The Shape of Things to Come

Hutchinson (London) 1933 is the original edition and the census call is sound, though the margin is narrow: both editions appeared in 1933 and the US issue is stated "Published September, 1933" on its copyright page, so no source consulted fixes a priority by date. The finding rests on two independent bibliographic authorities treating the Hutchinson as the original — Sargent's Utopian Literature in English records the Hutchinson, London, 1933 and then lists the American separately as "U.S. ed. without the subtitle. New York: Macmillan, 1933," and Currey catalogues the Hutchinson as the first edition. The first American edition (The Macmillan Company, New York, 1933) is collected in its own right: ix, [1], 431 pp., dark blue cloth with gilt spine and cover titles, and — the readiest discriminator — no subtitle on the title page, where the UK reads The Shape of Things to Come: The Ultimate Revolution.