The Lodger

True first is the UK edition: Methuen & Co., London, September 1913, following serialisation of the expanded novel in the Daily Telegraph earlier in 1913 (the germ was a short story of the same name in McClure's Magazine, January 1911 — magazine appearance, not a book). CORRECTION to the census claim: the first American edition is Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1914 (recorded as March 1914), NOT 1913. Both editions are collected — the Methuen as the true first, the Scribner's as the first American edition — but a Scribner's copy dated 1913 does not exist and any such description should be treated as an error or a made-up date.