NMLP P-014455 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Salvage the Bones

Jesmyn Ward · Bloomsbury (US) · 2011

The US Bloomsbury edition (2011) is the true first; it won the 2011 National Book Award. As the earliest of Ward's award-winning novels with a small print run, the first printing is scarce.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-014455 for "Salvage the Bones" by Jesmyn Ward (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-014455, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).