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1953Best.-Nr. 92226Paris: Gallimard 1953. Fine. The Stranger and a Stranger Gallimard Paris 1953 12 x 19 cm Broché sous chemise étui New edition. A handsome copy covers very lightly browned discreet restorations to the joints. Rare presentation copy signed and inscribed by Albert Camus: ""to Madame Jean Labattut whom I thank three times in respectful homage Albert Camus."" Inscribed copies of Camus' masterpiece are exceedingly scarce. Our copy is housed in a custom brown half morocco chemise handmade paper boards title and author gilt stamped beige pastedowns slipcase edged with morocco handmade beige paper boards a handsome set signed by Boichot. The recipient could be Streline Mercedes Terradell who served as a nurse in France during WW1. In 1929 she married Jean Labatut also spelled Labattut architect and teacher who a primary force behind the development of Princeton University's School of Architecture 1928-1967 and designed architectural projects around the world including Spain Havana Cuba and Princeton. In 1953 Labatut became a member of the American Academy in Rome. That same year at Le Corbusier's request Albert Camus wrote the commentary for Jean Sacha's documentary on the Cité Radieuse. Could this have been the occasion on which Camus approached the Labatut couple for information on the subject thereby explaining the mysterious ""triples remerciements"" triple thanks in the inscription on this rare presentation copy Despite the wealth of scholarship devoted to Albert Camus our copy reveals that the life of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers still holds intriguing mysteries not least this curious encounter between the Stranger and a stranger. Gallimard hardcover
1946Best.-Nr. BAWDENED001717Hamish Hamilton London. 1946. First UK edition. Octavo. pp ii 104. Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert. Five-page Introduction by Cyril Connolly who also included the book in his 100 Key Books of the Modern Movement.WITH: Edward Bawden's original artwork for the front panel and spine of the dustwrapper. This measures approximately 11.5 x 9 cm and is painted in three colours with watercolour. The pencilled gridlines for scaling up to the published size are discernible beneath the image and the phrase ''Introduction by Cyril Connolly'' is not present. Mounted framed and glazed together with the front panel and spine of the printed dustwrapper. The frame which measures 36.5 x 31 cm was made by Bawden's usual framers in Essex and has their inkstamp on the rear. His pencilled signature can be seen on the backing board below the artwork. The printed version shows some details have been added to the face and that the lettering designed by Bawden has been tidied up a bit. In their 2008 book on Bawden Caroline Bacon and James McGregor state that the dustwrapper design uses linocut and collage whereas this early preparatory drawing clearly uses neither. It is possible that the frame was made for the 1988 exhibition at the V&A which celebrated Bawden's 85th birthday. He had worked as an official war artist in Iraq and Saudi Arabia which may have influenced his decision to depict the about-to-be-murdered Arab rather than the book's central character Meursault.Book: small patch of fading to head of spine; very small bumps to corners of covers; very good indeed in very good dustwrapper with some chipping and closed tears repaired on the reverse. Artwork: fine. Hamish Hamilton, London. unknown
1954Best.-Nr. 92381Gallimard | Paris 1954 | 12.7 x 19.1 cm | Broché sous chemise et étui
Best.-Nr. 13594Paris, De l'Imprimerie de la République, Régent et Bernard, Bachelier, Mallet-Bachelier, Gauthier-Villars, An III (1794) - 1881. 48 tomes (1 à 8 et 10 à 49) in-4 reliés en 27 volumes, 160 planches hors-texte, quelques figures dans le texte, reliure demi-basane ou veau à coins (reliure frottée, manques à quelques coiffes, quelques mors fendillés, manque la moitié du dos au tome 11, dos du tome 20 tabîmé, mors supérieur du tome 1 fendu, rousseurs éparses). Tampons humides ("Bibliothèque de l'Université de France", "Echange autorisé", "Dons n° 12961", "Ecole Polytechnique") et ex-libris : Citoyen Messier (manuscrit), Lefebure de Fourcy 1869 (impr.) et "Monsieur Lefebvre" (manuscrit), Paul Serret (d'après un certificat de la Librairie scientifique A. Hermann, daté 1884 et signé par le libraire, qui confirme qu'il s'agit d'une collection ayant fait l'objet d'un échange autorisé avec la Bibliothèque de l'Université - cf. cachets, et par exemple l'ex-dono manuscrit suivant, répété : "à Mr. Lefebvre, Elève de l 'Ecole Polytechnique, De la part du Conseil de la dite Ecole").
