A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

The US Harper & Brothers 1943 edition is the true first and the edition collected; this is confirmed across a bibliography-citing ABAA dealer (Bauman), a copy-in-hand ABAA description (Lorne Bair), and fedpo. Smith wrote in English and was published in the US first, so no original-language precedence question arises. CORRECTION TO CENSUS: the claimed Heinemann (London) 1944 first UK edition could NOT be corroborated — no dealer catalogue, bibliography, or auction record consulted described it, and a targeted search returned only a 1944 Canadian issue from The Musson Book Company (Toronto). Treat the Heinemann attribution as unverified pending a British Library or Heinemann-bibliography check, and do not publish it as fact.