NMLP P-020143 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Holes

Louis Sachar · Frances Foster Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 1998

US FSG is the true first. The pre-Newbery jacket (no gold medal), the complete number line ending in 1, and the quarter-red-over-blue binding with blind front-board stamping mark the true first printing; later jackets add the Newbery Medal.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-020143 for "Holes" by Louis Sachar (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-020143, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).