NMLP P-044401 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
A Light in the Attic
Shel Silverstein · Harper & Row (New York) · 1981
US-only true first: Harper & Row (Junior Books), New York, 1981. No UK or other edition precedes it, and no earlier appearance of the collection is documented. The collected issue is the trade binding, ISBN 0-06-025673-7; a reinforced library binding at ISBN 0-06-025674-5 exists and is not the collected trade first. Later HarperCollins reissues of the title are "first thus."
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-044401 for "A Light in the Attic" by Shel Silverstein (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044401, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).