NMLP P-034715 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Lew Wallace · Harper & Brothers (New York) · 1880

First-issue text contains the misprint 'be-became' at page 11, lines 37-38, and the dedication reads simply 'To the Wife of My Youth' (this was later expanded, circa 1883-84, to 'To the Wife of My Youth Who Still Abides with Me')

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-034715 for "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" by Lew Wallace (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-034715, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).