Under a Glass Bell

Census claim CONFIRMED: this is a US-only original with no earlier UK or foreign-language edition — Gemor Press, New York, 1944 is the first appearance. Two "first thus" traps follow. (1) Editions Poetry London, London, 1947 is the first English publication but is not a first appearance: it gathers House of Incest and Winter of Artifice together with Under a Glass Bell in a single volume, with Ian Hugo line drawings. (2) The E.P. Dutton, New York, 1948 reissue drops the foreword and the prose poem, adds four further stories, and omits the Ian Hugo engravings entirely — the absence of Hugo's work is the quickest tell that a copy is the Dutton, not the Gemor.