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 "datePublished": "2026-06-28",
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "creator": {
  "name": "Josh Eldred",
  "sameAs": "https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5147-4825"
 },
 "publisher": "New Mexico Literacy Project",
 "count": 399,
 "data": [
  {
   "slug": "the-great-gatsby",
   "title": "The Great Gatsby",
   "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1925",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the Scribner's seal 'A' and the 1925 Scribner's imprint on the copyright page. First-issue text points: 'chatter' (p.60), 'northern' (p.119), 'sick in tired' (p.205), 'Union Street station' (p.211), and the famously corrected 'echolalia' (p.60); the jacket has 'Jay Gatsby' corrected from a lowercase 'jay Gatsby' on the rear panel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-great-gatsby"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sun-also-rises",
   "title": "The Sun Also Rises",
   "author": "Ernest Hemingway",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1926",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has Scribner's seal 'A' with the 1926 imprint. Primary point: on p.181 line 26 'stoppped' is misspelled with three p's (corrected in the second printing). First-issue dust jacket lists the quotation 'This is an unimportant story...' and the jacket carries the period quotation from Ecclesiastes/Gertrude Stein.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sun-also-rises"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-farewell-to-arms",
   "title": "A Farewell to Arms",
   "author": "Ernest Hemingway",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1929",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trade first: Scribner's 'A' with 1929 imprint, no disclaimer notice on the copyright page (the disclaimer was added in later printings). Dust jacket without the 'legal' notice. A signed/limited issue of 510 copies was printed on rag paper, signed by Hemingway, in slipcase.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-farewell-to-arms"
  },
  {
   "slug": "for-whom-the-bell-tolls",
   "title": "For Whom the Bell Tolls",
   "author": "Ernest Hemingway",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the 'A' with 1940 imprint and the first-issue dust jacket WITHOUT the photographer's credit ('Photograph by ...') on the rear flap — the credit line was added in a later issue. Some first-issue jackets show the publisher's $2.75 price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/for-whom-the-bell-tolls"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-old-man-and-the-sea",
   "title": "The Old Man and the Sea",
   "author": "Ernest Hemingway",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the 'A' with 1952 imprint on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket has the blue/silver design with NO Book-of-the-Month Club blind-stamp and the $3.00 price present (jacket not clipped).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-old-man-and-the-sea"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sound-and-the-fury",
   "title": "The Sound and the Fury",
   "author": "William Faulkner",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith",
   "year": "1929",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "CONFIRMED: 1,789 copies first printing (Daniel; multiple ABAA dealers). True first is US Cape and Smith 1929, published Oct 7 1929; UK Chatto and Windus 1931 is later. No additional-printing notice is consistent. WRONG BINDING: not black cloth with paper spine label; it is patterned Art Deco paper-covered boards with a white cloth spine, title stamped in black on the spine with no paper label, dark blue-gray topstain, patterned endpapers. WRONG JACKET: not glassine; it is a printed pictorial jacket with a Kathe Kollwitz design; the real point of issue is the rear-panel Humanity Uprooted listing at 3.00 dollars first state versus 3.50 dollars second state. The jacket is genuinely scarce. PARTLY MISLEADING COLORED INK: it is true the 1929 text has no colored ink and Faulkner wished for colored type for the Benjy time-shifts, but this is not a point of issue since all early printings are monochrome, and it was later realized in the 2012 Folio Society edition; reword unrealized to unrealized in his lifetime.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sound-and-the-fury"
  },
  {
   "slug": "light-in-august",
   "title": "Light in August",
   "author": "William Faulkner",
   "publisher": "Harrison Smith & Robert Haas",
   "year": "1932",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade printing has the publisher's device and no later-printing notice; orange/tan cloth. A signed limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies preceded or accompanied the trade issue and is the premium state. The first trade issue lacks any printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/light-in-august"
  },
  {
   "slug": "absalom-absalom",
   "title": "Absalom, Absalom!",
   "author": "William Faulkner",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade edition is identified by \"1936\" on the title page AND \"1936\" on the copyright page with NO additional statement of later printings (no \"Second printing,\" etc.); a printer's code \"EH\" appears at the foot of the copyright page on the true first. Random House did NOT print the words \"FIRST EDITION\" on the copyright page of this 1936 book — the original claim is wrong on that point. The first edition does include the fold-out map of Yoknapatawpha County (printed in red and black) and the Chronology and Genealogy appendices (CONFIRMED). A signed limited edition of 300 numbered copies, signed by Faulkner on the limitation page, precedes the trade issue and is the premium true-first state (CONFIRMED) — but it was issued WITHOUT a publisher's slipcase: dealers (e.g., Bauman Rare Books) describe it as \"issued without dust jacket or slipcase,\" bound in half green cloth over patterned boards, top edge gilt. The original claim's \"in slipcase\" is incorrect; any slipcase/clamshell/chemise seen today is a later collector-added protective case, not original issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/absalom-absalom"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-grapes-of-wrath",
   "title": "The Grapes of Wrath",
   "author": "John Steinbeck",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press (New York)",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trade first: copyright page reads 'Copyright 1939 John Steinbeck / First Published in April 1939' AND 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page; dust jacket has $2.75 price upper-right of front flap and 'First Edition' in blue ink lower-right of front flap. The endpapers are the correct first-issue (no 'A Limited Edition' notice).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-grapes-of-wrath"
  },
  {
   "slug": "of-mice-and-men",
   "title": "Of Mice and Men",
   "author": "John Steinbeck",
   "publisher": "Covici-Friede",
   "year": "1937",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first: US Covici-Friede (NY, 1937) is the recognized true first edition; the UK Heinemann edition is also 1937 but later/secondary — CONFIRMED. First-issue point (CORRECTED): the point on p.9 is TEXTUAL, not \"broken/cropped type.\" The first issue (first printing, first state) CONTAINS the nine-word phrase at the bottom of p.9 reading \"...and only moved because the heavy hands were pendula.\" Roughly 2,500 copies were bound with this uncorrected reading; the page was then reset to delete those nine words, so the second issue/state ends the sentence at \"...hung loosely.\" Thus the first state has the original (longer) uncorrected reading — it is not that it \"lacks a correction\" so much as it predates the deletion. A second corroborating point is the bullet (raised period) between the two 8's of the page number on p.88 in the first issue (claim omitted this). Binding (CORRECTED/refined): publisher's beige/tan cloth, but stamped in terracotta/orange and black with a blue top-edge stain — NOT gilt. Dust jacket: $2.00 price on the upper front flap — CONFIRMED. Reference: Goldstone & Payne A7.a.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/of-mice-and-men"
  },
  {
   "slug": "east-of-eden",
   "title": "East of Eden",
   "author": "John Steinbeck",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First published by The Viking Press in September 1952' with no later printing line. First-issue text error: 'bite' for 'bight' on p.281, line 38. A 1,500-copy signed limited edition preceded the trade. Original jacket priced $4.50.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/east-of-eden"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-catcher-in-the-rye",
   "title": "The Catcher in the Rye",
   "author": "J. D. Salinger",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company (Boston)",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing: copyright page reads 'FIRST EDITION' and the dust jacket has the famous rear-panel photo of Salinger (later removed at his request) and lists the price $3.00. First-issue jacket has the Salinger photograph on the rear panel; the front flap mentions 'Lozenge' point per Ahearn.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-catcher-in-the-rye"
  },
  {
   "slug": "to-kill-a-mockingbird",
   "title": "To Kill a Mockingbird",
   "author": "Harper Lee",
   "publisher": "J. B. Lippincott (Philadelphia)",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page. First-issue dust jacket has the $3.95 price intact and the rear panel with Truman Capote's recommendation; the jacket back lists the photo by Truman Capote. No statement of later printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/to-kill-a-mockingbird"
  },
  {
   "slug": "invisible-man",
   "title": "Invisible Man",
   "author": "Ralph Ellison",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' with no later-printing notice. Original jacket priced $3.50, designed by E. McKnight Kauffer. Grey cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/invisible-man"
  },
  {
   "slug": "slaughterhouse-five",
   "title": "Slaughterhouse-Five",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence (New York)",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has 'First printing' stated on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket priced $5.95 with the Vonnegut blurbs. The 'Seymour Lawrence / Delacorte' imprint is present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/slaughterhouse-five"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cats-cradle",
   "title": "Cat's Cradle",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut",
   "publisher": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first edition, first printing states \"First Edition\" on the copyright page under the Holt, Rinehart and Winston imprint (New York, Chicago, San Francisco; 1963), with no additional later-printing notice. CORRECTION: the original first-issue dust jacket is priced $3.95 on the front flap, NOT $4.50. Multiple independent dealers (bbrarebooks, burnsiderarebooks, dustjackets.com) consistently cite $3.95; no source supports $4.50. The true-first note is ACCURATE: the US Holt, Rinehart and Winston edition (published March 18, 1963) is the true first; the UK Gollancz edition (1963) followed it, so the stated \"First Edition\" US trade copy is the collected first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cats-cradle"
  },
  {
   "slug": "blood-meridian",
   "title": "Blood Meridian",
   "author": "Cormac McCarthy",
   "publisher": "Random House (New York)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has 'FIRST EDITION' stated with the full number line ending in '1' and the Random House 'house' device on the title page; first-issue dust jacket priced $16.95 with the correct rear-panel author photo and blurbs.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/blood-meridian"
  },
  {
   "slug": "all-the-pretty-horses",
   "title": "All the Pretty Horses",
   "author": "Cormac McCarthy",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing has the full number line '9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' on the copyright page (Knopf) and 'FIRST EDITION' stated. Bound in quarter cloth/boards; first-issue dust jacket priced $21.00 on the front flap with the original Western landscape jacket art.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/all-the-pretty-horses"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-road",
   "title": "The Road",
   "author": "Cormac McCarthy",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "2006",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the full number line '9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' (ending in 1) and 'FIRST EDITION' with the Borzoi device; first-issue dust jacket priced $24.00. Oprah's Book Club sticker is NOT on a true first-issue jacket (the selection came later).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-road"
  },
  {
   "slug": "beloved",
   "title": "Beloved",
   "author": "Toni Morrison",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the full number line ending in '1' and 'FIRST EDITION' stated with the Borzoi device; first-issue dust jacket priced $18.95. A signed/limited issue of 400 copies, signed by Morrison, in slipcase, was issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/beloved"
  },
  {
   "slug": "song-of-solomon",
   "title": "Song of Solomon",
   "author": "Toni Morrison",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page with the Knopf colophon. Original jacket priced $8.95. No later-printing number line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/song-of-solomon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "portnoys-complaint",
   "title": "Portnoy's Complaint",
   "author": "Philip Roth",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page. Original jacket priced $6.95. A signed limited edition of 600 copies (in slipcase) preceded/accompanied the trade.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/portnoys-complaint"
  },
  {
   "slug": "goodbye-columbus",
   "title": "Goodbye, Columbus",
   "author": "Philip Roth",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'First Printing' on the copyright page with the Houghton Mifflin imprint; Roth's first book and National Book Award winner. Original jacket priced $3.50.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/goodbye-columbus"
  },
  {
   "slug": "american-pastoral",
   "title": "American Pastoral",
   "author": "Philip Roth",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition has the full number line ending in '1' with the Houghton Mifflin imprint. Original jacket priced $26.00. Pulitzer Prize winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/american-pastoral"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rabbit-run",
   "title": "Rabbit, Run",
   "author": "John Updike",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page with the Knopf Borzoi device. The first printing contains the unexpurgated text that Knopf later toned down; original jacket priced $4.00.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/rabbit-run"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-adventures-of-augie-march",
   "title": "The Adventures of Augie March",
   "author": "Saul Bellow",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The claimed points are individually accurate but materially INCOMPLETE — they omit the two decisive first-ISSUE points, so a copy matching the claim could still be a later second-issue printing. Corrected/complete points for the true first edition, first issue (The Viking Press, 1953): 1. COPYRIGHT PAGE: Reads \"Published by The Viking Press in September 1953\" with NO statement of later/subsequent printings. (Claim's generic \"Published...1953, no later-printing line, Viking imprint\" is correct but imprecise on the month.)\n2. PRINTER STATEMENT (KEY ISSUE POINT — OMITTED IN CLAIM): First issue states \"Printed in U.S.A. by the Vail-Ballou Press, Inc.\" at the bottom of the copyright page. The SECOND issue instead shows H. Wolff as printer.\n3. TOP-EDGE STAIN (KEY ISSUE POINT — OMITTED IN CLAIM): First issue has ORANGE top-edge stain (topstain). The second issue has NO topstain. Binding: black and gray cloth with orange titles.\n4. DUST JACKET (issue point — partly omitted): Price $4.50 on the upper front flap (CONFIRMED accurate). First-issue jacket has the ad for \"The Short Novels of John Steinbeck\" on the rear flap and NO reviews. Jacket design by Robert Hallock.\n5. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD: CONFIRMED — won the National Book Award for Fiction (awarded 1954). Bellow's third book and first NBA winner. TRUE-FIRST NOTE: CONFIRMED ACCURATE — US Viking Press (1953) is the true first edition; the UK Weidenfeld & Nicolson edition (1954) is later.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-adventures-of-augie-march"
  },
  {
   "slug": "herzog",
   "title": "Herzog",
   "author": "Saul Bellow",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: published by The Viking Press, New York, 1964. The true first is an UNSTATED first edition: the copyright page reads \"First published in 1964\" with NO printing statement and no later-printing notice (later printings ARE stated). The claim's \"copyright-page first-printing statement\" is incorrect and inverted — there is no stated first-printing line; identification is by the absence of a printing statement plus \"First published in 1964.\" First-issue dust jacket has Saul Bellow's photograph on the rear panel and is priced $5.95 on the front flap (later-issue jackets carry review blurbs); jacket designed by Mel Williamson. Blue cloth boards, silver spine lettering. Bound/printed as [viii], 341, [3] pp. The premium state is a fine first printing in a fine, unclipped first-issue ($5.95) jacket (and, if present, an authentic Bellow signature) — NOT a separate limited edition. National Book Award (1965) winner: correct. US Viking 1964 is the true first; UK Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1965 is later: correct.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/herzog"
  },
  {
   "slug": "white-noise",
   "title": "White Noise",
   "author": "Don DeLillo",
   "publisher": "Viking",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Mostly right with two corrections. CONFIRMED: US Viking 1985 is the true first; original jacket priced $16.95 on the front flap; first-state jacket is unclipped with that price; National Book Award winner (National Book Foundation lists \"Winner, National Book Awards 1985 for Fiction\" — note the 1980-86 awards were also branded \"American Book Awards,\" so some listings say American Book Award; modern canonical name is National Book Award, so the claim stands). CORRECTION 1 — the number-line point is NOT how this first is identified and appears to be wrong/unverifiable. The leading specialist reference (fedpo.com) identifies the first edition solely by the copyright-page statement \"First published in 1985 by Viking Penguin Inc.\" with NO mention of subsequent printings — it lists no number line at all. Multiple bookseller listings likewise authenticate by that copyright statement plus the unclipped $16.95 jacket, not by a \"number line ending in 1.\" Drop or rewrite the number-line claim; the real point of issue is the copyright statement with no additional-printing language. CORRECTION 2 — the imprint on the copyright page reads \"Viking Penguin Inc.\" (the spine/binding shows Viking); \"Viking imprint\" is loosely fine but the precise copyright-page wording is \"Viking Penguin Inc.\" TRUE-FIRST NOTE: US Viking true first = correct. UK first = Picador, 1985 (confirmed). The \"/Cape\" alternative is unsupported in sources found — there's no evidence of a Jonathan Cape first of White Noise; remove \"/Cape.\" Penguin/Viking \"Contemporary Classics\"/Penguin Classics framing as a later trade paperback (not the first) = correct.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/white-noise"
  },
  {
   "slug": "libra",
   "title": "Libra",
   "author": "Don DeLillo",
   "publisher": "Viking",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition has the full number line ending in '1' with the Viking imprint. Original jacket priced $19.95.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/libra"
  },
  {
   "slug": "underworld",
   "title": "Underworld",
   "author": "Don DeLillo",
   "publisher": "Scribner",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Mostly accurate, with one factual error in the jacket description and a missing sharper point. CONFIRMED:\n- Full number line \"1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2\" (i.e., ending such that the lowest numeral 1 is present) on the copyright page = first printing. Correct.\n- Dust jacket priced $27.50 US (Canadian $34.95). An unclipped flap showing $27.50 is the correct first-state price. Correct.\n- Scribner imprint; US Scribner 1997 is the TRUE FIRST. UK Picador hardcover is 1998 (later). Correct. (Note: a Picador uncorrected proof and an Australian release circulated in late 1997, but the US Scribner hardcover remains the recognized true first.)\n- Signed copies are the premium. Correct. Note a distinct \"not for sale\" signed issue exists (tipped-in signed leaf, \"not for sale\" on the jacket back, no price on the flap) — a separate state, not the trade first. CORRECTION (jacket): The claim calls it the \"black-and-white Manhattan/church jacket.\" The defining image is André Kertész's 1972 photograph of the World Trade Center TWIN TOWERS shrouded in fog, with a church steeple and cross in the foreground (front = positive image, rear = negative/inverted). The phrase \"Manhattan/church\" omits the single most identifying element — the Twin Towers. Reword to: \"the black-and-white André Kertész photo of the World Trade Center towers with a church/cross in the foreground.\" ADD (stronger first-issue point): The front jacket reads \"a novel by the author of LIBRA and WHITE NOISE.\" The Advance Reader's Copy reverses this to \"by the author of WHITE NOISE and LIBRA\" — a useful tell to distinguish the trade first from the ARC. Sources: FEDPO (fedpo.com/BookDetail.php/Underworld), Perival DeLillo bibliography (perival.com/delillo/underworld.html), Wikipedia \"Underworld (novel)\", aphelis.net on the Kertész 1972 photo.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/underworld"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gravitys-rainbow",
   "title": "Gravity's Rainbow",
   "author": "Thomas Pynchon",
   "publisher": "Viking Press",
   "year": "1973",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "CORE STRUCTURE IS RIGHT, ONE MATERIAL ERROR. Accurate elements: (1) US Viking Press (March 1973) is the true first; UK Jonathan Cape is later — CONFIRMED. (2) Two simultaneous first-issue formats — a hardcover and a softcover — issued together (4,000 hardbacks, 16,000 paperbacks); both are true firsts; copyright page reads \"First published in 1973 in a hardbound and paperbound edition by The Viking Press.\" CONFIRMED. (3) Hardcover first: $15.00 on the dust-jacket front flap (code \"0273\" on lower flap), SBN 670-34832-5, no later-printing statement on copyright page; orange boards, red spine lettering. CONFIRMED. (4) Hardcover with jacket is the more collectible/preferable format. CONFIRMED. ERROR — paperback imprint: The simultaneous trade paperback is NOT \"A Richard Seaver Book.\" It is a VIKING COMPASS edition (Viking Compass C374), priced $4.95 at the top-right of the front cover. Richard Seaver did run a Viking imprint, but Gravity's Rainbow was not issued under it. Strike \"A Richard Seaver Book\" and replace with: \"the simultaneous trade paperback is a Viking Compass edition (C374), $4.95, also a true first in wrappers.\" MINOR/UNVERIFIED — \"No author photo (Pynchon's reclusiveness)\": consistent with known facts but NOT a recognized point of issue; it is background color, not a distinguishing point. Do not present it as a point. Recommended corrected statement: \"US Viking Press (March 1973) is the true first; UK Cape is later. Two simultaneous first-issue formats: a hardcover (Viking, $15.00 jacket, code 0273, SBN 670-34832-5, no later-printing statement) and a softcover Viking Compass edition (C374, $4.95 on front cover) — both true firsts. The hardcover with jacket is the more collectible. Distinguish from book-club issues, which lack the jacket price and may carry a blind stamp.\"",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gravitys-rainbow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-crying-of-lot-49",
   "title": "The Crying of Lot 49",
   "author": "Thomas Pynchon",
   "publisher": "J. B. Lippincott Company",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with the Lippincott imprint. Original jacket priced $3.95. Half-cloth boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-crying-of-lot-49"
  },
  {
   "slug": "v",
   "title": "V.",
   "author": "Thomas Pynchon",
   "publisher": "J. B. Lippincott Company",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'First Edition' on the copyright page with the Lippincott imprint; Pynchon's debut novel. Original jacket priced $5.95. Issued in cloth with the distinctive jacket; first issue has no later-printing notices.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/v"
  },
  {
   "slug": "on-the-road",
   "title": "On the Road",
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press (New York)",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing states 'FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1957' / 'Published by The Viking Press' with no statement of later printing; the first-issue dust jacket has the $3.95 price and the rear panel author photo by Mark Jacobson and lists Viking titles to a specific point.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/on-the-road"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-confederacy-of-dunces",
   "title": "A Confederacy of Dunces",
   "author": "John Kennedy Toole",
   "publisher": "Louisiana State University Press",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "VERIFIED TRUE FIRST: US LSU Press 1980 is the true first edition. Identification points: - LSU Press imprint; \"1980\" on title page; copyright page states NO additional/later printings (later printings add a printing statement). CONFIRMED.\n- Foreword (often called a foreword/introduction) by Walker Percy. CONFIRMED.\n- First printing small, approx. 2,500 copies. CONFIRMED (widely cited; genuine firsts are scarce as a result).\n- Original dust jacket priced $12.95 on the front flap. CONFIRMED.\n- Bound in publisher's tan cloth, lettered in black on spine; ~338 pp. (supporting detail). CORRECTION 1 (factual error): The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was won in 1981 (awarded for the 1980 publication), NOT 1980. It was indeed posthumous (Toole died 1969). Fix any \"1980 Pulitzer\" wording to \"1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (posthumous).\" CORRECTION 2 (outdated/oversimplified jacket point): The claim implies the first-state jacket is identified simply by the Walker Percy blurb being the only blurb on the rear panel. This old \"Walker Percy rule\" has been SUPERSEDED. Since a 2022 discovery, the accepted first-state jacket point is the presence of faint white \"specks\"/stars in the black areas of the jacket (background of the front panel, back panel, and spine), with the title lettering faded toward beige. The LSU production manager confirmed the stars were deleted and the title color intensified for the reprint. The first-state jacket also lacks the later-added review blurbs (Chicago Sun-Times, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Booklist) on the rear panel. So: presence of Percy-only blurbs is consistent with first state but is NOT the definitive modern point; the stars/specks are. Note this only matters for first-PRINTING-vs-later-jacket state; the book's printing statement on the copyright page remains the primary point for the book itself.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-confederacy-of-dunces"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lolita",
   "title": "Lolita",
   "author": "Vladimir Nabokov",
   "publisher": "The Olympia Press (Paris)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Two volumes in green printed wrappers (Traveller's Companion Series nos. 66-67). True first issue has 'Francs: 900' printed on the rear cover of each volume, no price sticker/erasure. No printer's overprint correcting the price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lolita"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pale-fire",
   "title": "Pale Fire",
   "author": "Vladimir Nabokov",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Putnam first states 'First Impression' on the copyright page. Original jacket priced $5.00. Issued in cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pale-fire"
  },
  {
   "slug": "catch-22",
   "title": "Catch-22",
   "author": "Joseph Heller",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster (New York)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has 'FIRST PRINTING' stated on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket is priced $5.95 and the rear panel carries the blurbs without later additions.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/catch-22"
  },
  {
   "slug": "infinite-jest",
   "title": "Infinite Jest",
   "author": "David Foster Wallace",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company (Boston)",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the full number line ending in '1' and 'FIRST EDITION'; first-issue dust jacket priced $29.95 with the cloud/sky design and the correct rear-panel. The advance/uncorrected proof (galley) is a distinct sought-after state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/infinite-jest"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-virgin-suicides",
   "title": "The Virgin Suicides",
