NMLP P-013163 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

Hors d'Oeuvre and Canapés (With a Key to the Cocktail Party)

James Beard · M. Barrows & Company (New York) · 1940

A genuine first printing shows no printing statement at all; the same 1940-dated sheets were run through multiple printings, and later printings add an explicit line (a 'Sixth Printing' notation is recorded on some 1940 copies), so first-printing identification rests on the M. Barrows imprint together with the complete absence of any printing line

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-013163 for "Hors d'Oeuvre and Canapés (With a Key to the Cocktail Party)" by James Beard (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-013163, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).