The Plague

Camus, Albert; Stuart Gilbert (translator)

Published by Alfred A Knopf, Inc., A Borzoi Book, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1954

About this Item

Alfred A Knopf, Inc., A Borzoi Book, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1954. "Seventh [7th] Printing, November 1954" (stated) of the First American Edition, the first printing of which was on August 2, 1948. Translation from the French "La Peste" (Librairie Gallimard 1947) by Stuart Gilbert. Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, soft white, tight, with a slightly curved front board, slightly canted, red topstain, and with no marks of any kind other than faint marks left from pencil erasures. The Binding is full black cloth, color uniform throughout though glazing to front board is uneven, with grim reaper embossed on the front board, gilt title, etc., to the spine, off-white endpapers unmarked except for a prior owner's name on the top of the front free endpaper and some stray black ink marks at the top of the front endpapers, and wear at all four corners and the bottom edge. No Jacket. See photos. v, 278, [i] pages. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2". An absurdist novel and an existentialist classic, the story describes the inability of indviiduals to affect their own fate, with echoes of Kafka's The Trial.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Plague
• Publisher: Alfred A Knopf, Inc., A Borzoi Book, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1954
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket