NMLP P-003767 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04
Serpent's Reach
C.J. Cherryh · DAW Books (New York) · 1980
The US DAW paperback (August 1980) is the first trade edition and the true first as collected; a Nelson Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club hardcover actually preceded it in May 1980 but is a book-club edition, not a trade first.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-003767 for "Serpent's Reach" by C.J. Cherryh (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-003767, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).