NMLP P-040396 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
Brat Farrar
Josephine Tey · Peter Davies (London) · 1949
UK precedes US, and the census claim is confirmed as written. Peter Davies, London, 1949 is the true first; Macmillan, New York, 1950 (copyright 1949) is the first American edition and is collected in its own right — name both. "Come and Kill Me" is not a separate work and not a first: it is the retitled US Pocket Books paperback issue of 1951, a first-thus trap. Likewise the Macmillan "Three by Tey" omnibus (New York, 1954) and the R. Bentley (Cambridge, Mass., 1981) issue, which the Library of Congress records as "Reprinted from the author's Three by Tey", are reprints.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-040396 for "Brat Farrar" by Josephine Tey (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-040396, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).