A Shilling for Candles

The UK Methuen (London) 1936 edition is the true first and the only contemporary edition of the text. No American edition followed for eighteen years: the first American edition is The Macmillan Company, New York, 1954, issued in Macmillan's "Murder Revisited" series. Both editions are collected, but the Macmillan 1954 is a first American edition only and must never be described as a first edition of the work; the eighteen-year gap makes precedence unambiguous.