The Shrinking Man

The true first is the US Gold Medal paperback original (s577, May 1956). A separate British Gold Medal (Fawcett Publications) issue was also published in London in 1956, with its printed price — a distinct UK first printing that is collected in its own right. The first hardcover anywhere is David Bruce & Watson, London, 1973 (Kingsley Amis introduction), not a 1958 Muller hardcover as the census claimed. Later paperbacks retitled The Incredible Shrinking Man to match the 1957 Jack Arnold film are reprints under a changed title, not the first — a "first thus" trap.