Lord Jim

William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1900 is the true first in book form, and the census's precedence direction is confirmed. The first American is Doubleday & McClure Co., New York, 1900 (green cloth stamped in darker green, 392 pp.; Cagle A5b, Keating 27) — a distinct setting made from English proofs that Conrad neither revised nor corrected; by his own autograph note its text sits closer to the Blackwood's Magazine serial than to the English book. The American has two recorded states: the first-state copyright page reads '1900 by Doubleday, Page & Co.' and the second state reads '1899 and 1900 by Joseph Conrad'. The census's claim that Blackwood preceded New York 'by weeks' is NOT confirmed — no source consulted gave the American publication month, so state the precedence but not the interval.