The Hounds of Tindalos

The true-first claim is CONFIRMED: Arkham House (Sauk City, 1946) is the first edition, an American original. The census precedence note is CORRECTED, however: the UK Museum Press edition (London, 1950, 352 pp., jacket art attributed — disputedly — to Mervyn Peake, with the attribution contested between a Peake commission and a commercial artist copying his 1943 'Life-in-Death') is the first British edition, and it is NOT documented as an abridgment. Sources conflict on its contents (one dealer describes sixteen stories; reprint-history accounts treat the Arkham and Museum Press texts as the complete ones), so the 'abridgment' label should not be relied on and is not asserted here. The genuinely documented abridgments are the Belmont paperbacks 'The Hounds of Tindalos' (1963) and 'The Dark Beasts' (1964), which between them omit three stories.