   "author": "Jeffrey Eugenides",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US first edition (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1993), Eugenides's debut, is the true first. The first-printing dust jacket is priced $18.00 on the front flap, NOT $19.00 as claimed. Primary point of issue is the stated \"First edition, 1993\" on the copyright page. The FSG number line, when present, reads 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2; the stated-first line is the real identifier rather than the number line. Physical: quarter white cloth over orange paper boards, black spine lettering, 249 pp. UK Bloomsbury (1993) is a separate market true first; US FSG is the overall first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-virgin-suicides"
  },
  {
   "slug": "middlesex",
   "title": "Middlesex",
   "author": "Jeffrey Eugenides",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "2002",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition has the FSG number line ending in '1'. Original jacket priced $26.00. Pulitzer Prize winner. Oprah's Book Club selection — Oprah-seal jacket copies are a later jacket state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/middlesex"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-corrections",
   "title": "The Corrections",
   "author": "Jonathan Franzen",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Claimed points are not wrong where stated, but they are INCOMPLETE and partly MISLEADING. Corrected/complete points of issue for the TRUE FIRST (US Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001): 1. NUMBER LINE (claim: ending in 1) is CORRECT. First printing has First Edition, 2001 on the copyright page with a full number line descending to 1 (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1); the lowest digit drops on later printings. 2. PRICE 26.00 dollars (claim) is CORRECT. First-state jacket is priced 26 dollars on the front flap (fedpo.com, Manhattan Rare Books, Evening Star Books). 3. PRIMARY POINT OF ISSUE is OMITTED BY THE CLAIM. The defining first-issue point is that pages 430 and 431 are bound/printed TRANSPOSED (an email appears on p.430 instead of p.431), with a publisher ERRATUM SLIP laid in telling the reader to read p.431 before p.430. Copies with reversed pages plus the errata slip are the sought-after first issue. The claimed list omits this entirely, a significant gap since this is the central collecting point. 4. OPRAH SEAL (claim: printed on some jackets, first-state jackets lack the seal) is MISLEADING/IMPRECISE. True that the preferred first-state jacket has NO Oprah mark. But Franzen objected and Oprah WITHDREW the selection, so printed on some jackets understates that Oprah-marked copies are LATER printings/states (logo slug or O sticker), not a uniform first-printing feature. The preferred-state conclusion is right; the mechanism is loosely described. TRUE-FIRST NOTE is CORRECT. US FSG 2001 precedes the UK edition (Fourth Estate, 2002). The first-state jacket without any Oprah mark IS the preferred state. RECOMMENDATION: Revise to LEAD with the 430/431 transposition plus errata-slip issue, and reword the Oprah point as first-state jacket bears no Oprah mark; Oprah-logo/sticker copies are later states.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-corrections"
  },
  {
   "slug": "wise-blood",
   "title": "Wise Blood",
   "author": "Flannery O'Connor",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition is identified by the words \"FIRST EDITION\" stated on the copyright page (the primary, definitive point of issue — the original claim omits this entirely). Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1952; O'Connor's debut novel. Issued in publisher's yellow cloth with the title/spine lettering in gray (the claim's generic \"issued in cloth\" is correct but vague — the cloth is specifically yellow). Octavo, 232pp. Original first-issue dust jacket priced $3.00 on the front flap. Small first printing (commonly cited as ~3,000 copies), making true firsts genuinely scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/wise-blood"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-good-man-is-hard-to-find",
   "title": "A Good Man Is Hard to Find",
   "author": "Flannery O'Connor",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition has the Harcourt, Brace imprint with no later-printing notice. Original jacket priced $3.50. The story-collection first is scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-good-man-is-hard-to-find"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tropic-of-cancer",
   "title": "Tropic of Cancer",
   "author": "Henry Miller",
   "publisher": "Obelisk Press (Paris)",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "TRUE first is the Obelisk Press (Paris, 1934) issue in printed wrappers with the bank wraparound band; the US edition was banned until Grove Press published it in 1961. First-issue Obelisk has the original price on the wrapper and the preface by Anaïs Nin.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tropic-of-cancer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "native-son",
   "title": "Native Son",
   "author": "Richard Wright",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "CORRECTED FIRST-EDITION POINTS for Native Son by Richard Wright (Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940): 1. HARPER LETTER CODE — partly right, location WRONG. The first printing carries the Harper two-letter date code \"A-P\" (A = January, P = 1940). This is correct and IS the standard first-printing identifier. BUT the claim that the code sits \"at the foot of the last text page\" is FALSE. On Harper & Brothers books of this era the code appears on the COPYRIGHT PAGE (title-page verso) — and for Native Son specifically it appears directly below the \"FIRST EDITION\" statement on the verso of the title page (booksellers consistently describe \"A-P below the edition statement\"). The foot-of-last-page numeral row is a LATER Harper & Row practice (post-1969), not applicable to a 1940 book. So: code is \"A-P,\" and a true first ALSO has \"FIRST EDITION\" stated on the copyright page; the code is NOT on the last text page. 2. JACKET PRICE $2.50 — CORRECT, but incomplete. The first-issue dust jacket is priced $2.50. Add the more diagnostic point: the first-issue jacket is GREEN AND YELLOW with NO review blurbs on the spine; a second state adds review quotes to the spine. The cloth is dark blue. The bare \"$2.50\" alone is weak as a point. 3. BOMC / EXPURGATION CLAIM — FALSE and BACKWARDS. The claim that \"the trade first carries the unexpurgated text\" is WRONG. The opposite is true: the Book-of-the-Month Club required Wright to cut/soften sexual and racial passages (e.g., the movie-theater masturbation scene, Mary's sexual arousal of Bigger) BEFORE publication, and the 1940 Harper TRADE first edition was printed FROM THAT SAME EXPURGATED TEXT. The novel was not published in its full, unexpurgated form until the Library of America edition of 1991 (text restored by editors preparing the LOA volumes; intro/notes by Arnold Rampersad). Therefore NO 1940 printing — trade or club — carries the unexpurgated text. Any selling point implying the trade first is textually \"complete/uncensored\" is false. TRUE-FIRST NOTE — the framing is CORRECT. The US Harper & Brothers trade first (1940, dark blue cloth, \"FIRST EDITION\" + \"A-P\" on copyright page) is the true first edition; the UK Gollancz edition (1940) is later/secondary. The Harper \"A-P\" code does identify the first printing. (Caveat: collectors distinguish the trade first from the simultaneous Book-of-the-Month Club issue, which can look similar but lacks the \"A-P\" code and is not the true first.)",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/native-son"
  },
  {
   "slug": "their-eyes-were-watching-god",
   "title": "Their Eyes Were Watching God",
   "author": "Zora Neale Hurston",
   "publisher": "J. B. Lippincott Company",
   "year": "1937",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Partly accurate, but two claims need correction and one is unverifiable. TRUE-FIRST (CONFIRMED): The US J.B. Lippincott Company edition, Philadelphia, 1937, is the genuine true first edition. British/UK editions are much later (the first UK appearance is the Virago Press paperback, 1986). Genuine 1937 firsts in the original dust jacket are genuinely scarce and valuable — jacketed copies are offered by dealers at roughly $8,800–$12,500, the jacket is routinely described as \"rare in the original,\" and the great majority of surviving copies lack it. This note is accurate. POINTS OF ISSUE — corrections: 1. COPYRIGHT-PAGE POINT (imprecise as written). The claim's framing (\"Lippincott imprint with no later-printing notice\") is a weak/imprecise rendering of the actual point. The standard identification is that the true first printing has the 1937 Lippincott imprint and copyright (\"Copyright, 1937, by Zora Neale Hurston\") with NO statement of any later printing/impression on the copyright page; later printings add such a notice. Reputable dealer copy commonly describes the first as \"First edition, first printing.\" Recommend rephrasing to: \"First printing: J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1937 imprint, with copyright 1937 and no statement of a later printing on the copyright page.\" 2. BINDING (incomplete). \"Issued in cloth\" is true but omits the key identifying detail: the publisher's binding is ORANGE cloth lettered in black (spine and front lettered in black). Specify the orange cloth. 3. JACKET PRICE \"$2.00\" (UNVERIFIABLE — remove or flag). No reachable source confirms a $2.00 (or any specific) price printed on the first-edition jacket flap. Multiple dealer listings describe the jacket art (gold/tan ground with a God-like figure hurling lightning over a flooded landscape) but none state a flap price. This $2.00 figure should be removed unless it can be confirmed against a documented jacketed copy; asserting it as a point of issue is not supported. SCARCITY: \"genuine firsts are scarce\" — accurate, and scarcer/most valuable in the original jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/their-eyes-were-watching-god"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-color-purple",
   "title": "The Color Purple",
   "author": "Alice Walker",
   "publisher": "Harcourt Brace Jovanovich",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition has the HBJ imprint with the first-printing letter code beginning at 'B' (HBJ code). Original jacket priced $11.95. Pulitzer Prize winner.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-color-purple"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bell-jar",
   "title": "The Bell Jar",
   "author": "Sylvia Plath",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "TRUE first is the UK Heinemann edition (1963), published under the pseudonym 'Victoria Lucas' — first issue states 'Victoria Lucas' on the title page and jacket. The US Harper & Row edition (1971) is the first American edition under Plath's own name.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bell-jar"
  },
  {
   "slug": "breakfast-at-tiffanys",
   "title": "Breakfast at Tiffany's",
   "author": "Truman Capote",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page (Random House). Original jacket priced $3.50. Issued in cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/breakfast-at-tiffanys"
  },
  {
   "slug": "in-cold-blood",
   "title": "In Cold Blood",
   "author": "Truman Capote",
   "publisher": "Random House (New York)",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing states 'FIRST EDITION' / 'First Printing' on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket priced $5.95. A signed/limited issue of 500 copies, signed by Capote, in slipcase, was printed concurrently.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/in-cold-blood"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-moviegoer",
   "title": "The Moviegoer",
   "author": "Walker Percy",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page with the Knopf Borzoi device; the author's debut and National Book Award winner. Original jacket priced $3.95. First-issue jacket has the original (pre-award) blurbs and no later-printing notice; the first printing was small.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-moviegoer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "franny-and-zooey",
   "title": "Franny and Zooey",
   "author": "J. D. Salinger",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Mostly accurate, but the dust-jacket color description is WRONG and must be corrected. CONFIRMED points:\n- \"First Edition\" stated on the copyright page identifies the first printing. CONFIRMED (fedpo bibliography: \"The copyright page includes the statement 'FIRST EDITION.'\"). Later printings add print-line information; first printing states only \"First Edition\" with no other printings noted.\n- Binding: publisher's dark blue-gray / gray cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine. CONFIRMED.\n- Priced $4.00 on the front jacket flap (unclipped). CONFIRMED by fedpo and multiple dealers.\n- No review excerpts / blurbs on the first-state jacket; the back of the jacket is the same as the front. CONFIRMED (fedpo).\n- Salinger demanded no author photo and no biographical matter; instead the flap carries his statement beginning \"It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him...\" CONFIRMED. This is genuinely a hallmark of the true Little, Brown first.\n- True first edition is the US Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1961; the UK William Heinemann edition (1962, \"First published in Great Britain in 1962\") is later. CONFIRMED. CORRECTED / WRONG points:\n- \"the jacket is plain cream/taupe with the title in colored panels\" — INCORRECT. The first-edition dust jacket is consistently described by dealers and bibliographies as GREEN AND WHITE, lettered in BLACK (green spine, white front panel). It is NOT cream or taupe. A well-documented anecdote notes the publisher sent Salinger ~27 white samples before finding the exact shade of white he wanted, confirming the panel is white, not cream/taupe. The phrase \"title in colored panels\" is also misleading: the lettering is black on the green/white jacket, not a multi-color-paneled design with colored title text. NET: The copyright-page point, $4.00 price, no-review-excerpts, no-author-photo/no-bio, and the US-first/UK-1962-later true-first note are all ACCURATE. The dust-jacket color (\"cream/taupe\", \"colored panels\") is INACCURATE and should read \"green and white jacket lettered in black.\"",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/franny-and-zooey"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cathedral",
   "title": "Cathedral",
   "author": "Raymond Carver",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (US) — 20th-century American first editions",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Identify the first by a STATED \"First Edition\" on the copyright page (confirmed by ABAA dealers), NOT by a \"number line ending 1\" — that claim is unsupported and misleading for this Knopf title. The $13.95 front-flap price is CONFIRMED. The Borzoi colophon is present but is not a point of issue distinguishing printings. The \"signed limited edition exists\" claim is UNSUPPORTED and should be removed: all signed copies are trade firsts signed in person (e.g., \"Raymond Carver / 10/31/83\"); no separate numbered/limited issue exists. The true-first note is correct (US Knopf 1983 over UK 1984), but the UK publisher is Collins Harvill / Harvill Press, not \"Collins\" alone, and there is no signed/limited state — the premium is simply a fine signed trade first in a fine unclipped $13.95 jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cathedral"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ulysses",
   "title": "Ulysses",
   "author": "James Joyce",
   "publisher": "Shakespeare and Company (Paris)",
   "year": "1922",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Edition limited to 1,000 copies on three papers: nos. 1-100 on Dutch handmade paper SIGNED by Joyce; nos. 101-250 on vergé d'Arches; nos. 251-1,000 on handmade paper. Blue printed wrappers with white lettering ('Ulysses by James Joyce'). The first printing contains the printer's errata and the famous textual errors of the Dijon (Darantiere) printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ulysses"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dubliners",
   "title": "Dubliners",
   "author": "James Joyce",
   "publisher": "Grant Richards (London)",
   "year": "1914",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "London Grant Richards 1914, red cloth. The genuine first has the publisher's device and is distinguished from the 1916 US Huebsch edition. Notoriously delayed (set in type 1906) but not published until 1914 after years of printer's objections.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dubliners"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man",
   "title": "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man",
   "author": "James Joyce",
   "publisher": "B.W. Huebsch (New York)",
   "year": "1916",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the New York Huebsch edition of 1916 (the English Egoist Press edition, 1917, was actually printed from American sheets). Publisher's cloth; '1916' on title/copyright.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mrs-dalloway",
   "title": "Mrs Dalloway",
   "author": "Virginia Woolf",
   "publisher": "Hogarth Press (London)",
   "year": "1925",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hogarth Press 1925, Vanessa Bell dust jacket design. Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh. UK first precedes the US Harcourt Brace edition of the same year.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mrs-dalloway"
  },
  {
   "slug": "to-the-lighthouse",
   "title": "To the Lighthouse",
   "author": "Virginia Woolf",
   "publisher": "Hogarth Press (London)",
   "year": "1927",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hogarth Press 1927. First printing has the misprint on the dedication page and the Vanessa Bell jacket. UK first precedes US Harcourt Brace 1927. Blue cloth, paper label / Bell-designed jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/to-the-lighthouse"
  },
  {
   "slug": "orlando",
   "title": "Orlando",
   "author": "Virginia Woolf",
   "publisher": "Hogarth Press (London)",
   "year": "1928",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Two near-simultaneous 1928 issues: the ordinary Hogarth trade edition and a signed limited edition of 861 copies (Crosby Gaige, New York, actually precedes by a few days). The trade first has the photographic plates of 'Orlando.' UK Hogarth trade edition in publisher's cloth with jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/orlando"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
   "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
   "author": "George Orwell",
   "publisher": "Secker & Warburg (London)",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Secker & Warburg London, June 1949. Two dust-jacket states issued simultaneously: red jacket and green jacket (neither has confirmed priority; both are first-issue, the red somewhat scarcer/more sought). Price 10s net on jacket. Book in pale green cloth. The two jackets are the key collecting point.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nineteen-eighty-four"
  },
  {
   "slug": "animal-farm",
   "title": "Animal Farm",
   "author": "George Orwell",
   "publisher": "Secker & Warburg (London)",
   "year": "1945",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first: Secker & Warburg August 1945 in pale green cloth, dust jacket priced 6s, the jacket WITHOUT the later second-issue 'plain' design; first-issue jacket has the correct blurb. The 'six shillings' price on the jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/animal-farm"
  },
  {
   "slug": "brighton-rock",
   "title": "Brighton Rock",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1938",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Heinemann London 1938. The notorious point: a small number of the first edition were bound by error in GREEN cloth (intended for another Heinemann title) rather than the standard red cloth; the green-cloth copies are considered the earliest/most desirable state. Standard issue is red cloth, gilt spine lettering. Dust jacket is scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/brighton-rock"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-power-and-the-glory",
   "title": "The Power and the Glory",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Heinemann London 1940, in orange/red cloth. Wartime production. UK first precedes the US edition, which was retitled 'The Labyrinthine Ways' (Viking, 1940).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-power-and-the-glory"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-end-of-the-affair",
   "title": "The End of the Affair",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Heinemann London 1951, in the typical Heinemann cloth with windmill device. Jacket priced. UK first precedes US Viking 1951.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-end-of-the-affair"
  },
  {
   "slug": "brideshead-revisited",
   "title": "Brideshead Revisited",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall (London)",
   "year": "1945",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Chapman & Hall London 1945. There was also a small privately-printed 1944 issue of about 50 copies for the author's friends, which technically precedes. The 1945 trade first is in the standard Chapman & Hall cloth; later Waugh revised the text (1960), so the 1945 text is the unrevised first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/brideshead-revisited"
  },
  {
   "slug": "decline-and-fall",
   "title": "Decline and Fall",
   "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
   "publisher": "Chapman & Hall (London)",
   "year": "1928",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Chapman & Hall London 1928, Waugh's first novel. First issue includes Waugh's own illustrations and the subtitle 'An Illustrated Novelette.' Some early printings were censored; the first issue retains certain passages. Pictorial jacket and cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/decline-and-fall"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lord-of-the-flies",
   "title": "Lord of the Flies",
   "author": "William Golding",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first: Faber 1954, first-issue dust jacket priced 12s 6d, with the correct blurb and no later-printing statement; '8s 6d' / price point per Connolly. The boards in the correct color and the Faber colophon.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lord-of-the-flies"
  },
  {
   "slug": "under-the-net",
   "title": "Under the Net",
   "author": "Iris Murdoch",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (London)",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Chatto & Windus London 1954, Murdoch's first novel. Publisher's cloth with dust jacket; jacket priced. UK first precedes US Viking 1954.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/under-the-net"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sea-the-sea",
   "title": "The Sea, the Sea",
   "author": "Iris Murdoch",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (London)",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Chatto & Windus London 1978 (Booker Prize winner). Publisher's boards with dust jacket, priced. UK first precedes US Viking 1978.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sea-the-sea"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lucky-jim",
   "title": "Lucky Jim",
   "author": "Kingsley Amis",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz (London)",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Mostly accurate, but the jacket lettering colors are wrong and one date nuance should be corrected. CORRECTED POINTS OF ISSUE (true first edition): (1) Publisher Victor Gollancz, London. Title page dated 1953, although the book was actually published January 1954. The true first impression bears \"1953\" on the title page; the claim's \"1954\" is the publication year, not the printed date. (2) Amis's first novel — CONFIRMED (Christie's: \"the author's first and most celebrated novel\"). (3) Binding: original GREEN cloth, spine lettered in gilt (the claim omitted binding color). (4) Dust jacket: characteristic bright-yellow Gollancz typographic jacket, but lettered in PINK and BLACK, NOT \"red/black/magenta\" as claimed. Authoritative Christie's catalogue states \"yellow dust-jacket lettered in pink and black.\" (5) First-issue jacket priced 12/6 net, unclipped — CONFIRMED. (6) UK Gollancz precedes first US edition (Doubleday, Garden City, 1954 — red buckram, Edward Gorey illustrated jacket, $3.50) — CONFIRMED. TRUE-FIRST NOTE: substantially correct; Gollancz London is the true first, Doubleday New York 1954 is the first US, and the bright-yellow Gollancz typographic jacket is the recognizable feature. Add that the title page is dated 1953 (despite Jan-1954 publication), itself a recognized identifier of the first impression.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lucky-jim"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-comfort-of-strangers",
   "title": "The Comfort of Strangers",
   "author": "Ian McEwan",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Jonathan Cape London 1981. Publisher's boards, dust jacket priced. UK first precedes US Simon & Schuster 1981.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-comfort-of-strangers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "atonement",
   "title": "Atonement",
   "author": "Ian McEwan",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Jonathan Cape London 2001. First printing has the full number line '1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2' (or descending to 1) on the copyright page. Publisher's boards, dust jacket priced £16.99. UK first precedes US Doubleday/Nan A. Talese 2002.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/atonement"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-remains-of-the-day",
   "title": "The Remains of the Day",
   "author": "Kazuo Ishiguro",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber & Faber London 1989 (Booker Prize winner). First printing copyright page should show the full number line ending in '1' and no statement of later impression. Publisher's boards, dust jacket priced £11.99.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-remains-of-the-day"
  },
  {
   "slug": "an-artist-of-the-floating-world",
   "title": "An Artist of the Floating World",
   "author": "Kazuo Ishiguro",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber & Faber London 1986. First printing with number line ending in '1' on the copyright page; dust jacket priced. UK first precedes US Putnam 1986.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/an-artist-of-the-floating-world"
  },
  {
   "slug": "midnights-children",
   "title": "Midnight's Children",
   "author": "Salman Rushdie",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Jonathan Cape London 1981 (Booker Prize winner; later 'Booker of Bookers'). First impression copyright page shows the number line and no later-impression statement; dust jacket priced £6.95. Publisher's boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/midnights-children"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-satanic-verses",
   "title": "The Satanic Verses",
   "author": "Salman Rushdie",
   "publisher": "Viking (London)",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Viking/Penguin London 1988. First printing copyright page with full number line; dust jacket priced. Publisher's boards. Notorious for the fatwa controversy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-satanic-verses"
  },
  {
   "slug": "waiting-for-godot",
   "title": "Waiting for Godot",
   "author": "Samuel Beckett",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London) / Grove Press (New York)",
   "year": "1954/1956",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The original French text 'En attendant Godot' was published by Les Éditions de Minuit (Paris) in 1952. The first English-language edition is Grove Press New York 1954 (Beckett's own translation); the first UK English edition is Faber & Faber London 1956, which was censored (with restorations later). For the English first, look for Grove 1954 with the first-state binding/jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/waiting-for-godot"
  },
  {
   "slug": "molloy",
   "title": "Molloy",
   "author": "Samuel Beckett",
   "publisher": "Olympia Press (Paris) / Grove Press (New York)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The French original was Les Éditions de Minuit (Paris) 1951. The first English translation (by Beckett and Patrick Bowles) was published by Olympia Press, Paris, 1955, in the Merlin/Collection Merlin series, preceding the Grove Press New York edition (also 1955).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/molloy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "one-hundred-years-of-solitude",
   "title": "One Hundred Years of Solitude",
   "author": "Gabriel García Márquez",
   "publisher": "Editorial Sudamericana (Buenos Aires)",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the Spanish 'Cien años de soledad,' Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires, 1967, pictorial wrappers (galleon/boat cover). First printing (June 1967) has specific typographical points (e.g., the corrected/uncorrected text states and the line on a given page); genuine first printings are scarce and frequently faked. The first English edition is Harper & Row New York 1970 (trans. Gregory Rabassa).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/one-hundred-years-of-solitude"
  },
  {
   "slug": "love-in-the-time-of-cholera",
