NMLP P-044515 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Dream Life of Balso Snell

Nathanael West · Contact Editions · 1931

True first is Contact Editions (Robert McAlmon's imprint; place given as Paris, and Paris–New York on the title leaf), 1931 — West's first book and its only printing in his lifetime

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-044515 for "The Dream Life of Balso Snell" by Nathanael West (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044515, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).