The Garden of Eden

US Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1986 is the true first of this text in any form: the novel is posthumous, edited down from Hemingway's long unfinished manuscript, and no earlier edition exists in any language, so there is no original-language or prior-publication precedence question. The first UK edition followed from Hamish Hamilton (London) in 1987 (ISBN 0-241-11998-7) and does not compete for precedence. First-thus caution: because the published text is an editorial abridgement of a much longer manuscript, any later restored or scholarly presentation of the fuller text is a first thus of that text, not a first edition of the novel. The census claim is confirmed as stated.