NMLP P-016483 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

Jon Krakauer · Doubleday · 2003

US Doubleday is the true first, preceding the UK (Macmillan) edition. Later printings add an author's afterword responding to LDS Church criticism, making those a 'first thus' rather than the true first; on a genuine first the number line still ends in 1 and no afterword is present.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-016483 for "Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith" by Jon Krakauer (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-016483, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).