Embers

Hungarian is the true first (Révai, Budapest, 1942), preceding the English by fifty-nine years. For English the US precedes: Knopf, New York, 2001, followed by the first UK edition from Viking (Penguin Books Ltd), London, 2002, bound in black or midnight-blue cloth with gilt author and title lettering to the spine and an illustrated dust wrapper — both the Knopf and the Viking are collected. The German Die Glut (Piper, Munich, 1999) is the edition that triggered the international rediscovery and is the text Janeway actually worked from, which makes it a meaningful collecting point in its own right, though not a 'first' of the work.