The Elements of Style

US only; there is no competing UK or foreign-language edition. The 1918 privately printed Ithaca pamphlet is the true first. The 1920 Harcourt, Brace and Howe issue is the first trade edition and is separately collected in its own right. The 1959 Macmillan "Strunk & White" (revised, with an introduction and a chapter on writing by E. B. White) is a distinct revised work, a "first thus," not a printing of Strunk's 1918 book, and it is the single most common misidentification. Be aware that many general sources state flatly that the book was "privately printed in 1919," following E. B. White's own recollection; the specialist record documents two private printings, 1918 first.