Where Angels Fear to Tread

The Blackwood edition (Edinburgh and London, 1905) is the true first of Forster's first novel, and the census claim is confirmed. There was no American edition for roughly fifteen years: the first American is Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1920 (orange cloth stamped in black, 2,630 copies per Kirkpatrick), which is collected as the first American edition but is not a true first and should not be catalogued as one.