The Brave Bulls

US Little, Brown and Company (Boston), 1949 is the true first, confirmed by the Tom Lea Institute's own bibliography and by ABAA-level catalogue descriptions; the novel had been serialised in the Atlantic Monthly beforehand, which is a prior appearance in periodical form, not a competing edition. The first UK edition is William Heinemann (London), 1950 — a year later, so it holds no precedence, though it is collected. A Horwitz (Sydney) 1960 Australian edition and the Pocket Books (1951) and Penguin (1953) paperbacks are all reprints/first-thus traps. This was Lea's first book and it won the Texas Institute of Letters' Carr P. Collins Award.