NMLP P-037080 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Patricia Highsmith · Coward-McCann (New York) · 1955

Precedence: the US Coward-McCann first (1955) PRECEDES the UK Cresset Press first (1957) by two years and is the true first. Both editions are separately collected — the Cresset Press 1957 is the first UK edition, not the world first. Note: this is the first Ripley novel and should not be confused with Ripley's Game, a separate, later title (US Knopf, 1974).

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-037080 for "The Talented Mr. Ripley" by Patricia Highsmith (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-037080, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).