NMLP P-009892 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04
Burmese Days
George Orwell · Harper & Brothers (US) · 1934
Unusually for Orwell, the US Harper edition (October 1934) is the true first, not the UK. Orwell himself called the Harper edition 'the true first edition'. The Gollancz English edition (24 June 1935) is textually revised, with character and place names altered to avoid libel, and is a 'first English edition' but second overall.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-009892 for "Burmese Days" by George Orwell (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-009892, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).