Uncle Tom's Children

Census claim confirmed on precedence: Harper & Brothers, New York, 1938 is the true first and is Wright's first book. The first English edition is Victor Gollancz, London, 1939 (286 pp, light blue cloth), which follows and is separately collected. One correction to the census wording: the 1940 Harper edition subtitled "Five Long Stories" — which adds the autobiographical essay "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow" and the story "Bright and Morning Star" — is an enlarged EDITION, not a "distinct issue" of the 1938 book. It is a first-thus trap: it is the first appearance of the added pieces in this collection but is not a first edition of Uncle Tom's Children, and it must never be catalogued as the first.