Tom's Midnight Garden

UK true first confirmed: Oxford University Press, London, 1958 — the census claim stands. It won the 1958 Carnegie Medal. The first American edition followed from J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1959 (229 pp.), using the same Susan Einzig illustrations; it is collected as the first US edition but London 1958 has clear precedence. English is the original language; there is no translation-precedence question.