Camus, Albert; Stuart Gilbert Translator (24 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fair.

Library Binding. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. The cover of this all-in-French book is in excellent condition. Text is otherwise tight in binding. Text is clean and free of blemishes throughout. No other markings or indications of note. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.62.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.62.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Good. French. Good paperback, ex library copy. Cover and page block are shelf worn, with marks and minor scuffs, light wear to edges and corners, library sticker adhered to spine foot. Usual array of stamps and stickers within. Text block is tightly bound, content clean and clear. CN. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 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.

Condition: Good. Alfred A. Knopf New York 1958 tenth printing, december 1958. black cloth boards slightly rubbed and stained. previous owner inscription to ffep. binding tight, pages bright.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fair.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st US Edition. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Spine ends and corners bumped and frayed, with small splits to cloth. Maroon topstain. Binding shaken and cracked. Text with pen marking and underlining throughout. Interior lightly toned. Prev owner name to ffep, and their blindstamp to an early page. No stickers. Not ex-library. 278 pp.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ayrton, Michael (illustrator). Eleventh Printing. Eleventh impression of the UK edition from November 1970. This translation by Stuart Gilbert was first published in the UK by Hamish Hamilton in 1948. Originally published in France in 1947. Light corner bumping and edge wear to the boards. Page edges have a few light marks. Number in black felt pen to the front free endpaper but the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. The jacket has a little surface marking and edge wear and light fading to the spine. There is a small tear at the top of the front flap and a half inch crease to the bottom corner of the rear flap. Jacket design by Michael Ayrton.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The second impression of the first translated edition of Camus's two plays, Caligula and Cross Purpose. First translated edition. Second impression. Caligula, a play depicting the Emperor of Rome, torn by the death of Drusilla, his sister and lover. In Camus' version of events, Caligula eventually deliberately manipulates his own assassination. Cross Purpose, often published as The Misunderstanding, follows a man who has been living overseas for many years as he returns home to find his sister and widowed mother are making a living by taking in lodgers and murdering them. Since neither recognize him, he becomes a lodger himself without revealing his identity. Written by Albert Camus, an Algerian-born French philosopher, author, dramatist, and journalist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert, an English literary scholar and translator. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear only. Original price clipped dust wrapper is very smart with light chipping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First U.K. Edition, in very good condition; no dj. In the original green cloth (gilt titles to spine) with fading around the extremities of front board. Booksellers original writing inside front - tight binding. Camus's first novel, and the first to be published in English, preceding the American edition published by Knopf, and with an introduction by Cyril Connolly not present in the American edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. CLEAN Good+ 1948 First American Edition First Printing with Good price clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 278 pages. In Good condition with a Good minus condition dust jacket. Blue-grey and black spine with black, red, and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "$3.00 net", has moderate shelving wear, mild to moderate wear along the extremities, chipping along the joints and fore edges, scratches on the rear cover, tears along the head edges and spine, and moderate age-toning. Boards have mild age-toning along the head and tail edges, mild wear along the extremities, stains on the rear board, and bending wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has mild splitting to the gutter pages 89-121, stains on the rear end-page and pastedown, moderate age-toning throughout, mild wear along the edges, and faded dark red inking along the head edge. DL consignment. Shelved in Case 5/. Albert Camus was born November 7, 1913 in Dréan, Algeria (then French Algeria). Camus' mother was deaf and illiterate, his father killed in acting in 1914 serving in World War I and he would grow up very poor pied-noir (a slang term for French and other European people born in Algeria). Camus would be diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1930, at which time he moved in with his uncle Gustave Acault. Living with his uncle, Camus found a great love for philosophy, taking particularly to Greek philosophers and Nietzsche. This love of philosophy would push Camus to completing a degree in philosophy in 1936. During and after his time in university, Camus would join the Algerian Communist Party and Algerian People's Party, both of which sought freedom from colonial rule in Algeria. Camus' work with the ACP greatly involved organizing the "Théâtre du Travail" [Worker's Theater] which would be renamed "Théâtre de l'Equipe" [Theater of the Team] after Camus and the ACP split. Some of the scripts written for "Théâtre de l'Equipe" would become the basis for his later novels. In 1938 Camus solidified his anti-colonial feelings, working for a leftist newspaper which spoke out against the colonial regime as well as the rising fascist regimes across Europe. In 1940 Camus moved to Paris after the banning of the newspaper, there producing his "first cycle" of works on the absurd, including his most famous work "L'Étranger" ("The Stranger"). With the outbreak of World War II and the German invasion of France, Camus fled Paris, moving first to Lyon in southeast France, then to Algeria, and then to the Frech Alps to recover from a flare up of tuberculosis. It was in the Alps that Camus began work on his "second cycle" of works, now dealing more with revolt. "La Peste" or "The Plague" would be published in 1947 in France, and in 1948 in the US riding on Camus' infamy gained both for his earliest works and for his role in the French Resistance against German occupation. It depicts the Algerian city of Oran amidst a devastating plague and many different people's reactions to it, from feelings of despair to those who fight bravely against the illness. Both Camus' own tuberculosis and a cholera epidemic which killed a large portion of Oran in 1849 were inspirations for the novel, though it was set in the 1940's. The novel has been noted as allegorical for the French resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II. Upon it's release, "The Plague" received generally positive critical reception with moderate commercial success. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the novel became a best-seller with publisher Penguin Classics reporting difficulties matching demand. Many hailed "The Plague" as a reflection of the time, with lockdown measures compared to the novel's cordon sanitaire, and Camus' own daughter noting that it should be inspiration for people to take responsibility in how they reacted to the pandemic. 1387500. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. First American edition. First American edition, first printing. vi, 278, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with blindstamped front board, gilt lettering on spine. Near Fine with tiny stain to front board, old bookstore ticket on front free endpaper, in a Very Good dust jacket, price-clipped, rubbed along edges, tiny chip in top of front panel, a few tape mends to verso. Camus' existentialist novel, La Peste in the original French, set in Oran, Algeria.

Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. First American edition, first printing. [vi], 154, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with maroon spine lettering, red topstain. Very Good with tanning and foxing to spine and edges. Offsetting and foxing at endsheets with ownership of writer and artist Mariquita Villard [Platov], Reed College, Portland, Ore. at front free endpaper. A nice first American edition of Camus' existential novel.

First UK Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); gray-green textured cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on the spine; [ii],104pp. Hint of sunning to spine, scattered foxing to upper and right edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 6s. net), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny nicks and tears to extremities, and some faint foxing to rear panel; Very Good+.Camus's first novel, and the first to be published in English, preceding the American edition published by Knopf, and with an introduction by Cyril Connolly not present in the American edition. Since it was first published by Gallimard as L'Etranger in 1942, Camus's first-person narrative of solitude and disaffection has become a classic of existential literature, and the basis for the 1967 Luchino Visconti film starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anna Karina. Connolly 100.

First American Edition. First American edition. [vi], 154, [1] pp. Bound in publisher'sl tan cloth with maroon spine lettering, red topstain. Basically Fine, contents unmarked, hint of toning to spine, lacking the dust jacket. A very nice copy of the classic existential novel.