NMLP P-045300 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

James Hilton · Little, Brown and Company (Boston) · 1934

US precedes UK by roughly four months: Little, Brown, Boston (June 1934) is the true first; Hodder & Stoughton, London (October 1934) is the first English and first illustrated edition. The illustrated UK issue is a classic 'first thus' trap frequently mistaken for the first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-045300 for "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" by James Hilton (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045300, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).