The Death of the Heart

True first is Victor Gollancz, London, 1938 — the census claim is confirmed. The first American edition is Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1939, a separate setting of 418 pp.; dealers identify first printings of it as such, and it carries a priced jacket with the price at the front flap. Both the Gollancz 1938 and the Knopf 1939 are collected, but the London edition has clear precedence. The lower American page count (418 vs. c. 445) is itself a quick discriminator between the two settings.