Duineser Elegien (Duino Elegies)

German original, Insel-Verlag, Leipzig, 1923, is the true first. PRECEDENCE WITHIN 1923 IS DISPUTED and buyers should be told so: most dealer descriptions state that the 300-copy Vorzugsausgabe precedes the ordinary trade edition (one dating the deluxe to June 1923 and the trade edition to October 1923), while at least one dealer describes the two as issued simultaneously. The identification points above are corroborated; the month-level sequencing is not, and no bibliography consulted settled it directly. Both 1923 issues are collected, and a trade-edition copy should be described as the ordinary first edition, not as "the" limited first. First English: Duineser Elegien: Elegies from the Castle of Duino, translated by Edward and Vita Sackville-West, Hogarth Press, London, 1931 — a small run, the earliest published English translation, and collected in its own right; the widely reprinted Leishman and Spender translation is later and is never the English first.