Lassie Come-Home

The census reversal is confirmed: although Knight was English-born, the novel appeared first in the United States — The John C. Winston Company, 1940, illustrated by Marguerite Kirmse. The first UK edition is Cassell & Company, London, 1941 (brown cloth, priced jacket, with the Kirmse frontispiece and map endpapers) and is collected as the first British edition only. Precedence for the story itself runs earlier still: "Lassie Come-Home" first appeared as a short story in The Saturday Evening Post, 17 December 1938, which Knight later expanded into the 1940 novel — the magazine appearance is the first appearance in print, the Winston 1940 the first in book form. Cited in Carpenter & Prichard 304.