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El camino first appeared in Spanish from Ediciones Destino in 1950. The first edition published in Britain is the English translation by John and Brita Haycraft, titled The Path, issued by Hamish Hamilton, London, in 1961, 190 pages; the British Library record notes the Destino original of 1950. Britain later had Spanish-language editions: Harrap (1963, 286 pages) and Manchester University Press in its Hispanic Texts series (2010, ISBN 9780719080562, vi, 214 pages); neither is the first UK edition.
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Hamish Hamilton, London, in 1961, in hardback.
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