NMLP P-044373 — The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Sherman Alexie (illustrated by Ellen Forney) · Little, Brown and Company / Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (New York and Boston) · 2007

The National Book Award is the printing tell. The award postdates publication, so a first printing cannot have the citation printed into the jacket artwork — later printings and the current in-print edition carry "National Book Award Winner" as part of the jacket. An applied round gold embossed National Book Award Winner sticker is different: it was stuck onto existing jacket stock and dealers record it on first printings, so a sticker alone does not demote a copy. Also traps: the 2009 paperback (ISBN 0-316-01369-2), which adds a 2009 interview and an Oyate discussion guide, and the 2017 tenth-anniversary edition (ISBN 978-0-316-50404-1) — both "first thus", not first editions.

New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-044373 for "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie (illustrated by Ellen Forney) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044373, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).