The Immoralist

No book-club issue is documented for the 1902 Mercure first. For the Knopf 1930, some copies were issued with a separate Knopf promotional brochure ('Andre Gide 1869-') laid in — that is a publisher's insert, not a club tell, and its presence is not required for a first nor evidence of one. Later Knopf and Cassell printings, the 1949 reissues, and the subsequent retranslations (Richard Howard for Random House; David Watson for Penguin; Stanley Appelbaum for Dover) are 'first thus' traps rather than firsts.