NMLP P-040803 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
The Thomas Berryman Number
James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company (Boston) · 1976
The census claim is confirmed: Little, Brown, Boston (the imprint also reads Boston and Toronto), 1976 is the true first, and no contemporaneous UK edition is traced — British appearances are much later reissues and are "first thus" only. There is therefore no UK-vs-US precedence question for this title; only the 1976 Little, Brown issue is collected as the first edition.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-040803 for "The Thomas Berryman Number" by James Patterson (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-040803, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).