NMLP P-011854 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Innocent

Ian McEwan · Jonathan Cape (London) · 1990

First published by Jonathan Cape in London in May 1990; the US Doubleday edition (274 pp., a reset and longer typesetting) also appeared in 1990. The two were effectively simultaneous, so the Cape printing is the British first rather than a demonstrable global precedent.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-011854 for "The Innocent" by Ian McEwan (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-011854, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).