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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
1947réf. 2309450Gallimard 1947. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 0x0x0. Ink underlining on just a couple pages. 1947 Mass Market Paperback. 255 pp. Often translated as "The Plague" this French-language novel tells the story of a plague that sweeps through French Algiers. Gallimard paperback books
1950réf. 422752Paris: Charlot 1950. Softcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition limited issue. Tall octavo. Small chip at the spine crown very good in printed wrappers and unprinted glassine dust jacket. One of 120 copies reserved for the use of the author of a total edition of 1343 copies. This is copy number 848 on Rives paper. The copies numbered between 801 to 920 were the author's copies. Inscribed by the author: "a Nicole et Jean Marie/ avec la fidele affection/ de leur vieux camarade/ Albert Camus." "To Nicole and Jean Marie/ with the faithful affection/of their old comrade/ Albert Camus.". The recipients were almost certainly Nicole and Jean-Marie Domenach French intellectuals and friends of Camus albeit with some philosophical differences. Jean-Marie was a noted left wing Catholic thinker and while he and Camus were both vocal in protesting such activities as the French use of torture during the Algerian Civil War Domenach had considerably more sympathy for the socialist and communist governments of the time which Camus found repugnant. It is interesting to note the comma in the inscription as though the inclusion of Jean-Marie in the presentation was an afterthought or perhaps a necessity of politesse. Long after Camus had died Jean-Marie Domenach provided a preface to a book of his thinking Albert Camus and Christianity. Hope on Trial. The deluxe editions of this title turn up at auction with some regularity but we were unable to find any instance of one of the author's copies in the market and very few copies of this limited edition have ever turned up signed. A rarity and a notable association copy. Charlot unknown books
1989réf. 601961New York: Vintage International 1989. Softcover. Fine. Reprint. Translated by Matthew Ward. Trade paperback. Fine with a tiny bit of wear. Vintage International unknown books
1971réf. 19377New York: Limited Editions Club 1971. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Fine. From the Limited Editions Club The Stranger by Albert Camus one of 1500 copies signed by Daniel Maffia. Square octavo xvi 181pp 3. Full red morocco with the author's name stamped in blind on the front cover. Title in gilt on the spine top edge gilt. Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert. Introduction by Wallace Fowlie. Featuring the author's preface and ten color plates by Daniel Maffia. Designed by Ernst Reichl and printed by the Vermont Printing Company. Includes The Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Club for July 1971 Number 445 and the publisher's red paper-covered slipcase. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by Maffia on the limitation page this being number 85. A fine example. Limited Editions Club unknown books
1991réf. 65213NY:: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0394440617 . Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert. Twenty-fifth American printing. Remainder mark on top and bottom edges foxing on top edge else very good in a very good dust jacket. ; 278 pages . Alfred A. Knopf, hardcover books
1987réf. 602202New York: Paragon House 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Octavo. 157pp. Translated by Hugh Levick. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Journals from travels in both North and South America. Paragon House hardcover books
2018réf. 2351320New York: Vintage International / Penguin Random House LLC 2018. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x0x7. Reprint. Brand new from publisher. 2018 Trade Paperback. 138 pp. The summation of the existentialist philosophy threaded throughout all his writing Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus is translated by Justin O'Brien. In this profound and moving philosophical statement Camus poses the fundamental question: is life worth living If human existence holds no significance what can keep us from suicide As Camus argues if there is no God to give meaning to our lives humans must take on that purpose themselves. This is our 'absurd' task like Sisyphus forever rolling his rock up a hill as the inevitability of death constantly overshadows us. Written during the bleakest days of the Second World War The Myth of Sisyphus Le Mythe de Sisyphe argues for an acceptance of reality that encompasses revolt passion and above all liberty. Vintage International / Penguin Random House LLC paperback books
1989réf. 2349370New York: Vintage International 1989. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x0x8. Reprint. Brand new from publisher. An exceptional copy. 1989 Trade Paperback. vii 123 pp. Translated into English from the original French with a prefatory note by Matthew Ward. Camus's classic novel of existentialism and the absurd. "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. Vintage International paperback books
