NMLP P-013607 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Half of Paradise

James Lee Burke · Houghton Mifflin · 1965

US Houghton Mifflin is the true first. Burke's debut novel; genuinely scarce in the first edition, and dealers consistently treat the first printing in the vibrant first-issue pictorial jacket as the collectible state.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-013607 for "Half of Paradise" by James Lee Burke (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-013607, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).