The Apple Tree: A Short Novel and Several Long Stories

The Gollancz, London, 1952 edition is the true first and contains the first appearance of 'The Birds' (source of Hitchcock's 1963 film). The census note that the US edition is a mere retitling is WRONG and needs correction: the American edition — Kiss Me Again, Stranger: A Collection of Eight Stories, Long and Short (New York: Doubleday, 1953, 319 pp., illustrations by Margot Tomes) — is an EXPANDED gathering, adding two stories not in the Gollancz volume, 'The Split Second' and 'No Motive'. Both editions are collected: the UK 1952 Gollancz is the true first of the book and of 'The Birds'; the US 1953 Doubleday is required for those two additional stories and is not a subordinate reprint. I did not independently confirm the Doubleday first-printing points, so no US printing points are asserted here.