Our Town: A Play in Three Acts

US true first: Coward-McCann, New York, 1938 — the book was set and printed around the Broadway premiere of 4 February 1938 and preceded the Pulitzer award. The census note's claim of a later "UK Longmans issue" could NOT be confirmed and should not be published as stated: no 1938–39 Longmans, Green (London) issue surfaced in any source consulted; the only Longmans, Green London printing located is 1956, far too late to be a co-eval UK first. Only the US edition is collected as the first. The principal "first thus" trap is the Samuel French acting edition (1939), which prints a revised prompt-script text rather than the Coward-McCann text; Harper/Perennial and later Samuel French issues are reprints.