Call It Sleep

US Robert O. Ballou, New York, 1934 is the only true first; the census claim is confirmed. The novel sold roughly 4,000 copies and then lapsed out of print for close to thirty years. The first British edition is Michael Joseph, London, 1963, which appeared only in the wake of the rediscovery and is not a precedence contender; the 1964 Avon paperback, following Irving Howe's front-page New York Times Book Review notice of 25 October 1964, drove the revival.