The Metamorphosis

The census claim is correct. The true first is the German Die Verwandlung (Kurt Wolff, Leipzig, 1915, Der jüngste Tag 22/23). The first separate English-language book edition is Parton Press, London, 1937 (A.L. Lloyd), which precedes the first American, The Vanguard Press, New York, 1946 (same Lloyd text) — both English-language editions are collected, the Parton as the first in English and the Vanguard as the first in America. The far more familiar Willa and Edwin Muir translation is later and is a 'first thus' trap, not a first: no Muir-translated printing of this title is a first edition in any sense.