NMLP P-016771 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye

Jonathan Lethem · Harcourt Brace & Company · 1996

The US Harcourt Brace 1996 hardcover is the unambiguous true first. The Faber and Faber (London) edition appeared years later (2002/2005), was not simultaneous, and was a substantially different collection with two stories swapped out, so it is not a competing first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-016771 for "The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye" by Jonathan Lethem (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-016771, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).