NMLP P-022063 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Girls of Slender Means

Muriel Spark · Macmillan (UK) · 1963

The UK Macmillan edition (1963) is the true first. The near-simultaneous US Alfred A. Knopf edition (New York, 1963) is a separate first American edition, issued in a dust jacket designed by George Salter.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-022063 for "The Girls of Slender Means" by Muriel Spark (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-022063, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).