2 Camilo José Cela (trans. J. M. Cohen with Arturo Barea) first editions are documented on this shelf, from The Family of Pascual Duarte (1946) to The Hive (1953) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Camilo José Cela (trans. J. M. Cohen with Arturo Barea) 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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The Family of Pascual Duarte — 1946 · Eyre & Spottiswoode, LondonFirst English edition is the UK Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946, translated by John Marks, issued under the title 'Pascual Duarte's Family' (not 'The Family of Pascual Duarte'). Cloth in dust jacket. This precedes the better-known Anthony Kerrigan translation, which appeared as 'The Family of Pascual Duarte' from Little, Brown (Boston, 1964). True first of the work is the Spanish 'La familia de Pascual Duarte' (Ediciones Aldecoa, Burgos, 1942). The first edition in English is the 1946 Eyre & Spottiswoode (Marks translation, titled 'Pascual Duarte's Family'), not the 1964 Kerrigan. The familiar title 'The Family of Pascual Duarte' belongs to the later 1964 Kerrigan translation, which is a 'first thus' for that text. The 1964 Little, Brown Kerrigan edition (titled 'The Family of Pascual Duarte') and Dalkey Archive reissues are not the 1946 first English.
The Hive — 1953 · Victor Gollancz, London / Farrar, Straus & Young, New YorkFirst English edition appeared in 1953, translated by J. M. Cohen (with Arturo Barea) and carrying Arturo Barea's introduction, published in London by Victor Gollancz and in New York by Farrar, Straus & Young. Both are 1953; the precise priority between the UK and US issues is not firmly established, so neither should be asserted as the sole first English without copy-specific evidence. True first of the work is the Spanish 'La colmena' (Emecé, Buenos Aires, 1951 — first published in Argentina owing to Spanish censorship). The first English edition is from 1953, issued by Gollancz (UK) and Farrar, Straus & Young (US); priority between the two same-year issues is unsettled. Later Farrar, Straus paperbacks and other reprints are not the 1953 first English.

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