NMLP P-008038 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Black Wings Has My Angel

Elliott Chaze · Gold Medal Books (Gold Medal #404) · 1953

Paperback is the true first. The much later NYRB Classics (2016) reprint is a modern 'first thus.' There was no contemporaneous hardcover.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-008038 for "Black Wings Has My Angel" by Elliott Chaze (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-008038, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).