NMLP P-028351 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Barbarous Coast

Ross Macdonald · Alfred A. Knopf · 1956

US Knopf (1956) is the true first edition. Kenneth Millar had published earlier under John Macdonald and John Ross Macdonald; The Barbarous Coast is the first to appear under the settled "Ross Macdonald" name.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-028351 for "The Barbarous Coast" by Ross Macdonald (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-028351, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).