   "title": "Love in the Time of Cholera",
   "author": "Gabriel García Márquez",
   "publisher": "Editorial Oveja Negra (Bogotá)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Spanish 'El amor en los tiempos del cólera,' first published Bogotá 1985. First English edition Alfred A. Knopf New York 1988 (trans. Edith Grossman), first printing with number line, dust jacket priced.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/love-in-the-time-of-cholera"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-name-of-the-rose",
   "title": "The Name of the Rose",
   "author": "Umberto Eco",
   "publisher": "Bompiani (Milan)",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Italian 'Il nome della rosa,' Bompiani, Milan, 1980, is the true first. First English edition Harcourt Brace Jovanovich New York 1983 (trans. William Weaver); UK Secker & Warburg 1983.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-name-of-the-rose"
  },
  {
   "slug": "if-on-a-winters-night-a-traveler",
   "title": "If on a winter's night a traveler",
   "author": "Italo Calvino",
   "publisher": "Giulio Einaudi (Turin)",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Italian 'Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore,' Einaudi, Turin, 1979. First English edition Harcourt Brace Jovanovich New York 1981 (trans. William Weaver); UK Secker & Warburg 1981.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/if-on-a-winters-night-a-traveler"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-tin-drum",
   "title": "The Tin Drum",
   "author": "Günter Grass",
   "publisher": "Hermann Luchterhand Verlag (Neuwied)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "German 'Die Blechtrommel,' Luchterhand, 1959, is the true first. First English edition Pantheon Books New York 1962 / Secker & Warburg London 1962 (trans. Ralph Manheim).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-tin-drum"
  },
  {
   "slug": "possession",
   "title": "Possession",
   "author": "A.S. Byatt",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (London)",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Chatto & Windus, London, 1990 (Booker Prize winner). First edition / first impression is identified by the COPYRIGHT-PAGE STATEMENT, not by a number line: the copyright page reads \"Published in 1990 by Chatto & Windus\" (first published statement) with NO later-impression line and names the printer as Butler & Tanner. Later impressions (e.g. 5th, 6th impressions of the 1990 Chatto edition exist) add an impression statement. The claim of \"a full number line ending in '1'\" is NOT supported by collector references (fedpo.com and dealer descriptions) and appears to be an erroneous/templated detail — Chatto & Windus first impressions of this title are typically not designated by a descending 10–1 number line. First-state dust jacket is unclipped, priced £13.95, and carries NO reference to the Booker Prize. Binding: blue publisher's boards (cloth-backed boards) with blue-stained top edge and a sewn-in dark blue silk ribbon marker; 511 pp.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/possession"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-god-of-small-things",
   "title": "The God of Small Things",
   "author": "Arundhati Roy",
   "publisher": "IndiaInk (India) / Flamingo (London)",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the IndiaInk edition (New Delhi, 1997), which precedes the UK Flamingo/HarperCollins 1997. For the UK first, Flamingo London 1997 with full number line. Booker Prize winner; Roy's debut.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-god-of-small-things"
  },
  {
   "slug": "wolf-hall",
   "title": "Wolf Hall",
   "author": "Hilary Mantel",
   "publisher": "Fourth Estate (London)",
   "year": "2009",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Fourth Estate London 2009 (Booker Prize winner). First printing copyright page with full number line ending in '1'; dust jacket priced £18.99. Publisher's boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/wolf-hall"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-buddha-of-suburbia",
   "title": "The Buddha of Suburbia",
   "author": "Hanif Kureishi",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber & Faber, London, 1990 — Kureishi's first novel (won the Whitbread Best First Novel award) [CONFIRMED]. Bound in publisher's ORIGINAL BLACK CLOTH with white lettering to the spine — NOT plain \"publisher's boards.\" Multiple independent dealers consistently describe the Faber first as black cloth; \"publisher's boards\" is misleading and should be corrected to \"publisher's black cloth.\" Dust jacket priced at £12.99 net on the front flap; a priced/unclipped jacket is the desirable first-issue point (clipped copies also exist) [CONFIRMED]. The first-printing number line ending in \"1\" is PLAUSIBLE for Faber of this era but was NOT confirmed by any source consulted for the UK Faber first — treat as unverified; do not assert it as a definitive point of issue. (It is the Viking US edition that sources tie to a \"complete number line.\") True-first note is ACCURATE: Faber London 1990 is the true first; Viking New York 1990 is the first US edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-buddha-of-suburbia"
  },
  {
   "slug": "trainspotting",
   "title": "Trainspotting",
   "author": "Irvine Welsh",
   "publisher": "Secker & Warburg (London)",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "CORRECTED. Core publisher/date/firstness facts are right, but the hardback framing is inverted/misleading and one ID point is unverified. TRUE FIRST: Secker & Warburg, London, 1993 — confirmed. Welsh's first book — confirmed. FORMAT (critical correction): Trainspotting was published as a PAPERBACK ORIGINAL in publisher's stiff wraps with integral fold-over 'French' flaps. ISBN 0-436-56567-6; first-printing run ~1,000 copies; original price £8.99. The paperback IS the true first and the premier collectible — NOT a secondary 'more common' issue. Reputable dealers (Burnside ABAA, John Atkinson, rarebookcellar, biblio) describe the true first exclusively as wraps; signed true-first wraps copies command roughly $2,000–$3,000. HARDBACK CLAIM (inaccurate/unverifiable): The assertion that a scarce trade hardback first edition exists and is the 'premier collectible' is NOT reliably corroborated and is essentially inverted. Only one dealer references a 'hardbound issue,' with no confirmation it is a distinct simultaneous trade-hardback first rather than a library/reinforced or later binding. Do not present a hardback as the premier first. ID POINTS: Reliable identifiers are the £8.99 price on the wraps, the French flaps, and ISBN 0-436-56567-6. The 'number line ending in 1' point is UNVERIFIED for the paperback first and should not be relied upon. FIRST US: W. W. Norton, New York, 1996 — confirmed (first American edition, paperback original).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/trainspotting"
  },
  {
   "slug": "white-teeth",
   "title": "White Teeth",
   "author": "Zadie Smith",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Hamish Hamilton London 2000, Smith's debut. First printing copyright page with full number line ending in '1'; dust jacket priced £12.99. Publisher's boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/white-teeth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cloud-atlas",
   "title": "Cloud Atlas",
   "author": "David Mitchell",
   "publisher": "Sceptre (London)",
   "year": "2004",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Sceptre (Hodder & Stoughton) London 2004. First printing copyright page with full number line ending in '1'; dust jacket priced £16.99. Publisher's boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cloud-atlas"
  },
  {
   "slug": "disgrace",
   "title": "Disgrace",
   "author": "J.M. Coetzee",
   "publisher": "Secker & Warburg (London)",
   "year": "1999",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Secker & Warburg (London), 1999 is the true first edition (Booker Prize winner, awarded Oct 1999). Points of issue for the first edition, first printing, FIRST STATE: (1) Printed by Biddles Ltd — NOT Clays. This is the critical discriminator. (2) Number line present, full 1-10 / ending in \"1\". CAUTION: a \"1\" in the number line alone does NOT confirm a true first — later second-state copies were printed by Clays yet still carry a number line ending in \"1.\" So the number-line point as originally stated (\"first printing number line ending in 1\") is necessary but NOT sufficient and is potentially misleading on its own; it must be paired with the Biddles printer credit. (3) First-STATE dust jacket has NO \"Winner of The Booker Prize 1999\" legend on the front panel (the book was printed before the prize was announced); second-state jackets add the Booker banner. (4) Dust jacket priced £14.99 (unclipped) — CONFIRMED. (5) Bound in publisher's boards (cloth-covered boards) with burgundy/maroon endpapers — the \"publisher's boards\" claim is consistent with dealer descriptions. Jacket photograph by Lucy Harmer.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/disgrace"
  },
  {
   "slug": "life-of-pi",
   "title": "Life of Pi",
   "author": "Yann Martel",
   "publisher": "Knopf Canada (Toronto)",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf Canada (Toronto) 2001 is the true first, preceding the UK Canongate 2002 (which won the Booker). The Canadian first has the Knopf Canada imprint and first-printing statement; the UK Canongate first is also collected. First printing number line/statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/life-of-pi"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-blind-assassin",
   "title": "The Blind Assassin",
   "author": "Margaret Atwood",
   "publisher": "McClelland & Stewart (Toronto)",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) 2000 is the true first (Booker Prize winner), preceding the UK Bloomsbury and US Nan A. Talese/Doubleday editions of 2000. Canadian first has the M&S imprint and first-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-blind-assassin"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-handmaids-tale",
   "title": "The Handmaid's Tale",
   "author": "Margaret Atwood",
   "publisher": "McClelland & Stewart (Toronto)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) 1985 is the true first, preceding the US Houghton Mifflin 1986 and UK Jonathan Cape 1986. Canadian first in publisher's cloth/jacket with first-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-handmaids-tale"
  },
  {
   "slug": "casino-royale",
   "title": "Casino Royale",
   "author": "Ian Fleming",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (UK hardcover)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1953 Jonathan Cape UK HARDCOVER (first Bond). Caution title for paperback collectors. The first US paperback was Popular Library, retitled 'You Asked for It' (1955); the first US hardcover was Macmillan (1954). Cape first has the correct first-state jacket and no later-printing statements.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/casino-royale"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-clockwork-orange",
   "title": "A Clockwork Orange",
   "author": "Anthony Burgess",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Heinemann London 1962 is the true first and contains the final (21st) chapter omitted from the US edition. Publisher's boards, dust jacket priced 16s net. UK first precedes US Norton 1963.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-clockwork-orange"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-french-lieutenants-woman",
   "title": "The French Lieutenant's Woman",
   "author": "John Fowles",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Jonathan Cape London 1969. First printing with no later-impression statement; dust jacket priced. Publisher's boards. UK first precedes US Little, Brown 1969.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-french-lieutenants-woman"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-magus",
   "title": "The Magus",
   "author": "John Fowles",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London) / Little, Brown (Boston)",
   "year": "1965/1966",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The first edition is the US Little, Brown Boston 1965, which precedes the UK Jonathan Cape 1966. First printing with no later-printing statement. (Fowles revised the text in 1977; the 1965/66 text is the unrevised first.)",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-magus"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-passage-to-india",
   "title": "A Passage to India",
   "author": "E.M. Forster",
   "publisher": "Edward Arnold (London)",
   "year": "1924",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Edward Arnold & Co., London, 1924 (published 6 June 1924) is the true first edition, trade printing of 5,000 copies; Kirkpatrick A10. First-impression points: title page dated 1924, NO mention of later printings on the verso, and 3 pages of publisher's ads at rear. BINDING: the first issue is in publisher's RED cloth (dark red/maroon) with black stamping — NOT blue. The \"blue cloth\" claim is wrong and in fact backwards: blue cloth is a later REMAINDER binding (James Cummins describes it as \"an unrecorded variant issue, in blue (remainder) binding, not noted by Kirkpatrick\"). NO recognized single-page misprint point identifies the first impression; the claimed misprint/textual point is unverifiable and not a standard bibliographic point (Forster's documented textual revisions belong to the later Abinger/Norton scholarly apparatus, not a first-impression identifier). UK Edward Arnold first DOES precede the US Harcourt, Brace, New York 1924 edition — that part is correct.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-passage-to-india"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sons-and-lovers",
   "title": "Sons and Lovers",
   "author": "D.H. Lawrence",
   "publisher": "Gerald Duckworth (London)",
   "year": "1913",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Duckworth London 1913. First issue in the publisher's blue/green cloth with Duckworth imprint and the '1913' date; 16-page catalogue of advertisements often present. UK first precedes US Mitchell Kennerley 1913.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sons-and-lovers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "women-in-love",
   "title": "Women in Love",
   "author": "D.H. Lawrence",
   "publisher": "Privately printed (Thomas Seltzer, New York)",
   "year": "1920",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first is the privately printed subscribers' edition (Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1920), limited to 1,250 copies, signed by the author. The first UK trade edition is Martin Secker London 1921.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/women-in-love"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-heart-of-the-matter",
   "title": "The Heart of the Matter",
   "author": "Graham Greene",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1948",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Heinemann London 1948, in the Heinemann cloth with windmill device; dust jacket priced. First impression with no later-impression statement. UK first precedes US Viking 1948.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-heart-of-the-matter"
  },
  {
   "slug": "harry-potter-and-the-philosophers-stone",
   "title": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone",
   "author": "J.K. Rowling (as 'Joanne Rowling')",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury (London)",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Bloomsbury London 1997 hardback (only ~500 copies; ~300 to libraries). Points: full number line '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'; '1 wand' listed twice in the equipment list on p.53; author credited as 'Joanne Rowling' (not J.K.); 'Wizard' / crucially 'Philosopher's' misspelled 'Philosopher's' is correct but the rear cover has the 'Philosopher's' point — verify the p.53 '1 wand' duplication and the print line. Thomas Taylor cover art; copyright page shows '1997' only.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/harry-potter-and-the-philosophers-stone"
  },
  {
   "slug": "never-let-me-go",
   "title": "Never Let Me Go",
   "author": "Kazuo Ishiguro",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "2005",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber & Faber London 2005. First printing copyright page with full number line ending in '1'; dust jacket priced £16.99. Publisher's boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/never-let-me-go"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-buried-giant",
   "title": "The Buried Giant",
   "author": "Kazuo Ishiguro",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "2015",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber & Faber London 2015. First printing copyright page with full number line ending in '1'; dust jacket priced. Publisher's boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-buried-giant"
  },
  {
   "slug": "money-a-suicide-note",
   "title": "Money: A Suicide Note",
   "author": "Martin Amis",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Jonathan Cape London 1984. First printing with no later-impression statement; dust jacket priced £8.95. Publisher's boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/money-a-suicide-note"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bell-jar-sylvia-plath-a",
   "title": "The Bell Jar",
   "author": "Sylvia Plath (as 'Victoria Lucas')",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "Modern literary fiction (UK & world)",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Heinemann London 1963, published under the pseudonym 'Victoria Lucas.' First issue in the Heinemann cloth with dust jacket; the 'Victoria Lucas' attribution on the title page is the key point. UK first precedes the first US (Harper & Row 1971) by eight years.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bell-jar-sylvia-plath-a"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dune",
   "title": "Dune",
   "author": "Frank Herbert",
   "publisher": "Chilton Books (Philadelphia/New York)",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Edition' with no later printing line. Blue cloth boards. Dust jacket priced $5.95 on the front flap; rear panel has a map of Arrakis; rear flap carries the Chilton address (Chilton Book Company / 401 Walnut Street / Philadelphia, etc.). Pictorial red/blue desert-scene jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dune"
  },
  {
   "slug": "foundation",
   "title": "Foundation",
   "author": "Isaac Asimov",
   "publisher": "Gnome Press (New York)",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Dark blue cloth, red lettering on spine. First-state dust jacket priced $2.75 with NO mention of the later Foundation sequels; rear panel lists Gnome Press titles only (no 'Foundation and Empire' or 'Second Foundation'). Front flap has the famous misprint 'Hari Seldon.' Gnome address 80 East 11th Street, N.Y.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/foundation"
  },
  {
   "slug": "i-robot",
   "title": "I, Robot",
   "author": "Isaac Asimov",
   "publisher": "Gnome Press (New York)",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition so stated / no later printing indicia. Dust jacket priced $2.50. Beige/tan cloth. First printing of 5,000 copies.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/i-robot"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-martian-chronicles",
   "title": "The Martian Chronicles",
   "author": "Ray Bradbury",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (Garden City, NY)",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Code 'a' or '1' present on the copyright page per Doubleday practice; first issue dust jacket priced $2.75. No statement of later printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-martian-chronicles"
  },
  {
   "slug": "fahrenheit-451",
   "title": "Fahrenheit 451",
   "author": "Ray Bradbury",
   "publisher": "Ballantine Books (New York)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Two issue points: (1) the scarce signed/limited issue of 200 copies bound in asbestos boards (Johns-Manville Quinterra), signed and numbered; (2) the trade first in hardcover and the simultaneous paperback. Hardcover trade first stated 'First Edition' / first printing, jacket priced $2.50.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/fahrenheit-451"
  },
  {
   "slug": "stranger-in-a-strange-land",
   "title": "Stranger in a Strange Land",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the publisher's code 'C22' in the gutter at the foot of page 408. Green cloth, spine stamped gilt, green top-stain. No statement of printing on copyright page. First-issue jacket priced $4.50, with Heinlein's photo on the rear flap and a Starship Troopers ad/blurbs on the rear panel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/stranger-in-a-strange-land"
  },
  {
   "slug": "starship-troopers",
   "title": "Starship Troopers",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the Putnam code at the foot of the last text page; no statement of later printing on copyright page. First-issue jacket priced $3.50.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/starship-troopers"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress",
   "title": "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the Putnam code at the foot of the final text page; copyright page lacks any later-printing statement. First-issue jacket priced $5.95.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress"
  },
  {
   "slug": "neuromancer",
   "title": "Neuromancer",
   "author": "William Gibson",
   "publisher": "Ace Books (New York)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Paperback original: Ace Science Fiction Special (edited by Terry Carr). True first printing has NO number line / print code on the copyright page (first three printings were the Ace Special series). Black pictorial wrappers lettered white/blue/pink, yellow page edges. Priced $2.95.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/neuromancer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "enders-game",
   "title": "Ender's Game",
   "author": "Orson Scott Card",
   "publisher": "Tor Books (New York)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the full number line ending in '1' on the copyright page and states 'First Edition.' Jacket priced $13.95. Jacket art by John Harris.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/enders-game"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hyperion",
   "title": "Hyperion",
   "author": "Dan Simmons",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (New York)",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the full number line ending in '1' and 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page. Jacket priced $18.95.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hyperion"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ringworld",
   "title": "Ringworld",
   "author": "Larry Niven",
   "publisher": "Ballantine Books (New York)",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Paperback original. First printing so stated; cover priced $0.95; first-printing code on copyright page. Note the famous first-printing error: Niven had the Earth rotating in the wrong direction (corrected in later printings), but this is a textual point, not a binding point.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ringworld"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-left-hand-of-darkness",
   "title": "The Left Hand of Darkness",
   "author": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
   "publisher": "Ace Books (New York)",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Paperback original, Ace Science Fiction Special (Terry Carr). First printing has no number line / Special-series indicia; priced $0.95.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-left-hand-of-darkness"
  },
  {
   "slug": "do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep",
   "title": "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (Garden City, NY)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing indicated by Doubleday code (no later-printing statement; '1' or letter code per Doubleday practice). First-issue jacket priced $4.50.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-man-in-the-high-castle",
   "title": "The Man in the High Castle",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "G. P. Putnam's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the Putnam code at the foot of the last text page; no later-printing statement. First-issue jacket priced $3.95.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-man-in-the-high-castle"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four-1984",
   "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)",
   "author": "George Orwell",
   "publisher": "Secker & Warburg (London)",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK true first issued in TWO dust-jacket states — red jacket and green jacket — with NO established precedence (both are first issue; condition/scarcity drive value, red often considered slightly scarcer). Pale green/blue cloth, spine lettered in red/dark. First-issue jacket priced 10s. net. No statement of later printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nineteen-eighty-four-1984"
  },
  {
   "slug": "brave-new-world",
   "title": "Brave New World",
   "author": "Aldous Huxley",
   "publisher": "Chatto & Windus (London)",
   "year": "1932",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Trade first: Chatto & Windus 1932 in blue cloth, dust jacket priced 7s 6d. A signed/limited issue of 324 copies on hand-made paper, signed by Huxley, in slipcase, was printed concurrently.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/brave-new-world"
  },
  {
   "slug": "childhoods-end",
   "title": "Childhood's End",
   "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
   "publisher": "Ballantine Books (New York)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued simultaneously as a hardcover and a paperback by Ballantine. Hardcover first is so stated, jacket priced $2.00. Note a first-printing textual point: the original first-printing prologue was later revised by Clarke (the 'superpower' opening), so first printings carry the original prologue text.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/childhoods-end"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-canticle-for-leibowitz",
   "title": "A Canticle for Leibowitz",
   "author": "Walter M. Miller Jr.",
   "publisher": "J. B. Lippincott (Philadelphia & New York)",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition stated with no later-printing line; first-issue jacket priced $4.50.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-canticle-for-leibowitz"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-forever-war",
   "title": "The Forever War",
   "author": "Joe Haldeman",
   "publisher": "St. Martin's Press (New York)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the number line ending in '1' and 'First Edition' / no later statement; first-issue jacket priced $7.95.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-forever-war"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-wrinkle-in-time",
   "title": "A Wrinkle in Time",
   "author": "Madeleine L'Engle",
   "publisher": "Ariel Books / Farrar, Straus and Cudahy",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Ariel Books (Farrar, Straus & Cudahy), 1962; first-issue dust jacket WITHOUT the Newbery Medal (won 1963), priced $3.50, art by Ellen Raskin. Copyright page states 'First printing' / no later-printing line; jacket carries 'Cudahy' (the firm became Farrar, Straus & Giroux shortly after).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-wrinkle-in-time"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy",
   "title": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy",
   "author": "Douglas Adams",
   "publisher": "Pan Books (London)",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Paperback original. First printing has the number line including '1' and the Pan imprint; priced 95p on the cover. The hardcover (Arthur Barker, 1979) was published shortly after.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "snow-crash",
   "title": "Snow Crash",
   "author": "Neal Stephenson",
   "publisher": "Bantam Spectra (New York)",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition was the Bantam Spectra trade PAPERBACK; first printing has the full number line ending in '1.' A simultaneous/near-simultaneous hardcover issue exists but is extremely scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/snow-crash"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dispossessed",
   "title": "The Dispossessed",
   "author": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row (New York)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the code 'FIRST EDITION' and Harper's '0-06-...' with no later-printing statement; first-issue jacket priced $7.95.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dispossessed"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gateway",
   "title": "Gateway",
   "author": "Frederik Pohl",
   "publisher": "St. Martin's Press (New York)",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the number line ending in '1' / no later statement; first-issue jacket priced $8.95.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gateway"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-stars-my-destination",
   "title": "The Stars My Destination",
   "author": "Alfred Bester",
   "publisher": "Signet / New American Library (New York)",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US paperback original (Signet #S1389), priced $0.35 on the cover; first printing so coded. (Published in the UK first as 'Tiger! Tiger!' by Sidgwick & Jackson, 1956, in hardcover.)",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-stars-my-destination"
