Growth of the Soil

Original-language true first is the Norwegian 'Markens Grøde' (Kristiania, 1917, 2 vols). Among English editions the London Gyldendal 1920 (Worster) is the true first and precedes the New York Knopf 1921 first American — the reverse of the usual US/UK sequence, driven by Hamsun's 1920 Nobel Prize; both the London 1920 single volume and the Knopf 1921 two-volume set are collected.