The Sword of the Lictor

The US Timescape/Simon & Schuster hardcover, New York, is the true first, published January 1982; the UK first is Sidgwick & Jackson, London, May 1982 (ISBN 0-283-98860-6), in a wraparound jacket by Bruce Pennington. Both are collected, and the UK is a genuinely scarce book in its own right, but the US precedes it by roughly four months. The census claim of US precedence is confirmed.