NMLP P-024979 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Northern Lights (US title: The Golden Compass)

Philip Pullman · Scholastic UK (Point) · 1995

The UK Scholastic/Point 1995 edition is the true first worldwide; the US Knopf 'The Golden Compass' (1996, retitled) is a separate, later first-American edition. Northern Lights won the 1995 Carnegie Medal.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-024979 for "Northern Lights (US title: The Golden Compass)" by Philip Pullman (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-024979, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).