NMLP P-012225 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The House of the Spirits

Isabel Allende (trans. Magda Bogin) · Alfred A. Knopf, New York · 1985

True first is the Spanish La casa de los espiritus (Plaza & Janes, Barcelona, 1982). The 1985 Knopf is the first English-language edition; a UK Jonathan Cape edition also appeared in 1985, but the US Knopf is generally cited as the first edition in English.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-012225 for "The House of the Spirits" by Isabel Allende (trans. Magda Bogin) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-012225, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).