Black Spring

TRUE FIRST IS PARIS — Obelisk Press, 1936, in wrappers; the census is correct. Miller wrote in English, so the Paris edition is the true first and the first in the original language; it was banned across the English-speaking world on publication. The first American edition is Grove Press, New York, 1963 — confirmed, matching the census claim — issued after Grove's successful court challenge; it is a "first American edition, first printing", not a first edition. Both the Obelisk 1936 and the Grove 1963 are collected, the 1936 decisively so. There is no UK edition preceding the American one.