NMLP P-032403 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

First Person Singular

W. Somerset Maugham · Doubleday, Doran (US) · 1931

US Doubleday, Doran precedes UK Heinemann by about two weeks, making the American edition the true first. Note the US title differs: 'Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular'.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-032403 for "First Person Singular" by W. Somerset Maugham (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-032403, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).