The House of Souls

The census claim is confirmed: London, E. Grant Richards, 1906 is the true first and the first book appearance of 'The White People.' The American edition from Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1922 is a genuinely different book rather than a reprint — it runs 286 pp., drops the last two stories of the London edition, and prints 'A Fragment of Life,' 'The Great God Pan,' 'The White People,' 'The Inmost Light' and selections from The Three Impostors. It is therefore collected as the first American edition but is a 'first thus' for the contents, and it does not supersede or reproduce the 1906 London text.