NMLP P-018599 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

By the Shores of Silver Lake

Laura Ingalls Wilder · Harper & Brothers · 1939

US Harper & Brothers first, illustrated by Sewell and Boyle. The later Garth Williams edition (from 1953 onward) is a re-illustrated reprint, not the first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-018599 for "By the Shores of Silver Lake" by Laura Ingalls Wilder (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-018599, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).