Islands in the Stream

Census claim confirmed. The true first is Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1970 — the first of the posthumous novels, published nine years after Hemingway's death, the manuscript having been found among his papers in 1969. The first UK edition is Collins, London, 1970; it is collected as the English first, and a Collins pre-publication sampler is also recorded. The exact Collins month could not be established here, so precedence rests on the trade's settled treatment of the Scribner issue as the first rather than on a dated month-by-month comparison.