NMLP P-042822 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

The Maze Runner

James Dashner · Delacorte Press (Random House Children's Books), New York · 2009

US Delacorte Press hardcover (New York, 2009) is the true first — the census claim holds. The first British edition followed from Chicken House in 2010 and was a trade-paperback original, not a hardcover, so no competing UK hardcover first exists; the US hardcover is the only first-edition hardcover and the issue collected. No original-language precedence question arises (English-language original, US-published).

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-042822 for "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-042822, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).