NMLP P-044712 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Johnny Got His Gun

Dalton Trumbo · J. B. Lippincott (Philadelphia) · 1939

US Lippincott 1939 is the true first (it won an early National Book Award as the Most Original Book of 1939). No separate UK first edition is corroborated here; the US 1939 is the edition collected as the true first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-044712 for "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044712, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).