Journey to the End of the Night

The French Denoël et Steele edition of 1932 is the true first — the book missed the Goncourt and took the Renaudot, which drove the immediate reprints. Both 1934 English editions are collected and both should be named: Chatto & Windus, London is recorded by the trade (Bauman Rare Books, ABAA) as the first edition in English, and Little, Brown, Boston is the first American of the same year, so the UK edition precedes on the evidence consulted, though the two appeared close enough together that dealers rarely fix a month. Later English retranslations are "first thus" only.