The Years (Les Années)

No mass-market book-club edition (e.g., BOMC or Franklin Library) is a notable trap for this title. The realistic "not the first" traps are: the Gallimard Folio pocket paperback (Folio no. 5000), by far the most common copy in the market; the 2018 Fitzcarraldo UK edition mistaken for the first English (it is second, after Seven Stories in November 2017); and later Gallimard reprints in identical-looking wrappers carrying a later "achevé d'imprimer" date. Always check the printing statement.