The Stranger; Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert
Camus, Albert
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946
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Small octavo, [8], 154pp, [2]. Olive cloth, title stamped on spine in red. Stated "first American edition" on copyright page. Light offsetting to endpapers, faint foxing to leafends. Free of any marks or notations. Top right corner bumped, wear to cloth along front panel. In the publisher's early state dust jacket, $3.95 on the front flap, shallow chips to spine and along top edge, bright illustrations, a near fine example. (Roeming 0294) A scarce first American edition of this work. The publisher's first state dust jacket had a retail price of $2.00 net on the front flap, with an advertisement for "Men Of Good Will" by Jules Romains on the rear panel. Seller Inventory # 15869
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Title: The Stranger; Translated from the French by ...
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Publication Date: 1946
Binding: Cloth
Illustrator: First edition of The Stranger by Albert Camus, in the publisher's early state dust jacket.
Condition: Very good
Dust Jacket Condition: near fine
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
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THE STRANGER, Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert.
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New York Alfred A. Knopf 1946, 1946
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
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First American Edition. 8vo, publisher's original tan cloth lettered in brown. 154. A good copy with some wear at the extremities and some aging to the cloth. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. "THE STRANGER is a short novel about an ordinary little man living quietly in Algiers. Slowly but inexorably life begins to stalk him. The pace quickens until the little man commits a useless murder and reaches a climax after his trial. Camus presents an indelible picture of a helpless human being." (Dustjacket) First published in 1942 in French, the existentialist classic has an opening line for which the translation has been debated and variously rendered in English for more than sixty years. "Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday, I can't be sure." The English publisher, Hamish Hamilton, insisted on the alternate title THE OUTSIDER; Knopf held to the more ambiguous THE STRANGER for this disquieting philosophical novel narrated by a man who appears to feel no particular empathy and hod to no particular principles. In the hours before his appointment with the guillotine, the murderer Meursault achieves the only consolation available to him: convinced of the meaninglessness of all judgment and the essential rightness of his own being, he opens his heart to "the benign indifference of the universe." The book was instrumental in Camus' winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. Seller Inventory # 34003
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The Stranger Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert
Published by
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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First American edition. First American edition. Title page printed in brown and black. [viii], 154, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Tan cloth with brown stamped title on spine, fine with ex-libris to ffep; in good unclipped dust jacket with some loss to foot of spine, rubbing around the edges with front flap fold starting from the bottom, slight foxing and soiling Title page printed in brown and black. [viii], 154, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Seller Inventory # 353812
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