NMLP P-018680 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04
A Drop of the Hard Stuff
Lawrence Block · Mulholland/Little, Brown · 2011
A signed, numbered limited edition of one hundred copies from The Mysterious Bookshop, bound in marbled boards with a blue leather spine stamped in gold and issued without a dust jacket, precedes the trade edition. The US Mulholland (Little, Brown) hardcover is the true first trade edition; the seventeenth and final Matthew Scudder novel.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-018680 for "A Drop of the Hard Stuff" by Lawrence Block (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-018680, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).