Stoner

CENSUS CLAIM CORRECTED. The census gave the UK first as 'Longmans 1966'; this is unsupported and appears to be an error. The first British edition is Allen Lane, London, 1973 — eight years after Viking — and is reported by British dealers as scarcer than the American first. Both are collected: Viking (New York, 1965) is unambiguously the true first; Allen Lane (London, 1973) is the first English edition. The 1972 Pocket Books paperback, 1998 University of Arkansas Press, 2003 Vintage and 2006 New York Review Books Classics reissues are 'first thus' only — the NYRB reissue drove the modern revival but carries no first-edition standing.