His Last Bow

Both editions are collected and the census claim that the UK precedes the US is NOT established. The first English edition is John Murray, London, 22 October 1917; the first American is George H. Doran Company, New York, October 1917. Auction and ABAA dealer cataloguing consistently describe the two as same-month/effectively simultaneous, and at least one ABAA house flags the Doran as possibly preceding the Murray. Treat priority within October 1917 as unsettled and collect the Murray as the first English edition and the Doran as the first American edition rather than asserting either as the outright true first.