NMLP P-038493 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

1914 and Other Poems

Rupert Brooke · Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., London · 1915

UK true first: Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 16 June 1915, Brooke's posthumous second book (he died 23 April 1915). CORRECTION to the census note: the American edition was not a regularly published Doubleday book. Doubleday, Page & Co. (Garden City, New York, 1915) printed only 87 copies in anticipation of securing the American rights, and those copies carry a bound-in publisher's leaf stating that the edition was not regularly issued; the American rights went instead to the John Lane Company, New York, which published the authorised US edition in 1915. Both American printings are collected but neither displaces the London first: the Doubleday 87-copy printing is a scarce anticipation/copyright issue, and the John Lane New York 1915 is the American trade first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-038493 for "1914 and Other Poems" by Rupert Brooke (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038493, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).