NMLP P-042413 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
They Return at Evening
H. R. Wakefield · Philip Allan & Co., Ltd., London · 1928
Census claim CONFIRMED, and both editions are collected. Philip Allan & Co. (London, 1928) is the true first. D. Appleton & Company (New York, 1928) issued the first American edition in the same year: it is bound in black cloth with front and spine panels stamped in gold, and its first printing is identified by '(1)' at the base of the text on page [266]. The London Allan issue takes precedence; the Appleton is the first US and is separately collected.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-042413 for "They Return at Evening" by H. R. Wakefield (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-042413, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).