2 Astrid Lindgren first editions are documented on this shelf, from Pippi Longstocking (1945) to Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump) (1945) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Astrid Lindgren title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.

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Pippi Longstocking — 1945 · Rabén & Sjögren, StockholmSwedish true first: Pippi Långstrump, Rabén & Sjögren, Stockholm, published 26 November 1945, 174 pages, illustrated by Ingrid Vang Nyman (her Swedish debut), in the publisher's decorated cloth binding. The manuscript won the Rabén & Sjögren children's-book competition that closed 1 August 1945, and Vang Nyman's artwork is the most reliable marker of the Swedish first line. First edition in English: The Viking…. The Swedish Rabén & Sjögren edition of November 1945 is the true first. Among English editions the US precedes the UK — Viking, New York, 1950 by nine years over Oxford University Press, London, 1954 — but, unusually, the two are not the same book: Viking carries Florence Lamborn's translation with Glanzman's illustrations, while OUP carries Edna Hurup's independent translation with Richard Kennedy's…. A 1950 Viking book-club issue of Pippi Longstocking is documented and is a genuine trap: dealers describe its dust jacket as near-identical to the trade first, so jacket art cannot be used to separate them. No published point list distinguishing the club issue from the trade first is recorded in the sources consulted; the copyright page and the jacket flap must both be checked.
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump) — 1945 · Rabén & SjögrenStockholm: Rabén & Sjögren, 1945; published late November 1945 (26 November 1945 per the Astrid Lindgren Company and Swedish reference sources), the winning entry in Rabén & Sjögren's 1945 children's book competition, which closed 1 August 1945. Sedecimo (16:o), 174 pp., illustrated by the Danish artist Ingrid Vang Nyman — her cover design plus eight full-page black-and-white pen drawings — and issued in the…. The census claim is confirmed. The Swedish Rabén & Sjögren edition of November 1945 is the true first; every English text is a translation, and in English the US precedes the UK by four years. New York: The Viking Press, 1950 (published 16 October 1950), translated by Florence Lamborn and newly illustrated by Louis S. Glanzman, is the first English-language edition. London: Oxford University Press, 1954,…. A 1950 Viking book-club edition exists and is the principal trap in English: its dust jacket is near-identical to the Viking trade first, so the jacket design alone will not separate them. Book-club tells for the period are a blind stamp (circle, square, dot, star or similar) on the lower rear board, thinner paper and smaller boards, an unpriced jacket flap where the trade jacket has the price present at the….

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