Camus, AlbertBiblio.com
1954rif. 002823New York: Knopf 1954. Book. Very Good Plus. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st and 2nd printing before publication of first edition. The spine is straight boards square and tips pointed. Slight wear to board bottoms especially tips and spine. The somber dust jacket is not price clipped but has wear and loss around spine ends most edges and tips. Shipping box is suitable for wrapping. Knopf Hardcover
1948rif. 51182New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1948. First Edition. Hardcover missing Dust Jacket. First printing. Good in a facsimile DJ. Interior is clean blind stamped on the ffep. Red topstain. Wear and fraying to the top and bottom of the spine and corners. Notch to the top of the front board. Some yellowing. loc GC7. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1948rif. 800New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1948. First American Edition. VG/Fair. First American Edition stated. 8vo; Publisher's black cloth with stamped black illustration on cover and gilt on spine. Purple topstain; 278pp. Some wear around the margins of the boards including two tiny closed tears at head of spine and a bump on top outer corner of board. Textblock is clean and bright. Some toning at gutter on rear endpapers. Dustjacket is quite degraded with significant water damage across spine and one side of the back panel. Numerous tears along seams of dj. It is unclipped with $3.00 price. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
1948rif. 196948London: Hamish Hamilton 1948. An existential allegory of occupied France First edition in English following publication in French the previous year. Camus's wartime novel details the blighting of the Algerian city of Oran with plague an allegory for the recent German occupation of France while offering an existentialist analysis of the human condition. Octavo. Original light blue cloth spine lettered in red on silver ground. With dust jacket by Michael Ayrton. Clipped obituary loosely inserted. Ghosting on spine from jacket edges a little rubbed; jacket unclipped spine toned mark on rear panel a few small tears: a very good copy in like jacket. hardcover
1948rif. 214371New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1948. First U.S. edition and first printing. Hardcover. A novel from this multi-talented French writer who won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature. Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert. A very good copy in black cloth boards with some pushing to the spine ends some very slight tapping to the corners some other minor wear a small bookplate to the front pastedown and the remnants of a bookstore sticker to the rear pastedown and in a very good dust jacket with a large chip to the top of the spine some small chips and edge wear and a faint stain to the bottom of the spine that is only visible from the verso. Despite the litany of flaws a solid copy of this classic. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
1987rif. 036190London: The Folio Society 1987. Book. Illus. by Kitson Linda. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Near Fine First Folio Society Edition in original slipcase. Small rubbed spot on spine otherwise as new. . The Folio Society Hardcover
1948rif. PB-24688873HAMISH HAMILTON 1948. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION FIRST PINTING Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert. Jacket design by Michael Ayrton. Light blue cloth spine stamped in red and silver pictorial jacket. First edition in English. Jacket with few closed tears and minor loss at spine light toning to rear panel discoloration to boards and spine; toning at endpapers with bookseller sticker present; very good in like jacket. HAMISH HAMILTON Hardcover
rif. CCTM2410Vintage Books. Mass Market. Acceptable. Prompt shipment with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Visual wear on the mass market creasing on the cover of the book tanning pages may be markings or witing on the book edge prompt shipping with tracking Vintage Books paperback
2011rif. 21555Norwalk CT.: The Easton Press 2011. Fine binding edition. Full Leather. Near fine. Thick octavo hardcover in dark brown leather binding with 4 raised bands on spine and gilt decoration on spine and boards gilt page edges. Very slight wear along edges. An uncommon Easton title. The Easton Press hardcover
1948rif. 91636Alfred A. Knopf. Good in Good dust jacket. First American Edition. Hardcover. 1st American edition Some rubbing and chipping around cover edges and on crown and heel. Small stain on endpaper. Numbered pencil markings on endpapers. Photos upon request. International shipping billed at cost. Please note that the buyer is responsible for any customs duties tariffs or import fees levied by the destination country.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 178 pages . 1948. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1948rif. 3117612New Yorl: Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1948. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First American edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. 278pp. A few light traces of sophistication at spine ends and corners of jacket. Hint of wear at crest of spine on cloth Purple top stain mildly discolored as is the title on spine of jacket. Presents very nicely. One of the author's seminal works. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 278 pages . Knopf hardcover
1948rif. 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
