Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Cambrioleur

The French original — Pierre Lafitte & Cie, Paris, 1907 — is the true first and the only edition that can be called the first edition of the work; the nine stories had appeared previously in the magazine Je sais tout (1905–1907), which is a periodical appearance, not a book edition. The first American edition is Harper & Brothers, New York, 1907, as "The Exploits of Arsène Lupin", translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, and an English issue of 1907 appeared under the title "Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar"; the relative order of the two English-language issues is asserted by dealers but was not confirmed here. All English-language issues are translations and are collected as first editions in English only — never as the true first. Note that the Holmes/Sholmès renaming recurs in the English texts as "Holmlock Shears".