NMLP P-006336 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Angels

Denis Johnson · Alfred A. Knopf · 1983

The US Knopf hardcover (1983) is the true first edition. Johnson's poetry collections predate it as his earliest books (The Man Among the Seals, 1969; Inner Weather, 1976), but Angels is his first novel.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-006336 for "Angels" by Denis Johnson (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-006336, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).