NMLP P-044975 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Rubyfruit Jungle

Rita Mae Brown · Daughters, Inc. (Plainfield, Vermont) · 1973

US small-press original; there is no UK or foreign-language precedence question. The Daughters, Inc. 1973 wrappered edition is both the true first and the collected first; the 1977 Bantam mass-market paperback that made the book famous is a reprint, not a first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-044975 for "Rubyfruit Jungle" by Rita Mae Brown (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044975, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).