Notes of a Native Son

Census claim confirmed as to the US first, but its UK note is WRONG and is corrected here. Beacon Press, Boston, 1955 is the true first. The first UK edition is Michael Joseph, London, 1964, in hardback — not Mayflower, as the census asserted; dealer and catalogue records describe the Michael Joseph issue in brown cloth with a green jacket, and a Corgi paperback followed it. Both the Beacon and Michael Joseph editions are collected, but the Beacon precedes by nine years. The ten essays had appeared earlier in Harper's Magazine, Partisan Review and elsewhere, so the Beacon volume is first in book form.