Billion-Dollar Brain

Census claim REFUTED — precedence runs the other way. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 11 January 1966 PRECEDES Jonathan Cape, London, 31 March 1966 by roughly eleven weeks. This is the exception among the early Deighton titles, where the Cape edition is normally the first. Both editions are collected: the Putnam is the true first (and the first appearance anywhere), while the Cape is the first British edition and is the form most UK collectors pursue. Any listing calling the Cape 1966 the 'true first' is in error; note also that the US title is usually rendered 'Billion Dollar Brain' without the hyphen.