Stormbringer

Publisher and year confirmed — Herbert Jenkins, London 1965 is the true first, it precedes the American Lancer, and the UK hardcover is the key Elric collectible. BUT THE CENSUS PRECEDENCE NOTE IS REFUTED AND CORRECTED HERE: the abridgment is in the Herbert Jenkins first edition itself, not in the Lancer. The 1965 book form was published 'abridged and revised', with roughly a quarter of the Science Fantasy serial text cut — mostly from the second and third novellas — and new bridging material added to hold the remainder together. The Lancer 1967 (US, 190pp, Jack Gaughan cover) simply reprints that abridged text; it is a paperback reprint, not, as the census claims, a paperback original, and it is not the source of the abridgment. The full-length text was first published in any country by DAW in 1977 (220pp, Michael Whelan cover, interior illustrations by James Cawthorn, described as the first restored edition) — that is a textual first, not the edition first, and it does not displace Herbert Jenkins 1965.