NMLP P-041661 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

The Tennis Court Oath

John Ashbery · Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut · 1962

US only. Wesleyan University Press, Middletown CT, 1962 is the true first, issued simultaneously in cloth and in wrappers; no separate British edition of The Tennis Court Oath from this period is documented, and the volume remained in print through Wesleyan. The census claim of US-only precedence and dual cloth/wrappers issue is confirmed.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-041661 for "The Tennis Court Oath" by John Ashbery (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041661, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).