NMLP P-043497 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19
The Tie That Binds
Kent Haruf · Holt, Rinehart and Winston (New York) · 1984
The first printing states "First Edition" on the copyright page together with a FULL number line beginning with 1 — dealers report the first-printing line as "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2." The trap is well documented on this title: the second printing drops the 1 and reads "3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2" while sellers still describe such copies as first editions, so count the line rather than trust the statement (Holt, Rinehart & Winston used a first-edition statement plus number row from the 1970s onward — Quill & Brush
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-043497 for "The Tie That Binds" by Kent Haruf (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-043497, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).