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The census claim is confirmed: Gnome Press, New York, 1952 is the true first — a US small-press original gathering eight Astounding stories (1944-1951), winner of the 1953 International Fantasy Award. The first British edition is Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1954 (black cloth, silver spine titling, 248 pp.); it reprints the US text and is collected in its own right, but it is not the true first. Where both are collected, name them as US first (Gnome Press 1952) and first UK (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1954).