NMLP P-014429 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Painted Bird

Jerzy Kosinski · Houghton Mifflin · 1965

True first is the 1965 Houghton Mifflin edition. This was his first novel under his own name, following the earlier 'Joseph Novak' nonfiction. UK edition: W. H. Allen, 1966.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-014429 for "The Painted Bird" by Jerzy Kosinski (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-014429, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).