NMLP P-040486 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

The Moving Toyshop

Edmund Crispin (Robert Bruce Montgomery) · Victor Gollancz (London) · 1946

UK Gollancz 1946 is the true first; J. B. Lippincott (Philadelphia and New York) 1946 is the first American edition, published in the same year, and both are collected. The Lippincott is distinguished by teal blue cloth lettered in black, a pictorial jacket carrying a photograph of the author at the piano, and a Sketch Plan of Oxford — a different sheet entirely, so imprint and binding separate the two despite the shared date. Note one dealer records the book as published in 1945 with 1946 on the title and copyright pages; the printed date and the standard reference date are both 1946.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-040486 for "The Moving Toyshop" by Edmund Crispin (Robert Bruce Montgomery) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-040486, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).