The Listener and Other Stories

The census claim is confirmed: the UK Eveleigh Nash edition of 1907 is the true first, and the collected point of the book is that it carries the first appearance of 'The Willows.' There was no competing American issue at the time — the first American edition did not follow until Vaughan & Gomme, New York, 1914, seven years later, and is collected only as the first US, not as a first edition. No original-language question arises; Blackwood wrote in English and London publication came first.