The Dragon in the Sea

US original. Doubleday (Garden City, 1956) is the true first in book form. The text first appeared serially as 'Under Pressure' in Astounding (November 1955 - January 1956) and was reworked for the book — a magazine appearance, not a competing first edition. The first UK edition is Victor Gollancz, London, 1960 (crown 8vo, 206 pp., original red cloth lettered in black at the spine, priced jacket); it is separately collected as the British first but does not precede Doubleday. The retitlings are reprints, not firsts: Avon's paperback the printed pricet Century Sub and Ballantine's Under Pressure (1974, 'First Printing: March, 1974' on the copyright page) both reissue this text.