NMLP P-038430 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Color

Countee Cullen · Harper & Brothers, New York and London · 1925

The census claim is essentially correct, with one refinement: the title page imprint reads "New York and London," which regularly misleads cataloguers into positing a separate British first. It is a joint Harper imprint on an American production — Harper & Brothers, 1925, is the true and only first edition, and no separate British first edition of Color is recorded. There is no original-language precedence question.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-038430 for "Color" by Countee Cullen (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038430, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).