Dangling Man

Census claim confirmed. Vanguard Press, New York, 1944 is the true first in English and in any language — this is Bellow's debut, with no prior or original-language edition to displace it. The first UK edition, separately collected, is John Lehmann, London, 1946: crown 8vo (roughly 184 x 119mm), 191pp plus a blank, publisher's finely woven sunflower cloth with the spine stamped in brown, in an illustrated jacket by Robert Medley. The Lehmann issue follows the Vanguard by two years and does not compete for precedence.