NMLP P-044683 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

A Piece of My Heart

Richard Ford · Harper & Row (New York) · 1976

US Harper & Row 1976 precedes all other editions and is the true first; the first UK edition (Collins Harvill, London) did not appear until 1987, and the Vintage Contemporaries paperback (1985) is a later 'first thus.' Census precedence claim confirmed.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-044683 for "A Piece of My Heart" by Richard Ford (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044683, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).