The Death of Jim Loney

US-only true first: Harper & Row, New York, 1979 (ISBN 0-06-014588-9) — Welch's third book and second novel. No 1979 British edition was traced; the UK issue is the Penguin paperback (ISBN 0140102918, circa 1987) and is a reprint. The Harper Colophon/Perennial paperback (ISBN 0-06-080538-2) and the Penguin Classics edition (2008, with an introduction by Jim Harrison) are "first thus" reprints. Only the 1979 Harper & Row hardcover is the first.