The Heat of the Day

Cape (London) and Knopf (New York) both appeared in 1949 and are conventionally treated as essentially simultaneous; for this Anglo-Irish author collectors conventionally prefer the London Cape issue as the true first. Exact month-level precedence between the two 1949 editions is NOT firmly documented in the sources consulted, so precedence is given as collecting convention rather than established fact. The Knopf 500-copy signed limited is a separate first-American collectible.