Bless the Beasts and Children

CENSUS CLAIM CORRECTED — this is not a US-only first. The US Doubleday (Garden City) 1970 edition is the true first: Kirkus reviewed it from the American edition on 13 March 1970, and the official Swarthout bibliography at Arizona State University records Doubleday 1970 (LC 79-94331) as the original. A first UK edition followed the same year from Martin Secker & Warburg (London), 1970, in cloth with a priced dust-wrapper; it is collected as the UK first and should be named alongside the Doubleday. The 1971 Penguin paperback is explicitly a "first thus" film tie-in and carries no precedence, as do the Pocket Books 25th-anniversary and Enriched Classics reissues.