NMLP P-012933 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Mexico City Blues

Jack Kerouac · Grove Press (New York) · 1959

Grove Press US (1959) is the true first; Kerouac's '242 Choruses.' The grey-clothbound issue in the black-and-white jacket is preferred over the red/green/black wrappers issue.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-012933 for "Mexico City Blues" by Jack Kerouac (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-012933, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).