Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

US Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston & New York, 1903 is the true first, and the census is correct — Wiggin was American and the book was published in Boston in October 1903. The first UK edition is Gay and Bird, London, 1903, in publisher's orange buckram with gilt lettering to spine and boards; it followed the American edition and is properly catalogued as the first UK edition, not as a true first. Collectors of the title generally pursue the Houghton Mifflin first in its earliest state; the Gay and Bird is collected as the English first.