An edition can refer to a work which has been prepared for publication by an editor or some person other than the author. A typical bibliographic entry for an edition includes the editor's name after the title of the book as the following example shows:
Yeats, W. B. The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Ed. Richard J. Finneran. New York: Macmillan, 1989.
An edition may also refer to later or revised editions of a book. In such a case, refer to the book by edition number (3rd ed.), by name (Rev. ed., for "Revised edition" or Abr. ed., for "Abridged edition"), or by year (2003 ed.), according to how the title page refers to the book.
Newbold, Paul. Statistics for Business and Economics. 3rd ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1990.
If no edition number appears on the title page, it is probably a first edition, and you do not need to indicate the edition number in your citations.
For additional information, please see the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (6th edition) and the MLA style website.
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