NMLP P-041821 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Autumn Journal

Louis MacNeice · Faber & Faber, London · 1939

UK first: Faber & Faber, London, May 1939. The census note dating the American edition to 1940 is wrong — Random House, New York, published the first American edition in 1939, and ABAA/ABA dealers describe it as printed from the English sheets (96 pp, same setting of type, with a Random House title leaf), not a resetting. Faber therefore holds precedence; the Random House issue is collected as the American first and is identified by its New York imprint on the title leaf.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-041821 for "Autumn Journal" by Louis MacNeice (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041821, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).