NMLP P-011407 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The City Boy

Herman Wouk · Simon & Schuster · 1948

US Simon & Schuster is the true first; a UK edition followed later. The title was later shortened to City Boy for the 1969 Twentieth Anniversary Edition, so the longer title on the title page is a first-edition tell.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-011407 for "The City Boy" by Herman Wouk (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-011407, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).