NMLP P-039295 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19
A Separate Peace
John Knowles · Secker & Warburg, London (true first); The Macmillan Company, New York (first American, 1960) · 1959
The American edition has two jacket states and this is the point that matters: the first-state jacket carries a cartoon-style illustration of Gene and Finny on the front panel and was withdrawn after the author objected to the artwork, surviving chiefly on review copies; the far commoner second-state jacket drops the illustration entirely and substitutes additional review blurbs on the front and rear panels (E. M. Forster and Truman Capote among them), price present at the flap
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-039295 for "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-039295, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).