NMLP P-039021 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Looking for Alaska

John Green · Dutton Books (Penguin Young Readers Group), New York · 2005

The census claim is confirmed. Dutton Books, New York, March 2005 is the true first edition of Green's debut. HarperCollins Children's Books (London) published the first UK edition in 2006 (reported July 2006); it is collected only as the first British edition and has no precedence. Green writes in English, so no original-language question arises. First-thus traps: the Dutton Special 10th Anniversary Edition (2015) and the Dutton Deluxe Edition are new editions, not first editions.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-039021 for "Looking for Alaska" by John Green (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-039021, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).