NMLP P-040287 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
Son of the Morning Star
Evan S. Connell · North Point Press (San Francisco) · 1984
North Point Press (San Francisco) 1984 is the true first and precedes the UK edition; the small-press US first is the collected edition, and the census is confirmed. The first British edition is reported as Pavilion Books / Michael Joseph, London, 1985 (447 pp), but that attribution rests on dealer listings rather than a published bibliography, so treat the UK publisher as reported rather than settled. US precedence is not in dispute either way. Note that at least one dealer gives the imprint city as Berkeley rather than San Francisco; the San Francisco imprint is the one carried by Lorne Bair's collation and by library catalogue records.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-040287 for "Son of the Morning Star" by Evan S. Connell (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-040287, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).