NMLP P-044458 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Sweet Thursday

John Steinbeck · The Viking Press, New York · 1954

The first-issue jacket carries Steinbeck's portrait on the rear panel with NO review blurbs beneath it, and the price is present at the front flap; the second-state jacket adds blurbs under the author photograph, so blurbs on the rear panel rule out a first-issue wrapper

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-044458 for "Sweet Thursday" by John Steinbeck (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044458, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).