NMLP P-002700 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04
The Guns of August
Barbara W. Tuchman · The Macmillan Company · 1962
The US Macmillan edition is the true first; the UK (Constable, issued as 'August 1914') is a separate 'first thus.' The book won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Macmillan used a 'First Printing' statement rather than a number line in this era.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-002700 for "The Guns of August" by Barbara W. Tuchman (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-002700, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).