Marathon Man

US Delacorte Press (New York, 1974) is the true first — this part of the census claim is confirmed — but the census note's UK year is wrong and is corrected here. The first UK edition is Macmillan (London, 1975), a year after Delacorte, not a 1974 simultaneous, under a jacket designed by Stan Fernandes. The Macmillan issue is separately collected as the first British edition. Later Ballantine and other trade reissues are first-thus, not firsts.