Confessions of Zeno

Italian true first: Cappelli, Bologna, 1923. First in English: Putnam, London, 1930 (de Zoete) — the London edition precedes the American issue (Knopf, New York, 1930), so the census 'UK precedes US' holds. 'First thus' trap: the novel was much later retranslated by William Weaver as Zeno's Conscience (2001); modern editions under that title are not the de Zoete first English text.