1961réf. 59871New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1961. Second Printing. Cloth spine. A Second Printing that has some sunning to the edges otherwise in Fine condition in a price-clipped Near Fine dust-jacket ; This book tells the story of two brothers one who is content in his life and one who rebels against the world and all that is in it. The brother who rebels against the world and all that is in it meets with death but in the end he understands that it is part of life and that life is ultimately resistance and rebellion.; 8vo; 272 pages . Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1802réf. 57462Paris: Baudouin Imprimeur de L'Institut National. 1802. Foundation Americana Bibliography An important early bibliographical study of new world exploration and one of the foremost examinations of the De Bry and Thévenot collections of travel narratives by Armond Gaston Camus 1740-1804 a noted French jurist and participant in the French Revolution. De Bry's Grand Voyages and Thévenot's collection of early North American travel narratives are among the most bibliographically complex works in the Americana canon. "An excellent analysis not only of De Bry's but of Thevenot's collections with incidental notes on those of Hervagius Ramusio Hakluyt and Hulsius" - Harrisse. "An excellent specimen of bibliographical analysis and indispensable to the 'De Bry' and 'Thévenot' collector" - Sabin. "Excellent mémoire qu'on consulte encore avec fruit" - LeClerc. Half title. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards spine gilt gilt leather labels. Scattered light foxing. Very good. SABIN 10328. LeCLERC 99. HARRISSE BAV pp.xxiii-iv. hardcover books
1946réf. 140947572New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1946. First American Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition first printing. vi 155 1 pp. Bound in publisher's beige cloth stamped in brown red topstain. Near Fine with offsetting to endpapers from dust jacket. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear light toning and moderate soiling and creasing to lower rear panel. An attractive copy of the existentialist classic. The Stranger was first published in France in 1942 in a limited print run of 4400 copies. By 1946 Camus was an international celebrity thanks to his role as editor of the Resistance journal Combat and his novel was simultaneously published in Britain and the United States to great acclaim. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1942réf. 140947843Paris: Gallimard 1942. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing with false mention of seventh edition imprint. 159 pp text in French printed on wartime speckled paper. Bound in publisher's cream wraps printed in red and black. Prelims unopened. Near Fine with slight lean to spine and light wear soiling and foxing to covers. Contents toned. Housed in a custom chemise slipcase with very light wear marble-printed paper over boards red leather spine titled in gilt on chemise. An excellent copy of Camus' first novel published in a limited run of 4400 copies due to paper restrictions under German occupation. The publishers printed different copies with "Second Edition" "Fifth Edition" and so on as a marketing ploy to attract customers. This copy has "septieme edition" printed on the title page and rear wrap. Gallimard unknown books
1948réf. 140946762New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1948. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition first printing. vi 278 2 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with blindstamped front board gilt lettering on spine. Near Fine with tiny stain to front board old bookstore ticket on front free endpaper in a Very Good dust jacket price-clipped rubbed along edges tiny chip in top of front panel a few tape mends to verso. Camus' existentialist novel La Peste in the original French set in Oran Algeria. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1947réf. 140946928Paris: Gallimard 1947. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition of the The Plague in the original French; a press service copy. An association copy signed by Albert Camus and inscribed on the half title page to teacher and literary critic "a M. Rene Lalou avec la gratitude et les sentiments de vive sympathie." Bound in half green morocco over marbled boards stamp-signed by Mercher 1967; in matching green lined slipcase lightly worn. Near Fine with small small stain to fore edge tanning to pages pencil marking throughout mostly confined to the margins. One of Camus' best known works. Gallimard unknown books
