NMLP P-041728 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
Montage of a Dream Deferred
Langston Hughes · Henry Holt and Company, New York · 1951
US only — census claim confirmed. Henry Holt, New York, 1951 is the true first; no contemporaneous British edition is recorded. Subsequent appearances of the sequence are within later collected and selected volumes rather than separate editions of this book, and those are not firsts.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-041728 for "Montage of a Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041728, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).