NMLP P-044980 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
Desperate Characters
Paula Fox · Harcourt, Brace & World (New York) · 1970
US Harcourt, Brace & World (1970) precedes the UK edition. A UK issue followed under Macmillan, London (ISBN 0-333-12072-8); the US Harcourt printing is the collected true first. The 1999 W. W. Norton reissue carrying a Jonathan Franzen introduction is a later 'first thus,' not the first edition.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-044980 for "Desperate Characters" by Paula Fox (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044980, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).