Pelléas et Mélisande

No mass-market book-club edition of this specific title is the usual trap; the dangers here are different. Traps: (1) later French printings — Lacomblez reissued the title and later French houses (e.g., Fasquelle) printed it, so a plain later or undated French printing is often mistaken for the 1892 first; confirm the 1892 Lacomblez Brussels imprint. (2) Opera-libretto and vocal-score confusion — post-1902 items pairing Maeterlinck's text with Debussy's music (Fromont, Durand, etc.) are music publications, not the first edition of the play. (3) The English 1894 Crowell and the 1895 Walter Scott "Scott Library" translation both ran into many later dated impressions (1910s copies exist, e.g., 1913-1914) that look similar but are not the first English/British.