NMLP P-037122 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury · Ballantine Books (New York) · 1953
The 1953 issues carry a 'First Edition' statement on the copyright page, and the first-printing text block prints two Bradbury short stories after the novel — 'The Playground' and 'And the Rock Cried Out' — which were dropped from all later printings (their presence is a key first-printing point)
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-037122 for "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-037122, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).