Dutchman and The Slave

US true first — census claim confirmed. William Morrow, New York, 1964 precedes the first UK edition, Faber & Faber, London, 1965 ([vi], 88 pp., gilt-lettered red cloth), which is separately collected as the first English edition but is a reprint of the text. Both plays had been staged before publication — Dutchman opened in 1964 and took the Obie for Best American Play — so the Morrow volume is the first book appearance, not the first appearance of the work. The true first bears LeRoi Jones on the title page; any copy reading 'Amiri Baraka' is later, as the author adopted that name after publication.