  },
  {
   "slug": "speaker-for-the-dead",
   "title": "Speaker for the Dead",
   "author": "Orson Scott Card",
   "publisher": "Tor Books (New York)",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the number line ending in '1' and states 'First Edition'; first-issue jacket priced $15.95.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/speaker-for-the-dead"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-time-machine",
   "title": "The Time Machine",
   "author": "H. G. Wells",
   "publisher": "Henry Holt (US) / William Heinemann (UK)",
   "year": "1895",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The US Henry Holt edition (May 1895) PRECEDES the UK Heinemann (June 1895). The Holt first is bound in tan/buff cloth. The UK Heinemann first: gray-purple cloth, with the winged-sphinx device on the cover; first-issue points include the '16pp catalogue' at rear dated and the absence of later-printing notice. Heinemann first state lacks the 'The End' textual variants debated by bibliographers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-time-machine"
  },
  {
   "slug": "frankenstein",
   "title": "Frankenstein",
   "author": "Mary Shelley",
   "publisher": "Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones (London)",
   "year": "1818",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Three volumes, published anonymously, half-titles present; the dedication to William Godwin; the famous misprints in vol. I. Volume I title page reads '1818.' Boards/original drab paper-covered boards with paper spine labels in untouched copies.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/frankenstein"
  },
  {
   "slug": "american-gods",
   "title": "American Gods",
   "author": "Neil Gaiman",
   "publisher": "William Morrow / HarperCollins (New York)",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the full number line ending in '1' and 'First Edition' stated; jacket priced $26.00. (Note: a signed/limited 'author's preferred text' edition came much later — 2011, Headline/Morrow — and is a 'first thus,' not the true first.)",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/american-gods"
  },
  {
   "slug": "jurassic-park",
   "title": "Jurassic Park",
   "author": "Michael Crichton",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page with no number line removing it; first-issue jacket priced $19.95 and shows the Knopf borzoi colophon. The Tyrannosaurus-skeleton jacket art (by Chip Kidd) is on the first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/jurassic-park"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-three-body-problem",
   "title": "The Three-Body Problem",
   "author": "Liu Cixin (trans. Ken Liu)",
   "publisher": "Tor Books (New York)",
   "year": "2014",
   "genre": "Science fiction",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First English-language printing has the number line ending in '1' and 'First Edition' stated; jacket priced $25.99. (The true world first is the Chinese-language edition, Chongqing Press, 2008.)",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-three-body-problem"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hobbit",
   "title": "The Hobbit",
   "author": "J. R. R. Tolkien",
   "publisher": "George Allen & Unwin (London)",
   "year": "1937",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First impression of 1,500 copies. Key point: the rear flap of the dust jacket has 'Dodgeson' misspelled (corrected to 'Dodgson' in later state). On p.[160], 'Down he came' second line — first-state textual points; the runes and the four-color plates; '11. p.dd' issue. The book has the black-and-white illustrations and the map endpapers.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hobbit"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lord-of-the-rings-trilogy",
   "title": "The Lord of the Rings (trilogy)",
   "author": "J.R.R. Tolkien",
   "publisher": "George Allen & Unwin (London)",
   "year": "1954-1955",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Three volumes. Vol I 'The Fellowship of the Ring' (1954) verso reads 'First published in 1954'; the signature mark '4' appears on page 'iv' of the preliminaries instead of correctly — the key Fellowship point is the misprint and the publisher's print run of 3,500. Vol III 'The Return of the King' (1955) first state has 'Estella Bolger' correctly. Each volume must state 'First published in 19__' with no later impressions. Folding red-and-black map present in each volume.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lord-of-the-rings-trilogy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "harry-potter-and-the-philosophers-stone-j-k-rowling",
   "title": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone",
   "author": "J. K. Rowling",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury (London)",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first: print line reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'; '1 Wand' listed TWICE in the equipment list on p.53; 'Philosopher's Stone' on the title page and rear cover credits 'Joanne Rowling'. First issue: 500 copies (300 to libraries) in hardback, the rest paperback. Copyright page has 'Joanne Rowling' and the bar-code/ISBN points.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/harry-potter-and-the-philosophers-stone-j-k-rowling"
  },
  {
   "slug": "harry-potter-and-the-chamber-of-secrets",
   "title": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets",
   "author": "J.K. Rowling",
   "publisher": "Bloomsbury (London)",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Number line '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. Crucial error: page 6 lists '3 Quills' but Harry only buys 1; and the copyright page mistakenly credits 'Joanne Rowling'. The genuine first issue has the misprint where '7' is dropped from the number line in some copies (true first has the full line). Bloomsbury imprint, 1998.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/harry-potter-and-the-chamber-of-secrets"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dracula",
   "title": "Dracula",
   "author": "Bram Stoker",
   "publisher": "Archibald Constable and Company (Westminster/London)",
   "year": "1897",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in yellow cloth lettered in red, 'Dracula' on the spine and front board; first issue has the correct advertisements (dated catalogue) bound in and the 'six shillings' point; the textual points include 'castle Dracula' and the reading on specific pages per the bibliography.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dracula"
  },
  {
   "slug": "frankenstein-or-the-modern-prometheus",
   "title": "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus",
   "author": "Mary Shelley (published anonymously)",
   "publisher": "Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones (London)",
   "year": "1818",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Three volumes, published anonymously. Title pages dated 1818, imprint 'Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones'. Half-titles present; the dedication to William Godwin. Three small octavo volumes in original boards with paper labels (rarely surviving). 500 copies printed.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/frankenstein-or-the-modern-prometheus"
  },
  {
   "slug": "carrie",
   "title": "Carrie",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (New York)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Code 'P6' on the bottom of the last text page (gutter code, Doubleday convention). 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page (often, but the gutter code is decisive). Dust jacket priced $5.95 and does NOT mention 'The Shining' or later King titles on the rear panel; the jacket flap mentions only Carrie. First-issue jacket has the $5.95 price with no clipping.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/carrie"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-shining",
   "title": "The Shining",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (New York)",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page AND the gutter code 'R49' on the bottom inside corner of page 447. Dust jacket priced $8.95. First-issue jacket carries the $8.95 price; the rear panel/flap reflects 1977 King titles only.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-shining"
  },
  {
   "slug": "it",
   "title": "It",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Viking (New York)",
   "year": "1986",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Published in 1986' on the copyright page with the full number line '1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 86 87 88 89' (Viking style). Dust jacket priced $22.95. Issued by Viking (not Doubleday, so no gutter code). First state has the $22.95 price and the complete number line beginning with 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/it"
  },
  {
   "slug": "salems-lot",
   "title": "Salem's Lot",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (New York)",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' on the copyright page plus gutter code 'P8' (or related Doubleday code) on the last text page. First-issue dust jacket priced $7.95. The notorious first-issue jacket point: the rear panel author photo — first-state jackets are sometimes cited for the 'Cody, Father Callahan' text errors; the decisive points are the gutter code and the $7.95 price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/salems-lot"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-stand",
   "title": "The Stand",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (New York)",
   "year": "1978",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on copyright page with Doubleday gutter code 'T39' on the last text page. Dust jacket priced $12.95. This is the original (abridged) text; first-issue jacket has the $12.95 price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-stand"
  },
  {
   "slug": "interview-with-the-vampire",
   "title": "Interview with the Vampire",
   "author": "Anne Rice",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page with the Borzoi/Knopf colophon and no additional printings noted. Dust jacket priced $8.95, designed with the distinctive photographic/portrait jacket; jacket spine carries the Borzoi device. First state has 'First Edition' and no number line beyond the statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/interview-with-the-vampire"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-game-of-thrones",
   "title": "A Game of Thrones",
   "author": "George R.R. Martin",
   "publisher": "Bantam Spectra (New York)",
   "year": "1996",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Number line '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' on the copyright page and the stated date August 1996. Bantam Spectra hardcover. Dust jacket priced $23.95 with art by Stephen Youll. First state has the complete descending-to-1 number line and the original jacket without later blurbs/awards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-game-of-thrones"
  },
  {
   "slug": "conan-the-conqueror-the-hour-of-the-dragon",
   "title": "Conan the Conqueror (The Hour of the Dragon)",
   "author": "Robert E. Howard",
   "publisher": "Gnome Press (New York)",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Gnome Press first hardcover edition, 1950, titled 'Conan the Conqueror'. Copyright page with Gnome Press imprint and no later printings stated. Dust jacket art; first state has the original Gnome Press price on the jacket flap. This was the first Conan story in hardcover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/conan-the-conqueror-the-hour-of-the-dragon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-wizard-of-earthsea",
   "title": "A Wizard of Earthsea",
   "author": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
   "publisher": "Parnassus Press (Berkeley)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by Parnassus Press, 1968, illustrated by Ruth Robbins. Copyright page with Parnassus imprint, no later printings. Issued in cloth with the distinctive Robbins jacket art (Sparrowhawk). First state has the Parnassus imprint and the original price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-wizard-of-earthsea"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-last-unicorn",
   "title": "The Last Unicorn",
   "author": "Peter S. Beagle",
   "publisher": "Viking Press (New York)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Viking Press 1968, 'Published in 1968 by The Viking Press' on the copyright page with no additional printings stated. Dust jacket art; first state carries the original Viking price. First printing so stated/dated.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-last-unicorn"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-exorcist",
   "title": "The Exorcist",
   "author": "William Peter Blatty",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row (New York)",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page with the Harper & Row code 'K-V' or similar first-printing notation and no number line indicating later printings. Dust jacket priced $6.95. First-issue jacket has the original price and no movie tie-in references.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-exorcist"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rosemarys-baby",
   "title": "Rosemary's Baby",
   "author": "Ira Levin",
   "publisher": "Random House (New York)",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Printing' / 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page with the Random House imprint and no later printings. Dust jacket priced $4.95 with the distinctive pram-silhouette design. First state has the original price and the 'First Edition' wording.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/rosemarys-baby"
  },
  {
   "slug": "i-am-legend",
   "title": "I Am Legend",
   "author": "Richard Matheson",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books / Fawcett (New York)",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Gold Medal Books paperback original, 1954, Gold Medal number '417'. As a paperback original, the first edition is identified by the Gold Medal logo, the publisher's number, and the absence of any later printing line; first printing has the original 25-cent cover price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/i-am-legend"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-haunting-of-hill-house",
   "title": "The Haunting of Hill House",
   "author": "Shirley Jackson",
   "publisher": "Viking Press (New York)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'Published in 1959 by The Viking Press' on the copyright page with no later printings stated. Dust jacket priced $3.50. First state has the Viking imprint, 1959 date, and original price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-haunting-of-hill-house"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe",
   "title": "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe",
   "author": "C.S. Lewis",
   "publisher": "Geoffrey Bles (London)",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Geoffrey Bles, 1950, with illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Verso reads 'First published 1950' with no later dates. First-issue cloth and the original Baynes jacket; the genuine first has the Bles imprint and 1950-only dating. The first issue has 'forty' for the number of chapters consistent with first text state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-eyes-of-the-dragon",
   "title": "The Eyes of the Dragon",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Philtrum Press (Bangor, Maine)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the Philtrum Press limited edition, 1984, limited to 1,250 numbered copies (1,000 in black, 250 in red asbestos slipcase), illustrated by Kenny Ray Linkous. Signed/numbered limitation page. The trade first is the later Viking 1987 edition with number line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-eyes-of-the-dragon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mythago-wood",
   "title": "Mythago Wood",
   "author": "Robert Holdstock",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz (London)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Victor Gollancz 1984 in the characteristic yellow Gollancz dust jacket. Copyright page states 'First published in Great Britain 1984' with no later printings. First state has the yellow Gollancz jacket and 1984-only dating.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mythago-wood"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-drawing-of-the-three-the-gunslinger-the-dark-tower-i",
   "title": "The Drawing of the Three / The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower I)",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Donald M. Grant (West Kingston, RI)",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'The Gunslinger' true first is the Donald M. Grant trade edition, 1982, illustrated by Michael Whelan, limited to 10,000 copies (plus a 500-copy signed/numbered state). Limitation page; first state has no later-printing statement. Issued in slipcase for the signed state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-drawing-of-the-three-the-gunslinger-the-dark-tower-i"
  },
  {
   "slug": "something-wicked-this-way-comes",
   "title": "Something Wicked This Way Comes",
   "author": "Ray Bradbury",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster (New York)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'FIRST PRINTING' stated on the copyright page with the Simon & Schuster imprint and no later printings. Dust jacket priced $3.95. First state has the stated First Printing and the original unclipped jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/something-wicked-this-way-comes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "good-omens",
   "title": "Good Omens",
   "author": "Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz (London)",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Gollancz 1990 hardcover in the yellow Gollancz jacket; copyright page 'First published in Great Britain 1990' with no later printings. First state has the yellow jacket and 1990-only dating. The US Workman edition (1990) is a separate first American.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/good-omens"
  },
  {
   "slug": "misery",
   "title": "Misery",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Viking (New York)",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Published in 1987 by Viking Penguin' with the number line including 1. Dust jacket priced $18.95. First state has the complete number line and the original jacket price; Viking imprint (no gutter code, post-Doubleday).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/misery"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pet-sematary",
   "title": "Pet Sematary",
   "author": "Stephen King",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (New York)",
   "year": "1983",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "'First Edition' stated on the copyright page with the Doubleday gutter code 'Q35' (final text page). Dust jacket priced $15.95. First state has the gutter code, stated First Edition, and original jacket price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pet-sematary"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz",
   "title": "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz",
   "author": "L. Frank Baum",
   "publisher": "Geo. M. Hill Co. (Chicago & New York)",
   "year": "1900",
   "genre": "Fantasy & Horror",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First state has the George M. Hill imprint, 1900, with W.W. Denslow color plates. Key first-state points: on the copyright page a '1' present; eleven-line colophon; and textual states including the 'Chapter II' with a flat/curled plate. First binding in light green cloth with red lettering. The first-state title page reads 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'. First issue has the blank verso on certain plates and the '1899' copyright with 1900 title page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-maltese-falcon",
   "title": "The Maltese Falcon",
   "author": "Dashiell Hammett",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1930",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the Knopf Borzoi device with 'FIRST EDITION' / 'Published February, 1930' (no later printing statement); first-issue dust jacket priced $2.50 with the correct blurb and no review quotes from after publication.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-maltese-falcon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-big-sleep",
   "title": "The Big Sleep",
   "author": "Raymond Chandler",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has 'FIRST EDITION' with the Borzoi device and 'Published February, 1939'; first-issue dust jacket priced $2.00 with the correct design and no later review blurbs.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-big-sleep"
  },
  {
   "slug": "farewell-my-lovely",
   "title": "Farewell, My Lovely",
   "author": "Raymond Chandler",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1940",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION'. Original yellow cloth lettered in red/blue; first-state dust jacket priced $2.00. No later-printing notice present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/farewell-my-lovely"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-long-goodbye",
   "title": "The Long Goodbye",
   "author": "Raymond Chandler",
   "publisher": "Hamish Hamilton (London)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "TRUE FIRST is the UK Hamish Hamilton 1953 edition, which PRECEDES the US Houghton Mifflin 1954 edition by roughly six months. UK first in black cloth, dust jacket priced 10s 6d. The US first (Houghton Mifflin 1954) has its own 'first printing' indicia.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-long-goodbye"
  },
  {
   "slug": "red-harvest",
   "title": "Red Harvest",
   "author": "Dashiell Hammett",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1929",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf first, no later-printing statement on copyright page (early Knopf practice). Hammett's first novel. Original cloth with Borzoi device; first-state jacket priced $2.00.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/red-harvest"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-thin-man",
   "title": "The Thin Man",
   "author": "Dashiell Hammett",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Knopf first edition; copyright page consistent with the unmarked/first-state Knopf practice of the period with no later printing indicated. Hammett's last novel. First-state dust jacket priced $2.00.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-thin-man"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hound-of-the-baskervilles",
   "title": "The Hound of the Baskervilles",
   "author": "Arthur Conan Doyle",
   "publisher": "George Newnes (London)",
   "year": "1902",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the George Newnes UK first edition, 1902. The most reliable points are the first-issue binding (red cloth, gilt) and the first-state advertisements. A noted first-issue textual point: 'you' for 'your' on p. 13. Endpaper/advertisement states are used to confirm earliest issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes",
   "title": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes",
   "author": "Arthur Conan Doyle",
   "publisher": "George Newnes (London)",
   "year": "1892",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First UK edition, George Newnes 1892. First issue dated 1892 on title with the Newnes imprint and first-state advertisement leaves; recognized first-issue points include early mis-set details. Second issue is dated 1893.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "murder-on-the-orient-express",
   "title": "Murder on the Orient Express",
   "author": "Agatha Christie",
   "publisher": "Collins Crime Club (London)",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Collins Crime Club, January 1934. Orange cloth, spine and front board lettered black. Copyright page reads 'Copyright 1934' with NO reference to any subsequent impression (second/third impressions of Jan 1934 are explicitly noted as such). The list of 'Agatha Christie' titles facing the title page ends with 'Lord Edgware Dies' (her most recent prior title). Top edge and endpapers orange.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/murder-on-the-orient-express"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-murder-of-roger-ackroyd",
   "title": "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd",
   "author": "Agatha Christie",
   "publisher": "William Collins (London)",
   "year": "1926",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "William Collins (pre-Crime-Club imprint), 1926. Orange/red cloth. Copyright/title page with 1926 date and no later-impression statement; ad listing of Christie titles ends at her then-current title. Earliest issue confirmed by the advertisement leaf states.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-murder-of-roger-ackroyd"
  },
  {
   "slug": "and-then-there-were-none",
   "title": "And Then There Were None",
   "author": "Agatha Christie",
   "publisher": "Collins Crime Club (London)",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Collins Crime Club, November 1939, under the original (now-retired) title. Copyright page dated 1939 with no later-impression statement. Red cloth, dust jacket with the original title. First-issue ad/title-page state confirms earliest printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/and-then-there-were-none"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-mysterious-affair-at-styles",
   "title": "The Mysterious Affair at Styles",
   "author": "Agatha Christie",
   "publisher": "John Lane Company (New York)",
   "year": "1920",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "TRUE FIRST is the US John Lane Company (New York) edition, October 1920, which PRECEDES the UK Bodley Head edition (January 1921). US first: red cloth, with the publisher's adverts; key point is the US 1920 imprint and first-state ad leaf. Christie's first published book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-mysterious-affair-at-styles"
  },
  {
   "slug": "whose-body",
   "title": "Whose Body?",
   "author": "Dorothy L. Sayers",
   "publisher": "Boni & Liveright (New York)",
   "year": "1923",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "TRUE FIRST is the US Boni & Liveright edition, 1923, which PRECEDES the UK T. Fisher Unwin edition (also 1923). US first: copyright page with 1923 Boni & Liveright imprint; the first appearance of Lord Peter Wimsey. Sayers's debut novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/whose-body"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-nine-tailors",
   "title": "The Nine Tailors",
   "author": "Dorothy L. Sayers",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz (London)",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Victor Gollancz UK first, 1934, in the characteristic Gollancz yellow dust jacket printed in black/magenta (typographical, no pictorial art). Copyright page dated 1934 with no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-nine-tailors"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-spy-who-came-in-from-the-cold",
   "title": "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold",
   "author": "John le Carré",
   "publisher": "Victor Gollancz (London)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Victor Gollancz first, 1963, in the typographic Gollancz dust jacket (black/red on yellow). Copyright page dated 1963 with no later-impression statement. Boards in black cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-spy-who-came-in-from-the-cold"
  },
  {
   "slug": "live-and-let-die",
   "title": "Live and Let Die",
   "author": "Ian Fleming",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Jonathan Cape UK first, 1954. Black cloth, front cover device blocked; dust jacket priced 10s 6d. First-state jacket has the original blurb without later review quotes. Copyright page with no later-impression statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/live-and-let-die"
  },
  {
   "slug": "goldfinger",
   "title": "Goldfinger",
   "author": "Ian Fleming",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Jonathan Cape UK first, 1959. Black cloth boards with a gilt/blind-stamped skull device with coin-filled eye sockets on the front cover (a noted binding point). Dust jacket priced 15s. No later-impression statement on copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/goldfinger"
  },
  {
   "slug": "from-russia-with-love",
   "title": "From Russia, with Love",
   "author": "Ian Fleming",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape (London)",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Jonathan Cape UK first, 1957. Black cloth; the first-issue dust jacket was designed by Richard Chopping (the trompe-l'oeil gun-and-rose painting) — the jacket is integral to value. Dust jacket priced 13s 6d. Copyright page with no later-impression statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/from-russia-with-love"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-day-of-the-jackal",
   "title": "The Day of the Jackal",
   "author": "Frederick Forsyth",
   "publisher": "Hutchinson (London)",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Hutchinson first, 1971. Copyright page dated 1971 with no later-impression statement. First-state dust jacket priced in UK pounds/shillings. Forsyth's debut novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-day-of-the-jackal"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tinker-tailor-soldier-spy",
   "title": "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy",
