NMLP P-040130 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition
Sir Ernest Shackleton · William Heinemann (London) · 1919
UK true first: Heinemann, London, 1919, and this is the edition to collect. The first American edition is Macmillan, New York, stating "Published January, 1920" on the copyright page; it follows the London issue by roughly a year and has no claim to precedence. No limited, signed or large-paper edition was issued: the book was produced under immediate post-war constraints and there is no elaborate limited state, so any "limited edition" South should be treated as a later production.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-040130 for "South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition" by Sir Ernest Shackleton (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-040130, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).