NMLP P-041957 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Picnic

William Inge · Random House, New York · 1953

Random House house practice for 1936-1975 is that the first printing carries a stated first-edition line on the copyright page and that the line is simply dropped on subsequent printings — there is no number line in this period, so a 1953-dated copy bearing no printing statement at all is a later printing, not a first

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-041957 for "Picnic" by William Inge (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041957, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).