Gormenghast

Census claim confirmed. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1950 is the true first, and there is no competing US first: Peake in Print designates the Weybright & Talley, New York 1967 as the 'Second (first American) edition' (A9b), so no American edition existed for seventeen years. The W&T 1967 is uniform with their Titus Groan — it drops the Titus-on-horseback title-page drawing in favour of the crown-and-crow vignette, adds ten illustrations in the first half of the book and none in the second, and wears a Bob Pepper jacket continuing the trilogy triptych with title and author lettered in violet. Ballantine 1968 is the first American paperback and restores the horseback drawing to the title page.