Martin Eden

US Macmillan (New York), September 1909, is the true first — this is not in doubt and is corroborated across dealer and bibliographic sources. The census claim of a Heinemann (London) 1910 British edition could NOT be independently confirmed: no dealer listing, bibliography, or catalogue record consulted dates a Heinemann Martin Eden to 1910, though Heinemann does appear among the title's publishers and was London's British publisher before Mills & Boon (which took him on only from about 1911-12, so Mills & Boon is not the 1910 British publisher). The British edition and its date are therefore left unstated rather than asserted; the US precedence is unaffected. First serialised in The Pacific Monthly, September 1908 to September 1909, so the book is the first appearance in book form, not the first appearance of the text.