NMLP P-039219 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Ask the Dust

John Fante · Stackpole Sons, New York · 1939

Fewer than about 3,000 copies of the first printing sold: Stackpole was simultaneously defending the Hitler/Mein Kampf copyright litigation and spent the novel's promotion budget on the lawsuit, so the book was effectively unpromoted and firsts in jacket are genuinely scarce

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-039219 for "Ask the Dust" by John Fante (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-039219, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).