The Joy Luck Club

TRUE FIRST IS US — census claim confirmed. Putnam published in New York on 22 March 1989. Heinemann (London) issued the first UK edition later in 1989; UK rights had been sold before American publication, and at least one UK dealer therefore describes the Heinemann as effectively a concurrent first because its publisher's page makes no reference to prior US publication. That is a minority dealer position and is not corroborated elsewhere — the Putnam remains the accepted true first, and the Heinemann is collected as the first UK edition. Later Easton Press signed leatherbound issues are firsts thus and carry no precedence.