NMLP P-045060 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Colonel Sun (as Robert Markham)

Kingsley Amis · Jonathan Cape (London) · 1968

UK Jonathan Cape (London), March 1968, is the true first. Harper & Row (New York) issued the first American edition the same year, 1968 (quarter black cloth over yellow boards); it is separately collected but does not have priority. Both appear under the 'Robert Markham' pseudonym.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-045060 for "Colonel Sun (as Robert Markham)" by Kingsley Amis (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045060, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).