NMLP P-012569 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Nine Stories

J.D. Salinger · Little, Brown and Company · 1953

US Little, Brown is the true first. The UK edition (Hamish Hamilton, 1953) was retitled 'For Esme with Love and Squalor' and is a separate publication, not the US first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-012569 for "Nine Stories" by J.D. Salinger (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-012569, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).