Noctuary

The census claim is corrected: the true first is the UK edition — Robinson Publishing, London, January 1994 — not Carroll & Graf. The Carroll & Graf, New York issue followed in February 1994 and is catalogued by L. W. Currey as the 'first edition, U.S. issue,' with dealer descriptions stating explicitly that the Robinson preceded the American edition. Both are collected and both should be named: the Robinson has bibliographic priority, while American Ligotti collectors generally pursue the Carroll & Graf, which is the issue with a documented copyright-page statement and number line. Ligotti's earlier collections carry their own precedence traps (small-press originals preceding the later Carroll & Graf / Robinson pairs), so this UK-first pattern must not be generalised across his bibliography.