NMLP P-041157 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Lost Souls

Poppy Z. Brite · Delacorte Press / Abyss, New York · 1992

US Delacorte Press, New York, 1992 is the unambiguous true first — there is no competing same-year UK edition. The census note that 'UK Penguin followed' is directionally correct but should be stated precisely: the Penguin UK appearance was a 1994 paperback (ISBN 0-14-017392-7), and a Dell US mass-market paperback intervened in 1993. Neither is a first edition, and neither competes with the Delacorte hardcover for precedence.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-041157 for "Lost Souls" by Poppy Z. Brite (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041157, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).