2 Jean-Paul Sartre first editions are documented on this shelf, from Nausea (La Nausée) (1938) to Huis clos (No Exit) (1945) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Jean-Paul Sartre 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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Nausea (La Nausée) — 1938 · Gallimard / Nouvelle Revue FrançaiseThe true first is the 1938 Gallimard (NRF) trade printing in original off-white printed wrappers, in-8 (roughly 12 x 19 cm), 223 pp., with an achevé d'imprimer dated 5 April 1938. It carries no edition/printing statement, so a clean first-printing achevé date and the absence of any later-printing line are the core tells; beware later Gallimard printings that look near-identical but bear a later achevé d'imprimer.…. The genuine true first is the 1938 French La Nausée (Gallimard / NRF, Paris; achevé d'imprimer 5 April 1938) — Gaston Gallimard supplied the title, replacing Sartre's working title "Melancholia" (after Dürer's engraving). The first English translation, by Lloyd Alexander, appeared in 1949 in two forms using the same translation: the US edition from New Directions, titled Nausea (New Classics series no. 35, Alvin…. No true book-club edition is the usual trap here; the hazards are format and printing rather than a book club. In French, the danger is a later Gallimard printing passed off as the 1938 original — read the achevé d'imprimer date (5 April 1938 for the true first) and watch for any added printing/edition line. Modern Gallimard "Folio" and "Blanche" reissues, and the 1981 Bibliothèque de la Pléiade text, are reading….
Huis clos (No Exit) — 1945 · Gallimard, ParisFirst book edition and first appearance under the definitive title: 'Huis clos, piece en un acte, par Jean-Paul Sartre', [Paris], Gallimard (NRF), [1945]. Library of Congress collation: 5 preliminary leaves, pp. 13-122, [1] p., 2 leaves, 19 cm; issued broche (paperbound) at roughly 12.5 x 19 cm in NRF wrappers. The single play only — a volume pairing it with 'Les Mouches' is a later Gallimard collected issue, not…. The French original (Gallimard, Paris, 1945) has precedence over all translations; the census claim is correct on the original. But the census note that the first English-language book appearance is Knopf's 'No Exit and The Flies' (1947) is WRONG — it names the first American edition, not the first English one. The first English-language book appearance is Hamish Hamilton, London, 1946: 'The Flies and In Camera',…. No book-club issue is documented for the Gallimard original. The traps are format-based rather than club-based: later Gallimard printings and the Collection Blanche / Folio reissues carry no justification of tirage, so a copy without a limitation leaf and number is not from the original 1945 printing. Gallimard reissues from 1947 onward, including volumes pairing Huis clos with Les Mouches, are later. Neither the….

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