NMLP P-002596 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-04

Fences

August Wilson · Plume (New American Library / Dutton) · 1986

A book-club hardcover is sometimes mistaken for a 'first.' It is identified by a blind-stamp or dot on the rear board and the absence of a priced trade dust jacket, and it postdates the paperback original. The true first is the Plume wrappers with the first-printing number line.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-002596 for "Fences" by August Wilson (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-002596, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).