   "author": "John le Carré",
   "publisher": "Hodder & Stoughton (London)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Hodder & Stoughton first, 1974. Copyright page dated 1974 with no later-impression statement; dust jacket priced in £. First of the Karla trilogy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "smileys-people",
   "title": "Smiley's People",
   "author": "John le Carré",
   "publisher": "Hodder & Stoughton (London)",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Hodder & Stoughton first, 1980. Copyright page dated 1980, no later-impression statement; dust jacket priced in £. Concludes the Karla trilogy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/smileys-people"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-godfather",
   "title": "The Godfather",
   "author": "Mario Puzo",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam first printing: copyright page shows Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 69-11465 and the line 'PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA' (printed by American Book–Stratford Press), with NO statement of any additional printing and no number line. First-state dust jacket has $6.95 price on front flap and the code '6903' at the foot of the flap (indicating March 1969); rear flap lists Puzo's earlier titles 'The Dark Arena' and 'The Fortunate Pilgrim' with reviews. Quarter black cloth over white/cream boards, red endpapers; the marionette/puppet-strings device stamped on the binding.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-godfather"
  },
  {
   "slug": "red-dragon",
   "title": "Red Dragon",
   "author": "Thomas Harris",
   "publisher": "G.P. Putnam's Sons",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Putnam first printing: copyright page with no later-printing statement (per Putnam's practice; first state shows no number-line indicating a later printing). First-state dust jacket priced $13.95. First appearance of Hannibal Lecter (spelled 'Lecter' in the book).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/red-dragon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-silence-of-the-lambs",
   "title": "The Silence of the Lambs",
   "author": "Thomas Harris",
   "publisher": "St. Martin's Press",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "St. Martin's Press first printing: copyright page states 'First Edition' ABOVE a complete number line '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' (must end in 1). Boards gray with the author's initials 'TH' as a BLIND STAMP on the front board; burgundy/maroon cloth spine. Dust jacket priced $18.95.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-silence-of-the-lambs"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-talented-mr-ripley",
   "title": "The Talented Mr. Ripley",
   "author": "Patricia Highsmith",
   "publisher": "Coward-McCann (New York)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "TRUE FIRST is the US Coward-McCann edition, 1955, which PRECEDES the UK Cresset Press edition (1957). US first: copyright page with no later-printing statement; first-state dust jacket priced $3.00.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-talented-mr-ripley"
  },
  {
   "slug": "strangers-on-a-train",
   "title": "Strangers on a Train",
   "author": "Patricia Highsmith",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers (New York)",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "US Harper first, 1950. Harper used a printer's code (a letter-pair) at the foot of the last text page denoting month/year of printing; the first printing carries the code for 1950. First-state dust jacket priced $2.50. Highsmith's debut novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/strangers-on-a-train"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-postman-always-rings-twice",
   "title": "The Postman Always Rings Twice",
   "author": "James M. Cain",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (hardcover)",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1934 Knopf HARDCOVER (Cain's debut). Caution title. Knopf first states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page with the Borzoi device; the jacket has the original price. The later Pocket Books paperback (1947, an early Pocket number) is a famous reprint, not the first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-postman-always-rings-twice"
  },
  {
   "slug": "double-indemnity-in-three-of-a-kind",
   "title": "Double Indemnity (in 'Three of a Kind')",
   "author": "James M. Cain",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "year": "1943",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First book appearance is WITHIN the Knopf collection 'Three of a Kind' (1943), NOT as a standalone. Knopf first of 'Three of a Kind' with no later-printing statement; first-state jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/double-indemnity-in-three-of-a-kind"
  },
  {
   "slug": "presumed-innocent",
   "title": "Presumed Innocent",
   "author": "Scott Turow",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "FSG first printing: copyright page states 'First edition, 1987' with a number line; the first printing has the complete line descending to 1. Dust jacket priced $18.95. Turow's debut novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/presumed-innocent"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hunt-for-red-october",
   "title": "The Hunt for Red October",
   "author": "Tom Clancy",
   "publisher": "Naval Institute Press (Annapolis)",
   "year": "1984",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Naval Institute Press first, 1984. Issued by an academic/naval press (unusual for fiction); the true first carries the Naval Institute Press imprint with first-edition/printing indicia; dust jacket priced $14.95. The scarce true first has the NIP imprint, NOT Putnam/Berkley.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hunt-for-red-october"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bourne-identity",
   "title": "The Bourne Identity",
   "author": "Robert Ludlum",
   "publisher": "Richard Marek Publishers (New York)",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Richard Marek Publishers first printing, 1980: copyright page with the number line descending to 1 (first printing). Dust jacket priced $12.95. First Jason Bourne novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bourne-identity"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gone-girl",
   "title": "Gone Girl",
   "author": "Gillian Flynn",
   "publisher": "Crown Publishers",
   "year": "2012",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Crown first printing: copyright page states 'First Edition' AND has a number line descending to 1 ('10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'). All printings may say 'First Edition,' so the NUMBER LINE ending in 1 is the deciding point. Dust jacket priced $25.00; published June 5, 2012.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gone-girl"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-english-first",
   "title": "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (English first)",
   "author": "Stieg Larsson",
   "publisher": "MacLehose Press / Quercus (London)",
   "year": "2008",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "TRUE FIRST overall is the Swedish original 'Män som hatar kvinnor' (Norstedts, Stockholm, 2005). The true first ENGLISH edition is the UK MacLehose Press / Quercus 2008, which PRECEDES the US Knopf edition (2008). UK first: Quercus/MacLehose imprint with first-printing indicia; jacket priced in £.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-english-first"
  },
  {
   "slug": "devil-in-a-blue-dress",
   "title": "Devil in a Blue Dress",
   "author": "Walter Mosley",
   "publisher": "W.W. Norton",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "W.W. Norton first printing: copyright page with the number line descending to 1 (first printing). Dust jacket priced $18.95. Mosley's debut and first Easy Rawlins novel.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/devil-in-a-blue-dress"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-is-for-alibi",
   "title": "A Is for Alibi",
   "author": "Sue Grafton",
   "publisher": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston first printing, 1982: copyright page with first-printing indicia (number line descending to 1 per HRW practice). Dust jacket priced $13.50. Grafton's first Kinsey Millhone novel — the key collectible because the first printing was small before the series became a bestseller.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-is-for-alibi"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-black-echo",
   "title": "The Black Echo",
   "author": "Michael Connelly",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company",
   "year": "1992",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Little, Brown first printing, 1992: copyright page with the number line descending to 1 (first printing). Dust jacket priced $19.95. Connelly's debut and first Harry Bosch novel — the key collectible of the series.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-black-echo"
  },
  {
   "slug": "get-shorty",
   "title": "Get Shorty",
   "author": "Elmore Leonard",
   "publisher": "Delacorte Press",
   "year": "1990",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Delacorte Press first printing, 1990: copyright page with the number line descending to 1 (first printing). Dust jacket priced $18.95. A peak Leonard crime title.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/get-shorty"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mystic-river",
   "title": "Mystic River",
   "author": "Dennis Lehane",
   "publisher": "William Morrow",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "William Morrow first printing, 2001: copyright page with the number line descending to 1 and the Morrow first-edition statement. Dust jacket priced $25.00. Lehane's breakout standalone.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mystic-river"
  },
  {
   "slug": "smillas-sense-of-snow",
   "title": "Smilla's Sense of Snow",
   "author": "Peter Høeg",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux (US, English translation; UK: 'Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow', Harvill)",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "TRUE FIRST overall is the Danish original 'Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne' (Rosinante, 1992). English firsts diverge by title: the US FSG 1993 is 'Smilla's Sense of Snow' (number line to 1); the UK Harvill 1993 is titled 'Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow.' Note the differing titles between US and UK firsts.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/smillas-sense-of-snow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-cuckoos-calling",
   "title": "The Cuckoo's Calling",
   "author": "Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)",
   "publisher": "Sphere / Little, Brown (London)",
   "year": "2013",
   "genre": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Sphere (Little, Brown imprint) first printing, April 2013, published under the pseudonym 'Robert Galbraith' BEFORE the Rowling authorship was revealed. First printing has the number line descending to 1. The true first was a small run printed before the July 2013 unmasking, making early jacketed firsts scarce and valuable.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-cuckoos-calling"
  },
  {
   "slug": "where-the-wild-things-are",
   "title": "Where the Wild Things Are",
   "author": "Maurice Sendak",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row (New York)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing dust jacket priced $3.95 / '3.50' point and the rear flap states the first-edition reviews absent; the copyright page has no later-printing statement. First-issue jacket has the price and the Caldecott medal is NOT on the jacket (the medal was won in 1964, so true first-issue jackets predate it).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/where-the-wild-things-are"
  },
  {
   "slug": "goodnight-moon",
   "title": "Goodnight Moon",
   "author": "Margaret Wise Brown (illus. Clement Hurd)",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'FIRST EDITION' is NOT used by Harper of this era; identify by code 'I-W' on the copyright page (Harper letter-code: I = January, W = 1947). First-issue jacket priced $1.75. Early printings show the green nightstand lamp with a visibly lit/correct color rendering; many later printings differ in the reproduction of the great green room's colors.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/goodnight-moon"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-cat-in-the-hat",
   "title": "The Cat in the Hat",
   "author": "Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin / Random House (New York)",
   "year": "1957",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first: the Houghton Mifflin '200/200' price ('2.00 net' with matching '200/200' code) on the front jacket flap; the rear flap lists the book as the only Beginner Book. The first-issue jacket has the '200/200' price code.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-cat-in-the-hat"
  },
  {
   "slug": "green-eggs-and-ham",
   "title": "Green Eggs and Ham",
   "author": "Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)",
   "publisher": "Beginner Books / Random House",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First-issue dust jacket priced '195' ($1.95) at upper corner of front flap. Rear jacket panel lists Beginner Books with 'Green Eggs and Ham' as the most recent title (it should not list titles published after 1960). Copyright page shows no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/green-eggs-and-ham"
  },
  {
   "slug": "charlottes-web",
   "title": "Charlotte's Web",
   "author": "E. B. White (illus. Garth Williams)",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First state has the Harper code 'I-B' on the copyright page (I = January... per Harper code; the first-issue letter combination identifies 1952). First-issue dust jacket priced $2.50 and lists no awards (Newbery Honor came after). Garth Williams's pictorial jacket with no medal sticker.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/charlottes-web"
  },
  {
   "slug": "winnie-the-pooh",
   "title": "Winnie-the-Pooh",
   "author": "A. A. Milne (illus. E. H. Shepard)",
   "publisher": "Methuen (UK) / E. P. Dutton (US)",
   "year": "1926",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "UK Methuen first: published October 1926; first issue in green cloth, gilt, with the first-state text and no statement of later printing on the verso. Many first-edition copies exist in a deluxe issue. The ordinary first trade is gilt-decorated cloth. Collation and 'First Published in 1926' with no further printings listed is required.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/winnie-the-pooh"
  },
  {
   "slug": "harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone",
   "title": "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone",
   "author": "J. K. Rowling",
   "publisher": "Arthur A. Levine / Scholastic (US)",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US printing: full number line '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' on the copyright page AND the line 'Printed in the U.S.A. 23' with first printing 'October 1998.' The number line must end in 1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone"
  },
  {
   "slug": "charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory",
   "title": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory",
   "author": "Roald Dahl (illus. Joseph Schindelman)",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (US)",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the US Knopf 1964 edition (it preceded the UK by a year). First printing states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket priced $3.95 with Joseph Schindelman's jacket art. Original text features the Oompa-Loompas as African pygmies (later editions revised this).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory"
  },
  {
   "slug": "james-and-the-giant-peach",
   "title": "James and the Giant Peach",
   "author": "Roald Dahl (illus. Nancy Ekholm Burkert)",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (US)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is US Knopf 1961 with 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page; Nancy Ekholm Burkert illustrations; first-issue jacket priced $3.50.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/james-and-the-giant-peach"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-giving-tree",
   "title": "The Giving Tree",
   "author": "Shel Silverstein",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states a Harper code on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket priced $2.50 with no Caldecott/award mention. Earliest issue has the green cloth-textured boards / first-state binding and the jacket spine without later award blurbs. The book block is undated by reprint line on the first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-giving-tree"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-very-hungry-caterpillar",
   "title": "The Very Hungry Caterpillar",
   "author": "Eric Carle",
   "publisher": "World Publishing (US) / Hamish Hamilton (UK)",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published by The World Publishing Company (Cleveland/New York), 1969, with die-cut pages. First printing has the World Publishing imprint and no later-printing statement; first-issue jacket priced $3.95. The die-cut/board construction of the true first was printed in Japan.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-very-hungry-caterpillar"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hatchet",
   "title": "Hatchet",
   "author": "Gary Paulsen",
   "publisher": "Bradbury Press",
   "year": "1987",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Bradbury Press imprint, 1987; full number line ending in 1 ('10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1') on the copyright page; first-issue jacket priced $11.95 and carries NO Newbery Honor seal (the Honor was awarded in 1988, after publication).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hatchet"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-outsiders",
   "title": "The Outsiders",
   "author": "S. E. Hinton",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Viking Press 1967, black cloth boards with spine lettered in orange and red top-stain; first-issue dust jacket (art by Richard M. Powers) priced $3.95, unclipped. Copyright page bears no later-printing statement; 188 pp.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-outsiders"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-snowy-day",
   "title": "The Snowy Day",
   "author": "Ezra Jack Keats",
   "publisher": "Viking Press",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Viking 1962; first-issue dust jacket with no Caldecott Medal (won 1963) and price $3.00. Copyright page has no later-printing statement and bears the Library of Congress number for 1962.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-snowy-day"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe-c-s-lewis-illu",
   "title": "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe",
   "author": "C. S. Lewis (illus. Pauline Baynes)",
   "publisher": "Geoffrey Bles (UK)",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first: Geoffrey Bles (London), 1950; first issue lists only the single Narnia title on the half-title/series page (no later Narnia books advertised, since they had not yet appeared). Copyright/verso shows 'First published 1950' with no further impression line; Pauline Baynes illustrations and first-state jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe-c-s-lewis-illu"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-tale-of-peter-rabbit",
   "title": "The Tale of Peter Rabbit",
   "author": "Beatrix Potter",
   "publisher": "Frederick Warne & Co. (first commercial trade)",
   "year": "1902",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Privately printed first (1901, Potter's own, 250 copies) precedes everything; the Warne first commercial edition (Oct. 1902) is the collected trade first: first issue has the 'Frederick Warne & Co.' imprint, the original endpapers, and the first-state of certain plates. The private 1901 printing has a flat spine and black-and-white illustrations plus one color frontispiece.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-tale-of-peter-rabbit"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-polar-express",
   "title": "The Polar Express",
   "author": "Chris Van Allsburg",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Houghton Mifflin 1985; first-issue dust jacket WITHOUT the Caldecott Medal (won 1986), priced $16.95 (some early at $15.95). Copyright page has the full number line ending in 1; jacket carries no medal seal.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-polar-express"
  },
  {
   "slug": "make-way-for-ducklings",
   "title": "Make Way for Ducklings",
   "author": "Robert McCloskey",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press",
   "year": "1941",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Viking 1941; first issue is the larger trim oblong folio with the first-state jacket lacking the Caldecott Medal (won 1942) and priced $2.00. Copyright page shows no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/make-way-for-ducklings"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-phantom-tollbooth",
   "title": "The Phantom Tollbooth",
   "author": "Norton Juster (illus. Jules Feiffer)",
   "publisher": "Epstein & Carroll / Random House",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: 1961, distributed by Random House (Epstein & Carroll association); copyright page states 'First Edition'; first-issue dust jacket priced $3.95 with Jules Feiffer art and no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-phantom-tollbooth"
  },
  {
   "slug": "where-the-sidewalk-ends",
   "title": "Where the Sidewalk Ends",
   "author": "Shel Silverstein",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Harper & Row 1974; copyright page bears the Harper code and full number line; first-issue dust jacket priced $5.95 (and $6.89 library) with no later-printing statement. First-state binding in the textured boards.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/where-the-sidewalk-ends"
  },
  {
   "slug": "madeline",
   "title": "Madeline",
   "author": "Ludwig Bemelmans",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1939",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Simon & Schuster 1939; first issue is the larger format with first-state jacket lacking the Caldecott Honor mention (Honor 1940) and priced $2.00. Copyright page shows 1939 and no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/madeline"
  },
  {
   "slug": "holes",
   "title": "Holes",
   "author": "Louis Sachar",
   "publisher": "Frances Foster Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: FSG (Frances Foster Books) 1998; full number line '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket WITHOUT the Newbery Medal (won 1999), priced $16.00.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/holes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "harriet-the-spy",
   "title": "Harriet the Spy",
   "author": "Louise Fitzhugh",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Harper & Row 1964; Harper code on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket priced $3.50 with Fitzhugh's own art. No later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/harriet-the-spy"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lorax",
   "title": "The Lorax",
   "author": "Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)",
   "publisher": "Random House",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Random House 1971; first-issue text contains the line 'I hear things are just as bad up in Lake Erie' (page with the Humming-Fish) — REMOVED from printings after ~1980s. First-issue jacket priced $2.95 with rear-panel title list ending appropriately for 1971.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lorax"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bridge-to-terabithia",
   "title": "Bridge to Terabithia",
   "author": "Katherine Paterson (illus. Donna Diamond)",
   "publisher": "Thomas Y. Crowell",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Thomas Y. Crowell 1977; first-issue dust jacket WITHOUT the Newbery Medal (won 1978), priced $6.95; copyright page shows '1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10' or a code with no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bridge-to-terabithia"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz-l-frank-baum-i",
   "title": "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz",
   "author": "L. Frank Baum (illus. W. W. Denslow)",
   "publisher": "Geo. M. Hill Co.",
   "year": "1900",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first state: Geo. M. Hill Co., Chicago/New York, 1900. First-state points include the '11-line' colophon errors and specific plate states; the title page reads 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' (later editions retitled 'The New Wizard of Oz'). First state has a blank verso of the half-title and the Hill imprint; numerous documented states exist (color plates, text settings on p. [2], p. 14, p. 81, p. 100, etc.).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz-l-frank-baum-i"
  },
  {
   "slug": "stuart-little",
   "title": "Stuart Little",
   "author": "E. B. White (illus. Garth Williams)",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers",
   "year": "1945",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Harper & Brothers 1945; Harper code on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket priced $2.00 with Garth Williams art. No later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/stuart-little"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-giver",
   "title": "The Giver",
   "author": "Lois Lowry",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1993",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Houghton Mifflin 1993; full number line ending in 1; first-issue dust jacket WITHOUT the Newbery Medal (won 1994), priced $13.95, with the photographic portrait of the old man on the front. No later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-giver"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sylvester-and-the-magic-pebble",
   "title": "Sylvester and the Magic Pebble",
   "author": "William Steig",
   "publisher": "Windmill Books / Simon & Schuster",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Windmill Books/Simon & Schuster 1969; first-issue dust jacket WITHOUT the Caldecott Medal (won 1970), priced $3.95. Copyright page 1969 with no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sylvester-and-the-magic-pebble"
  },
  {
   "slug": "number-the-stars",
   "title": "Number the Stars",
   "author": "Lois Lowry",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin",
   "year": "1989",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Houghton Mifflin 1989; full number line ending in 1; first-issue dust jacket WITHOUT the Newbery Medal (won 1990), priced $12.95, with the Annemarie portrait on the front. No later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/number-the-stars"
  },
  {
   "slug": "roll-of-thunder-hear-my-cry",
   "title": "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry",
   "author": "Mildred D. Taylor (illus. Jerry Pinkney)",
   "publisher": "Dial Press",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Dial Press 1976; first-issue dust jacket WITHOUT the Newbery Medal (won 1977), priced $6.95, with Jerry Pinkney jacket art; copyright page 1976 with no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/roll-of-thunder-hear-my-cry"
  },
  {
   "slug": "frog-and-toad-are-friends",
   "title": "Frog and Toad Are Friends",
   "author": "Arnold Lobel",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "Children's & YA",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition: Harper & Row 1970; Harper code on the copyright page; first-issue dust jacket WITHOUT the Caldecott Honor seal (Honor 1971), priced $2.50. No later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/frog-and-toad-are-friends"
  },
  {
   "slug": "howl-and-other-poems",
   "title": "Howl and Other Poems",
   "author": "Allen Ginsberg",
   "publisher": "City Lights Books (San Francisco)",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing is the City Lights Pocket Poets Series Number Four in black-and-white printed wrappers; first issue has the price '75c' and the mimeographed/first-state points, with no statement of later printing and the early City Lights address. Limited to ~1,000 in the first printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/howl-and-other-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "naked-lunch",
   "title": "Naked Lunch",
   "author": "William S. Burroughs (as 'William Burroughs')",
   "publisher": "The Olympia Press (Paris) / The Traveller's Companion Series No. 76",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Green pictorial wrappers, Traveller's Companion Series No. 76. First state has the rear wrapper printed 'Francs: 1500'. Title on the book is 'The Naked Lunch' (the 'The' was dropped for the US Grove edition). Author credited as 'William Burroughs' (no middle initial).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/naked-lunch"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ariel",
   "title": "Ariel",
   "author": "Sylvia Plath",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber first (Tabor A5a), published 11 March 1965, ~3,100 copies; dust jacket designed by Berthold Wolpe. No 'first published' qualifier beyond the 1965 date; later Faber impressions are noted on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ariel"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lunch-poems",
