NMLP P-019047 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04
A Coney Island of the Mind
Lawrence Ferlinghetti · New Directions (New York) · 1958
New Directions US (1958) is the true first. The clothbound issue in dust jacket is preferred over the simultaneous paperbook; both are 1958 firsts. One of the best-selling poetry titles of the era, so later printings are common.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-019047 for "A Coney Island of the Mind" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-019047, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).