Welcome to Hard Times

The census claim is confirmed: the true first is the US edition, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1960. The title-change trap is real — the first UK edition was published by Andre Deutsch, London, 1961 under the different title Bad Man from Bodie, in purple boards with gilt spine lettering; it is a separately collected first English edition but does not precede the US issue. Later UK paperbacks reissued it as Welcome to Hard Times (previously entitled Bad Man from Bodie), which is a first-thus, not a first.