NMLP P-045740 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

The Woman in the Dunes

Kōbō Abe · Shinchōsha, Tokyo · 1962

CORRECTION to census: the UK Secker & Warburg edition is dated 1964, not 1965 — the same year as the Knopf US edition. Original-language true first is Shinchōsha (Tokyo, 1962). Among English editions, Knopf (US) and Secker & Warburg (UK) both appeared in 1964; strict US-over-UK precedence is not documented, so they are best treated as same-year firsts rather than asserting the US precedes the UK.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-045740 for "The Woman in the Dunes" by Kōbō Abe (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045740, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).