The Resurrection

US New American Library (New York), 1966, is the true first — Gardner's first novel, preceded in his bibliography only by the co-edited anthology The Forms of Fiction, and the first Gardner 'A' item of fiction. No contemporaneous British edition was traced in the sources consulted, so no UK/US precedence question arises on the evidence available. Published during David Segal's brief editorial tenure at NAL (1966-68). The later Ballantine paperback (0345238818) is a reprint, not a first.