Albert Translated Stuart Gilbert Camus (23 results)

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.52.

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.52.

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.52.

252 pp, wrappers laminated, else very good copy in illustrated, limp wrappers. Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1946 paperback edition V-2 Vintage. 154 pages with occasional age marks The great novel by the French Algerian master of the existential philosophy in prose and plays. This novel The Stranger is still remarkable on many levels and fresh as well.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 1er Trimestre 1966/Nouvelles Versions. 254 pp. Text in French. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Minimal, light, slight or very mild browning, tanning, foxing or discoloration on page edges, not affecting text. Previous owner's name inscribed on first front-end page. // Texte en français. Copie solidement reliée avec une usure externe modérée, des pages nettes et un texte net. Brunissage, bronzage, rousseurs ou décoloration minimes, légers ou très doux sur les bords de la page, sans incidence sur le texte. Le nom du propriétaire précédent est inscrit sur la première page d'accueil.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Linda Kitson (illustrator). 1st Edition (Unstated); Second Printing. 248 pages; Foxing (light) to the exterior edge of pages only. No slipcover included. Very light spill stains to front cover. Otherwise in great condition. No writing or noteworthy blemishes. ; - We're committed to your satisfaction. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Used-Acceptable. 1st American Edition: April 1946. 154 pp. A perfectly acceptable study or work or reading or research copy with clean text! Well bound copy with heavy and extensive wear and use. Skewed spine. Heavy or very extensive browning, tanning, foxing or discoloration on brittle pages.

HardBack. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st Folio Edition Thus, 1987. Royal 8vo. 248pp. Double sepia endpapers, illustrated title-page and many further full page plate drawn illustrations Linda Kitson. Appears As New, unopened and unread, in fine condition, clean tight sound square, firmly held in joints and hinges, clean crisp corners and edges. Bound in very good bright gilt ruled and lettered red cloth, featuring tipped in illustration to upper, top edge publisher's red stain to match. Housed and protected in such good condition by original beige slipcase gently sunned, great shelf presence.

Mass-market paperback. Condition: Very good. 251 p. book is clean and tight, very little wear, spine is not creased. there is 7 or 8 pages with light underlining under a few lines.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The covers and spine are rubbed and the corners are scuffed as is the head and heel of the spine and the lower portion of the front board and the the upper portion of the back board are darkened by some sort of stain (possibly damp stain). There is light soiling to the page edges and the top right corner of the front end page is clipped and the pages are clean. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First English Translation. 168 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. Title Page Indicates New Directions As Publisher, Copyright Page States Copyright In Usa 1947; Dj Shows New Directions As Publisher; Both Dj And Book State That They Were Printed In Great Britain. Book Is Fine, No Wear, Gilt Brilliant; Brown Dj, $3 Price, Printed In Black And Red, Has Traces Of Wear, Slight Browning. [We Have Also Had Otherwise Identical Issues With "Hamish Hamilton" On Title Page.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. Stated ninth printing, October 1957, originally published 1948. Good to very good in fair to good dustjacket. The book, in black cloth, is in good to very good condition with modest edge rubbing, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped [3.95] and has edgewear, a repaired long closed tear to the back panel with accompanying creases, all repairs to the inside of the dustjacket, very little paper loss. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

mass market paperback. Condition: acceptable; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED12mo; 154 pages; acceptable mass market paperback; faint crease front cover; tips bumped with slight chip or fray; spine starting to slant; spine head and heal bumped; tanning pages; previous owner name in ink top edge half title page; ink underlining and marginalia various pages by a previous owner; prompt shipping with tracking.

mass market paperback. Condition: acceptable; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED12mo; 302 pages; acceptable mass market paperback; spine starting; spine slanting; stain and scuffs to face cover; creases to cover; tips bumped with chip and fray; slight nicks and chips to cover edges; foxing edges; previous owners names in ink half title page with one crossed out in marker by previous owner; tanned pages and inside covers; prompt shipping with tracking.

mass market paperback. Condition: acceptable; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED12mo; 302 pages; acceptable mass market paperback; spine starting and slanting; tanned pages; foxing and stain to face cover; crease to cover; tips bumped; few nicks to edges cover; clean pages; prompt shippingwith trakcing.

mass market paperback. Condition: acceptable; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED12mo; 154 pages; acceptable mass market paperback; dam stain; few other stains; slight bend to book; stain, scuff to face cover; few nicks to edges cover; tips bumped with chip; spine head and heal bumped with chipped; spine slanting; some tanning; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.

