Ripley Under Ground

The census claim is correct: Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1970 precedes the UK Heinemann edition of 1971, and it is the second Ripliad title, needed alongside the 1955 first of The Talented Mr. Ripley (Coward-McCann, not Doubleday — do not conflate the two publishers across the series). Both the Doubleday 1970 and the Heinemann 1971 are collected; the Heinemann first is issued in an illustrated jacket after Mon Mohan. A Heinemann uncorrected proof in plain text-only thin card wrappers predates the British edition and is recorded by a Highsmith collector as showing a missing quote mark on page 20 that was corrected in the published UK text — but it predates only the UK edition, not the American first, which remains the true first.