NMLP P-033867 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Lie Down in Darkness

William Styron · The Bobbs-Merrill Company · 1951

US (Bobbs-Merrill) is the true first; the UK edition (Hamish Hamilton, 1952) follows. Confirm the absence of any later-printing line.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-033867 for "Lie Down in Darkness" by William Styron (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-033867, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).