Camus, Albert

The Plague [in a later dust jacket]

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First American edition. Hardcover. 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. Very Good / Very Good. Item #000014927

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.

Price: $400.00