The Garden Party and Other Stories

Constable, London, 1922 is the collected true first (Kirkpatrick A5a), and the ABAA and auction record treat it as such. Alfred A. Knopf issued the American edition in New York the same year, with a second printing following in July 1922 and further printings through 1923; the Knopf is the first American and is collected in its own right. Caveat on the census claim: the sources consulted do not settle the exact interval between the two, and some describe near-simultaneous London/New York publication in 1922. Kirkpatrick's A5a designation and dealer practice place Constable first, but 'precedes Knopf' should be read as bibliographic precedence rather than a documented gap in days.