Texas

CENSUS CLAIM CORRECTED: no Texas A&M (or State House Press) limited edition preceding the trade issue could be found; that claim is unsupported and appears to be a conflation. The collected first is the Random House trade edition, New York, 1985. Two other 1985–86 issues exist and must not be mistaken for it: (a) a Random House signed and numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies, 1985, in cloth (reported variously as burnt-orange, mauve or brown) with gilt spine lettering and the Texas star on the front board, in a publisher's slipcase — collected alongside the trade first, but precedence between the two is not documented in any source consulted, so neither should be asserted to precede the other; and (b) the University of Texas Press Sesquicentennial edition, 1986, two volumes in quarter leather, limited to 400 numbered copies signed by Michener and illustrator Charles Shaw, in a cloth slipcase — this is a year later and is a "first thus" trap, not the first. A UK hardcover (Secker & Warburg, London) also appeared and does not precede the American edition; the Corgi UK paperback (1986) is a reprint.