NMLP P-030197 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Grey King

Susan Cooper (illus. Michael Heslop) · Atheneum · 1975

The Atheneum US edition was published in September 1975, preceding the Chatto & Windus UK edition of October 1975, making the US issue the true first. Fourth book in the Dark Is Rising sequence and winner of the 1976 Newbery Medal.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-030197 for "The Grey King" by Susan Cooper (illus. Michael Heslop) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-030197, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).