The first edition of Marianne Moore's Collected Poems was printed and bound by Faber & Faber for both the English and American markets. Of a total first printing of 5000 copies, 3500 were for UK and 1500 for USA. The American issue was printed with an integral title-page for Macmillan, and exported to the United States to be issued there first as Moore was an American and to protect copyright. When the books arrived in America customs released part of the shipment with the standard stipulation that they could not be released until customs clearance was given. Macmillan and Marianne Moore innocently sent out some copies, Moore inscribed to a number of friends and MacMillan to reviewers, it is believed the number of copies sent out to have been between forty and sixty, before word came back from customs that the books were not admissible because they lacked a printed copyright notice on the verso of the title page. If they had been released Moore would have lost her copyright so they were shipped back to England. Marianne Moore’s bibliography Craig S. Abbott writes: "In a strict sense, these copies were never issued. The official publication date of the British edition was September 14, 1951; the first edition of the Collected Poems to be printed in America of which this is one was December 17, 1951. Moore's Collected Poems swept all of the major literary awards for poetry: the Bollingen Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.