Behold the Man

UK precedes and is the true first: Allison & Busby (London), 1969, the first appearance in any form of the expanded novel. The first American appearance is the Avon mass-market paperback (New York, May 1970, 160 pp., cover art by Bob Foster) — collected as the first US edition but not the true first, and there was no US hardcover. First-thus trap: the text began as the Nebula-winning novella in New Worlds (September 1966); that appearance precedes the book but is a periodical, not an edition of the novel, and its text is not the 1969 text. Mayflower (St Albans, 1970), Avon/Equinox (1976), Fontana, Grafton, Carroll & Graf, Millennium (1999), Overlook (2007) and Gollancz (2014) issues are all reprints or "first thus."