3 Julio Cortázar first editions are documented on this shelf, from Rayuela (Hopscotch — Spanish first) (1963) to Blow-Up and Other Stories (orig. 'End of the Game and Other Stories') (1967) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Julio Cortázar 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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- Rayuela (Hopscotch — Spanish first) — 1963 · Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos AiresWorld true first, in Spanish. Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires, 1963 (published June 28, 1963), small octavo in original printed wrappers (rústica), 635 pages, with the famous Tablero de direccion (table of instructions) leaf and the alternate chapter-67 reading order. The first tirada precedes the many later Sudamericana printings. Genuinely scarce in unrestored original wrappers. The 1963 Sudamericana edition is the true first of the work, preceding the 1966 English translation. Scarce in first printing. Numerous later Sudamericana printings exist; only the 1963 first tirada is the true first.
- Hopscotch — 1966 · Pantheon Books, New YorkFirst English edition; Pantheon Books cloth in dust jacket, 1966, translated by Gregory Rabassa. Rabassa shared the inaugural U.S. National Book Award for Translation (1967) for this work. A true first printing has no later-printing statements on the copyright page. True first of the work is the Spanish Rayuela (Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires, 1963). The 1966 Pantheon is the first English edition and precedes the UK Collins/Harvill (1967). Later Pantheon printings and Avon/paperback reprints are not the cloth first; the UK Harvill is a separate, later first edition.
- Blow-Up and Other Stories (orig. 'End of the Game and Other Stories') — 1967 · Pantheon Books, New YorkFirst edition thus. Pantheon Books, New York, 1967, cloth in dust jacket (jacket design by Hoot von Zitzewitz), 277 pages, translated by Paul Blackburn. First published under the title 'End of the Game and Other Stories'; later reissues were retitled 'Blow-Up and Other Stories' to capitalize on Antonioni's 1966 film. The 1967 Pantheon 'End of the Game' issue is the priority English first; the 'Blow-Up' titling is…. First-thus English selection, drawn from three earlier Spanish collections (Bestiario 1951, Final del juego 1956, Las armas secretas 1959). The 1967 Pantheon 'End of the Game' title is the priority issue; the 'Blow-Up' titling came after the Antonioni film's notoriety. Later paperback 'Blow-Up' reissues are not the 1967 Pantheon 'End of the Game' first.
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