NMLP P-028801 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Seven Plays

Sam Shepard · Bantam Books · 1981

First appearance of the Richard Gilman introduction. True West appears here, but a Samuel French acting edition of True West also dates to 1981, so precedence for the first book appearance of that single play is not settled; treat the Gilman introduction as the reliably-first element.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-028801 for "Seven Plays" by Sam Shepard (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-028801, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).