NMLP P-020809 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

The Way to Paradise

Mario Vargas Llosa · Farrar, Straus and Giroux (US) · 2003

The first-state dust jacket was designed by Kathleen DiGrado and carries jacket art reproducing a detail from Paul Gauguin's 'Manao tupapau (The Spirit of the Dead Watching)', 1892; a first-printing jacket retains the FSG printed price at the top of the front flap (an unclipped flap is preferred, though clipping alone does not disqualify a first)

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-020809 for "The Way to Paradise" by Mario Vargas Llosa (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-020809, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).