NMLP P-029364 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York)

Stephen Crane (as 'Johnston Smith') · Self-published (printed in New York) · 1893

US true first, 1893, self-published as by 'Johnston Smith.' The 1896 D. Appleton edition, issued under Crane's own name, is heavily bowdlerized and is a distinct, far more common later edition, not the first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-029364 for "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York)" by Stephen Crane (as 'Johnston Smith') (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-029364, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).