NMLP P-006702 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine, or The Hithering Thithering Djinn

Donald Barthelme · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 1971

True first is the 1971 Farrar, Straus & Giroux hardcover. Barthelme's only children's book, illustrated with the author's own collages of nineteenth-century engravings.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-006702 for "The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine, or The Hithering Thithering Djinn" by Donald Barthelme (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-006702, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).