Nausea (La Nausée)

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 Lustig dust jacket, 238 pp.), and the UK edition from John Lehmann, titled The Diary of Antoine Roquentin. Collectors treat both 1949 issues as the first English; the Lehmann UK issue in jacket is the scarcer. Note that some sources (including Wikipedia's prose) mislabel the New Directions edition as The Diary of Antoine Roquentin — the physical US book is titled Nausea; the Diary title is the UK/Lehmann issue. Robert Baldick's later Penguin translation (1965), also titled Nausea, is a separate, non-first text.