   "title": "Lunch Poems",
   "author": "Frank O'Hara",
   "publisher": "City Lights Books / The Pocket Poets Series No. 19 (San Francisco)",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pocket Poets Series No. 19, printed wrappers. First printing so stated/identified by absence of later-printing notice; price on rear cover. Issued in wrappers (a small number of hardbound/cloth copies were also produced and are scarce).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lunch-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "leaves-of-grass",
   "title": "Leaves of Grass",
   "author": "Walt Whitman",
   "publisher": "(self-published, printed by Andrew & James Rome, Brooklyn)",
   "year": "1855",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First issue: large quarto in dark green cloth blind-stamped with rustic gilt lettering 'Leaves of Grass' and triple-rule border; the engraved frontispiece of Whitman in workman's dress; no author name on the title page; 95 pages. First-issue binding has gilt on all edges/specific gilt state per Myerson's bibliography.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/leaves-of-grass"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-waste-land",
   "title": "The Waste Land",
   "author": "T. S. Eliot",
   "publisher": "Boni and Liveright (New York)",
   "year": "1922",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in book form, US, of 1,000 copies. Key point: on page 41 (the Notes), the word 'mountain' is correctly spelled — the famous first-printing error to check is the line on p. 41/the misprint 'a' for the broken type; the most cited point is the flexible black cloth binding stamped in gold, with the publisher's device. First printing has 'mountain' and the gilt-stamped boards; the second printing corrects/alters points. (The single most reliable point: 1,000-copy first printing, Boni & Liveright, black cloth, gilt-stamped, with the dropped/numbered Notes.)",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-waste-land"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-dharma-bums",
   "title": "The Dharma Bums",
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press (New York)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing so stated by 'Published in 1958' with no additional printing notice on the copyright page. First-issue dust jacket priced $3.95. Bound in cloth; jacket design distinct from reprints.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-dharma-bums"
  },
  {
   "slug": "junkie-confessions-of-an-unredeemed-drug-addict",
   "title": "Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict",
   "author": "William Lee (pseudonym of William S. Burroughs)",
   "publisher": "Ace Books (New York), Ace Double D-15",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Mass-market paperback, Ace Double D-15, bound dos-à-dos (tête-bêche) with Maurice Helbrant's 'Narcotic Agent.' Author pseudonym 'William Lee.' First printing carries the Ace D-15 number and original 35¢ price; pulp cover art. No printing statement beyond the original Ace issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/junkie-confessions-of-an-unredeemed-drug-addict"
  },
  {
   "slug": "kaddish-and-other-poems-1958-1960",
   "title": "Kaddish and Other Poems 1958–1960",
   "author": "Allen Ginsberg",
   "publisher": "City Lights Books / The Pocket Poets Series No. 14 (San Francisco)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pocket Poets Series No. 14, printed wrappers. First printing identified by the absence of later-printing notice on the copyright page; original price on rear cover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/kaddish-and-other-poems-1958-1960"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-coney-island-of-the-mind",
   "title": "A Coney Island of the Mind",
   "author": "Lawrence Ferlinghetti",
   "publisher": "New Directions (New York)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued both in cloth (in dust jacket) and in wrappers (New Directions Paperbook). First printing so identified by the copyright page; later printings add printing/impression statements. The hardcover-in-jacket first is the prime collectible state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-coney-island-of-the-mind"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gasoline",
   "title": "Gasoline",
   "author": "Gregory Corso",
   "publisher": "City Lights Books / The Pocket Poets Series No. 8 (San Francisco)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pocket Poets Series No. 8, printed wrappers, with an introduction by Allen Ginsberg. First printing identified by absence of later-printing notice on the copyright page; original price on rear cover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gasoline"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pictures-of-the-gone-world",
   "title": "Pictures of the Gone World",
   "author": "Lawrence Ferlinghetti",
   "publisher": "City Lights Books / The Pocket Poets Series No. 1 (San Francisco)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pocket Poets Series No. 1 — the inaugural volume of the series, predating Howl (No. 4). Printed wrappers in glassine; original price on rear cover. First printing lacks any later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pictures-of-the-gone-world"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-subterraneans",
   "title": "The Subterraneans",
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "publisher": "Grove Press (New York)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition issued in wrappers (Evergreen / Grove paperback original) as well as a clothbound issue. First printing identified by the copyright page lacking later-printing notice. Original price present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-subterraneans"
  },
  {
   "slug": "big-sur",
   "title": "Big Sur",
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (New York)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing so indicated by 'First printing, 1962' on the copyright page. First-issue dust jacket with original price on the flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/big-sur"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mexico-city-blues",
   "title": "Mexico City Blues",
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "publisher": "Grove Press (New York)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition issued in cloth (with dust jacket) and in wrappers. First printing identified by copyright page without later-printing notice; original price present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/mexico-city-blues"
  },
  {
   "slug": "visions-of-cody",
   "title": "Visions of Cody",
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "publisher": "New Directions (New York) — first complete edition: McGraw-Hill (1972)",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First (partial) edition: New Directions, 1960, a limited signed edition of 750 numbered copies containing only excerpts. The first COMPLETE edition is McGraw-Hill, 1972 (posthumous), with an introduction by Allen Ginsberg.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/visions-of-cody"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-soft-machine",
   "title": "The Soft Machine",
   "author": "William S. Burroughs",
   "publisher": "The Olympia Press (Paris) / The Traveller's Companion Series No. 88",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Olympia Press, Traveller's Companion Series No. 88, green wrappers. First printing carries the series number and original franc price on the rear wrapper.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-soft-machine"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-ticket-that-exploded",
   "title": "The Ticket That Exploded",
   "author": "William S. Burroughs",
   "publisher": "The Olympia Press (Paris) / The Traveller's Companion Series No. 100",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Olympia Press, Traveller's Companion Series No. 100, green wrappers; original franc price on the rear wrapper. First printing carries the series number 100.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-ticket-that-exploded"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-yage-letters",
   "title": "The Yage Letters",
   "author": "William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg",
   "publisher": "City Lights Books (San Francisco)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "City Lights, printed wrappers. First printing identified by copyright page without later-printing statement; original price on rear cover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-yage-letters"
  },
  {
   "slug": "planet-news-1961-1967",
   "title": "Planet News 1961–1967",
   "author": "Allen Ginsberg",
   "publisher": "City Lights Books / The Pocket Poets Series No. 23 (San Francisco)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pocket Poets Series No. 23, printed wrappers. First printing lacks later-printing statement on the copyright page; original price on rear cover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/planet-news-1961-1967"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-fall-of-america-poems-of-these-states-1965-1971",
   "title": "The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965–1971",
   "author": "Allen Ginsberg",
   "publisher": "City Lights Books / The Pocket Poets Series No. 30 (San Francisco)",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pocket Poets Series No. 30, printed wrappers. First printing lacks a later-printing statement; original price on rear cover. Won the National Book Award (1974).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-fall-of-america-poems-of-these-states-1965-1971"
  },
  {
   "slug": "birthday-letters",
   "title": "Birthday Letters",
   "author": "Ted Hughes",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "1998",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber first edition in cloth with dust jacket; first printing so identified by a full number line ending in '1' on the copyright page (Faber's standard). A signed/limited edition was also issued.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/birthday-letters"
  },
  {
   "slug": "death-of-a-naturalist",
   "title": "Death of a Naturalist",
   "author": "Seamus Heaney",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "1966",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber first edition, cloth in dust jacket. First printing identified by the absence of later-impression statements; Heaney's first major collection. Jacket price present on first issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/death-of-a-naturalist"
  },
  {
   "slug": "north",
   "title": "North",
   "author": "Seamus Heaney",
   "publisher": "Faber and Faber (London)",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Faber first edition. First printing identified by number line / absence of later-impression statement on the copyright page; cloth in dust jacket with original price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/north"
  },
  {
   "slug": "life-studies",
   "title": "Life Studies",
   "author": "Robert Lowell",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (New York)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US printing so stated ('First printing, 1959' on the copyright page). The US edition includes the prose memoir '91 Revere Street.' Cloth in dust jacket, original price present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/life-studies"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bell-jar-victoria-lucas",
   "title": "The Bell Jar",
   "author": "Victoria Lucas (pseudonym of Sylvia Plath)",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Heinemann first edition, published under the pseudonym 'Victoria Lucas.' Cloth in dust jacket; first issue jacket with original price. The pseudonymous Heinemann issue is the true first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bell-jar-victoria-lucas"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-colossus-and-other-poems",
   "title": "The Colossus and Other Poems",
   "author": "Sylvia Plath",
   "publisher": "William Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1960",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Heinemann first edition, cloth in dust jacket; Plath's first poetry collection published in her lifetime. First issue jacket priced. The UK edition includes seven poems later dropped from the US edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-colossus-and-other-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "ham-on-rye-caution-see-charles-bukowski-entry",
   "title": "Ham on Rye / (caution: see Charles Bukowski entry)",
   "author": "Charles Bukowski",
   "publisher": "Black Sparrow Press (Santa Barbara/Santa Rosa)",
   "year": "1982",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Black Sparrow Press issues typically appear in three simultaneous states: (1) trade paperback wrappers; (2) clothbound trade hardcover; and (3) a signed, numbered limited hardcover edition (often with an additional lettered state), printed on better paper and bound in special cloth/boards. First printing stated on the copyright page; the signed limited (numbered, often of 300 or 400, plus ~26 lettered) is the prime collectible state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/ham-on-rye-caution-see-charles-bukowski-entry"
  },
  {
   "slug": "love-is-a-dog-from-hell",
   "title": "Love Is a Dog from Hell",
   "author": "Charles Bukowski",
   "publisher": "Black Sparrow Press (Santa Barbara)",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued in Black Sparrow's standard multiple states: trade wrappers, trade cloth, and a signed numbered limited hardcover (plus lettered copies). First printing stated on the copyright page; limited states identified by the colophon.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/love-is-a-dog-from-hell"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cities-of-the-red-night",
   "title": "Cities of the Red Night",
   "author": "William S. Burroughs",
   "publisher": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston (New York)",
   "year": "1981",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition, cloth in dust jacket; first printing stated by number line/printing statement on the copyright page. A signed limited edition was also issued (slipcased), which is the premium state.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cities-of-the-red-night"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tarantula",
   "title": "Tarantula",
   "author": "Bob Dylan",
   "publisher": "The Macmillan Company (New York)",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade edition, Macmillan, cloth in dust jacket; first printing identified by the copyright page. (Note: bootleg/pirated copies circulated 1966–1971 before authorized publication.) The authorized first is the 1971 Macmillan.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tarantula"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-electric-kool-aid-acid-test",
   "title": "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test",
   "author": "Tom Wolfe",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition, cloth in dust jacket. First printing so stated ('First printing, 1968' on the copyright page). First-issue dust jacket with original price ($5.95) on the flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-electric-kool-aid-acid-test"
  },
  {
   "slug": "fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas",
   "title": "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas",
   "author": "Hunter S. Thompson",
   "publisher": "Random House (New York)",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition, cloth (and a simultaneous wrappered issue). First printing identified by 'First Edition' stated with the number line on the copyright page (Random House convention: 'First Edition' plus '9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2'). First-issue dust jacket priced $5.95, illustrated by Ralph Steadman.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-town-and-the-city",
   "title": "The Town and the City",
   "author": "John Kerouac (Jack Kerouac)",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace and Company (New York)",
   "year": "1950",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition published as by 'John Kerouac' (his given first name). Cloth in dust jacket; first printing identified by the copyright page lacking later-printing statements, with the first-issue price on the jacket flap. This is Kerouac's first published book.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-town-and-the-city"
  },
  {
   "slug": "doctor-sax",
   "title": "Doctor Sax",
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "publisher": "Grove Press (New York)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition issued in wrappers (Evergreen/Grove paperback original) and a clothbound issue. First printing identified by the copyright page without later-printing notice; original price present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/doctor-sax"
  },
  {
   "slug": "desolation-angels",
   "title": "Desolation Angels",
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "publisher": "Coward-McCann (New York)",
   "year": "1965",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition, cloth in dust jacket, with an introduction by Seymour Krim. First printing identified by the copyright page; first-issue jacket with original price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/desolation-angels"
  },
  {
   "slug": "scattered-poems",
   "title": "Scattered Poems",
   "author": "Jack Kerouac",
   "publisher": "City Lights Books / The Pocket Poets Series No. 28 (San Francisco)",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pocket Poets Series No. 28, printed wrappers; posthumous. First printing lacks a later-printing statement on the copyright page; original price on rear cover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/scattered-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "reality-sandwiches-1953-60",
   "title": "Reality Sandwiches 1953–60",
   "author": "Allen Ginsberg",
   "publisher": "City Lights Books / The Pocket Poets Series No. 18 (San Francisco)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Pocket Poets Series No. 18, printed wrappers. First printing lacks later-printing statement on the copyright page; original price on rear cover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/reality-sandwiches-1953-60"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nova-express",
   "title": "Nova Express",
   "author": "William S. Burroughs",
   "publisher": "Grove Press (New York)",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "Beat, counterculture & poetry",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition, cloth in dust jacket. First printing identified by the copyright page; first-issue jacket with original price. Completes Burroughs's 'Nova'/cut-up trilogy.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nova-express"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-sand-county-almanac",
   "title": "A Sand County Almanac",
   "author": "Aldo Leopold",
   "publisher": "Oxford University Press (New York)",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing in green cloth, gilt/silver-stamped, with a bird design on the front board; illustrated by Charles W. Schwartz. Dust jacket priced $3.50 on the front flap. Title-page/copyright page bears 1949 with no later-printing statements. The book itself states 'Printed in the United States of America.' The DJ rear flap makes NO mention of 'Round River' (a later companion volume), so a first-issue jacket carries no Round River reference.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-sand-county-almanac"
  },
  {
   "slug": "silent-spring",
   "title": "Silent Spring",
   "author": "Rachel Carson",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin (Boston)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page reads 'First Printing' (no additional 'C' or later-printing codes). x, [vi], 368 pp. Bound in dark green cloth lettered in gilt, yellow topstain. First-issue dust jacket is green with a $5.00 price on the front flap. Illustrations by Lois and Louis Darling.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/silent-spring"
  },
  {
   "slug": "desert-solitaire-a-season-in-the-wilderness",
   "title": "Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness",
   "author": "Edward Abbey",
   "publisher": "McGraw-Hill (New York)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing has the full number line / no additional-printing statement on the copyright page with 1968 copyright. Bound in brown cloth, spine lettered in white and tan; xiv, [2], 269 pp. First-issue dust jacket priced $5.95 on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/desert-solitaire-a-season-in-the-wilderness"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-monkey-wrench-gang",
   "title": "The Monkey Wrench Gang",
   "author": "Edward Abbey",
   "publisher": "J.B. Lippincott (Philadelphia & New York)",
   "year": "1975",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page (Lippincott convention) with no later-printing line. Illustrated endpapers/illustrations by Robert Crumb appear in the later illustrated edition—NOT the 1975 first. First-issue jacket art is the cartoon-style monkey-wrench/bridge design; jacket price on front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-monkey-wrench-gang"
  },
  {
   "slug": "walden-or-life-in-the-woods",
   "title": "Walden; or, Life in the Woods",
   "author": "Henry David Thoreau",
   "publisher": "Ticknor and Fields (Boston)",
   "year": "1854",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in brown cloth (variant cloth colors exist), publisher's catalog of ads at rear dated to 1854; title vignette by Sophia Thoreau on the title page. A single print run of 2,000 copies; no number line (19th c.). Points include the rear advertisements and the absence of any later imprint; the title page reads 'Ticknor and Fields' with 1854.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/walden-or-life-in-the-woods"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bless-me-ultima",
   "title": "Bless Me, Ultima",
   "author": "Rudolfo A. Anaya",
   "publisher": "Quinto Sol Publications (Berkeley, CA)",
   "year": "1972",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page states 'First Printing,' dated June 1972. Issued SIMULTANEOUSLY in wrappers (pictorial card covers, the more common state) and in a small hardcover/cloth state (black boards, silver spine lettering). The prized first-issue dust jacket on the hardcover carries the WRONG price—$3.75 (the paperback price) mistakenly printed—quickly corrected to $6.75; the $3.75-jacket hardcover is the rarity. xiv, 248, [2] pp; illustrated.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bless-me-ultima"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lonesome-dove",
   "title": "Lonesome Dove",
   "author": "Larry McMurtry",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster (New York)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Copyright page has a complete number line ending (or beginning) in '1' with the printing run; first issue. First-issue dust jacket bears NO mention of the Pulitzer Prize (the novel won the 1986 Pulitzer, so any Pulitzer reference on the jacket = later printing/state). A text reading 'none' for 'done' on p.621 exists but persists into later printings, so it is NOT a reliable first-printing point—rely on the number line and the no-Pulitzer jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lonesome-dove"
  },
  {
   "slug": "true-grit",
   "title": "True Grit",
   "author": "Charles Portis",
   "publisher": "Simon & Schuster (New York)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the 1968 copyright with NO additional printing statement (and the S&S first-issue conventions of the period). Bound in blue-gray cloth, spine stamped in red and gilt, yellow topstain, mustard-yellow endpapers; 215 pp. First-issue dust jacket designed by Paul Davis, priced $4.95 on the front flap.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/true-grit"
  },
  {
   "slug": "shane",
   "title": "Shane",
   "author": "Jack Schaefer",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin (Boston)",
   "year": "1949",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing is bound in TAN cloth stamped in dark brown, and the date '1949' appears on the TITLE PAGE (as well as copyright). 214 pp; first-issue jacket priced $2.50 on the front flap. Later printings are in BLUE cloth and have an UNDATED title page (the 1949 remains only on the copyright page).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/shane"
  },
  {
   "slug": "death-comes-for-the-archbishop",
   "title": "Death Comes for the Archbishop",
   "author": "Willa Cather",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1927",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First trade issue points (per the Cather Archive bibliography): NO topstain, and the misprints 'happned' on p.20 and 'suppper' present in early text; 1927 on title and copyright with Knopf's first-issue conventions. Three issues exist: 50 copies on Japan vellum (signed, numbered, full cream vellum, slipcased), 175 copies on rag paper (signed, numbered, marbled boards/green spine cloth, gilt morocco label), and ~20,000 trade copies in cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/death-comes-for-the-archbishop"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-milagro-beanfield-war",
   "title": "The Milagro Beanfield War",
   "author": "John Nichols",
   "publisher": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston (New York)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page (Holt convention) with no later-printing line, 1974 copyright. Illustrations/decorations by Rini Templeton. First-issue dust jacket carries the front-flap price and no later-printing or award references.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-milagro-beanfield-war"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-big-sky",
   "title": "The Big Sky",
   "author": "A.B. Guthrie Jr.",
   "publisher": "William Sloane Associates (New York)",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing with 1947 copyright and no additional-printing statement; published by William Sloane Associates. First-issue dust jacket with front-flap price and no reference to the 1949 sequel 'The Way West' or to the Pulitzer (Guthrie won for The Way West, not this title).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-big-sky"
  },
  {
   "slug": "riders-of-the-purple-sage",
   "title": "Riders of the Purple Sage",
   "author": "Zane Grey",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers (New York)",
   "year": "1912",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition carries the Harper code 'M-M' on the copyright page (the Harper letter code denotes month/year: M-M = 1912) with the 'Published [date]' line; frontispiece illustration. No number line (period). Bound in red/maroon cloth with pictorial stamping; first-issue jacket (when present) is exceedingly rare.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/riders-of-the-purple-sage"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-virginian-a-horseman-of-the-plains",
   "title": "The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains",
   "author": "Owen Wister",
   "publisher": "The Macmillan Company (New York)",
   "year": "1902",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first state with 1902 on title page and 'Published April, 1902' on the copyright page; later first-edition printings add 'Reprinted' lines (May 1902, etc.). Bound in tan/olive pictorial cloth. Key textual point: certain early-state readings/dedication; the earliest printing has no list of later reprintings on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-virginian-a-horseman-of-the-plains"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-oregon-trail",
   "title": "The Oregon Trail",
   "author": "Francis Parkman",
   "publisher": "George P. Putnam (New York)",
   "year": "1849",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Issued first in book form 1849 by Putnam under the title 'The California and Oregon Trail' (the full original title), in cloth; the famous shortened title 'The Oregon Trail' came with later editions. First-book-edition points include the 1849 Putnam imprint and the original longer title on the title page. (Originally serialized in Knickerbocker Magazine 1847-49 prior to book form.)",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-oregon-trail"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn",
   "title": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn",
   "author": "Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)",
   "publisher": "Charles L. Webster and Company (New York)",
   "year": "1885",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First state has the famous points: p.13 'was' for 'saw' / 'Decided' contents point; the 'curve' caption / Uncle Silas illustration on p.283 in its uncensored (vulgar) state; p.155 'with the saw'; final '$2.30' / 'Him and another Man' caption listed as p.88 in contents but plate at p.87. The defective 'b' in 'Tom Sawyer' on p.[9].",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn"
  },
  {
   "slug": "my-antonia",
   "title": "My Antonia",
   "author": "Willa Cather",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin (Boston)",
   "year": "1918",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing with the W.T. Benda illustrations PRINTED ON COATED/GLOSSY paper and tipped/inserted as plates (first issue); a later state has the illustrations on the regular text paper. The title page reads 'My Antonia' with the diacritic; copyright 1918. Bound in tan cloth, dark-stamped, with the first-issue jacket priced accordingly.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/my-antonia"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sea-of-cortez-sea-of-cortez-a-leisurely-journal-of-trave",
