The Stranger Albert Camus and Stuart Gilbert

Stated First American Edition, First printing. Clean beige cloth boards with reddish brown lettering and decoration on spine. Very slight bumping to two corner tips. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Neatly penned previous owner name at top edge of front free endpaper. Small red dot near lower edge of front fixed endpaper (smaller than a pea). Pages and edges are clean. 155 pgs. Illustrated dustjacket is clean, has small corner price clip at front inside flap, short closed edge tears, small corner chips, shallow chipping at top and bottom of spine edge, corner crease at lower right front corner. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover.

Patrick McCarthy places The Stranger in the context of a French and French-Algerian history and culture, examines the way the work undermines traditional concepts of fiction, and explores the parallels (and more importantly the contrasts) between Camus and Sartre.