The Man of Property (first volume of The Forsyte Saga)

Galsworthy wrote in English, so the original-language first edition IS the true first: William Heinemann, London, 1906, with the page-200 broken-music-note point (an inscribed copy dated 6 April 1906 confirms the April 1906 London publication). There is no foreign-language "true first" to distinguish; the precedence question collectors actually ask is London vs. New York. The first American edition was published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, also in 1906 (a later Putnam / Knickerbocker printing is dated 1908). The Heinemann London printing precedes and is regarded as the true first; the Putnam New York issue is the first American edition, not the true first.