The Midwich Cuckoos

Census claim CONFIRMED as to precedence, with one correction to the detail: Michael Joseph, London, 1957 is the true first. The Science Fiction Encyclopedia bibliography lists The Midwich Cuckoos (London: Michael Joseph, 1957) followed by The Midwich Cuckoos (New York: Ballantine Books, 1958) marked "[rev of the above]". The US Ballantine edition therefore did NOT follow in the same year — it is 1958, and it carries a revised text, so it is not textually identical to the UK first. Only the Michael Joseph edition is the true first; the Ballantine 1958 is the first American edition. The novel is the basis of the film Village of the Damned, and film-tie-in reissues are a first-thus trap.