Cane

The census claim is confirmed. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1923 is the true and only first edition; no contemporaneous, earlier, or simultaneous British edition is recorded, and there is no original-language question. Modern reissues are "first thus" only and carry no precedence — notably the Liveright/Norton editions, including the 2011 Liveright edition edited by Rudolph P. Byrd and Henry Louis Gates Jr. The 1923 Boni & Liveright is the only edition collected as a first.