NMLP P-038675 — The Skylark of Space

E. E. 'Doc' Smith (in collaboration with Mrs. Lee Hawkins Garby) · The Buffalo Book Company (Providence, Rhode Island) · 1946

The census is correct on publisher and year — Buffalo Book Company, 1946 is the true first in book form, the novel having been serialized in Amazing Stories in 1928 — but the rest of the census note is wrong and is corrected here: there is no Fantasy Press edition of The Skylark of Space. Fantasy Press (Lloyd Arthur Eshbach) published the sequels and the Lensman books, not this title, so no "revised Fantasy Press text" exists to compete. The book reprints are Hadley Publishing Company, 1947 (completely reset, with the Estes illustrations added) and F.F.F. Publishers, 1950 (245 pp.). The genuine revised-text trap is the 1958 Pyramid paperback, for which Smith reworked the novel and dropped Mrs. Lee Hawkins Garby's collaboration credit; every 1946-1950 book edition retains the Garby credit. No UK or original-language edition precedes the 1946 US first.

New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-038675 for "The Skylark of Space" by E. E. 'Doc' Smith (in collaboration with Mrs. Lee Hawkins Garby) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038675, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).