NMLP P-023057 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Laughing Boy signed first

Oliver La Farge · Houghton Mifflin · 1929

The true first is the 1929 Houghton Mifflin edition, Boston, identified by matching 1929 title-page and copyright-page dates and the first-issue two-paragraph front flap; later jacket states add Pulitzer wording.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-023057 for "Laughing Boy signed first" by Oliver La Farge (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-023057, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).