NMLP P-034448 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

Herman Melville · Harper & Brothers (New York) · 1852

Harper's catastrophic December 1853 fire at the Franklin Square premises destroyed 494 unsold copies of Pierre still in the publisher's own warehouse stock, a large share of the original printing

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-034448 for "Pierre; or, The Ambiguities" by Herman Melville (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-034448, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).