1951Best.-Nr. 0001341951 Paris, Gallimard, 1951. In-12 (127 X 190 mm) maroquin noir entièrement décoré sur les plats d'une mosaïque de motifs géométriques en box bleu ciel, bleu azur, noir et blanc, dos lisse, auteur et titre dorés, tête dorée, couverture conservée, chemise à petits rabats, étui (Pierre-Lucien Martin, 1959).
1954Best.-Nr. 92381Paris: Gallimard 1954. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1954 12.7 x 19.1 cm Broché sous chemise et étui Partly original edition one of 25 numbered copies on Holland paper the deluxe issue. A few small creases to the margins of the boards otherwise a fine copy. Our copy is housed in a grey half-morocco chemise with a flat spine and date at foot lined with suede lambskin and a grey paper-covered slipcase signed Elbel and dated 2020. Gallimard hardcover
1957Best.-Nr. 92308Gallimard | Paris 1957 | 12 x 18.8 cm | Relié sous chemise et étui
1957Best.-Nr. 92308Paris: Gallimard 1957. Fine. Deluxe Copy in a Sunset-like Inlaid Binding by Miguet Gallimard Paris 1957 12 x 18.8 cm Relié sous chemise et étui The majority of the text in in first edition. One of 45 numbered copies on hollande the most limited deluxe issue. Full black morocco binding flat spine covers decorated with some hundred inlays of red orange-red and orange morocco evoking the chromatic variations of a setting sun white morocco frame on the red suede endleaves and doublures monogram blind-stamped on one doublure original wrappers and spine bound in all edges gilt; matching chemise in half black morocco with flaps flat spine date gilt at the foot marbled paper sides beige suede lining matching slipcase edged in black morocco marbled paper sides white felt lining a splendid binding signed and dated 2003 by Jean-Paul Miguet. A very fine copy of the most limited issue magnificently bound in a mosaic sunset binding by Jean-Paul Miguet one of the most prestigious binders of the second half of the twentieth century. Gallimard unknown
1951Best.-Nr. 92185Gallimard | Paris 1951 | 12 x 19 cm | Relié sous étui
1942Best.-Nr. 80260Gallimard | Paris 1942 | 12 x 19 cm | broché sous chemise et étui
1951Best.-Nr. 92185Paris: Gallimard 1951. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1951 12 x 19 cm Relié sous étui First edition one of 45 numbered copies on hollande most limited deluxe issue. Contemporary full red morocco spine with four raised bands framed with black fillets date gilt at foot taupe morocco doublures red silk endleaves gilt fillets and dots to board edges all edges gilt slipcase an elegant binding signed Favre-Petit-Mermet. A fine copy handsomely bound in full morocco with morocco doublures by Favre-Petit-Mermet. Gallimard hardcover
1946Best.-Nr. 97850New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1946. First American edition of Camus' first novel and masterpiece. Octavo original beige cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the half-title page "A Vincent Sheean pour le remercier de savoir si bien parler de Stendhal Sympathiquement Albert Camus." The recipient Vincent Sheean was an American journalist and novelist. Sheean's most famous work was Personal History which won one of the inaugural National Book Awards: the Most Distinguished Biography of 1935. Film producer Walter Wanger acquired the political memoir and made it the basis for his 1940 film production Foreign Correspondent directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Sheean wrote the narration for the feature-length documentary Crisis 1939 directed by Alexander Hammid and Herbert Kline. He translated Ève Curie's biography of her mother Madame Curie 1939 into English. Sheean wrote Oscar Hammerstein I: Life and Exploits of an Impresario 1955 as well as a controversial biography of Dorothy Thompson and Sinclair Lewis Dorothy and Red 1963. He studied at the University of Chicago becoming part of a literary circle which included Glenway Wescott Yvor Winters Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Janet Lewis while he was there. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Warren Chappell. Translated by Stuart Gilbert. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Presentation copies of The Stranger are rare with only one appearing at auction in the past 70 years. Exceedingly scarce and desirable. Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." With the publication of this first novel L’Etranger The Stranger Camus introduced his lifelong attempt to reconcile a philosophy of heroic nihilism with “the ideal of human fraternity” Encyclopedia of Philosophy. It remains one of the classic works of the twentieth century. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
