Noon Wine

Schuman's (Detroit), 1937, is the true first and the first separate/book appearance of the text — US-only, with no British edition and no original-language question. The trap to flag is the collected text: Noon Wine was gathered with 'Old Mortality' and the title story in Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels (Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1939), which is a genuine and collected first edition of THAT collection but only a 'first thus' for Noon Wine itself. The text also had a prior magazine appearance in Story in 1937 before the Schuman's issue; sources consulted disagree on the month, so the month is not stated. Porter preferred 'short novel' to 'novella' for these works.