Zorba the Greek

The Greek edition (Dimitrakos, Athens, 1946) precedes every translation and is the true first. Among English editions the London John Lehmann issue of 1952 is the first in English and precedes the Simon & Schuster New York issue of 1953 by a year, so the UK book is the first English-language edition and the US book is a first American only; both are collected. The 1955 Athens Difros printing recorded by the Kazantzakis Museum is a later Greek edition, not a first, and the French Alexis Zorba (1947) is likewise a translation following the Greek.