In fact, the first English edition by the Gaberbocchus Press with 'Distributed in the United States by New Directions' stamped on the title page. Linguistic multiculturalism on a Parisian bus, illustrations by Stefan Themerson in the Gaberbocchus' house style; first published in France in 1947. Wikipedia notes 32 translations, more likely adaptations, 7 other homages / adaptations, too many to count of the styles employed by Barbara Wright's English translation; and the dustwrapper blurb finally appears p.68.
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