Don Segundo Sombra (1935)

Don Segundo Sombra was first published in Spanish by Proa in Buenos Aires in 1926. The first English translation, by Harriet de Onís with an introduction by Waldo Frank, carries the subtitle Shadows on the Pampas and appeared in 1935 in two separate editions: Farrar & Rinehart in New York (published 14 January 1935, xi, 270 pages) and Constable & Co. in London (xiii, 304 pages). The British edition is the Constable one; the differing page counts make it easy to tell from the American, so check for the Constable imprint and London on the title page and a text running to 304 pages. The Times Literary Supplement reviewed the translation on 26 September 1935. Later copies include the Penguin paperback of 1948 (Penguin no. 638), and in 1966 New American Library (Signet) reissued the de Onís translation in America; the 1995 Pittsburgh translation is by Patricia Owen Steiner, not de Onís. No source opened describes the Constable binding, jacket, jacket price or print run, and no issue points are documented.