The Road Through the Wall

The true first is the US Farrar, Straus and Company edition, New York, published February 1948 — Shirley Jackson's first book and first novel. No contemporary British edition has been traced in the sources consulted; the novel reached UK readers only through much later reprints (Penguin Modern Classics), which carry no precedence. Precedence is therefore uncomplicated: there is one first edition, the American, and the census note is correct.