Look Back in Anger: A Play in Three Acts

The Faber and Faber, London, 1957 edition is the true first and precedes all others — Osborne's first published play, and the founding text of the 'Angry Young Men' moment. The first American edition, Criterion Books, New York, 1957, is a same-year issue but not a rival first: it was printed in Great Britain from the Faber sheets and issued with the American publisher's imprint, so it is textually identical to and derived from the London edition. Both are collected and should be named, but the Criterion issue is properly described as the first American edition from British sheets, never as a co-first.