NMLP P-003859 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Mere Christianity

C.S. Lewis · Geoffrey Bles · 1952

The UK Bles 1952 edition (red cloth) is the true first; the US Macmillan 1952 edition, bound in blue cloth lettered in silver, follows. Cloth color is a quick tell: red cloth indicates the UK first, blue cloth the US issue.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-003859 for "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-003859, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).