NMLP P-041807 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Counter-Attack and Other Poems

Siegfried Sassoon · William Heinemann, London · 1918

Heinemann's London 1918 edition is the true first. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1918 is the first American edition and is separately collected because it adds an introduction by Robert Nichols not present in the London printing — Nichols's introduction is dated from New York City in late November, placing the American edition after London publication. Dutton reprints dated 1919 and 1920 (the latter carrying a 'Third Printing' statement) circulate widely and are frequently mis-listed as the American first; a copy in cloth or boards with a Nichols introduction is American, never the London first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-041807 for "Counter-Attack and Other Poems" by Siegfried Sassoon (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041807, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).