Spoon River Anthology

American origin: The Macmillan Company, New York, April 1915 is the true first in book form. The prior serial publication in Reedy's Mirror (St. Louis, 1914–15) under the pseudonym "Webster Ford" is a periodical appearance, not an edition, and survives on the first printing's copyright page as the Reedy copyright line. A London issue from T. Werner Laurie, made up from American sheets, is recorded and is subordinate to the Macmillan first, so there is no UK precedence. The dominant trap is Macmillan's own expanded "New Edition with New Poems" of 1916, which adds roughly three dozen poems (sources differ on the exact count, reported variously as 33, 35 and 36) and is regularly catalogued and offered as a first — it is a first thus only.