NMLP P-020326 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Happy Land

MacKinlay Kantor · Coward-McCann · 1943

The Coward-McCann book is the first edition in book form. The text first appeared earlier in serial form in the Saturday Evening Post; a small author's gift issue of about 1,250 copies was also produced around this publication, so first-printing identification on this title can be unusually nuanced.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-020326 for "Happy Land" by MacKinlay Kantor (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-020326, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).