NMLP P-037852 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Lottery; or, The Adventures of James Harris

Shirley Jackson · Farrar, Straus and Company, New York · 1949

Beware the title itself: the 1949 first edition is titled The Lottery; or, The Adventures of James Harris, and any copy titled The Lottery and Other Stories is a later retitled reprint, not the first

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-037852 for "The Lottery; or, The Adventures of James Harris" by Shirley Jackson (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-037852, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).