The Labyrinth of Solitude (El laberinto de la soledad)

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 choice. The first English-language edition is "The Labyrinth of Solitude: Life and Thought in Mexico," translated by Lysander Kemp, New York: Grove Press, 1961 (stated first printing; unclipped jacket with its printed price; pre-ISBN); it was based on the revised and expanded second Spanish edition of 1959, not the 1950 text.