Here and Now

US first, and Levertov's American debut — but NOT her first book, and this is the trap. Her true first book is The Double Image, published under the name 'Denise Levertoff' by The Cresset Press, London, 1946 — a UK-only publication with no contemporaneous American edition. Here and Now (City Lights, San Francisco, 1957) is the true first of this title and has no British counterpart. Both books are collected, and a collector seeking Levertov's first book wants the 1946 Cresset Press Double Image, not Here and Now. The census claim is confirmed on both points.