NMLP P-033459 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

J R

William Gaddis · Alfred A. Knopf · 1975

The US Knopf hardcover (1975) is the collected true first; J R won the 1976 National Book Award for Fiction. A simultaneous paperbound trade issue exists, but the cloth hardcover is the preferred first state.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-033459 for "J R" by William Gaddis (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-033459, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).