NMLP P-030194 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04
The Dark Is Rising
Susan Cooper (illus. Alan E. Cober) · Atheneum · 1973
The Atheneum US 1973 edition is generally taken by collectors as the true first; the Chatto & Windus UK edition also appeared in 1973, so exact month priority is not firmly established, but the US issue carries the collector consensus as the first. This is the second book of the Dark Is Rising sequence and a 1974 Newbery Honor book.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-030194 for "The Dark Is Rising" by Susan Cooper (illus. Alan E. Cober) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-030194, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).