2 André Gide first editions are documented on this shelf, from The Immoralist (1902) to The Counterfeiters (Les Faux-monnayeurs) (1925) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that André Gide title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.

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The Immoralist — 1902 · Société du Mercure de France, ParisThe true first is the French L'Immoraliste, Société du Mercure de France, Paris, 1902 — printed by the Bussière press at Saint-Amand and finished 20 May 1902, with publication following in May 1902. Copies are numbered and printed on vergé d'Arches, issued in the plain blue printed wrappers that Mercure used for Gide's works from 1902 through 1946; the blue wrapper is the tell of the series rather than of the…. The French original (Mercure de France, Paris, 1902) is the true first; there is no English edition of 1902 and every English text is a translation issue. The first English translation is Dorothy Bussy's, published in 1930 by Alfred A. Knopf, New York and by Cassell, London in the same year. The census claim that the US precedes the UK is NOT confirmed: both issues are dated 1930, and no source consulted…. No book-club issue is documented for the 1902 Mercure first. For the Knopf 1930, some copies were issued with a separate Knopf promotional brochure ('Andre Gide 1869-') laid in — that is a publisher's insert, not a club tell, and its presence is not required for a first nor evidence of one. Later Knopf and Cassell printings, the 1949 reissues, and the subsequent retranslations (Richard Howard for Random House;….
The Counterfeiters (Les Faux-monnayeurs) — 1925 · Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française / GallimardThe true first is the 1925 Paris NRF/Gallimard printing, the ordinary trade issue appearing in the Collection blanche cream printed wrappers and running to 503 pages with an achevé d'imprimer leaf dated 1925 at the rear. The premium tirage de tête consists of 121 copies réimposés (re-set) in a taller in-quarto tellière format on vergé (laid) Lafuma-Navarre paper — of which 112 were reserved for the bibliophiles…. The true first edition is the French Les Faux-monnayeurs, Paris, Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (Gallimard), 1925 — note the book is dated 1925 but was not placed on sale until February 1926, a well-known quirk dealers routinely cite. The first English-language edition is The Counterfeiters, translated by Dorothy Bussy (whose rendering remains the standard English text), published by Alfred A. Knopf, New…. No prominent U.S. book-club (BOMC-type) edition is a common trap for this title; the practical hazards are different. Beware the many later NRF/Gallimard reprints from the same setting that lack a printing statement or carry a later achevé d'imprimer — these are routinely mis-listed as 1925 first editions. Do not confuse the ordinary 1925 wrappered issue with the 121 réimposé grand-papier copies (taller in-4….

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