# Is "The Little Walls" by Winston Graham a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of The Little Walls by Winston Graham (Hodder & Stoughton, 1955) is identified by: UK Hodder & Stoughton first edition, London, 1955, publisher's cloth with pictorial dust jacket, around 256 pages. UK Hodder & Stoughton 1955 is the true first.

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- UK Hodder & Stoughton first edition, London, 1955, publisher's cloth with pictorial dust jacket, around 256 pages
- This novel won the inaugural Crime Writers' Association award for 1955, then called the Crossed Red Herring Award and later renamed the Gold Dagger, making it the first title in that award lineage
- Confirm the Hodder & Stoughton imprint and 1955 dating with no later-impression statement
- Publisher imprint reads Hodder & Stoughton
- Not a book-club edition (see below)

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Winston Graham |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year | 1955 |
| True first | UK edition |
| Format | Hardcover (trade) |
| Key point | UK Hodder & Stoughton first edition, London, 1955, publisher's cloth with pictorial dust jacket, around 256 pages |
| Book-club edition exists? | Yes |

## Points of issue
UK Hodder & Stoughton first edition, London, 1955, publisher's cloth with pictorial dust jacket, around 256 pages. This novel won the inaugural Crime Writers' Association award for 1955, then called the Crossed Red Herring Award and later renamed the Gold Dagger, making it the first title in that award lineage. Confirm the Hodder & Stoughton imprint and 1955 dating with no later-impression statement.

## Is this the true first?
UK Hodder & Stoughton 1955 is the true first. A US Doubleday edition followed in 1955 under the same title and is a first-thus. A separately abridged US version titled Bridge to Vengeance appeared later (Spivak, 1957) and is a different, abridged text rather than the true first.

## Telling it from reprints & book-club editions
Later Hodder reprints, book-club issues, and the abridged Bridge to Vengeance text are not the true first. The genuine first carries the Hodder & Stoughton London imprint dated 1955.

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *The Little Walls* by Winston Graham a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-little-walls
CC BY 4.0. Part of the Canonical First-Edition Points of Issue dataset (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/first-edition-titles.json). Last reviewed 2026-07-04.