The Night Land

Census claim CONFIRMED. Eveleigh Nash (London, 1912) is the true first and the only edition published in Hodgson's lifetime (d. 1918); no contemporaneous American edition exists, so there is no UK/US precedence contest. The first US book appearance is posthumous and came inside the Arkham House omnibus 'The House on the Borderland and Other Novels' (Sauk City, 1946, 3,014 copies, Hannes Bok jacket, with an introduction by H. C. Koenig and bibliography by A. Langley Searles). The first separate US hardcover is Hyperion Press (Westport, 1976), explicitly described as a reprint of the Nash edition. Both American issues are 'first thus' traps, not the first edition.