NMLP P-007778 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Zoo Story, The Death of Bessie Smith, The Sandbox

Edward Albee · Coward-McCann · 1960

This Coward-McCann 1960 volume is the standard first edition in book form; it is preceded only by a softcover acting edition, and The Zoo Story itself premiered in Berlin in 1959. Treat it as the first edition in book form / first thus for the collected plays.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-007778 for "The Zoo Story, The Death of Bessie Smith, The Sandbox" by Edward Albee (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-007778, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).