NMLP P-044460 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
Sweet Thursday
John Steinbeck · The Viking Press, New York · 1954
US Viking Press, New York, June 1954 is the true first. The first UK edition — William Heinemann, London, 1954 (viii, 264pp, jacket illustrated by Paul Galdone) — appeared later the same year; it is collected as the first English edition but does not precede. First-thus trap: the Penguin Classics issue with Robert DeMott's introduction and notes is a modern reprint, not a first.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-044460 for "Sweet Thursday" by John Steinbeck (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044460, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).