The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

Collins, London, 1960 is the true first, and this is firmly confirmed. The census claim about the American edition is WRONG and is corrected here: no Franklin Watts 1961 US edition appears in any source consulted, including Open Library's holdings for the title. The first American edition is Henry Z. Walck, Inc., New York, 1969 — nine years after the British first, as one specialist children's-book dealer states outright ('issued 9 years before it was published in the US'). The Walck 1969 is the US collecting point; it is a distant second to the Collins and is not a rival for precedence.