Giovanni's Room

Census claim confirmed: the US Dial Press edition of 1956 is the true first and precedes the first English edition, Michael Joseph (London), 1957. Both are collected. The Michael Joseph first is bound in reddish-brown cloth with jacket art by William Belcher and a priced jacket, and is a genuine first UK edition rather than a reprint — but it does not carry precedence. Beware the first-thus trap: Dial reissued the book repeatedly and the novel has been reset many times in paperback; a 1957 date on a Dial imprint indicates the second printing, not a first.