NMLP P-032461 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Magician

W. Somerset Maugham · William Heinemann (UK) · 1908

The UK Heinemann edition of 1908 is the true first; the US Duffield & Company edition followed in 1909 (the American issue is in pictorial slate-blue cloth stamped on the front and spine).

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-032461 for "The Magician" by W. Somerset Maugham (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-032461, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).