NMLP P-013785 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04
A Grain of Wheat
James Ngugi (Ngugi wa Thiong'o) · Heinemann (London, African Writers Series #36) · 1967
Heinemann London 1967 is the true first edition with the original text, under the byline 'James Ngugi'. The 1986 Heinemann edition is a revised text and is a separate 'first thus'. The US Macmillan issue follows the London first.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-013785 for "A Grain of Wheat" by James Ngugi (Ngugi wa Thiong'o) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-013785, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).