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The true first is the US edition: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1973. The census precedence note is WRONG on the UK side: there is no Heinemann edition. The first UK edition was published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, dated 1974 (recorded publication 4 February 1974), in green boards with gilt spine lettering and a green top edge, 401pp — roughly a year after Knopf, so it holds no precedence. Both the Knopf 1973 first and the Hodder & Stoughton 1974 first UK edition are collected, the Knopf being the true first. Later Coronet/Fawcett paperbacks and reissues are "first thus" traps, not firsts.