NMLP P-029365 · Book-club / reprint tell · 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

The 1896 Appleton 'Maggie' (Crane's name, expurgated) is the common reprint mistaken for the first; the genuine first is the 1893 yellow-wrappered 'Johnston Smith' issue with the original unexpurgated text.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-029365 for "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York)" by Stephen Crane (as 'Johnston Smith') (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-029365, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).