NMLP P-044000 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
The Iron Heel
Jack London · The Macmillan Company (New York) · 1908
US first, as the census claims: The Macmillan Company, New York, published February 1908, is the true first. Everett & Co., London, 1908, is the first English edition and is collected separately as a scarce edition in its own right; the sources consulted give it no month and none place it ahead of the February Macmillan, so the Macmillan holds precedence on the available evidence. Both are collected — name Macmillan (New York, February 1908) as the true first and Everett & Co. (London, 1908) as the English first. The 1917 Macmillan reissue and the many later trade, mass-market and scholarly reprints are separate editions.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-044000 for "The Iron Heel" by Jack London (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044000, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).