NMLP P-044761 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

Peter Matthiessen · Random House (New York) · 1965

US Random House 1965 is the true first and the collected edition (a National Book Award for Fiction finalist). The census note of a 'UK Heinemann 1966' could not be independently confirmed in this pass and should be treated as unverified; the US-first identification and its points are not in doubt.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-044761 for "At Play in the Fields of the Lord" by Peter Matthiessen (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044761, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).