag (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-042914, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).