Earth Abides

The US Random House edition (New York, 1949) is the true first and the census is correct on that point. The census's "UK Gollancz 1950" is NOT corroborated: multiple dealer listings, including a copy explicitly catalogued as the third printing of the first British edition, date the Victor Gollancz (London) edition to 1949, while other references cite a 1950 Gollancz printing. The UK year is therefore unsettled between 1949 and 1950; this does not disturb US precedence, since Stewart was an American author published first in New York. The book won the first International Fantasy Award (1951), as the census states.