NMLP P-032988 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04
The Country of Marriage
Wendell Berry · Harcourt Brace Jovanovich · 1973
Identify the first printing by the copyright-page statement reading First edition followed by the letter string BCDE. During 1973 to 1983 HBJ dropped the leading A, so a genuine first printing of this era reads First edition / BCDE; later printings shorten the string (CDE, DE, and so on)
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-032988 for "The Country of Marriage" by Wendell Berry (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-032988, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).