The Loney

The Tartarus Press hardback (Coverdale, 1 October 2014) is the true first and the census claim is confirmed. The common state — and the copy nearly everyone means when they say "first edition of The Loney" — is the John Murray (London) trade edition of 2015, which followed the Costa First Novel Award attention and is a first thus, not the first. This is a textbook small-press-precedence trap: the John Murray printing is the widely distributed book, the Tartarus is the true first, and the two look nothing alike. No US edition precedes either; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's American edition follows the John Murray.