Pippi Longstocking

The Swedish Rabén & Sjögren edition of November 1945 is the true first. Among English editions the US precedes the UK — Viking, New York, 1950 by nine years over Oxford University Press, London, 1954 — but, unusually, the two are not the same book: Viking carries Florence Lamborn's translation with Glanzman's illustrations, while OUP carries Edna Hurup's independent translation with Richard Kennedy's illustrations. Both are collected, and each is the first edition of its own translation rather than a reprint of the other, so "first English edition" must be qualified by translation. Modern OUP editions illustrated by Tony Ross continue the Hurup text and are "first thus" only.