NMLP P-020970 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Dead Babies

Martin Amis · Jonathan Cape · 1975

UK Cape (1975) is the true first; the US first edition followed from Alfred A. Knopf in 1976 (blue boards with yellow cloth spine, red top edge). The retitled 'Dark Secrets' paperback is not a first edition of the text.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-020970 for "Dead Babies" by Martin Amis (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-020970, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).