A Stir of Echoes

US first: J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and New York, 1958, with "First Edition" stated on the copyright page — this is the true first and the edition collected as such. The first British edition followed from Cassell, London, also dated 1958, and is collected in its own right as the first UK edition; Lippincott has precedence as the American author's original publisher. Later hardcovers, notably the Tor edition of 1999 issued alongside the David Koepp film, are "first thus" reprints and are regularly mis-described as firsts.