The Jungle

US 1906. The census is right that both the Doubleday, Page trade issue and Sinclair's simultaneous Jungle Publishing Co. "Sustainer's Edition" — printed from the same plates and published the same day — count as firsts, and both are collected. The census understates the nuance: per Currey the Sustainer's Edition with an integral title leaf ranks EARLIEST of all, above the Doubleday, Page copies, which in turn precede Jungle's regular copies. CORRECTION TO CENSUS: the claimed "UK Heinemann 1906" first English edition could NOT be corroborated — no bibliography, dealer catalogue, or reference consulted (Currey, Biblioctopus, Charles Agvent, plus Wikipedia and Britannica as pointers) described a Heinemann London edition, and a targeted search for both Heinemann and T. Werner Laurie returned nothing. Treat the UK attribution as unverified pending a BAL or British Library check, and do not publish the Heinemann claim. Sinclair wrote in English, so no original-language question arises.