I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

The census claim is correct: Random House, New York, 1969 is the true first edition, first printing, and there is no simultaneous or precedent British issue. First British publication came only much later, from Virago Press, London (1984), as a Virago Modern Classics paperback — a reprint with no precedence claim, collected only as a Virago association item rather than as a first. There is no original-language question; the book was written and first published in English in the United States.