On the Beach

UK is the conventionally preferred true first: William Heinemann, London (1957). William Morrow, New York (1957) is the first American edition and Heinemann, Melbourne (1957) the first Australian; all three carry a 1957 date and the London issue is treated as having priority. No consulted source gives Morrow priority over Heinemann, but precedence among the 1957 issues rests on convention rather than a documented day-precedence.