NMLP P-041618 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Spoon River Anthology

Edgar Lee Masters · The Macmillan Company, New York · 1915

That terminal line is the test: Macmillan's US house did not begin stating "First printing" on the copyright page until mid-1936, so the first printing is identified by the absence of any reprint line, while the next printing adds "Reprinted May, 1915." (the widely circulated digitized Macmillan copy carries that added line and is therefore a May reprint, not the first)

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-041618 for "Spoon River Anthology" by Edgar Lee Masters (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041618, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).