Siddhartha

The census claim is correct in full. The German S. Fischer 1922 is the true first. In English, the US precedes the UK: New Directions, New York, 1951 (Hilda Rosner) is the first English edition, and Peter Owen, London, 1954 is the first British — Peter Owen bought UK rights to the Rosner translation from James Laughlin at New Directions in 1954, and it became that firm's first major book. Because both use the same Rosner text, the Owen is a first UK edition, not a new translation. Later retranslations and the New Directions paperback are 'first thus'.