NMLP P-036872 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Shane

Jack Schaefer · Houghton Mifflin (Boston) · 1949

US Houghton Mifflin, Boston (1949) is the true first — Schaefer's first book, revised and expanded from his 1946 magazine serial. The dated-title-page / tan-cloth combination is decisive. The first UK edition followed from Andre Deutsch, London, 1954 (red boards lettered in gilt at the spine); the US edition precedes it.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-036872 for "Shane" by Jack Schaefer (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036872, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).