The Jewel of Seven Stars

UK first and true first: William Heinemann, London, 1903, 337 pp. — census claim confirmed, and it carries the original ending. US first: Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1904, in dark blue cloth stamped on spine and front panel in light green and silver (silver stars, green-lettered title), with 'Published February, 1904' on the copyright page; sources give the pagination variously as 310 or 311 pp. The census claim that the Harper 1904 retains the original ending is confirmed — necessarily so, since the revision post-dates it by eight years — and it likewise retains Chapter XVI; both editions are collected. Prepublication issues toward a US edition were deposited for copyright by Doubleday, Page & Company in December 1902 and January 1903, but Doubleday never published it, and Harper 1904 is the US first.