NMLP P-042450 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
The Bird's Nest
Shirley Jackson · Farrar, Straus and Young, New York · 1954
The US edition has precedence: Farrar, Straus and Young, New York, 1954. The first British edition is Michael Joseph, London, 1955 — physically a different book (black cloth, gilt-stamped spine lettering, 240 pp., octavo) and collected in its own right, but it does not precede. Jackson wrote in English and there is no original-language question.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-042450 for "The Bird's Nest" by Shirley Jackson (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-042450, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).