The Victim

Census claim confirmed. Vanguard Press, New York, 1947 is the true first. The first UK edition, separately collected, is John Lehmann, London, 1948: blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to the spine, in a jacket designed by Edward Bawden with the British price present at the flap. The Lehmann issue follows the US edition by a year and does not compete for precedence; there is no original-language question.