NMLP P-032704 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Spectator Bird

Wallace Stegner · Doubleday & Company · 1976

The true first edition is the Franklin Library leather-bound issue (Franklin Center, 1976), produced for its First Edition Society and preceding the Doubleday trade edition. The Doubleday trade printing is the first widely available trade first. The novel won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1977.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-032704 for "The Spectator Bird" by Wallace Stegner (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-032704, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).