NMLP P-044876 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
Big as Life
E. L. Doctorow · Simon & Schuster · 1966
US-only true first: Simon & Schuster (New York), 1966 is the sole authorized edition. No contemporary UK edition was published, and because the author suppressed the book there is no authorized later printing; any modern reappearance of the text is a much-later reissue, not a competing first.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-044876 for "Big as Life" by E. L. Doctorow (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044876, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).