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Burning Daylight was serialised in the New York Herald in 1910 and published in book form by Macmillan, New York, later that year. The first British edition is William Heinemann, London, 1911, about a year after the American: an octavo of [viii] plus 344 pages bound in red or maroon cloth with the spine lettered in gilt. Look for 1911 on the title page; a 1915 Heinemann copy is a later printing, not the first. The Macmillan New York edition is the American first.
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William Heinemann, London, in 1911, in hardback.
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