NMLP P-039836 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
Swann's Way
Marcel Proust · Bernard Grasset, Paris · 1913
The census claim is correct. The French Grasset 1913 is the true first. In English, C.K. Scott Moncrieff's Swann's Way was published by Chatto & Windus, London, on 19 September 1922 in two volumes — this is the first edition in English and precedes the Henry Holt, New York issue of the same translation later in 1922. Both English editions are collected (Chatto as first in English, Holt as first American). The 1922 Gallimard/NRF reissue of the French text, and all later retranslations (Kilmartin, Enright, Davis/Penguin), are 'first thus' traps.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-039836 for "Swann's Way" by Marcel Proust (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-039836, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).