NMLP P-041649 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Divine Comedies

James Merrill · Atheneum, New York · 1976

The controlling point is the copyright-page statement: Atheneum stated "First Edition" on the copyright page of its first printings throughout this period and did not adopt a number row until the mid-1980s, so a 1976 Merrill in Atheneum cloth showing "First Edition" on the copyright page is the first printing, and its absence indicates a later printing

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-041649 for "Divine Comedies" by James Merrill (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041649, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).