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There is no UK-vs-US precedence contest at first publication: Dutton (New York, 1924) precedes every other appearance, including the Russian original, which the Soviet censor suppressed. A Czech translation ran in the Brno newspaper Lidove noviny in 1927; a reverse-translation back into Russian from that Czech text ran in the emigre journal Volya Rossii (Prague) the same year, without Zamyatin's approval and only in part. The first full Russian book text is the Chekhov Publishing House edition (New York, 1952), set from a galley proof that reached New York via the author's widow and Gleb Struve; the novel was not published in the Soviet Union until 1988. The first British book publication is Jonathan Cape (London, 1970), which introduced Bernard Guilbert Guerney's new translation — a first thus in a new text, not the first edition. The 1924 Dutton is the one edition collected as the first.