NMLP P-044326 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
The Black Stallion
Walter Farley · Random House (New York) · 1941
US edition is the true first: Random House, New York, 1941 — the census claim is confirmed. No prior magazine serialization and no simultaneous or preceding UK edition are documented; British issues are later and are not collected as co-firsts. This is the first title of the Black Stallion series, published while Farley was a student at Columbia.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-044326 for "The Black Stallion" by Walter Farley (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044326, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).