NMLP P-009940 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays

George Orwell · Secker & Warburg (UK) · 1950

The Secker & Warburg London edition is the true first. The first US edition (Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1950) appeared the same year in charcoal grey cloth lettered in silver with a typographic jacket; it follows the UK printing.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-009940 for "Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays" by George Orwell (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-009940, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).