Water for Elephants

Algonquin (US) 2006 is the true first; the novel was published in the United States in May 2006 (26 May 2006), ahead of all other territories. Hodder & Stoughton, London, issued the first British edition later in 2006 (ISBN 9780340935286), catalogued by UK dealers as the "the printed pricet Great Britain edition" and collected as the first UK. The HarperCollins Canada issue (ISBN 9780006391555) is 2007 and later still. Gruen is Canadian-American, but the book originated with the US publisher, so the Algonquin printing is the collected first — no Canadian or UK precedence claim survives checking.