The Hunger and Other Stories

US first: G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, April 1957 — the true first and Beaumont's first book. There was no contemporary British hardcover. The UK edition came seven years later, retitled Shadow Play (1964, reported as a Panther paperback), which is a retitled reprint and not a first — the retitle is the main precedence trap for this book. The Valancourt Books edition (2013) is a "first thus" reprint, described by its publisher as the first new edition in roughly half a century.