First-edition identification has lived in dealer memory and scattered forum posts that nobody owns machine-readably. This registry is the open, citable reference: every publisher’s first-printing rule in one versioned, openly-licensed dataset that powers the identifier tool, the number-line decoder, and the title-by-title pages.
Publishers covered (30)
| Random House | Stated "First Edition" plus a number line containing 1 |
| Alfred A. Knopf | Stated "First Edition" (1947–present) |
| Viking Press / Penguin | “First Published by Viking in [Year]” statement (1937–present) |
| Simon & Schuster | Stated "First Edition" (1952–present) |
| HarperCollins | Stated "First Edition" (1922–present) |
| Houghton Mifflin | “First Printing” statement (pre-1970s) |
| Charles Scribner's Sons | The Scribner “A” on the copyright page (c.1930–1973) |
| Doubleday | Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page (no statement on later printings) |
| Little, Brown and Company | “First Edition” or “First Printing” statement |
| Farrar, Straus and Giroux | “First printed [Year]” / “First published [Year]” statement |
| W. W. Norton | Stated "First Edition" plus a number line containing 1 |
| Grove Press / Grove Atlantic | Stated on the copyright page |
| G. P. Putnam's Sons | “First Impression” plus a number line |
| Macmillan | “First printing” (US, 1936+) |
| Oxford University Press | No statement before the late 1980s (negative-evidence) |
| Cambridge University Press | Edition statement on title/copyright page |
| University of New Mexico Press | ISBN prefix 978-0-8263 |
| Sunstone Press | Sun-stone petroglyph logo |
| Museum of New Mexico Press | ISBN prefix 978-0-89013 |
| Cinco Puntos Press | Stated “First Edition” (primary method) |
| Quinto Sol Publications | Imprint “Quinto Sol Publications, Inc.” with a Berkeley, California address |
| Northland Press / Northland Publishing | ISBN prefix 0-87358 (all eras) |
| University of Arizona Press | ISBN prefix 978-0-8165 |
| University of Oklahoma Press | ISBN prefix 0-8061 |
| Ancient City Press | ISBN prefix 0-941270 |
| Clear Light Publishers | ISBN prefixes 978-0-940666 and 978-1-57416 |
| Red Crane Books | ISBN prefix 1-878610 |
| Rio Grande Books / LPD Press | ISBN prefixes 0-9641542 and 1-936744 |
| West End Press | ISBN prefixes 0-931122 and 0-9826968 |
| I'm not sure / publisher not listed | Universal first-edition checks that apply to any publisher |
Cite this registry
Licensed CC BY 4.0 — reuse it, build on it, cite it. A versioned DOI is being minted; until then cite the URL.
@misc{nmlp_points_2026,
title = {NMLP Points-of-Issue Registry},
author = {Eldred, Josh},
year = {2026},
note = {Version 1.0.0, CC BY 4.0},
url = {https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition-points-registry}
}