NMLP P-037507 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston · J. B. Lippincott Company · 1937
The US J. B. Lippincott edition (Philadelphia, 1937) is the true first edition and first printing; the sources consulted record no earlier or simultaneous British edition. The first UK edition is the Virago Modern Classics paperback of 1986 — nearly half a century later — so precedence is not in doubt. The original 1937 jacket is the great scarcity.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-037507 for "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-037507, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).