NMLP P-044454 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
The Wayward Bus
John Steinbeck · The Viking Press, New York · 1947
US Viking Press, New York, February 1947 is the true first. The first English edition followed from William Heinemann (London) in 1947, shortly after the US printing — close but not simultaneous, and with no precedence claim; it is collected only as the first English edition. Only the Viking printing is the collected first. The census claim (US Viking 1947 first; UK Heinemann later the same year) is confirmed as stated.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-044454 for "The Wayward Bus" by John Steinbeck (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044454, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).