This is the open dataset behind NMLP’s first-edition identification reference. Each record documents how to identify a true first edition and first printing of a collectible book — and, deliberately, contains no prices or valuations.
What’s in each record
- title, author, publisher, year
- firstEditionPoints — the points of issue that mark the true first printing
- trueFirstNote — precedence (US vs UK vs other first)
- bceNote — book-club and later-printing tells
- url — the human-readable page (with a markdown twin at
<url>.md)
Download
first-edition-titles.json — the full dataset (8289 records, JSON). Browse the human index at /first-edition/ or its markdown index.
License & citation
Licensed CC BY 4.0 — free to use with attribution. Permanently archived and citable on Zenodo: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548 (the archived snapshot, v3.0.0, holds 6,717 records; the live file above is the current edition).
Suggested citation: New Mexico Literacy Project. NMLP Canonical First-Edition Points of Issue (live edition, 8289 records; archived v3.0.0 at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21184548). 4 July 2026. CC BY 4.0.