NMLP P-032521 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Up at the Villa

W. Somerset Maugham · Doubleday Doran (US) · 1941

US Doubleday, Doran is the true first; UK Heinemann (1941) followed roughly a month later. The two are readily told apart by binding: black cloth with the blind-stamped Maugham device (US) versus blue cloth (UK).

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-032521 for "Up at the Villa" by W. Somerset Maugham (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-032521, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).