NMLP P-040476 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19
The Beast Must Die
Nicholas Blake (Cecil Day-Lewis) · Collins, The Crime Club (London) · 1938
Collins / Crime Club house practice is the primary test: no statement appears on the first edition, and subsequent printings are noted either by a printing statement or by a date later than the copyright date — so a copyright page bearing 1938 with no reprint notice is correct for the first
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-040476 for "The Beast Must Die" by Nicholas Blake (Cecil Day-Lewis) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-040476, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).