NMLP P-015615 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

Giving Good Weight

John McPhee · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 1979

FSG first printing, 261 pages, a collection of five essays including the title piece on New York City's Greenmarket farmers, "The Pinball Philosophy," and "Brigade de Cuisine." Bound in brown cloth with red spine lettering and brown endpapers; the copyright page shows no statement of a later printing

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-015615 for "Giving Good Weight" by John McPhee (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-015615, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).