The Blunderer

The census claim stands: US Coward-McCann 1954 is the true first, preceding the first UK edition by two years. The first British edition is The Cresset Press, London, 1956 — red textured paper boards, 284 pp, with an uncredited dust jacket — and is separately collected as the first UK appearance. Important "first thus" trap: the retitled Lament for a Lover is the 1956 Popular Library US paperback, NOT the British edition. Goodreads and several secondary sources wrongly state that the title was changed to Lament for a Lover "in England"; the Cresset Press UK first retained the title The Blunderer, as confirmed by dealer listings and a collector census of the British first.