   "title": "The Sea of Cortez (Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research)",
   "author": "John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press (New York)",
   "year": "1941",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first issue includes the color frontispiece and the full phyletic catalogue (species appendix); bound in tan/buff cloth. Co-authored by Steinbeck and Ricketts. First-issue dust jacket with front-flap price. The complete species catalogue and the integral color plate are the points to verify.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sea-of-cortez-sea-of-cortez-a-leisurely-journal-of-trave"
  },
  {
   "slug": "travels-with-charley-in-search-of-america",
   "title": "Travels with Charley in Search of America",
   "author": "John Steinbeck",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press (New York)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'First published in 1962' on the copyright page with no additional printing line; bound in beige/tan cloth, brown topstain. First-issue dust jacket priced $4.95 on the front flap with the original jacket art.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/travels-with-charley-in-search-of-america"
  },
  {
   "slug": "centennial",
   "title": "Centennial",
   "author": "James A. Michener",
   "publisher": "Random House (New York)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition states 'First Edition' on the copyright page (Random House convention) with no number line indicating later printings; 1974 copyright. First-issue dust jacket with front-flap price and the original Colorado/American West jacket art.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/centennial"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-log-from-the-sea-of-cortez",
   "title": "The Log from the Sea of Cortez",
   "author": "John Steinbeck",
   "publisher": "The Viking Press (New York)",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, 1951 Viking, with the prefatory memoir 'About Ed Ricketts' and the narrative-only text (no species catalogue). Copyright page shows the 1951 first-issue state with no later-printing line; first-issue jacket with front-flap price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-log-from-the-sea-of-cortez"
  },
  {
   "slug": "blood-meridian-or-the-evening-redness-in-the-west",
   "title": "Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West",
   "author": "Cormac McCarthy",
   "publisher": "Random House (New York)",
   "year": "1985",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing states 'First Edition' on the copyright page (Random House) with no later-printing indicator. Bound in black cloth/boards; first-issue dust jacket priced $16.95 on the front flap, with the original jacket art (no later award/blurb references).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/blood-meridian-or-the-evening-redness-in-the-west"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pilgrim-at-tinker-creek",
   "title": "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek",
   "author": "Annie Dillard",
   "publisher": "Harper's Magazine Press / Harper & Row (New York)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing has the full number line ending in '1' and/or the Harper's Magazine Press first-issue copyright state, 1974. First-issue dust jacket priced on the front flap with NO mention of the Pulitzer Prize (Dillard won the 1975 Pulitzer for this book, so a Pulitzer-free jacket = first issue).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pilgrim-at-tinker-creek"
  },
  {
   "slug": "coming-into-the-country",
   "title": "Coming into the Country",
   "author": "John McPhee",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York)",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing states 'First printing, 1977' on the copyright page (FSG convention) with no later-printing line. Bound in cloth/quarter-cloth; first-issue dust jacket with the Alaska-themed art and front-flap price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/coming-into-the-country"
  },
  {
   "slug": "angle-of-repose",
   "title": "Angle of Repose",
   "author": "Wallace Stegner",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (Garden City, NY)",
   "year": "1971",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing has 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page (Doubleday convention) with the matching first-issue jacket; 1971 copyright. First-issue dust jacket with front-flap price and NO mention of the Pulitzer (Stegner won the 1972 Pulitzer for this novel, so a Pulitzer-free first-issue jacket precedes the award).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/angle-of-repose"
  },
  {
   "slug": "black-elk-speaks",
   "title": "Black Elk Speaks",
   "author": "John G. Neihardt (as told through Black Elk)",
   "publisher": "William Morrow & Company (New York)",
   "year": "1932",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing 1932 William Morrow, with the Standing Bear color illustrations; first-issue copyright state with no later-printing line. First-issue dust jacket with the original art and front-flap price. Bound in cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/black-elk-speaks"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-way-to-rainy-mountain",
   "title": "The Way to Rainy Mountain",
   "author": "N. Scott Momaday",
   "publisher": "University of New Mexico Press (Albuquerque)",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing 1969 University of New Mexico Press, illustrated by Al Momaday; first-issue copyright state with no later-printing line. Issued in cloth (and a wrappers issue); first-issue dust jacket on the cloth state with front-flap price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-way-to-rainy-mountain"
  },
  {
   "slug": "house-made-of-dawn",
   "title": "House Made of Dawn",
   "author": "N. Scott Momaday",
   "publisher": "Harper & Row (New York)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing has the Harper & Row first-issue code 'F-S' (Harper letter code = 1968) on the copyright page with no later-printing line. First-issue dust jacket priced on the front flap with the original art and NO mention of the Pulitzer (the novel won the 1969 Pulitzer, so a Pulitzer-free jacket = first issue).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/house-made-of-dawn"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-land-of-little-rain",
   "title": "The Land of Little Rain",
   "author": "Mary Hunter Austin",
   "publisher": "Houghton, Mifflin and Company (Boston & New York)",
   "year": "1903",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition 1903 Houghton, Mifflin, illustrated by E. Boyd Smith, decorated cloth with the desert/landscape design; first-issue with the 1903 copyright and Riverside Press colophon, no later-printing line. Top edge gilt in the first issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-land-of-little-rain"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hondo",
   "title": "Hondo",
   "author": "Louis L'Amour",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books / Fawcett (New York)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Nature, Western & Americana",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition was a paperback original: Fawcett Gold Medal #511, 1953, with the Gold Medal first-printing code on the copyright page (no later-printing numbers). Pictorial wrappers; the John Wayne film tie-in connection drove demand. Verify the Gold Medal first-printing statement/number on the copyright page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hondo"
  },
  {
   "slug": "on-the-origin-of-species-by-means-of-natural-selection",
   "title": "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection",
   "author": "Charles Darwin",
   "publisher": "John Murray (London)",
   "year": "1859",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first issue: 1,250 copies. Murray's catalogue of advertisements not present in first issue (some bound in vary). Key textual points: 'speceies' misspelled for 'species' on p. 20, line 11; on p. 1 the running head/text quotation page carries only two quotations (Whewell and Bacon) on the verso of the half-title; 'till' for 'still' on p. 21; the word 'whale' references and the famous p. 184 bear-into-whale passage (later softened). Title page dated 1859, priced 15 shillings. Bound in original green cloth, blind-stamped, with 32 pages of Murray ads dated June 1859.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/on-the-origin-of-species-by-means-of-natural-selection"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-brief-history-of-time-from-the-big-bang-to-black-holes",
   "title": "A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes",
   "author": "Stephen Hawking",
   "publisher": "Bantam Books (New York)",
   "year": "1988",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition, first printing: number line '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' on the copyright page. Blue dust jacket. Introduction by Carl Sagan, illustrations by Ron Miller. The first printing contained numerous textual/illustration errors and several reversed or mis-captioned diagrams; it was effectively superseded by a corrected second printing, making true first printings comparatively scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-brief-history-of-time-from-the-big-bang-to-black-holes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-double-helix",
   "title": "The Double Helix",
   "author": "James D. Watson",
   "publisher": "Atheneum (New York)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition, first printing: copyright page states 'First Printing' (Atheneum). Issued in the series with the dust jacket showing the DNA-helix design; price on flap. Atheneum used 'First Printing' / 'First Edition' statements rather than number lines in this period.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-double-helix"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-selfish-gene",
   "title": "The Selfish Gene",
   "author": "Richard Dawkins",
   "publisher": "Oxford University Press (Oxford/New York)",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Oxford University Press, 1976, with no later-printing statements; OUP imprint on title page. Original dust jacket (the classic green/Desmond Morris-influenced design). First printing precedes the 1989 second edition, which adds extensive new endnotes and two new chapters — collectors want the 1976 text without the added chapters.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-selfish-gene"
  },
  {
   "slug": "guns-germs-and-steel-the-fates-of-human-societies",
   "title": "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies",
   "author": "Jared Diamond",
   "publisher": "W. W. Norton (New York)",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First US edition, first printing: full number line '1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0' on the copyright page. Original dust jacket with the printed price. Subtitle on the US first is 'The Fates of Human Societies.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/guns-germs-and-steel-the-fates-of-human-societies"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-right-stuff",
   "title": "The Right Stuff",
   "author": "Tom Wolfe",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York)",
   "year": "1979",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: FSG statement 'First printing, 1979' on the copyright page (FSG used a printed-statement convention). Original dust jacket priced $12.95, jacket design with the title in the period typography. No later-printing notations.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-right-stuff"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hiroshima",
   "title": "Hiroshima",
   "author": "John Hersey",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Knopf, 1946, with 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page and the Borzoi colophon. Issued in original cloth with the first-issue dust jacket. The entire text first appeared in The New Yorker, August 31, 1946 (single-issue), which is a separate, highly collected 'first appearance.'",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hiroshima"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-feynman-lectures-on-physics-3-vols",
   "title": "The Feynman Lectures on Physics (3 vols.)",
   "author": "Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands",
   "publisher": "Addison-Wesley (Reading, MA)",
   "year": "1963 (Vol I), 1964 (II), 1965 (III)",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Addison-Wesley, red cloth (commemorative/hardcover sets) — the desirable first issues carry the early printing statements. Volume I is 1963, Volume II 1964, Volume III 1965; a true first set has each volume in its respective first printing. Early printings note the Caltech lecture origin; check each volume's copyright page individually.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-feynman-lectures-on-physics-3-vols"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cosmos",
   "title": "Cosmos",
   "author": "Carl Sagan",
   "publisher": "Random House (New York)",
   "year": "1980",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' with no number line below it (Random House convention of the period). Original dust jacket priced $19.95, lavishly illustrated. Issued alongside the PBS television series.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cosmos"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-feminine-mystique",
   "title": "The Feminine Mystique",
   "author": "Betty Friedan",
   "publisher": "W. W. Norton (New York)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: copyright page with 'FIRST EDITION' (Norton period statement) and no later-printing codes. Original dust jacket priced (about $5.95) with the first-issue design. Issued February 1963.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-feminine-mystique"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-structure-of-scientific-revolutions",
   "title": "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions",
   "author": "Thomas S. Kuhn",
   "publisher": "University of Chicago Press (Chicago)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: University of Chicago Press, 1962, issued in the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science series (Vol. II, No. 2). First printing has no later-printing statement; original wrappers (paperbound issue) and/or cloth. The 1962 first lacks the 1969 'Postscript' that appears in the second edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-structure-of-scientific-revolutions"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-affluent-society",
   "title": "The Affluent Society",
   "author": "John Kenneth Galbraith",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin (Boston)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Houghton Mifflin, 1958, with 'First Printing' stated on the copyright page (Houghton convention). Original cloth and first-issue dust jacket with price. Later revised editions (1969, 1976, 1984) altered the text and are not the first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-affluent-society"
  },
  {
   "slug": "profiles-in-courage",
   "title": "Profiles in Courage",
   "author": "John F. Kennedy",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers (New York)",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first issue: Harper code 'A-F' (i.e., letter code 'A' indicating January 1956 first printing) on the copyright page — Harper used a two-character code where the first letter is the printing (A = first) and following letters/numerals the year. First-issue dust jacket priced $3.50. Original cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/profiles-in-courage"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dispatches",
   "title": "Dispatches",
   "author": "Michael Herr",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1977",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Knopf, 1977, with 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page and the Borzoi colophon. First-issue dust jacket priced ($8.95). No number line below the 'FIRST EDITION' statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/dispatches"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-power-broker-robert-moses-and-the-fall-of-new-york",
   "title": "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York",
   "author": "Robert A. Caro",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (New York)",
   "year": "1974",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Knopf, 1974, with 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page and the Borzoi colophon; no number line below the statement. First-issue dust jacket priced $17.95. Thick single volume (~1,200+ pp).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-power-broker-robert-moses-and-the-fall-of-new-york"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-interpretation-of-dreams",
   "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams",
   "author": "Sigmund Freud",
   "publisher": "Franz Deuticke (Leipzig & Vienna, German) / George Allen & Unwin & Macmillan (English)",
   "year": "1899/1900 (German) / 1913 (English)",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "German true first: 'Die Traumdeutung,' Franz Deuticke, Leipzig & Vienna — printed 1899 but title-page dated 1900 (a famous point: the book bears '1900' though copies were available in November 1899). 600 copies. First English edition (trans. A. A. Brill) is Macmillan/George Allen, 1913.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-interpretation-of-dreams"
  },
  {
   "slug": "roots-the-saga-of-an-american-family",
   "title": "Roots: The Saga of an American Family",
   "author": "Alex Haley",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (Garden City, NY)",
   "year": "1976",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Doubleday, 1976, with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page (Doubleday convention) and no later-printing codes. First-issue dust jacket priced ($12.50). Issued just before the landmark 1977 TV miniseries.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/roots-the-saga-of-an-american-family"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bury-my-heart-at-wounded-knee",
   "title": "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee",
   "author": "Dee Brown",
   "publisher": "Holt, Rinehart and Winston (New York)",
   "year": "1970",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970, with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page and no later-printing codes. First-issue dust jacket priced ($10.95).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bury-my-heart-at-wounded-knee"
  },
  {
   "slug": "slouching-towards-bethlehem",
   "title": "Slouching Towards Bethlehem",
   "author": "Joan Didion",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York)",
   "year": "1968",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: FSG, 1968, with the statement 'First printing, 1968' on the copyright page. First-issue dust jacket priced ($5.95). Didion's debut essay collection.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/slouching-towards-bethlehem"
  },
  {
   "slug": "sapiens-a-brief-history-of-humankind",
   "title": "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind",
   "author": "Yuval Noah Harari",
   "publisher": "Harvill Secker (London) / Harper (US)",
   "year": "2014 (English) — Hebrew original 2011",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "English first edition, first printing: Harvill Secker, London, 2014, with full number line '1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2' (the '1' present) on the copyright page. The US Harper edition (2015) is later. The original Hebrew edition ('Kitzur Toldot Ha-Enoshut,' 2011) predates all English printings.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/sapiens-a-brief-history-of-humankind"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks",
   "title": "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks",
   "author": "Rebecca Skloot",
   "publisher": "Crown Publishers (New York)",
   "year": "2010",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Crown, 2010, with both the statement 'First Edition' and the full number line '1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2' on the copyright page (the '1' present). First-issue dust jacket priced ($26.00).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks"
  },
  {
   "slug": "longitude",
   "title": "Longitude",
   "author": "Dava Sobel",
   "publisher": "Walker & Company (New York)",
   "year": "1995",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Walker & Company, 1995, with the full number line '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' on the copyright page (the '1' present). First-issue dust jacket priced ($19.00). Small format hardcover.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/longitude"
  },
  {
   "slug": "into-thin-air",
   "title": "Into Thin Air",
   "author": "Jon Krakauer",
   "publisher": "Villard (Random House) (New York)",
   "year": "1997",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Villard, 1997, with 'FIRST EDITION' stated and the full number line '9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' (some copies). The notable point: the first printing contained an error — it misidentified/misattributed certain details corrected in later printings (the first state also has the original postscript before Krakauer's later additions). First-issue dust jacket priced ($24.95).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/into-thin-air"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-devil-in-the-white-city",
   "title": "The Devil in the White City",
   "author": "Erik Larson",
   "publisher": "Crown Publishers (New York)",
   "year": "2003",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Crown, 2003, with 'First Edition' stated and the full number line '1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2' (the '1' present) on the copyright page. First-issue dust jacket priced ($25.95).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-devil-in-the-white-city"
  },
  {
   "slug": "fast-food-nation",
   "title": "Fast Food Nation",
   "author": "Eric Schlosser",
   "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin (Boston)",
   "year": "2001",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Houghton Mifflin, 2001, with the full number line '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' (the '1' present) on the copyright page. First-issue dust jacket priced ($25.00).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/fast-food-nation"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-tipping-point",
   "title": "The Tipping Point",
   "author": "Malcolm Gladwell",
   "publisher": "Little, Brown and Company (Boston)",
   "year": "2000",
   "genre": "Nonfiction & landmark works",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition, first printing: Little, Brown, 2000, with the full number line '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' (the '1' present) on the copyright page. First-issue dust jacket priced ($24.95). Gladwell's debut.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-tipping-point"
  },
  {
   "slug": "junkie-confessions-of-an-unredeemed-drug-addict-william-s-burr",
   "title": "Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict",
   "author": "William S. Burroughs (as 'William Lee')",
   "publisher": "Ace Books (Ace Double D-15)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original Ace Double D-15, a dos-a-dos (tete-beche) double bound back-to-back with 'Narcotic Agent' by Maurice Helbrant. Author credited as 'William Lee' on the cover (the pseudonym). Priced 35 cents; cover designated an 'ACE Original.' Cover art by Al Rossi. Printed on poor, brittle paper, so genuinely fine copies are scarce and command a large premium. Bibliographic ref: Maynard & Miles A1.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/junkie-confessions-of-an-unredeemed-drug-addict-william-s-burr"
  },
  {
   "slug": "solar-lottery",
   "title": "Solar Lottery",
   "author": "Philip K. Dick",
   "publisher": "Ace Books (Ace Double D-103)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original Ace Double D-103 (May 1955), bound dos-a-dos with Leigh Brackett's 'The Big Jump.' 35 cents; 131 pages on the Dick side; cover art by Valigursky. Dick's first published novel. Bibliographic ref: Levack 38a.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/solar-lottery"
  },
  {
   "slug": "i-the-jury",
   "title": "I, the Jury",
   "author": "Mickey Spillane",
   "publisher": "E. P. Dutton (hardcover); Signet/NAL (first paperback, 947)",
   "year": "1947 (hardcover); 1948 (Signet paperback)",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The true first edition is the 1947 E. P. Dutton HARDCOVER (this title is NOT a paperback original). The famous Signet paperback (Signet 699, 1948, 25 cents) is the first paperback printing and is what made Spillane a phenomenon. The hardcover first has the Dutton imprint with no later-printing statements; the dust jacket is rare.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/i-the-jury"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-big-heat",
   "title": "The Big Heat",
   "author": "William P. McGivern",
   "publisher": "Dodd, Mead (hardcover, 1953); Pocket Books (paperback)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1953 Dodd, Mead HARDCOVER (not a paperback original). Listed here only to flag that despite its noir/pulp reputation it had a hardcover first; the Pocket Books paperback is a later reprint, not the first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-big-heat"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-killer-inside-me",
   "title": "The Killer Inside Me",
   "author": "Jim Thompson",
   "publisher": "Lion Books (Lion #99)",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Lion Books #99 (1952), 25 cents. Wraps-only; no hardcover precedes it. Lion Books logo on spine/cover and the catalog number 99 identify the issue. A cornerstone Thompson paperback original and his most collected title.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-killer-inside-me"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-grifters",
   "title": "The Grifters",
   "author": "Jim Thompson",
   "publisher": "Regency Books (RB 110)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Regency Books RB 110 (1963). Paperback wraps; no prior hardcover. Regency Books imprint (the Chicago imprint associated with editor Harlan Ellison) and the RB 110 number identify the first.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-grifters"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-getaway",
   "title": "The Getaway",
   "author": "Jim Thompson",
   "publisher": "Signet (Signet S1584)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Signet S1584 (1959; copyright 1958). Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Signet imprint and catalog number identify it.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-getaway"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pop-1280",
   "title": "Pop. 1280",
   "author": "Jim Thompson",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books (Gold Medal k1438)",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Fawcett Gold Medal k1438 (1964), 40 cents. Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Gold Medal logo and catalog number k1438; first printing has no additional printing line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pop-1280"
  },
  {
   "slug": "black-wings-has-my-angel",
   "title": "Black Wings Has My Angel",
   "author": "Elliott Chaze",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books (Gold Medal #404)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Fawcett Gold Medal #404 (1953), 25 cents. Paperback wraps only; no hardcover precedes it. Gold Medal logo and number 404. A scarce, highly prized noir PBO; genuine first-printing copies in fine condition are very scarce.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/black-wings-has-my-angel"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-galton-case",
   "title": "The Galton Case",
   "author": "Ross Macdonald",
   "publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf (hardcover)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1959 Knopf HARDCOVER (not a PBO). Listed only as a caution: Macdonald/Lew Archer firsts are hardcover. Knopf first printings state 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page with the Borzoi colophon and no later-printing indicators.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-galton-case"
  },
  {
   "slug": "build-my-gallows-high",
   "title": "Build My Gallows High",
   "author": "Geoffrey Homes (Daniel Mainwaring)",
   "publisher": "William Morrow (hardcover)",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1946 William Morrow HARDCOVER (basis for the film 'Out of the Past'). Caution title. Not a paperback original. Morrow first has no later-printing statement and the original jacket.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/build-my-gallows-high"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-hunter-point-blank-payback",
   "title": "The Hunter (Point Blank / Payback)",
   "author": "Richard Stark (Donald E. Westlake)",
   "publisher": "Pocket Books (Permabook M-4255)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Pocket Books/Permabooks M-4255 (1962), 35 cents. First Parker novel. Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Pocket/Perma imprint and the M-4255 number identify the first; first printing has no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-hunter-point-blank-payback"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-touch-of-death",
