Nostromo

The census claim is correct in outcome but imprecise in wording: the London Harper printing of October 1904 does precede the New York one, but the American is a separately set edition rather than a second "issue" of the same sheets. The first American edition is Harper & Brothers, New York, 1904 (Cagle A10b / A10b.1; Keating 62; Supino A10.6.0), bound in green cloth decorated in orange and black, with its own point at p. 201, where "Europe" is misspelled "Eruope." The American text carries Conrad's revisions to the serial but differs from the English first in punctuation, capitalization and even paragraphing. Both are collected; the London printing is the true first, and the two are told apart at a glance by cloth colour — dark blue (English) versus green with orange and black (American).