NMLP P-015023 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Stories of John Cheever

John Cheever · Alfred A. Knopf · 1978

The US Knopf hardcover (1978) is the true first. The collection won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; the 1981 National Book Award it received was for the paperback edition, not the 1978 hardcover. Signed copies exist.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-015023 for "The Stories of John Cheever" by John Cheever (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-015023, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).