NMLP P-044235 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
A Hole Is to Dig
Ruth Krauss (illus. Maurice Sendak) · Harper & Brothers (New York) · 1952
US precedes; no competing UK or foreign-language edition located that would rival priority. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1952 is the true first. Some dealers catalogue the 1952 sheets as "Harper & Row, 1952" — that is a cataloguing slip (Harper & Row did not exist until the 1962 merger), not a separate edition, and such copies must still be tested on the "Grr-r-r" point.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-044235 for "A Hole Is to Dig" by Ruth Krauss (illus. Maurice Sendak) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044235, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).