NMLP P-042917 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
The Benefactor
Susan Sontag · Farrar, Straus and Company · 1963
US Farrar, Straus and Company (New York) 1963 is the true first and is Sontag's first book — the census claim is confirmed. The first UK edition is Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1964 (273 pp, dark brown boards lettered in gilt); it is collected in its own right as the first English edition of the author's first book, but it is a year later and second in precedence.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-042917 for "The Benefactor" by Susan Sontag (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-042917, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).