If This Is a Man (US: Survival in Auschwitz; Se questo è un uomo)

Italian-original precedence; the census claim of De Silva (Turin), 1947, 2,500 copies, is correct on every count. The principal trap is the far commoner Turin: Einaudi, 1958 edition (in the "Saggi" series, first printing of 2,000 copies followed by a second of the same size). Einaudi had rejected the book in 1947; Levi signed with them in 1955 and the text was enriched with new episodes before the 1958 publication. The 1958 Einaudi is therefore a revised and expanded text — an important book in its own right, and the text from which the work's worldwide circulation descends — but it is a "first thus," not the first edition. First English: New York, The Orion Press, 1959, "If This Is a Man," translated by Stuart Woolf — first edition, first printing, 8vo, [vi], 206, [ii] pp., original blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in an illustrated wraparound dust jacket designed by Wladislaw Finne. The US title "Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity" first appears on the Collier Books paperback of 1961 and on later American issues — a copy titled Survival in Auschwitz is never the first English edition. British issues under The Bodley Head imprint are later than the 1959 Orion Press, though I did not pin their date against two independent authorities and no Bodley Head date is asserted here.