Night Has a Thousand Eyes

US Farrar & Rinehart (New York, with Toronto on the imprint line) 1945, published under the George Hopley pseudonym, is the true first edition; the census claim is confirmed. The first British edition is markedly later and is a paperback — Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1949 — so there is no UK-vs-US precedence contest here; the Penguin is collected as the first British appearance only. The principal trap on this title is authorial: "George Hopley" is a pseudonym of Cornell Woolrich (who also wrote as William Irish), and the book is frequently catalogued and shelved under Woolrich. Later editions reprinted under the Cornell Woolrich byline are "first thus," not firsts — the true first must carry the Hopley name on the title page.