Epitaph of a Small Winner

Original-language true first is the 1881 Rio de Janeiro (Tipographia Nacional) book edition. Under the title 'Epitaph of a Small Winner,' the US Noonday 1952 is first and precedes the UK W. H. Allen 1953; but the actual first-ever English rendering is Grossman's scarce 1951 Sao Paulo printing under the variant title 'The Posthumous Memoirs of Braz Cubas.' Do not conflate the modern re-translations titled 'The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas' (Rabassa, Oxford 1997; Thomson-DeVeaux, Penguin 2020) with the 1952 Grossman first — different translations, separate 'firsts thus.'