One for the Money

The census claim is confirmed: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1994 — the US hardcover — is the true first. The UK first edition (Hamish Hamilton, London) followed in 1995 and was issued in wraps only, a paperback original in Britain, so no contemporaneous UK hardcover first exists; it is collected as the first British edition but is clearly subsequent to the US issue. Reported claims of a 1994 UK issue are not supported by the dealer records consulted, which date the Hamish Hamilton wraps to 1995.