NMLP P-043722 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Odd John

Olaf Stapledon · Methuen & Co., London · 1935

Census claim confirmed. Methuen (London, 1935) is the true first edition. The first American edition is E. P. Dutton & Co. (New York, 1936), collating [i-iv] v [vi] 1-282. BOTH are collected and must be named separately in any catalogue — the Methuen as the true first, the Dutton as the first American. There is no foreign-language original; the book was written in English.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-043722 for "Odd John" by Olaf Stapledon (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-043722, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).