1948rif. 35524New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1948. 1st & 2nd Printing before publication. Cloth. Very Good/Good . August 2 1948. First and second printings before publication. A Very Good copy in Good dust jacket. 8vo. 278 pp. Bound in black cloth with stamped reaper on the front board; in pictorial dust jacket. The dj price clipped has light soiling edge wear with a small loss at the spine's crown and tail. Jacket spine is faded and soiled. End papers facing the paste downs beginning to tan. Previous owners blind stamp inside front cover. The dust jacket is now protected in a mylar sleeve. The Plague is a 1947 absurdist novel by Albert Camus. The plot centers around the French Algerian city of Oran as it combats a plague outbreak and is put under a city-wide quarantine. The novel presents a snapshot into life in Oran as seen through Camus's absurdist lens. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
1948rif. 22379NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1948. 1948. First printing of the first American edition. 8vo. 278 pp. Original black cloth binding with blind-stamped image front cover; top edge stained red. Shallow wear at the spinal extremities three of the four tips are abraded through at the very peaks else this is a tight clean very good book without the DJ. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. hardcover
1948rif. 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
2011rif. 193349Easton Press 2011. First Thus. Hardcover. Like New. First Edition Thus. Published by Easton Press 2011. Octavo. Hardcover. Dark red with gilt page ends. Book is like new; clean and crisp. No writing no bookplates. A very fine leatherbound copy of this existentialist classic novel by Albert Camus. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor New York. Easton Press hardcover
1948rif. 47010New York: Alfred A Knopf 1948. First American edition published in 1948. Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert. A near fine beautiful copy in full black cloth with grim reaper imprint on front cover gilt titled spine and red top edge. Typography and binding design by Warren Cappell. Very near fine with clean and tight text no markings. In a very good price-intact dust jacket with modest wear to spine ends in a protective mylar cover. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Alfred A Knopf Hardcover
1948rif. 000014927New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1948. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 5 v 3 3-278 2 pp. Black cloth with the Grim Reaper stamped in blind on the front board gold lettering and decorations on the spine; purple topstain. Price of $3.95 on the front flap of the jacket the original dust jacket price was $3.00. Jacket design by Jean Carlu. With a few in-text designs. Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert. The story of a cordon sanitaire in an Algerian city Camus' novel focuses on characters in lockdown as an epidemic rages in their city. The Plague is widely regarded as a classic existensialist novel and as one of the most important French novels of the twentieth century. Light wear to the boards' edges and a faint corner crease to a few leaves; traces of edge wear to the jacket and a little dampspot on the jacket's reverse. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1948rif. 058620New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1948. 1st&2nd Print.before Publication . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Carlu Jean dj. 248pp.; HB blk.emboss w/gilt-pic.cover; rubbed&scuffed w/wear on edges&corners; bk.hinge cracked; some lt.tan w/cleantight pgs. DJ grays&blues w/blk.&brwn.-pic.cover; rubbed w/wear on edges&corners; ft.flap edge w/6"tear; 1x3"chiptp.spine&1x2"chipbttm.edge; some soil&sun; ft.flap corner-cut. "It combines the fascination of a magnificently told tale with a searching analysis of the human predicament never more urgent and acute than it is today. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
2022rif. SKU0567041Vintage 2022-10-25. paperback. Good. 5x0x7. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLY-NO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Tracking Vintage paperback
2022rif. SKU0614548Vintage 2022-10-25. paperback. New. 5x0x7. New Textbook Ships with Tracking Vintage paperback
1948rif. 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
1948rif. 501358Alfred A. Knopf 1948. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. GOOD/Good. First American Edition. 10 4-278 colophon. 12mo black cloth spine gilt blindsamp image of death with sickle to front cover red topstain deckled fore and tail edges. Ex-libris some odd lending library only paraphernalia being a now removed slip to FFEP with some residual paste and dates-due stamped to the inside of the DJ. Tail edge dampstained but not affecting text spine leaning just slightly some light damp splotches to head otherwise unmarked and binding fairly sound. DJ edges rubbed with some loss to tips an old piece of tap to rear cover unclipped with price of '3.00 net' intact and spine still fairly bright apart from the burgundy letters of 'PLAGUE' which are almost always faded. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1991rif. 1-0679720219Vintage Books 1991. Paperback. New. reissue edition. 308 pages. 7.75x5.25x0.50 inches. Vintage Books paperback
1987rif. W934London: The Folio Society 1987. 1st Folio edition . Hardback. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Linda Kitson. 248pp. Pale yellow slipcase. Illustrated by Linda Kitson. No inscriptions fading or marks. Pale yellow slipcase. The Folio Society hardcover
