Jill

Census claim CONFIRMED: The Fortune Press, London, 1946 is the true first, Larkin's first novel and his second book. No contemporaneous American edition exists, so no precedence contest arises. Two later-issue traps must be named. Faber & Faber (London) reissued the novel in 1964 with a new Introduction by Larkin recalling wartime Oxford — a classic 'first thus,' not a first edition, and the single most common misidentification of this title. The first US edition followed from St Martin's Press, New York, but sources disagree on the year: general reference gives 1965 while several dealer listings give 1964, so the census's flat '1964' should not be relied upon and is left unresolved here.