NMLP P-043225 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

Elizabeth Gilbert · Viking (New York) · 2006

Dealers identify the first printing solely by the number line rather than by any edition statement — Viking/Penguin does not state "First Edition." The line is printed in Penguin's alternating odd-even form, "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2"; the presence of the 1 identifies the first printing, and a second printing reads "3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2." This matters practically: the Penguin line does not descend to 1 in the conventional way, so a collector who has been taught to look for a line "ending in 1" will misread it

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-043225 for "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia" by Elizabeth Gilbert (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-043225, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).