NMLP P-026382 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04
Where the Sea Used to Be
Rick Bass · Houghton Mifflin · 1998
First US edition of the expanded full-length novel (Houghton Mifflin, 1998). Note that a shorter novella of the same title appeared first within the collection 'The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness' in 1997; the 1998 book is the first separate and expanded novel form.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-026382 for "Where the Sea Used to Be" by Rick Bass (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-026382, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).