NMLP P-043000 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Collected Stories of William Faulkner

William Faulkner · Random House, New York · 1950

The US edition (Random House, New York, 1950) is the true first; it won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1951. The first English edition followed from Chatto & Windus, London, in 1951, bound in blue cloth; it is a legitimate first English edition collected separately but has no claim on precedence.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-043000 for "Collected Stories of William Faulkner" by William Faulkner (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-043000, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).