Fighting Terms

UK is the true first: Fantasy Press, Oxford, 1954. The first American edition — Hawk's Well Press, New York, 1958, issued in self-wrappers — is extensively revised from the 1954 text and is a 'first thus', not a first edition of the work; a further revised Faber edition followed (London, 1962). Both the 1954 Oxford printing (for priority) and the 1958 New York printing (as the first appearance of the revised text) are collected, and one dealer distinguishes states within the 1958 American edition as well.