NMLP P-044875 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Big as Life

E. L. Doctorow · Simon & Schuster · 1966

Because Doctorow was dissatisfied with this, his second book, and never permitted it to be reprinted, effectively every copy is a first edition and the title is genuinely his scarcest — there are no authorized later printings to confuse

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-044875 for "Big as Life" by E. L. Doctorow (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044875, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).