Pedro Páramo

The 1955 FCE Mexico City edition is the true first; the 2,000-copy printing took roughly four years to sell. Grove Press, New York, 1959 (Lysander Kemp) is the first edition in English, and no contemporaneous London edition of that translation is documented in the sources consulted — so, unlike most mid-century translated titles in this domain, there is no live UK-vs-US precedence question here. Later English editions are "first thus" only: Margaret Sayers Peden's retranslation (Grove, 1995; Serpent's Tail, 2014) and Douglas J. Weatherford's later version are new translations, not first editions of the work.