The Things They Carried

CENSUS CLAIM CORRECTED. The census names Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence as the first without qualification, but two independent dealers state the Franklin Library signed edition was issued before the trade edition — Rulon-Miller Books catalogues the Houghton Mifflin explicitly as 'first trade edition. A signed edition was previously issued by the Franklin Library,' and dealer consensus on the Franklin Library issue describes it as preceding all other editions. Charles Agvent (ABAA) independently confirms the Franklin Library issue carries an author's introduction absent from the trade edition, which corroborates that it is a distinct issue rather than a reprint. Treat the Franklin Library (Franklin Center, 1990) as the probable true first and the Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence (Boston, 1990) as the first trade edition; both are collected, and the trade first is the copy the market generally means. The census is correct on UK precedence: Collins (London, 1990, ISBN 0-00-223603-6) followed the American edition and is the first UK edition, not the first.