Cimarron

The true first is the American edition: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, New York, published April 1930. Ferber was an American author publishing with her home house, and the US issue is the edition collected as the first. The first English edition is William Heinemann, London, 1930 (388 pp.), also collected in its own right and correctly described as the first English edition rather than the first edition. The census claim that the US issue precedes the same-year Heinemann is consistent with everything located and is the standard trade understanding, but no source consulted documents the Heinemann release at month level, so US priority is asserted on publisher-of-origin grounds rather than on a dated bibliographic record. Do not confuse either with the 1931 Grosset & Dunlap photoplay reprint, which is a "first thus" trap.