NMLP P-024187 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Price of Salt

Patricia Highsmith (as Claire Morgan) · Coward-McCann · 1952

US Coward-McCann hardcover (1952, as Claire Morgan) is the true first. The Bantam paperback (1953) is a later printing, and the 'Carol'-titled editions are much later.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-024187 for "The Price of Salt" by Patricia Highsmith (as Claire Morgan) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-024187, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).