The Magic Pudding

The Australian Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1918 edition is the true first, and it is the sole first — the census claim is confirmed as to precedence. But the census's "UK/US issues follow" is NOT confirmed: no contemporaneous UK or US edition is documented in the sources consulted, and later British and American appearances are reprints rather than co-equal firsts. Note the publisher's own trap: the 1918 prospectus advertised that "only one edition will be published," which was a marketing device — the book has never been out of print in the century since, so the claim carries no bibliographical weight.