NMLP P-036135 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-09

Progress and Poverty

Henry George · Wm. M. Hinton & Co., Printers (San Francisco) — "Author's Edition" · 1879

The 1879 San Francisco "Author's Edition" (200 copies) has priority over the 1880 D. Appleton & Co. trade edition that introduced the book commercially; both are legitimately called first editions of their respective issue, with the Author's Edition being the true first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-036135 for "Progress and Poverty" by Henry George (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036135, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).