Anthem

Census claim confirmed. The true first is Cassell and Company, London, 1938 — Anthem was refused American publication and appeared in Britain first. Both editions are collected, but they are not the same text. The first American edition is Pamphleteers, Inc., Los Angeles, 1946, issued in printed paper wrappers in a reported 2,000 copies with a new foreword by Rand; it prints a text she revised and cut by roughly 18 percent (about 19,190 words against the Cassell text's 23,484). The Cassell 1938 is the only edition carrying the original, unrevised text. The 1946 Pamphleteers is the first appearance of the revised text — a first thus and the American first, not the book's first edition.