In Parenthesis

UK is the sole first — Faber & Faber, London, 1937. No American edition appeared for twenty-four years; Chilmark Press, New York, 1961 (xv, 224 pp) is the first American edition. Precedence trap to note: T. S. Eliot championed the book inside Faber, but his 'A Note of Introduction' was written for the 1961 reissue and is NOT in the 1937 first. Any copy containing Eliot's note is a 1961-or-later text, not the first edition — the census claim that the 1937 first carries Eliot's endorsement is incorrect.