Hannibal

The census claim that 'US Delacorte 1999 precedes UK Heinemann 1999' is NOT supported and should be corrected. Sources consulted give 8 June 1999 for the Delacorte issue and place the William Heinemann (London) issue in the same month, consistent with a co-ordinated simultaneous release; no consulted source establishes priority of one over the other by day. Both are collected: the Delacorte is the US first and the Heinemann is the first UK edition, and dealers describe the Heinemann as 'first U.K. edition' rather than as a reprint. Precedence between the two should be presented as simultaneous/unresolved, not as US-over-UK.