The Way Some People Live

Census claim confirmed. Random House, New York, 1943 is the only edition and therefore the true first: no UK edition is recorded in the dealer listings or catalogue records consulted, and there is no original-language or precedence question. Cheever refused to let the book be reprinted and his estate maintained that refusal, so there is no later trade edition in English; only three of the thirty stories were ever reprinted, in an obscure 1960s paperback. Several stories had appeared first in The New Yorker, Collier's, Story, the Yale Review and Harper's Bazaar, so the Random House volume is first in book form.