NMLP P-037618 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
If He Hollers Let Him Go
Chester Himes · Doubleday, Doran (Garden City, New York) · 1945
The Doubleday, Doran (Garden City, New York, 1945) edition is the true first — Himes's debut novel; note the imprint city is Garden City, not New York as sometimes cataloged. The first UK edition followed from Falcon Press (London) in 1947, in black cloth with gilt spine lettering (203 pages); the American edition holds clear precedence.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-037618 for "If He Hollers Let Him Go" by Chester Himes (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-037618, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).