NMLP P-016420 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Rabbit, Run

John Updike · Alfred A. Knopf · 1960

US Knopf is the true first; UK Deutsch (1961) is later, and the UK edition's text was bowdlerized while the US first carries the franker passages — a recognized textual distinction.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-016420 for "Rabbit, Run" by John Updike (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-016420, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).