NMLP P-014053 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared Diamond · W. W. Norton (New York) · 1997

US Norton 1997 is the true first. The UK edition (Jonathan Cape, 1997) bears the variant title 'Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years' — a true first in its own market with a different subtitle. Won the 1998 Pulitzer; post-Pulitzer printings are far more common than the first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-014053 for "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared Diamond (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-014053, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).