Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump)

The census claim is confirmed. The Swedish Rabén & Sjögren edition of November 1945 is the true first; every English text is a translation, and in English the US precedes the UK by four years. New York: The Viking Press, 1950 (published 16 October 1950), translated by Florence Lamborn and newly illustrated by Louis S. Glanzman, is the first English-language edition. London: Oxford University Press, 1954, translated by Edna Hurup and illustrated by Richard Kennedy, is the first British edition — it took nine years to reach Britain. Both English editions are separately collected, but both are "first thus" rather than the first edition of the work: each carries a different translator and a different illustrator, so neither reproduces the 1945 book, and neither uses Vang Nyman's original artwork.