NMLP P-032541 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Drunk in the Furnace

W.S. Merwin · Rupert Hart-Davis (London) · 1960

UK Rupert Hart-Davis, 1960, is the first hardbound edition and is the collectible true first; the same-year US Macmillan edition was a paperback original, not a hardcover first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-032541 for "The Drunk in the Furnace" by W.S. Merwin (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-032541, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).