NMLP P-044698 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

The Little Disturbances of Man

Grace Paley · Doubleday (Garden City, New York) · 1959

US Doubleday 1959 is the true first. CORRECTION to census: the first UK edition is Weidenfeld & Nicolson (London, 1960) — red boards lettered in gilt at the spine — NOT André Deutsch; no André Deutsch edition is corroborated. The UK 1960 issue is the later, scarcer printing.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-044698 for "The Little Disturbances of Man" by Grace Paley (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044698, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).