NMLP P-033910 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-04
Calling Out to Yeti (Wołanie do Yeti)
Wisława Szymborska · Wydawnictwo Literackie (Kraków) · 1957
No U.S./U.K. book-club (BOMC-style) edition exists for the 1957 Polish first — the relevant traps are printing-generation and edition confusion, not a book-club reprint. Wołanie do Yeti was reprinted many times in Poland and reappears within later collected/selected volumes (e.g. Poezje wybrane, Wiersze wybrane), so confirm the standalone 1957 Wydawnictwo Literackie imprint and the tiny stated print run; any copy citing a later year or a "wydanie" beyond the first is a reprint. Note one unreliable attribution circulating in trade listings: at least one antiquarian description mis-assigns this title to "PIW, Warszawa" with a cover credited to "Zofia Włodarczyk" — Polish Wikipedia and the standard record give Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków, so treat the PIW/cover-designer claim as unverified. On the English side, the common trap is assuming View with a Grain of Sand (1995) is the first English book; the 1981 Princeton Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts precedes it. The 1995 Harcourt hardcover first is identified by the "Harcourt Brace & Company" imprint (ISBN 0-15-100153-7) and a full number line ending in 1 — distinct from the later trade paperback (ISBN 0-15-600216-7).
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-033910 for "Calling Out to Yeti (Wołanie do Yeti)" by Wisława Szymborska (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-033910, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).