The Track of the Cat

US Random House, New York, 1949 is the true first. The census note's "US-only" is not quite right and is corrected here: a UK edition was published by Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, in 1950 -- reported in green cloth lettered in red -- but it follows the American issue by a year, so it is the first UK edition, not the true first. Name both where the UK is collected: Random House (US, 1949) is the first; Victor Gollancz (London, 1950) is the first UK. Clark published only three novels -- The Ox-Bow Incident (Random House, 1940), The City of Trembling Leaves (1945) and this -- so the Random House firsts are the whole shelf. "First thus" traps: the Signet and later paperback reissues.