The Ill-Made Knight

US-first CONFIRMED — the census claim holds. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1940 precedes Collins, London, 1941 by one calendar year, the second consecutive US-first in the sequence after The Witch in the Wood (1939); dealers state it plainly ('issued the year before the British edition'). Both editions are collected: Putnam 1940 is the true first, Collins 1941 the first British. Beware UK dealer shorthand — Collins 1941 copies are routinely catalogued simply as 'first edition,' meaning first British edition, not the true first; at least one specialist listing does exactly this. Wikipedia is unreliable on this title: its infobox pairs the Putnam imprint with a United Kingdom place of publication, which is wrong. This was the last of White's Arthurian novels to receive separate publication; the text was revised for The Once and Future King (Collins, 1958).