NMLP P-036456 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Barbara W. Tuchman · Alfred A. Knopf · 1978

US Knopf (New York) true first trade edition, 1978. The Franklin Library also issued a full-leather limited edition (First Edition Society) in 1978 by special arrangement with Knopf, with gilt-decorated covers, moire endpapers, all-gilt edges and a facsimile-signed introductory leaf; it is a separate deluxe issue rather than the trade first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-036456 for "A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century" by Barbara W. Tuchman (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036456, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).