NMLP P-044593 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Alexander's Bridge

Willa Cather · Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston / New York) · 1912

US Houghton Mifflin (April 1912) is the true first and precedes the first English edition, William Heinemann, London (August 1912) — a genuine TITLE-VARIANT TRAP: Heinemann published it retitled 'Alexander's Bridges' (plural), brown cloth with green spine and gilt spine lettering, with four F. Graham Cootes plates. The novel had first appeared serially as 'Alexander's Masquerade' in McClure's Magazine; both the singular US 'Bridge' and the plural UK 'Bridges' book titles are collected, with the US the primary first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-044593 for "Alexander's Bridge" by Willa Cather (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044593, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).