White Butterfly

The census claim is correct: the true first is Norton, New York, January 1992. The first UK edition followed from Serpent's Tail (London) in 1993 and is collected as the first British edition only, not as the true first; Serpent's Tail had also issued Mosley's earlier Easy Rawlins titles in the UK, which can mislead. This is the third Easy Rawlins novel; the later Pocket Books / Washington Square Press paperbacks (1993 and after) are reprints, and any 'first thus' description attached to them should be disregarded.