Just So Stories

The census claim is confirmed: the London Macmillan edition of October 1902 is the true first. Livingston's bibliography (1927) enters it in her chronology of first editions as "1902: Just So Stories, 257", and records at no. 268 that a copy of the London edition was sent to Doubleday, Page & Co. in New York from which to print the American edition — establishing English priority on documentary grounds rather than inference. The first American edition (New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1902) is separately collected: its title page carries an ornament before "New York Doubleday, Page & Company, 1902", and Livingston's collation gives 4 leaves, pp. 250, 1 leaf — text pp. 1-249 with a terminal blank and no printer's device, where the London issue has one at p. 251. Doubleday also issued a copyright broadside of extracts and four plates (Livingston no. 266), advertised September 1902; it is a copyright-deposit item, not an edition, and does not disturb London's priority. A first Canadian edition (Toronto: George S. Morang & Co., Limited, 1902), in cream cloth stamped in black, is also recorded.