NMLP P-012538 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

In the Heart of the Country

J. M. Coetzee · Secker & Warburg (London) / Harper & Row (New York) · 1977

Unlike Dusklands, the true first of this title is the 1977 UK Secker and Warburg, with Harper and Row US 1977 near-simultaneous, not Ravan, which came in 1978. The 1978 Ravan edition with untranslated Afrikaans dialogue is a separate collectible state.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-012538 for "In the Heart of the Country" by J. M. Coetzee (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-012538, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).