NMLP P-025904 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Sportswriter

Richard Ford · Vintage Contemporaries (Vintage/Random House) · 1986

The Vintage Contemporaries trade paperback IS the true first (Ford's third book); there is no hardcover first. The UK Collins Harvill hardcover (1986) follows but does not precede.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-025904 for "The Sportswriter" by Richard Ford (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-025904, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).