Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

The US Spiegel & Grau edition (New York, 15 November 2016) is the true first, preceding the UK John Murray edition (London, 17 November 2016; hardcover ISBN 9781473635289 — the 9781473635296 ISBN is the John Murray paperback) by two days. The census claim is correct, but the margin is two days, not months: that is thin enough that the priority should be checked against the imprint in hand rather than assumed, and both editions are collected — the Spiegel & Grau as the first edition, the John Murray as the British first. Later copies bearing the same 9780399588174 ISBN under the One World imprint (Random House's successor after Spiegel & Grau was closed) are reissues of the same text, not the 2016 first.