Orthodoxy

Recognized true first is the London Bodley Head edition (title page MCMIX/1909, printed Sept 1908, Sullivan 13); the New York John Lane Company edition is the first American. Because the London title page reads 1909 while the US issue can show 1908, a buyer must not treat the earlier-looking date as the first — and the precise London/New York day-precedence is debated, though no source treats the American as the true first.