1946réf. 140945319New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1946. First American Edition. First American edition. vi 154 1 pp. Bound in publisher'sl tan cloth with maroon spine lettering red topstain. Basically Fine contents unmarked hint of toning to spine lacking the dust jacket. A very nice copy of the classic existential novel. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1955réf. 140945412London: Hamish Hamilton 1955. First British Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First British edition and the first English language edition. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine lettered in silver. Near Fine with very slight lean to spine slight fading and wear to spine ends offsetting to endsheets and contents lightly tanned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light tanning and a small indentation to the spine panel light wear. A beautiful copy of a book that does not normally turn up in such nice condition. Hamish Hamilton unknown books
1946réf. 140943850New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1946. First American Edition. Near Fine. First American edition first printing. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with spine stamped in brown; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light toning and dust-soiling former owner name stamped to front free endpaper pages toned and with a few light brown stains and creased corners. A nice copy. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1942réf. 2886Paris: Gallimard 1942. First edition. Very Good. FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE DEFINING NOVELS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. "From its cold opening lines 'Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure' to its bleak concluding image of a public execution set to take place beneath the 'benign indifference of the universe' Camus's first and most famous novel takes the form of a terse flat first-person narrative by its main character Meursault a very ordinary young man of unremarkable habits and unemotional affect who inexplicably and in an almost absent-minded way kills an Arab and then is arrested tried convicted and sentenced to death. The neutral style of the novel-typical of what the critic Roland Barthes called 'writing degree zero'-serves as a perfect vehicle for the descriptions and commentary of its anti-hero narrator the ultimate 'outsider' and a person who seems to observe everything including his own life with almost pathological detachment" David Simpson. Note: With the fictitious "Quatrième édition" on the title page and rear wrapper. The 4400 copies of the first printing were issued on the same day. There were eight different title pages and rear wrappers however used as a marketing ploy implying falsely that there were eight different editions. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1957 was awarded to Albert Camus "for his important literary production which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times". Paris: Gallimard 1942. Original wrappers; glassine probably not original glassine; housed in custom half-morocco box with chemise. Some soiling to wrappers particularly on the spine spine also with edgewear; small tear at bottom right front wrapper and chipping at bottom right edge. A very good copy rare in original wrappers. Gallimard unknown books
1971réf. 65057NY:: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. 0394440617 . Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert. Eighteenth American printing. Light foxing to edges and endpapers remainder stamp on front free endpaper else very good in a very good moderate edge wear with a few tiny chips dust jacket. ; 278 pages . Alfred A. Knopf, hardcover books
1958réf. 02014EXILE AND THE KINGDOM Knopf 1958 first American edition near fine in near vg dust-wrapper with two closed tears and some creasing to the lower margin of the rear dust-wrapper panel. Knopf unknown books
1953réf. 10446PRESENCE DE ZOLA Fasquelle Editeurs 1953 first edition some light wear and tear to the somewhat faded covers else vg in wraps as issued. The influence of Zola on their writing careers is expressed in various essays by Albert Camus Erskine Caldust-wrapper ell Jean Cocteau F. L. Green Herman Hesse Thomas Mann Francois Mauriac Andre Maurios Jules Romain Upton Sinclair Franz Werfel Stephen Zweig et.al. Fasquelle Editeurs paperback books
1963réf. 47436New York: Pantheon Books / Random House 1963. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Pantheon Books a Division of Random House 1963. First Hard Cover Edition. Small octavo; publisher's cloth red topstain in price-clipped dust jacket; 171pp. Rather extensive chipping and wear to jacket margins with long shallow loss at top edge of upper panel small losses at spine ends; a Very Good copy in an About Very Good example of the jacket. Text in the original French. Pantheon Books / Random House unknown books
1981réf. 239138New York: That New Magazine 1981. Magazine. 64p. 8.5x11 inches articles reviews news ads cartoons photos good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. That New Magazine unknown books
1976réf. 210539New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1976. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected pro. Very good in wrappers a paperback. Shelf rubbing. Unpriced uncorrected proofs. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
