NMLP P-041677 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
The Opening of the Field
Robert Duncan · Grove Press, New York · 1960
US only for the true first: Grove Press, New York, 1960, in wrappers. The first English edition is Jonathan Cape, London, 1969 — a hardcover in marbled paper-covered boards with brown gilt backstrip, some nine years later and well subordinate to the Grove printing; an uncorrected proof of that Cape edition also circulates. A dealer record dating the Cape edition to 1960 is an outlier and is contradicted by ABAA cataloguing and by the presence of an ISBN (0224616270) on the Cape volume, which is inconsistent with a 1960 imprint. The census claim of US-only precedence is confirmed.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-041677 for "The Opening of the Field" by Robert Duncan (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041677, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).