The Captive Mind (Zniewolony umysł)

The true first edition is the Polish-language Zniewolony umysł, Instytut Literacki, Paris, 1953 (Biblioteka "Kultury" vol. 3) — the copy serious Miłosz collectors want. The first English-language edition is The Captive Mind, translated by Jane Zielonko with an introduction by Bertrand Russell, published in 1953 in the UK by Secker & Warburg (London) and in the US by Alfred A. Knopf (New York); the Knopf first American issue collates xiv, 251, [1] pp. in publisher's cloth. Both English issues appeared in 1953; commentary leans toward the Secker & Warburg London printing as the first English edition, but the London/New York precedence is not cleanly documented, so a cautious cataloguer should treat each as "first edition thus" rather than firmly asserting sequence. (The first edition printed inside Poland was a 1978 underground/samizdat NOWA — Niezależna Oficyna Wydawnicza — edition; the first officially sanctioned Polish domestic edition was the 1989 Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza (Kraków) printing — neither is the true first.)