The Stranger

No book-club issue is documented for the 1942 Gallimard. The trap on the French first is the inverse of the usual one — the wrapper 'edition' statements are fictitious and do not demote a copy; judge by the 1942 Gallimard imprint and the April 1942 printing, and note that copies without any edition statement (500) and the service de presse copies (400) are the least-common states. For the English, the reprint tells are straightforward: later Hamish Hamilton and Knopf printings state their printing, and the Vintage/Penguin paperbacks are reprints. A copy titled The Stranger cannot be the first English edition; a copy titled The Outsider cannot be the first American.