NMLP P-045578 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
Palace Walk
Naguib Mahfouz · Maktabat Misr, Cairo (Arabic true first); first English American University in Cairo Press, 1989 · 1956
Arabic original: Maktabat Misr, Cairo, 1956. First English: AUC Press, Cairo, 1989 (Hutchins & Kenny), preceding Doubleday, New York, 1990 — the Egyptian edition, not the US edition, is the true first in English. Both the AUC Cairo 1989 and the Doubleday 1990 (first American) are collected. This is the first volume of the Cairo Trilogy and the post-Nobel collectible.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-045578 for "Palace Walk" by Naguib Mahfouz (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045578, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).