NMLP P-006845 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04
The Fifth Child
Doris Lessing · Jonathan Cape · 1988
The UK Jonathan Cape edition (1988) is the true first and is conventionally regarded as preceding the US Alfred A. Knopf edition of the same year; the Knopf issue is the first American edition and is distinguished by its quarter black cloth over brown boards with gilt spine lettering.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-006845 for "The Fifth Child" by Doris Lessing (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-006845, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).