NMLP P-033876 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Sophie's Choice

William Styron · Random House · 1979

The US Random House trade hardcover (1979) is the standard collected first; it won the National Book Award for Fiction announced in 1980. A signed limited edition was privately printed ahead of the trade issue, and the Franklin Library issued a separate signed 'First Edition' the same year — both precede or parallel the trade and should not be conflated with it.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-033876 for "Sophie's Choice" by William Styron (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-033876, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).