2 Octavio Paz first editions are documented on this shelf, from The Labyrinth of Solitude (El laberinto de la soledad) (1950) to Piedra de sol (Sunstone) (1957) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Octavio Paz 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 Labyrinth of Solitude (El laberinto de la soledad) — 1950 · Ediciones Cuadernos AmericanosThe true first is the 1950 Mexico City printing issued as número 16 in the Colección Cuadernos Americanos, with the title-page imprint "Ediciones Cuadernos Americanos, México, 1950." It is an octavo (described in the trade as "8o. marquilla") of 195 pages plus one leaf, issued in original printed paper wrappers (rústica) with untrimmed edges ("sin refinar"). Key identifiers: the "16" series number in the…. The collectible true first is the 1950 Spanish-language book, Mexico City: Ediciones Cuadernos Americanos (Colección Cuadernos Americanos no. 16). Paz is celebrated foremost as a poet, and poetry collectors instead pursue Piedra de sol (Sunstone), 1957 — but El laberinto de la soledad is the single title most identified with him and the one general and prose collectors most want, so it is a sound signature…. Chief trap is the 1959 Fondo de Cultura Económica second edition (issued in the "Vida y Pensamiento de México" series): it is substantially revised and expanded — it incorporates the "Nuestros días" material as a full eighth chapter — and is the standard/definitive TEXT most people read and cite, but it is the SECOND edition, not the collectible first. Later FCE printings (Colección Popular and the Lecturas….
Piedra de sol (Sunstone) — 1957 · Tezontle / Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico CityThe true first is the Mexican original: Mexico City, colección Tezontle of the Fondo de Cultura Económica, dated 28 September 1957, in a slim wrappered cuaderno (dealer collation 44 pp.). The identifying evidence is the colophon and Tezontle series imprint, not any printing statement: the first run was 300 copies, and Alí Chumacero had charge of the edition. A textual point internal to the first edition: the poem…. Spanish is the original language and the Tezontle 1957 separate printing precedes every translation and every later collection. The first English is a distinct collected edition and should be named: 'Sun Stone', translated by Muriel Rukeyser, New Directions (World Poets Series), New York, 1962 — issued in printed wrappers only, no cloth edition was published, which is itself the format point. Peter Miller's…. No book-club issue is documented. The principal trap is the Fondo de Cultura Económica 50th-anniversary FACSIMILE of the 1957 edition, published 2007 — it reproduces the original and is routinely mistaken for it; check for the 2007 facsimile statement. Documented later editions that are 'first thus' only include UNAM (1977), Gobierno del Distrito Federal (1990), and Instituto Vasco-Mexicano de Desarrollo (1997),….

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