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1944Best.-Nr. 88087Paris: Gallimard 1944. First edition. 214 pp. Very slight lean to spine else near fine in illustrated boards. Cover design by Mario Prassinos. One of 960 numbered copies. Paris: Gallimard hardcover books
1958Best.-Nr. 611707New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1958. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Translated by Justin O'Brien. Very faint offsetting on endpapers a bit of sunning on topstain near the crown near fine in a very good or better dust jacket with a toned spine. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1948Best.-Nr. 602501New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1948. Hardcover. Very Good. Early printing. Stated "Published August 2 1948 First and Second Printings Before Publication." Octavo. 278pp. Black cloth blind-stamped front board with gilt-stamped spine title. Contemporary owner gift inscription on front fly with offsetting front hinge cracked cloth soiled spine ends and corners worn and bumped a good only copy lacking the dust jacket. A classic novel of dignity and camaraderie in the face of a devastating epidemic. Basis for the 1992 film La Peste with William Hurt Robert Duvall and Raul Julia. Camus' subtle and compassionate convictions and philosophy earned him a Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 43 – he was killed in an auto accident three years later. Connolly 100. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1967Best.-Nr. UHOWLIT00carjFawcett 1967. Very Good. Howe Irving editor. Literary Modernism. Trilling Lionel; Camus Albert; Sartre Jean-Paul. Greenwich Connecticut: Fawcett 1967. 317pp. Mass market. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with light bumping creasing and yellowing. Previous owner's stamp on front free endsheet. Fawcett paperback books
1948Best.-Nr. 1387500New York NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1948. First American Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 278 pages. In Good condition with a Good minus condition dust jacket. Blue-grey and black spine with black red and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$3.00 net" has moderate shelving wear mild to moderate wear along the extremities chipping along the joints and fore edges scratches on the rear cover tears along the head edges and spine and moderate age-toning. Boards have mild age-toning along the head and tail edges mild wear along the extremities stains on the rear board and bending wear along the spine head and tail edges. Text block has mild splitting to the gutter pages 89-121 stains on the rear end-page and paste-down moderate age-toning throughout mild wear along the edges and faded dark red inking along the head edge. DL consignment. Shelved in Case 6. Albert Camus was born November 7 1913 in Dréan Algeria then French Algeria. Camus' mother was deaf and illiterate his father killed in acting in 1914 serving in World War I and he would grow up very poor pied-noir a slang term for French and other European people born in Algeria. Camus would be diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1930 at which time he moved in with his uncle Gustave Acault. Living with his uncle Camus found a great love for philosophy taking particularly to Greek philosophers and Nietzsche. This love of philosophy would push Camus to completing a degree in philosophy in 1936. During and after his time in university Camus would join the Algerian Communist Party and Algerian People's Party both of which sought freedom from colonial rule in Algeria. Camus' work with the ACP greatly involved organizing the "Théâtre du Travail" Worker's Theater which would be renamed "Théâtre de l'Equipe" Theater of the Team after Camus and the ACP split. Some of the scripts written for "Théâtre de l'Equipe" would become the basis for his later novels. In 1938 Camus solidified his anti-colonial feelings working for a leftist newspaper which spoke out against the colonial regime as well as the rising fascist regimes across Europe. In 1940 Camus moved to Paris after the banning of the newspaper there producing his "first cycle" of works on the absurd including his most famous work "L'Étranger" "The Stranger". With the outbreak of World War II and the German invasion of France Camus fled Paris moving first to Lyon in southeast France then to Algeria and then to the Frech Alps to recover from a flare up of tuberculosis. It was in the Alps that Camus began work on his "second cycle" of works now dealing more with revolt. "La Peste" or "The Plague" would be published in 1947 in France and in 1948 in the US riding on Camus' infamy gained both for his earliest works and for his role in the French Resistance against German occupation. It depicts the Algerian city of Oran amidst a devastating plague and many different people's reactions to it from feelings of despair to those who fight bravely against the illness. Both Camus' own tuberculosis and a cholera epidemic which killed a large portion of Oran in 1849 were inspirations for the novel though it was set in the 1940's. The novel has been noted as allegorical for the French resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II. Upon it's release "The Plague" received generally positive critical reception with moderate commercial success. However during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 the novel became a best-seller with publisher Penguin Classics reporting difficulties matching demand. Many hailed "The Plague" as a reflection of the time with lockdown measures compared to the novel's cordon sanitaire and Camus' own daughter noting that it should be inspiration for people to take responsibility in how they reacted to the pandemic. 1387500. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1958Best.-Nr. 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
1958Best.-Nr. 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
1963Best.-Nr. 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
1995Best.-Nr. 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
1995Best.-Nr. 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
1995Best.-Nr. 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
1958Best.-Nr. 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
1963Best.-Nr. 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
1957Best.-Nr. 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
1958Best.-Nr. 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
1989Best.-Nr. 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
1989Best.-Nr. WELLER9780679720201Vintage International 1989. New. New book. Vintage International unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. 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
1995Best.-Nr. 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
1961Best.-Nr. 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
2011Best.-Nr. 49142Norwalk CT: Easton Press 2011. Near Fine. Norwalk CT: Easton Press 2011. Collector's Edition. Octavo 22cm; publisher's full brown gilt-stamped leather spine in five compartments all edges gilt moire silk endpapers; 4272pp.; color frontispiece. Just About Fine. Easton Press unknown books
1958Best.-Nr. 86147London: William Heinemann 1958. June. 82 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Features Camus’ Nobel Prize Speech two poems by Sylvia Plath and work by Richard Eberhart Alberto Arbasino Zofia Ilinska James Purdy James Stern Harold Acton and more. London: William Heinemann unknown books
1971Best.-Nr. 80000Paris: lettres modernes 1971. Second revised and enlarged edition. viii 50 pp xviii. Fine in printed wrappers. Texts in English. Paris: lettres modernes, unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. 75620NY: Knopf 1961. First US edition. 272 pp. Some light offsetting along base of front free and fixed endpapers else near fine in near fine dust jacket that is toned along the upper third. Translated from the original French by Justin O’Brien. NY: Knopf, unknown books
1958Best.-Nr. 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
