NMLP P-038798 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
A Voyage to Arcturus
David Lindsay · Methuen & Co. Ltd. (London) · 1920
UK Methuen 1920 is the sole true first — there was no US edition until 1963 (Macmillan, New York), so the census's UK-only claim holds. The census figure of "~1,430 copies printed" is not settled: the scholarly Violet Apple site and Wikipedia give a press run of 1,430, L.W. Currey gives 1,250, and a Dominic Winter auction catalogue gives 1,500 for the first issue. Sources agree only that no more than 596 copies sold. The 1963 Gollancz (UK) and Macmillan (US) editions are reprints, not firsts.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-038798 for "A Voyage to Arcturus" by David Lindsay (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038798, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).