CAMUS, AlbertABAA
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1958réf. 581299New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1958. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. Translated by Justin O'Brien. Small tear on the front fly light sunning at the top of front board very good in a very good dust jacket with a few short tears and a toned spine. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1995réf. 551645New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1995. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Translated by David Hapgood. Introduction by Catherine Camus. White printed wrappers. Near fine with publisher's materials stapled inside front wrap. An autobiographical novel of Camus' childhood in Algeria first published the previous year in France 34 years after his death. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1995réf. 551646London: Hamish Hamilton 1995. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof British edition. Translated by David Hapgood. Introduction by Catherine Camus. White illustrated wrappers. Spine with a few wrinkles near fine. An autobiographical novel of Camus' childhood in Algeria first published the previous year in France 34 years after his death. Hamish Hamilton unknown books
1995réf. 552777London: Hamish Hamilton 1995. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof British edition. Translated by David Hapgood. Introduction by Catherine Camus. White illustrated wrappers. A few tiny soil spots on cover near fine. An autobiographical novel of Camus' childhood in Algeria first published the previous year in France 34 years after his death. Hamish Hamilton unknown books
1958réf. 551836New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1958. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Translated by Justin O'Brien. Faint sunning at the edges of the boards near fine in spine-toned very good or better dust jacket. Author and critic Malcolm Cowley's copy with his ownership signature. Camus was the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1963réf. 545222Paris: Hachette 1963. Softcover. Very Good. 12mo. Text in French. With a biographical note literary note and explanatory notes by Louis Falcon. 95pp. Illustrated in black and white. Pictorial wrappers. Tiny tear on one page with small dampstain on foredge and bottom edge rubbing and soiling on wraps very good. Vaubourdolle illustrated classics. Hachette unknown books
1957réf. 538409Gallimard 1957. Softcover. Good. Text in French. Pictorial wrappers. 16mo. 179pp. Pages age-toned pen marginalia on a few pages lamination pulling along edges good only. Gallimard unknown books
1958réf. 440193New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1958. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First American edition. Translated by Justin O'Brien. Owner's name penned on front fly scattered foxing and light soiling on margins of a few pages spine cocked about very good in a good only soiled dustwrapper with spine ends and corners chipped. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1989réf. 59996New York: Vintage International 1989. Reprint. Paperback. New. 123pp. Octavo 20.5. Printed wraps. With the intrigue of a psychological thriller Camus’s masterpiece gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. Behind the intrigue Camus explores what he termed “the nakedness of man faced with the absurd” and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward. Vintage International paperback books
2018réf. WELLER9780525564454Vintage International 2018. New. New book. Vintage International unknown books
1989réf. WELLER9780679720201Vintage International 1989. New. New book. Vintage International unknown books
1961réf. 384977New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1961. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Second printing. Translated by Justin O'Brien. Edges of boards a bit sunned else very good in a very good price-clipped dustwrapper with short tears on spine head. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1995réf. 166260New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1995. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. White printed wrappers. Near fine with the publisher's materials stapled inside front wrap. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1961réf. 345613New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1961. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Translated by Justin O'Brien. Some pages dog-eared faint dampstain on top edges of pages and boards and on board foredges edges of boards a bit sunned about very good lacking the dust jacket. From the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn with an estate label designed by their son Jonathan Shahn. One pencil note in an unknown hand on the front fly. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1947réf. 169111947. CAMUS Albert. The Plague. First Edition. Originally published in France as "La Peste "in 1947 our First English Edition was published by Knopf in New York in 1948. Publisher's scarce original blindstamped green cloth covers gilt lettering to spine. In original unclipped dustjacket. 278 numbered pages measures approximately 5" x 7.25" inches. In very good to near fine condition. Textblock firm pages clean. Original ownership signature on half-title. Dustjacket has some rubbing. The Plague which tells the story of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran is considered an existentialist classic. The novel stresses the powerlessness of the individual characters to affect their destinies. Along with the novel's existentialist themes The Plague has also been read as an allegorical treatment of the French resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II. The novel became a bestseller during the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. unknown books
