NMLP P-044483 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Welcome to Hard Times

E. L. Doctorow · Simon & Schuster · 1960

The first printing carries a printing statement on the copyright page and no number line: Simon & Schuster began using a first-edition/first-printing statement in 1952 and did not adopt a number row until the early 1970s, so a number line on a copy of this title indicates a later issue

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-044483 for "Welcome to Hard Times" by E. L. Doctorow (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044483, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).