NMLP P-015211 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04
One Man's Initiation: 1917
John Dos Passos · George Allen & Unwin, London · 1920
UK precedes US. The first American edition was published by George H. Doran Company, New York, in June 1922 (a separate first American printing, not the true first). The 1945 Philosophical Library edition retitled First Encounter is a later reprint with a new author introduction.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-015211 for "One Man's Initiation: 1917" by John Dos Passos (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-015211, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).