Bugles in the Afternoon

US-only first in book form; no UK edition precedes (a Hodder & Stoughton UK issue is recorded, including a Yellow Jacket softcover dated 1952, all later). The first-thus trap runs the other way here: the novel first appeared in print as a serial in The Saturday Evening Post in 1943, so the Little, Brown 1944 is the first book appearance, not the first appearance in print. Collectors of the text in its earliest form take the Post serial; collectors of the book take the Little, Brown.