NMLP P-040308 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Winter in the Blood

James Welch · Harper & Row (New York) · 1974

US Harper & Row, New York, 1974 is the true first and the only collected first; it was the third title issued under Harper & Row's Native American Publishing Program. No competing UK hardcover first is recorded — Welch was published first in America. The Bantam paperback (1975) and all Penguin / Penguin Classics issues are later reprints. The G. K. Hall large-print edition (Boston, 1986) is a "first thus" trap: hardcover, but a reprint.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-040308 for "Winter in the Blood" by James Welch (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-040308, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).