NMLP P-015470 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Setting Free the Bears

John Irving · Random House · 1968

The US Random House edition is the true first. No UK edition appeared until after the success of Garp, so the British issue follows by roughly a decade and has no precedence.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-015470 for "Setting Free the Bears" by John Irving (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-015470, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).