Blaze

The census claim stands: the true first is Scribner, New York, June 12, 2007, and the UK first is Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2007, announced for the same day — a genuine simultaneous or near-simultaneous release. Both are collected, and neither displaces the other on date; US Scribner is conventionally taken as the first, with the Hodder treated as the first UK edition. Note the deeper "first thus" issue peculiar to this title: Blaze is a rewritten early trunk novel published under the Bachman name decades after composition, so the 2007 Scribner is the first appearance of the text in any form — there is no earlier Bachman paperback state to hunt, unlike the five original Bachman novels.