NMLP P-044865 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Aaron's Rod

D.H. Lawrence · Thomas Seltzer (New York) · 1922

American true first: Thomas Seltzer (New York), April 1922, precedes the first English edition, Martin Secker (London), June 1922, by roughly two months. The Secker edition is textually expurgated (Secker cut passages over a character's possible identification with Norman Douglas), so the Seltzer is both the earlier and the complete true first. Census precedence confirmed.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-044865 for "Aaron's Rod" by D.H. Lawrence (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044865, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).