The Children of Green Knowe

The UK Faber 1954 edition is the true first. The first American edition (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1955) follows a year later, retains the Peter Boston illustrations and also collates 157 pages; it is collected as the American first but carries no priority. Note the series retitling trap: Boston's second book, The Chimneys of Green Knowe (Faber, 1958), was issued by Harcourt as Treasure of Green Knowe — the American retitling applies to that volume, not to this one, so a "Treasure of Green Knowe" is not this book under another name.