NMLP P-028922 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The American Shore

Samuel R. Delany · Dragon Press (Elizabethtown, NY) · 1978

US Dragon Press edition (1978) is the true first. Reissued by Wesleyan University Press in 2014 with a new introduction by Matthew Cheney; that later trade edition is not the first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-028922 for "The American Shore" by Samuel R. Delany (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-028922, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).