xxviii, 280 pages. Hardcover: H 23.25cm x L 15.5cm. Dust jacket toned and soiled, small chip at spine head, closed 1.75cm tear at front panel's top edge. Aquamarine cloth, brown spotting to boards and spine, spine's gilt lettering remains bright. Light toning and soiling to top edge and fore-edge; light toning to pastedowns; book's last four leaves creased/bumped at center fore-edge margins. Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good- copy in a good dust jacket. With Translator's Preface (by Emmett Parker), Biographical Chronology, Abbreviations, Introduction, Conclusion, Bibliographical Note, and Index. Harvard's Hollis catalog notes: "Translation of 'La Mer et les Prisons.' The original French edition . . . was extensively revised and augmented by the author for this, the first English language edition." Obtained from the estate of the book's translator Dr. Samuel Emmett Parker (but without any identifying markings as such), professor emeritus of French at The University of Alabama who taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels beginning in 1964 until his retirement in 1990 with his instructional focuses on the French language and French literature particularly 20th-century French theatre and novels. Parker also served twice as chair of the university's Department of Romance Languages and Classics. ISBN 0817376615.

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Title

THE SEA AND PRISONS; A COMMENTARY ON THE LIFE AND THOUGHT OF ALBERT CAMUS. [English language translation of "La Mer et les Prisons."]

Publisher

University, AL [Tuscaloosa, AL]: The University of Alabama Press, 1970.

Publication Date

1976

Language

English

ISBN 10

0817376615

ISBN 13

9780817376611

Binding

Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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University, Alabama. 1970 University of alabama. Hardcover octavo. Translated to English by Emmett Parker. 280p. VG++ no real faults, just very light wear. Good plus dj - one short closed tear; some toning, esp on backstrip.

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Text: English, French (translation)

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