NMLP P-032373 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

Cakes and Ale

W. Somerset Maugham · William Heinemann (UK) · 1930

The recognized first-state point is the missing letter 't' in the word 'won't' on page 147; per Stott's bibliography both the missing-'t' state and the corrected state occur within the first printing and were issued without established precedence, so neither commands priority

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-032373 for "Cakes and Ale" by W. Somerset Maugham (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-032373, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).