Six Characters in Search of an Author (Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore)

The confusion here is textual, not a Book-of-the-Month-style book-club reprint: the ubiquitous copies are the 1925 revised Bemporad edition (and its many later Mondadori printings after Mondadori absorbed the Pirandello list), which add the preface, masks, and new ending and are frequently mistaken for or sold loosely as "first edition." Any copy containing the author's preface is 1925 or later, never the 1921 first. On the English side, the 1922 Dutton "Three Plays" was reprinted repeatedly and the Storer translation was widely reissued in later selections, so a Storer text alone does not prove the 1922 first printing; verify the 1922 Dutton title page and first-printing imprint. No notable dedicated book-club edition of the Italian first is recorded.