NMLP P-023118 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Island of the Colorblind

Oliver Sacks · Picador (London) · 1996

Corrected precedence: the UK Picador hardcover (1996) precedes the US Knopf hardcover (1997) by roughly a year, so Picador is the true global first edition. Knopf 1997 is the US first edition, not the overall first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-023118 for "The Island of the Colorblind" by Oliver Sacks (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-023118, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).