NMLP P-043243 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris · Little, Brown and Company (New York) · 2000
US precedes; the census claim is correct. Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2000, is the true first and the only edition collected as such. There is no competing UK hardcover: Britain received the book from Abacus in paperback (ISBN 0349113904, 2001; reissued as 0349113912, 2002), well after the US hardcover, so no UK-vs-US precedence question arises here.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-043243 for "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-043243, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).