Valdez Is Coming

CENSUS CLAIM REFUTED. A hardcover first does exist and it precedes: Robert Hale, London, 1969, cloth in a pictorial dust jacket, catalogued as the first edition by James M. Pickard (ABA/ILAB) and by Rooke Books (PBFA), the latter stating explicitly that "This first edition, published in the UK, precedes the first US edition, which was released in 1970." The Hale printing is reported to have been small and directed largely at the UK library market, and surviving copies frequently carry library stamps (the Rooke copy bears a Leicestershire County Library stamp to the title-page verso); jackets are scarce enough that facsimile wrappers are supplied, so the wrapper should be checked