Nausea (La Nausée)

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 copies with no first-edition value. In English, the common conflation is treating a later New Directions paperback reprint (same Lloyd Alexander translation) as the 1949 first — it is not; note also that early US New Directions copies were printed in England in a slightly larger format. The Baldick/Penguin 1965 version is a different translation.