A Gent from Bear Creek

The Herbert Jenkins first edition, London, 1937, is the true first and the only edition of Howard's lifetime era — but the census note is wrong on one point: this was published POSTHUMOUSLY, Howard having died in June 1936, and it is generally cited as the first Howard book published. The census is also wrong on the US first: it is NOT Gnome Press but Donald M. Grant, Publisher, West Kingston, Rhode Island, 1965 — 732 copies, illustrated by Tim Kirk (colour jacket art and three black-and-white interiors), and copies are 'stated First American Edition'. Both the Jenkins and the Grant are collected; no original-language issue arises, as Howard wrote in English and the UK issue is the first appearance.