Miss Julie (Fröken Julie)

The Swedish original is the true first: Stockholm, Jos. Seligmanns Foerlag, 1888. Strindberg wrote in Swedish and no English edition is remotely contemporary, so there is no UK-vs-US question here; the first foreign appearance is the Danish translation by Nathalia Larsen, published in the week of 14-21 February 1889. English translations follow decades later and are never the first edition of the work — anything catalogued as a 'first edition' of Miss Julie in English is at most a first edition in English. A related first-thus trap: because the 1888 text was censored, the texts in general circulation descend from later restorations (the manuscript became accessible to scholars in 1936; Harry Bergholz attempted a reconstruction in 1954; Gunnar Ollen's 1984 edition is the closest to Strindberg's intended printer's text). Those restored texts are first-thus appearances of a reconstructed text, not editions of record.