NMLP P-025181 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Death Is a Lonely Business

Ray Bradbury · Alfred A. Knopf · 1985

The true first is generally the signed Franklin Library issue (1985), which carries a special author's introduction found in no other edition and precedes/coincides with the Knopf trade. The Knopf 'First Trade Edition' is the first trade printing, not the overall first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-025181 for "Death Is a Lonely Business" by Ray Bradbury (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-025181, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).