The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth, and Other Stories

US first, and the census call is correct: the Doubleday 1971 is the true first edition and no UK edition precedes it. The first UK edition was published by Faber and Faber, London — original yellow cloth, spine lettered in black, dust jacket illustrated by Dennis Leigh, ISBN 0571101054 — and is collected as the first British edition. Dealer listings date the Faber issue inconsistently to both 1971 and 1973 and that conflict was not resolved here; it does not disturb precedence, as the Doubleday is first on either dating, but the Faber year should not be stated flatly. The collection is the first book appearance only: the constituent stories appeared first in periodicals through the 1960s, the title novelette having taken the first Nebula Award for Best Novelette in 1965.