NMLP P-045796 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
The Seven Storey Mountain
Thomas Merton · Harcourt, Brace and Company (New York) · 1948
US true first: Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1948 (published October 1948). The UK edition appeared the following year in an ABRIDGED text as "Elected Silence" (Hollis & Carter, London, 1949, edited by Evelyn Waugh) — a different, cut version, not the true first. Census note is correct.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-045796 for "The Seven Storey Mountain" by Thomas Merton (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045796, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).