NMLP P-010973 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt · Harcourt, Brace and Company · 1951
US Harcourt, Brace and Company (New York), 1951, is the first appearance under the title 'The Origins of Totalitarianism.' The British Secker & Warburg edition, also 1951, carries the variant title 'The Burden of Our Time'; exact month-level precedence between the two 1951 issues is debated, so collectors treat them as a title variant rather than asserting one over the other. Later revised and enlarged editions are 'first thus.'
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-010973 for "The Origins of Totalitarianism" by Hannah Arendt (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-010973, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).