NMLP P-044494 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
The White Album
Joan Didion · Simon & Schuster · 1979
The census claim is confirmed: the true first is the US edition, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1979. The first UK edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1979 (ISBN 0297777025, 222 pp.), followed and used the same jacket design; it is collected as the first English edition but does not have precedence. US priority is the collecting point.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-044494 for "The White Album" by Joan Didion (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044494, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).