NMLP P-013832 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

A World I Never Made

James T. Farrell · The Vanguard Press · 1936

US first edition (Vanguard Press, 1936) is the true first. The title drew a well-publicized New York obscenity prosecution shortly after publication, from which Farrell was acquitted; that notoriety helped make it the best-selling volume of the sequence.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-013832 for "A World I Never Made" by James T. Farrell (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-013832, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).