Doctor Martino and Other Stories

Census claim CONFIRMED: the US Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, New York, 1934 (Massey 438; Petersen A16.1) is the true first, in trade and 360-copy signed issues. Chatto & Windus, London, 1934 (Massey 439; Petersen A16.2) followed in the same year and is the first English edition — separately collected and genuinely scarce: crown 8vo (189 x 118mm), [8]371,[5] pp, publisher's scarlet cloth, spine lettered in gold, top edge stained scarlet, in a beige typographic jacket printed in scarlet, priced at the flap; only 1,500 copies were printed, the smallest run of any Faulkner first English edition (matching As I Lay Dying and These 13). CAUTION: both editions are dated 1934, so the year alone will not separate them — go by publisher imprint and cloth colour (dark blue = US first; scarlet = UK first English). Precedence rests on the bibliographic ordering (Massey 438 before 439; Petersen A16.1 before A16.2) and on consistent ABAA/ILAB dealer practice of describing only the Smith & Haas issue as the first edition and the Chatto as the first British edition; the exact US and UK publication months are not established in the sources consulted, though a New York Sun review of 16 April 1934 places US publication by mid-April.