NMLP P-044757 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
The Dog of the South
Charles Portis · Alfred A. Knopf (New York) · 1979
US Knopf 1979 is the true first; no contemporaneous UK edition was published, so there is no British-precedence question. Portis's third novel — the census note (US-only for this title) is correct.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-044757 for "The Dog of the South" by Charles Portis (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044757, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).