Journey into Fear

Census claim confirmed, with one caveat stated plainly. Hodder & Stoughton (London) 1940 is the true first; the Knopf (New York) 1940 is the first American edition and is separately collected. No source consulted supplies the precise publication month for either edition, so exact near-simultaneity cannot be excluded on the documentary record. What establishes British priority is the Knopf copyright page itself: Knopf reserved the "First American Edition" formula for titles a foreign edition had preceded, and its use here concedes the Hodder's precedence. Dealer practice on both sides of the Atlantic is consistent with this, US dealers cataloguing the Knopf as the first US edition rather than the first.