Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Secker & Warburg, London, 1994 is the true first edition. The census title-change trap is confirmed: the first American edition was published the same year by Pantheon Books, New York, 1994 under the shortened title 'Corelli's Mandolin', stated 'First American Edition' on the copyright page with a first-printing number sequence, and its own listing acknowledges it was 'preceded by the first U.K Edition under a different title in 1994'. Both are collected (the Pantheon US first and its advance reading copies have a following), but the London Secker & Warburg edition precedes and is the priority. Later UK paperback issues appeared under the Minerva imprint (1995) and are not firsts.