Coming of Age in Samoa

US precedes. William Morrow & Company, New York, 1928 is the true first. The first British edition is Jonathan Cape, London, 1929, collected as the first UK appearance but not the true first. Correction to the census note: this title was NOT on William Morrow's 'very first list' — Morrow founded the firm in 1926 and its first book was Honoré Morrow's On to Oregon!; Coming of Age in Samoa appeared two years into the imprint and became its early landmark, which is a different claim.