1948réf. 2023-P120New York: Alfred A Knopf 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Stated first American edition of "La Peste" translated by Stuart Gilbert. From the jacket: "When in the spring of 1947 "La Peste" was published in Paris it created an immediate sensation. Camus was recognized all over Europe as having realized to the full his enormous promise. "The Plague" is far and away the finest novel to come out of postwar Europe". Wear to upper edge of unclipped jacket designed by Jean Carlu with loss near the head of the spine. Black covers are dark with bright titles slight bumping of lower corners. A previous owner's book plate on the fixed endpaper Lillian Ferrari. Very slight toning of the pages fading of purple top stain. Alfred A Knopf hardcover books
1958réf. 2353590New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1958. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Karsh Yousuf. First American edition. Jacket a bit toned board edges faded endpapers lightly soiled. 1958 Hard Cover. 213 pp. Photographic portrait of Camus by Yousuf Karsh on rear jacket panel. A collection of short stories by the author of The Stranger. Includes: The Adulterous Woman; The Renegade; The Silent Men; The Guest; The Artist at Work; The Growing Stone. "From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an echo of his identity. Whether set in North Africa Paris or Brazil the stories in Exile and the Kingdom are probing portraits of spiritual exile and man's perpetual search for an inner kingdom in which to be reborn. They display Camus at the height of his powers. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1963réf. 2353600New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1963. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Salter George. 2nd printing. Jacket toned minor wear to jacket corners 1 inch closed tear to top jacket edge ink name and date on front endpaper of each volume. Bindings tight and square text clean bright and unmarked. 1963 Hard Cover. xi 3 224 2; 274 pp. George Salter jacket design. Translated into English from the original French with preface notes and annotations by Philip Thody and Justin O'Brien. The complete notebooks of Albert Camus the French existentialist author best known for The Stranger with many seeds and observations that would go into his major works. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1955réf. 46945New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1955. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1955. First American Edition. Octavo; illustrated dust jacket with $3.50 price intact; dark blue cloth over yellow paper-covered boards; 212 pp. Dust jacket chipped along edges with a few short tears; general rubbing. Light wear and minor soiling to edges with brief exposure; binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good copy. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1957réf. 47059New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1957. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1957. First American Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in white decorative dust jacket printed in red and black retaining original price $3.00 red topstain; 6147pp. Moderate wear to jacket extremities with chipping and a few tears spine panel faded general rubbing and smudging. Boards show mild edgewear with chip to top of rear top corner; sunned along edges; binding sound and pages unmarked; a Good to Very Good copy overall. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
2010réf. 58448Chicago: Ivan R. Dee 2010. First American Edition so stated. An uncommon book. 8vo. pictorial wraps; 264 pages. Translated from the French with an Introduction & Afterword by Ryan Bloom. Fine condition. Ivan R. Dee unknown books
1958réf. 567154Paris: Gallimard 1958. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition numbered issue. Octavo. Near fine with some toning at the top of spine and bottom of the rear edges in near fine glassine with small chip and some toning. One of the limited edition copies printed on "Lafuma-Navarre" and numbered between 51-250. This is copy 239. Gallimard unknown books
1958réf. 28858New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1958. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1958. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's two-toned cloth in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price $5.00 green topstain; x2302pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities pink portion of spine panel faded corners nudged else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. A superlative copy. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1963réf. 98979NY:: Pantheon Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover. Text is in French. Stated first edition thus. About fine in like dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Herbert H. Johnson. An attractive well preserved copy. ; 172 pages . Pantheon Books, hardcover books
1958réf. 512711New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1958. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition second printing stating "first and second printings before publication March 10 1958". Translated from the French by Justin O'Brien. Spine and edges of the boards sunned else a very good copy with the text clean and lacking the dust jacket. Author May Sarton's copy with her pencil signature on front flyleaf. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
