NMLP P-037396 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

A Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin · Parnassus Press (Berkeley) · 1968

The decisive first-printing point — documented by L.W. Currey — is a faint vertical ink smudge running the full height of the TITLE PAGE (generally through the 'r'/'d' of 'Wizard' down toward the 'P'/'s' of 'Press')

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-037396 for "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-037396, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).