NMLP P-039513 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Howards End

E.M. Forster · Edward Arnold (London) · 1910

Edward Arnold, London, 1910 is the true first. The first American edition is G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1910 — a separate setting collected as the first American but not a true first. The census note's claim that Arnold preceded Putnam 'by weeks' could not be confirmed: dealer listings date the Putnam variously to 1910 and 1911 and none of the sources consulted established the interval, so the precedence direction stands but the margin should not be stated.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-039513 for "Howards End" by E.M. Forster (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-039513, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).