NMLP P-044871 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Sea and Sardinia

D.H. Lawrence · Thomas Seltzer (New York) · 1921

American true first: Thomas Seltzer (New York), 1921, precedes the first English edition, Martin Secker (London), 1923, by about two years. Both are collected, but the Seltzer is the true first; the Secker (brown cloth, reusing a Juta plate on the jacket) is a first-English / first-thus. Census precedence confirmed.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-044871 for "Sea and Sardinia" by D.H. Lawrence (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044871, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).