NMLP P-011835 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Cockroach

Ian McEwan · Jonathan Cape (London) · 2019

UK Cape hardcover (27 September 2019) is the true first. The US Anchor edition (October 2019) was a trade-paperback original, and Knopf Canada issued simultaneously, so the Cape hardcover precedes them.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-011835 for "The Cockroach" by Ian McEwan (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-011835, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).