No Exit
No Exit is the English title of Jean-Paul Sartre's one-act play Huis clos, first staged at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris in May 1944. Knopf published it with The Flies in New York in 1947, advertised as the first of Sartre's works issued in the United States.
- Editions tracked
- 2
- First edition
- Knopf, 1947
- First published
- Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1947
The first edition of No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre was published in New York by Knopf in 1947. We track 2 editions.
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- 50 on Open Library, 23 in English
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Who published the first edition of No Exit?
The first edition of No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre was published in New York by Knopf in 1947.
How many editions of No Exit are there?
We track 2 editions of No Exit, including 1 first edition. Each has its own page with how to identify it.
Where these facts come from
- No Exit, Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
- No exit (Huis clos) and The flies (Knopf, 1947), Open Library (openlibrary.org)
- Partisan Review, Vol. 14 No. 2, Boston University, 1947 (bu.edu)
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