NMLP P-044995 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
Chilly Scenes of Winter
Ann Beattie · Doubleday & Company (Garden City, New York) · 1976
US Doubleday (1976) is the true first; it appeared simultaneously with the story collection Distortions (also Doubleday, 1976), so the two share debut status and the companion volume should not be confused with this novel. The 1986 Vintage Contemporaries paperback (with its well-known cover) is a later reprint / 'first thus,' not the first edition.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-044995 for "Chilly Scenes of Winter" by Ann Beattie (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044995, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).