NMLP P-005757 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Broom of the System

David Foster Wallace · Viking (Viking Penguin) · 1987

Wallace's debut novel. The cloth hardcover is the desirable true first; the simultaneous Viking trade paperback in pictorial wraps is also a first printing but far less sought after. The US edition is the first; no foreign precedence issue.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-005757 for "The Broom of the System" by David Foster Wallace (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-005757, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).