NMLP P-036534 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe · William Heinemann (London) · 1958

Because the first has no internal points, second impressions and ex-library rebinds are routinely sold as firsts: reject copies bearing a later-impression statement, and treat rebound or ex-library copies lacking the priced jacket with caution. The ubiquitous orange African Writers Series paperback (1962, AWS #1) is a later reprint in a new series, not the 1958 first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-036534 for "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036534, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).