NMLP P-044432 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Garden of Eden

Ernest Hemingway · Charles Scribner's Sons, New York · 1986

The first printing has "FIRST EDITION" stated on the copyright page with no printing statement beneath it — that absence is the decisive test, because Scribner carried the "First Edition" slug forward onto later printings and simply added a printing line (a copy of the fourth printing, for example, states "First Edition" and "Fourth Printing July, 1986" together)

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-044432 for "The Garden of Eden" by Ernest Hemingway (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044432, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).