   "title": "A Touch of Death",
   "author": "Charles Williams",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books (Gold Medal #s725)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Fawcett Gold Medal #s725 (1953). Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Gold Medal logo and number; first printing carries the original price and no later-printing line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-touch-of-death"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hell-hath-no-fury-the-hot-spot",
   "title": "Hell Hath No Fury (The Hot Spot)",
   "author": "Charles Williams",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books (Gold Medal #286)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Fawcett Gold Medal #286 (1953), 25 cents. Paperback wraps only. Gold Medal logo and number 286; basis for the film 'The Hot Spot.' First printing has the original price and no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/hell-hath-no-fury-the-hot-spot"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-vengeful-virgin",
   "title": "The Vengeful Virgin",
   "author": "Gil Brewer",
   "publisher": "Crest Books (Fawcett Crest s375)",
   "year": "1958",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Fawcett Crest s375 (1958). Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Crest imprint and catalog number; classic Gil Brewer PBO noir. Reprinted by Hard Case Crime in 2007 (a modern first-thus).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-vengeful-virgin"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-big-bounce",
   "title": "The Big Bounce",
   "author": "Elmore Leonard",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books (Fawcett Gold Medal d1958)",
   "year": "1969",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Fawcett Gold Medal d1958 (1969), 50 cents. Leonard's first crime novel and first contemporary (non-Western) novel; rejected by many publishers and issued as a PBO. Gold Medal logo and catalog number; first printing has no later-printing statement. A key, sought Leonard PBO.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-big-bounce"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-space-merchants",
   "title": "The Space Merchants",
   "author": "Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth",
   "publisher": "Ballantine Books (hardcover and paperback simultaneously)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Ballantine issued this simultaneously in a hardcover (cloth) and a paperback in 1953; the paperback (Ballantine #21, 35 cents) is widely collected and was issued at the same time as the cloth. Both are 1953 firsts. Magazine serialization 'Gravy Planet' (Galaxy, 1952) precedes the book. Ballantine first paperback carries the early catalog number and original price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-space-merchants"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-long-tomorrow",
   "title": "The Long Tomorrow",
   "author": "Leigh Brackett",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (hardcover)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1955 Doubleday HARDCOVER. Caution title: not a PBO despite Brackett's strong pulp/paperback association. Doubleday SF firsts of the era state 'First Edition' on the copyright page with the gun colophon on the title page.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-long-tomorrow"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-stars-my-destination-tiger-tiger",
   "title": "The Stars My Destination (Tiger! Tiger!)",
   "author": "Alfred Bester",
   "publisher": "Signet/NAL (US paperback original); Sidgwick & Jackson (UK hardcover, as 'Tiger! Tiger!')",
   "year": "1956 (UK) / 1957 (US)",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The US edition was a PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: Signet S1389 (1957), titled 'The Stars My Destination.' The earlier UK first is the hardcover 'Tiger! Tiger!' (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1956). So the true world first is the UK hardcover under the alternate title; the US first appearance is the Signet paperback. US Signet S1389 with no later-printing line is the first US printing.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-stars-my-destination-tiger-tiger"
  },
  {
   "slug": "double-star",
   "title": "Double Star",
   "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
   "publisher": "Doubleday (hardcover)",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1956 Doubleday HARDCOVER (Hugo winner). Caution title. Doubleday first states 'First Edition' on the copyright page; serialized in Astounding (1956) before book form.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/double-star"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-hell-of-a-woman",
   "title": "A Hell of a Woman",
   "author": "Jim Thompson",
   "publisher": "Lion Books (Lion #218)",
   "year": "1954",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Lion Books #218 (1954), 25 cents. Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Lion logo and catalog number 218. Famous for its split-narrative ending. First printing has no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-hell-of-a-woman"
  },
  {
   "slug": "savage-night",
   "title": "Savage Night",
   "author": "Jim Thompson",
   "publisher": "Lion Books (Lion #155)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Lion Books #155 (1953). Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Lion logo and number 155; first printing carries the original price and no later-printing line.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/savage-night"
  },
  {
   "slug": "pick-up",
   "title": "Pick-Up",
   "author": "Charles Willeford",
   "publisher": "Beacon Books (Beacon #B102)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Beacon Books #B102 (1955), 25 cents. Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Beacon logo and number B102. A scarce, prized Willeford PBO.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/pick-up"
  },
  {
   "slug": "high-priest-of-california",
   "title": "High Priest of California",
   "author": "Charles Willeford",
   "publisher": "Royal Books (Royal Giant #16)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Royal Giant #16 (1953), bound back-to-back (a Royal double) with 'Wild Wives' in some states. Willeford's first novel. Paperback wraps only; Royal Books imprint and catalog number identify it.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/high-priest-of-california"
  },
  {
   "slug": "cassidys-girl",
   "title": "Cassidy's Girl",
   "author": "David Goodis",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books (Gold Medal #195)",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Fawcett Gold Medal #195 (1951), 25 cents. Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Gold Medal logo and number 195. One of Gold Medal's biggest early sellers; first printing has the original price and no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/cassidys-girl"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-damned",
   "title": "The Damned",
   "author": "John D. MacDonald",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books (Gold Medal #240)",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Fawcett Gold Medal #240 (1952), 25 cents. Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Gold Medal logo and number; an early MacDonald PBO bestseller. First printing has the original price and no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-damned"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-deep-blue-good-by",
   "title": "The Deep Blue Good-by",
   "author": "John D. MacDonald",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books (Fawcett Gold Medal k1405)",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Fawcett Gold Medal k1405 (1964), 40 cents. First Travis McGee novel. Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Gold Medal logo and catalog number k1405; first printing has the 40-cent price and no later-printing statement. A key, sought first-in-series PBO.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-deep-blue-good-by"
  },
  {
   "slug": "nightmare-alley",
   "title": "Nightmare Alley",
   "author": "William Lindsay Gresham",
   "publisher": "Rinehart & Company (hardcover)",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1946 Rinehart HARDCOVER. Caution title. Not a PBO despite its noir/carny reputation. Rinehart first has no later-printing statement and the original jacket; later Signet/popular paperbacks are reprints.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/nightmare-alley"
  },
  {
   "slug": "down-there-shoot-the-piano-player",
   "title": "Down There (Shoot the Piano Player)",
   "author": "David Goodis",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books (Fawcett Gold Medal #957)",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Fawcett Gold Medal #957 (1956), 25 cents, titled 'Down There.' Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Basis for Truffaut's 'Shoot the Piano Player'; later reissued under that title (tie-in). First printing has the original price and no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/down-there-shoot-the-piano-player"
  },
  {
   "slug": "some-of-your-blood",
   "title": "Some of Your Blood",
   "author": "Theodore Sturgeon",
   "publisher": "Ballantine Books (Ballantine F562)",
   "year": "1961",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Ballantine Books F562 (1961), 50 cents. Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Ballantine imprint and catalog number; first printing has no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/some-of-your-blood"
  },
  {
   "slug": "bring-the-jubilee",
   "title": "Bring the Jubilee",
   "author": "Ward Moore",
   "publisher": "Farrar, Straus & Young (hardcover)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1953 Farrar, Straus & Young HARDCOVER. Caution title. Serialized in F&SF (1952) before book form; the Ballantine paperback is a reprint.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/bring-the-jubilee"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sword-of-rhiannon-sea-kings-of-mars",
   "title": "The Sword of Rhiannon (Sea-Kings of Mars)",
   "author": "Leigh Brackett",
   "publisher": "Ace Books (Ace Double D-36)",
   "year": "1953",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First book edition is the paperback original Ace Double D-36 (1953), bound dos-a-dos with 'Conan the Conqueror' in the Ace double. The text first appeared as 'Sea-Kings of Mars' in Thrilling Wonder Stories (1949). Ace double number D-36 and dos-a-dos format identify the first book edition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sword-of-rhiannon-sea-kings-of-mars"
  },
  {
   "slug": "killers-choice-cop-hater-87th-precinct",
   "title": "Killer's Choice / Cop Hater (87th Precinct)",
   "author": "Ed McBain (Evan Hunter)",
   "publisher": "Pocket Books / Permabooks (paperback originals)",
   "year": "1956",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The 87th Precinct series launched as paperback originals: 'Cop Hater' (Permabooks M-3061, 1956) is the first in the series and a PBO. Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Perma/Pocket imprint and catalog number identify the first; first printing has no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/killers-choice-cop-hater-87th-precinct"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-big-clock",
   "title": "The Big Clock",
   "author": "Kenneth Fearing",
   "publisher": "Harcourt, Brace (hardcover)",
   "year": "1946",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1946 Harcourt, Brace HARDCOVER. Caution title. Not a PBO. Harcourt first has no later-printing statement and the original jacket; the later paperback is a reprint.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-big-clock"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-day-of-the-triffids",
   "title": "The Day of the Triffids",
   "author": "John Wyndham",
   "publisher": "Michael Joseph (UK hardcover); Doubleday (US hardcover)",
   "year": "1951",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the 1951 Michael Joseph UK HARDCOVER. Caution title. The US Doubleday hardcover (1951) follows. Serialized in Collier's (1951) as 'Revolt of the Triffids.' The Popular Library/paperback editions are reprints.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-day-of-the-triffids"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tarzan-of-the-apes",
   "title": "Tarzan of the Apes",
   "author": "Edgar Rice Burroughs",
   "publisher": "A. C. McClurg (hardcover)",
   "year": "1914",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first book edition is the 1914 A. C. McClurg HARDCOVER. The text first appeared in All-Story magazine (October 1912). First-issue points: McClurg 1914 with 'W. F. Hall' printer's imprint on the copyright page and the acorn device; the famous first-issue has specific binding and printer's-mark points documented in ERB bibliographies.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tarzan-of-the-apes"
  },
  {
   "slug": "weird-tales-pulp-magazine",
   "title": "Weird Tales (pulp magazine)",
   "author": "various (ed. Farnsworth Wright et al.)",
   "publisher": "Rural Publishing / Popular Fiction Publishing",
   "year": "1923 onward",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Iconic pulp. Key collectible issues are identified by date and contents rather than 'edition': e.g., the first issue (March 1923); issues with first Conan/Robert E. Howard appearances ('The Phoenix on the Sword,' Dec. 1932); first Cthulhu Mythos appearances by H. P. Lovecraft ('The Call of Cthulhu,' Weird Tales Feb. 1928). Each pulp issue exists in a single printing; identification is by cover date, volume/number, and verified contents.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/weird-tales-pulp-magazine"
  },
  {
   "slug": "amazing-stories-pulp-magazine",
   "title": "Amazing Stories (pulp magazine)",
   "author": "various (ed. Hugo Gernsback)",
   "publisher": "Experimenter Publishing",
   "year": "1926 onward",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Iconic pulp; the first SF-dedicated magazine. Most collectible issue is the first, April 1926 (Frank R. Paul cover). Identification is by cover date, volume/number, and contents. Single printing per issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/amazing-stories-pulp-magazine"
  },
  {
   "slug": "astounding-science-fiction-pulp-magazine",
   "title": "Astounding Science-Fiction (pulp magazine)",
   "author": "various (ed. John W. Campbell)",
   "publisher": "Street & Smith",
   "year": "1930 onward",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Iconic pulp central to SF's Golden Age. Key collectible issues by date/contents: first appearances such as Asimov's 'Nightfall' (Sept. 1941), the 'Foundation' stories (1942 onward), Heinlein's early work, and the issue containing the controversial 'Deadline' atomic-bomb story (Cleve Cartmill, March 1944). Single printing per issue; identified by cover date and verified contents.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/astounding-science-fiction-pulp-magazine"
  },
  {
   "slug": "black-mask-pulp-magazine",
   "title": "Black Mask (pulp magazine)",
   "author": "various (Hammett, Chandler, et al.)",
   "publisher": "Pro-Distributors / Popular Publications",
   "year": "1920 onward",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "The seminal hardboiled-crime pulp. Key collectible issues by date/contents: the serialization of Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon' (1929-30) and 'Red Harvest,' and Raymond Chandler's first published story 'Blackmailers Don't Shoot' (Dec. 1933). Single printing per issue; identification by cover date, volume/number and contents.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/black-mask-pulp-magazine"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-shadow-magazine-pulp",
   "title": "The Shadow Magazine (pulp)",
   "author": "Maxwell Grant (Walter B. Gibson)",
   "publisher": "Street & Smith",
   "year": "1931 onward",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Landmark hero pulp. Most collectible issue is the first, 'The Living Shadow' (The Shadow Magazine, April/Spring 1931). Identification by cover date, volume/number, and contents; single printing per issue.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-shadow-magazine-pulp"
  },
  {
   "slug": "doc-savage-magazine-pulp",
   "title": "Doc Savage Magazine (pulp)",
   "author": "Kenneth Robeson (Lester Dent)",
   "publisher": "Street & Smith",
   "year": "1933 onward",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Landmark hero pulp. Most collectible issue is the first, 'The Man of Bronze' (Doc Savage Magazine, March 1933). Identification by cover date, volume/number, and contents; single printing per issue. The 1960s-70s Bantam paperback reprints (with James Bama covers) are reprints, NOT the pulp firsts.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/doc-savage-magazine-pulp"
  },
  {
   "slug": "spicy-detective-spicy-adventure-stories-pulp",
   "title": "Spicy Detective / Spicy-Adventure Stories (pulp)",
   "author": "various (incl. Robert E. Howard as 'Sam Walser')",
   "publisher": "Culture Publications",
   "year": "1934 onward",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Notorious 'spicy' pulp line, heavily collected for cover art and for risque content. Identification by cover date, volume/number, and contents; single printing per issue. Many issues exist in 'toned-down' newsstand vs. fuller states, but the principal collecting point is the specific issue, cover artist, and condition.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/spicy-detective-spicy-adventure-stories-pulp"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-name-of-the-game-is-death",
   "title": "The Name of the Game Is Death",
   "author": "Dan J. Marlowe",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books (Fawcett Gold Medal k1308)",
   "year": "1962",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Fawcett Gold Medal k1308 (1962), 40 cents. Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Gold Medal logo and catalog number; first printing has the original price and no later-printing statement. A celebrated hardboiled PBO (admired by Stephen King).",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-name-of-the-game-is-death"
  },
  {
   "slug": "day-keene-home-is-the-sailor",
   "title": "Day Keene / Home Is the Sailor",
   "author": "Day Keene",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books (Fawcett Gold Medal #281)",
   "year": "1952",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first is the paperback original, Fawcett Gold Medal #281 (1952), 25 cents. Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Gold Medal logo and number; representative of Keene's Gold Medal PBO output. First printing has the original price and no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/day-keene-home-is-the-sailor"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-big-heat-houghton-pocket-caution-duplicate-removed-see-s",
   "title": "The Big Heat — Houghton/Pocket caution duplicate removed; see Stop This Man",
   "author": "Peter Rabe",
   "publisher": "Gold Medal Books (Fawcett Gold Medal #846)",
   "year": "1955",
   "genre": "Genre paperback originals & pulps",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Peter Rabe's 'Stop This Man!' is a true paperback original, Fawcett Gold Medal #846 (1955), 25 cents (Rabe's debut). Paperback wraps; no hardcover precedes it. Gold Medal logo and catalog number; first printing has the original price and no later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-big-heat-houghton-pocket-caution-duplicate-removed-see-s"
  },
  {
   "slug": "gone-with-the-wind",
   "title": "Gone with the Wind",
   "author": "Margaret Mitchell",
   "publisher": "The Macmillan Company (New York)",
   "year": "1936",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first: copyright page states 'Published May, 1936' and the dust jacket lists GWTW on the rear panel among the 'Spring' titles (i.e., it is NOT listed at the top of the published list). First-issue jacket has the $3.00 price.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/gone-with-the-wind"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-lord-of-the-rings-3-vols",
   "title": "The Lord of the Rings (3 vols)",
   "author": "J. R. R. Tolkien",
   "publisher": "George Allen & Unwin (London)",
   "year": "1954-1955",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Fellowship (1954) first impression: 'Made and Printed in Great Britain' and the famous signature gathering points; Two Towers and Return of the King (1955). Return of the King first impression has the 'Estella Bolger' point and the slip on p.49 of the index; Fellowship has 'middle e' / the first-state map. The Ring inscription and red/black title pages present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lord-of-the-rings-3-vols"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tamerlane-and-other-poems",
   "title": "Tamerlane and Other Poems",
   "author": "Edgar Allan Poe ('A Bostonian')",
   "publisher": "Calvin F. S. Thomas (Boston)",
   "year": "1827",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition is a thin pamphlet in tan/buff printed wrappers, attributed only to 'A Bostonian' (Poe unnamed), 40 pages; Calvin F. S. Thomas imprint. The text is the unrevised early version of 'Tamerlane'.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tamerlane-and-other-poems"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sound-and-the-fury-as-i-lay-dying",
   "title": "The Sound and the Fury / As I Lay Dying",
   "author": "William Faulkner",
   "publisher": "Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith (New York)",
   "year": "1930",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "As I Lay Dying (1930) first printing: the well-known broken-type point — 'I' dropped / damaged type on a specific page, and the first-issue binding. Limited signed issue exists.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sound-and-the-fury-as-i-lay-dying"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tender-is-the-night",
   "title": "Tender Is the Night",
   "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1934",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the Scribner's 'A' with 1934 imprint; first-issue dust jacket priced $2.50. The first-issue text precedes the later author-revised reordering.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tender-is-the-night"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-moveable-feast",
   "title": "A Moveable Feast",
   "author": "Ernest Hemingway",
   "publisher": "Charles Scribner's Sons (New York)",
   "year": "1964",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing has the 'A' with 1964 imprint (posthumous); first-issue dust jacket priced $4.95. The Scribner's seal present.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-moveable-feast"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer",
   "title": "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer",
   "author": "Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)",
   "publisher": "American Publishing Company (Hartford)",
   "year": "1876",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First American edition points (BAL): the half-title, the inserted ads, the 'Tom Sawyer' frontispiece state, and the specific gatherings; first issue has the correct list of illustrations and the 'first state' binding in the period cloth.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer"
  },
  {
   "slug": "goodnight-moon-margaret-wise-",
   "title": "Goodnight Moon",
   "author": "Margaret Wise Brown",
   "publisher": "Harper & Brothers (New York)",
   "year": "1947",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First printing: the copyright page with 'FIRST EDITION' / no later code; the first-issue interior has the green color states correct, and the jacket priced accordingly. Specific point: the 'mush' bowl and the wallpaper color states distinguish printings.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/goodnight-moon-margaret-wise-"
  },
  {
   "slug": "frankenstein-mary-shelley-a",
   "title": "Frankenstein",
   "author": "Mary Shelley (anonymous)",
   "publisher": "Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones (London)",
   "year": "1818",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in three volumes, published anonymously, with the dedication to William Godwin; half-titles present, the correct collation across all three volumes, and the period boards/blue-grey wrappers (original boards state). The 1818 imprint with the Lackington device.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/frankenstein-mary-shelley-a"
  },
  {
   "slug": "a-christmas-carol",
   "title": "A Christmas Carol",
   "author": "Charles Dickens",
   "publisher": "Chapman and Hall (London)",
   "year": "1843",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first issue points: title page printed in red and blue with the date 1843; 'Stave I' (not 'Stave One'); green endpapers and yellow half-title; the four hand-colored Leech plates with the correct first-state coloring. The reading 'Stave I' and the salmon/yellow endpaper and uncorrected title page are the key first-issue states.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-christmas-carol"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-old-curiosity-shop-dickens-in-parts",
   "title": "The Old Curiosity Shop / Dickens in parts",
   "author": "Charles Dickens",
   "publisher": "Chapman and Hall (London)",
   "year": "1840-1841",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "For Dickens issued in monthly parts (e.g., this and 'David Copperfield', 'Bleak House'): true first is the original monthly parts in printed wrappers WITH the inserted advertisements ('Dickens advertiser') in the correct states, complete plates by the correct etcher state, and the part-wrappers intact.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-old-curiosity-shop-dickens-in-parts"
  },
  {
   "slug": "tess-of-the-durbervilles",
   "title": "Tess of the d'Urbervilles",
   "author": "Thomas Hardy",
   "publisher": "James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. (London)",
   "year": "1891",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition in three volumes (three-decker), with the half-titles and the correct first-issue text including the 'Chapter XXV' / 'Saturday Review' points; the 'ramble' and the first-state readings (e.g., the corrected text in later issues). Original cloth in three volumes.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/tess-of-the-durbervilles"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-bell-jar-sylvia-plath-v",
   "title": "The Bell Jar",
   "author": "Sylvia Plath ('Victoria Lucas')",
   "publisher": "Heinemann (London)",
   "year": "1963",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first: published under the pseudonym 'Victoria Lucas', Heinemann 1963, dust jacket priced 16s with the correct design; the copyright/title page bears 'Victoria Lucas' not Plath.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-bell-jar-sylvia-plath-v"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-sun-also-rises-advance-proof-and-general-proof-note",
   "title": "The Sun Also Rises (advance/proof) — and general proof note",
   "author": "various / Ernest Hemingway",
   "publisher": "various",
   "year": "various",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "Advance/uncorrected proofs and ARCs (galleys) precede the trade first and are identified by plain printed wrappers, 'UNCORRECTED PROOF'/'ADVANCE READING COPY' statements, often a different (sometimes provisional) price/date, and textual differences later corrected in the trade. They are NOT 'first editions' bibliographically but precede them in production.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-sun-also-rises-advance-proof-and-general-proof-note"
  },
  {
   "slug": "trout-fishing-in-america",
   "title": "Trout Fishing in America",
   "author": "Richard Brautigan",
   "publisher": "Four Seasons Foundation (San Francisco)",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "First edition is the Four Seasons Foundation paperback (Writing 8 series), first issue with the correct price and series statement; the cover photograph of Brautigan in front of the Ben Franklin statue. No later-printing statement.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/trout-fishing-in-america"
  },
  {
   "slug": "naked-lunch-william-s-burr",
   "title": "Naked Lunch",
   "author": "William S. Burroughs",
   "publisher": "The Olympia Press (Paris)",
   "year": "1959",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first: Olympia Press 1959 (The Traveller's Companion Series no. 76) in green printed wrappers, priced 'Francs: 1,500' on the rear cover; first issue has the correct price and series number with the title as 'The Naked Lunch'.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/naked-lunch-william-s-burr"
  },
  {
   "slug": "one-hundred-years-of-solitude-cien-a-os-de-soledad",
   "title": "One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad)",
   "author": "Gabriel García Márquez",
   "publisher": "Editorial Sudamericana (Buenos Aires)",
   "year": "1967",
   "genre": "Signed, limited & association landmarks",
   "firstEditionPoints": "True first: Sudamericana Buenos Aires, June 1967, with the galleon/ships cover (the first-issue wrapper design) and the printer's date; first issue has the textual errata later corrected (e.g., specific misprints in the early printing). The first-printing colophon dated May/June 1967.",
   "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/one-hundred-years-of-solitude-cien-a-os-de-soledad"
  }
 ]
}