Loving

True first is The Hogarth Press, London, 1945 — the census claim is confirmed. The first American edition is The Viking Press, New York, 1949 (248 pp.), which states its edition on the copyright page and records first publication in 1945; it is collected as the American first but has no precedence. Both editions are collected: the Hogarth 1945 is the true first, the Viking 1949 the first American. The Viking edition is a 'first thus' trap — its own 'First Edition' statement refers only to the American printing.