At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels

Arkham House (Sauk City), 1964, is the true first, and the census claim is confirmed: the first UK edition is Victor Gollancz (London), 1966, a first edition and first impression in its own right, bound in black buckram with gilt spine lettering and carrying the same selection. Both are collected — the Gollancz is the one to hold for a UK-first collection — but the Arkham precedes it by two years and is the true first. As with the companion Arkham volumes this is a "first thus": the novels had all been published previously, and what is first here is the selection and Derleth's introductory essay.