NMLP P-036542 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy · Random House (New York) · 1985
Two things to hold onto: the line's lowest digit is 2 (there is NO '1'), and this is the Random House convention of the era (roughly 1970-2002) — a stated first begins/ends the line at 2, while the appearance of a '1' in the line indicates a LATER printing, not the first
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-036542 for "Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036542, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).