NMLP P-042944 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Magic Christian

Terry Southern · André Deutsch (London) · 1959

The first American edition (Random House, New York, 1960) is a physically distinct book and is separately collected: it states "First Printing" on the copyright page and is bound in black cloth with a pink decoration to the front board, gilt spine lettering, and a pink topstain, in a dust jacket illustrated by William Pène du Bois

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-042944 for "The Magic Christian" by Terry Southern (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-042944, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).