NMLP P-032452 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Hour Before the Dawn

W. Somerset Maugham · Doubleday, Doran (US) · 1942

The US Doubleday, Doran edition of 1942 is the true and only first edition. Maugham disliked the book and successfully prevented its publication in England, so no contemporary UK trade edition exists.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-032452 for "The Hour Before the Dawn" by W. Somerset Maugham (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-032452, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).