NMLP P-005219 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

The Town

Conrad Richter · Alfred A. Knopf · 1950

Red cloth, blue lettering and grey decoration to front board and spine, grey top stain; first-issue priced dust jacket designed by John O'Hara Cosgrave II. Third volume of The Awakening Land trilogy; won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, so the first-issue jacket predates any Pulitzer notice

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-005219 for "The Town" by Conrad Richter (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-005219, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).