Hardcover. Early Printing. 5.5 x 8.25in. v. 278pp. Publisher's cloth boards. NEAR FINE in Very Good dust jacket. The book itself shows the corners lightly shelf rubbed, endpapers lightly toned, former owner name neatly on the front endpaper, otherwise is Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows marginal shelf rubbing along the edges with some bouts of light creasing, spine lightly tanned, otherwise is not price-clipped remaining bright, colorful, and distinct. As pictured.

Condition: Very Good. First edition in English. Hardback. Bound in recent quarter leather over marbled boards, gilt spine titles, new endpapers. A fine copy.

Leather. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Collector's Edition. A beautiful fine binding copy. Gilt decorated binding, all edges gilt, satin ribbon page marker. The noted 1947 absurdist novel by Camus, whose plot centers around the French Algerian city of Oran as it combats a plague outbreak and is put under quarantine. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST IMPRESSION. HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING, ORIGINAL DUST JACKET DESIGNED BY EDWARD BAWDEN WITH PUBLISHERS PRICE OF 6s. Net INTACT, HALF TITLE PRESENT. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 7.5 x 5 INCHES. DUST JACKET IS WORN WITH LOSS TO EDGES, FEW TEARS, MARKS & OLD TAPE REPAIRS TO INSIDE [SEE IMAGES] SLIGHT FADING TO CLOTH AT EDGES OF BOARDS. OVERALL THE BOOK IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION WITH PAGES CLEAN & NO INSCRIPTIONS. DUST JACKET IS IN FAIR - GOOD CONDITION. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JACKET DOES SHOW SOME REFLECTIONS IN IMAGES FROM THE CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.

Hardback. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition in English. First edition in English. Crown 8vo. Pp. 285, [3, blank]. Pale blue cloth lettered and ruled in red on a silver background to spine. Jacket design by Michael Ayrton (priced at 9s. 6d. net to front flap). With the statement 'This translation first published in 1948' to the copyright page indicating a first printing. Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert. Precedes the U.S. edition published by Knopf. Originally published as La Peste by Gallimard, Paris, in 1947. Top edge dust-soiled, scattered foxing to fore- and bottom edges, with some trivial soiling to dustwrapper's rear panel, which sustains a short closed tear to flap fold, else Fine. Presentable copies in a complete jacket, as is the case here, are quiet uncommon due to the poor paper stock used. "On the morning of April 16, Dr Bernard Rieux emerged from his consulting-room and came across a dead rat in the middle of the landing." Allegoric tale of the Algerian coastal town of Oran in the grip of the bubonic plague, as seen through the eyes of Dr. Rieux. Set in the 1940's but loosely based on the 1849 cholera epidemic, shortly after French colonisation, which killed a large proportion of the town's population. In gestation as early as April 1941, at the time of the Europe-wide Nazi pestilence, as evidenced by Camus's published diary entries on "the redeeming plague". [Carnets I, Mai 1935 - février 1942, Paris, Gallimard, 2013, see p.204]. A worldwide bestseller during the Covid-19 pandemic, its prescient fictional cordon sanitaire of Oran prefigured recent cascading national lockdowns. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, largely on account of this novel. Basis for the 1992 film directed by Luis Puenzo, starring William Hurt, Sandrine Bonnaire, Robert Duvall and Raul Julia. "A matchless fable of fear, courage and cowardice." -The Independent. [Cyril Connolly, The Modern Movement: One Hundred Key Books from England, France and America, 1880-1950, London: Andre Deutsch; Hamish Hamilton, 1965] 263.

Hardback. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First edition in English. First edition in English. Slim 8vo. Pp. [ii], 104, [2, blank]. Grey-green linen cloth, stamped in gilt to spine. Jacket design by Edward Bawden (6s. net to front flap). Foxing spots to the text edges, a couple of closed tears to front dust wrapper panel with some trivial soiling to rear, else Fine. Increasingly difficult to locate in a presentable dust wrapper, let alone a complete one. Ephemera tipped in. Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert. 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 latter. Begun in Algiers in 1938, it was originally published in 1942 by Éditions Gallimard as L'Étranger. Stuart Gilbert's title choice, The Stranger, was changed at short notice by Hamish Hamilton to The Outsider, for being "more striking and appropriate," but also because Maria Kuncewiczowa's then just published Polish-language novel Cudzoziemka, bore the same title. By the time Knopf were informed of the change, with whom Hamilton shared translator and costs, it was too late for they had already typeset the manuscript using Gilbert's original title. Ranked No. 1 by Le Monde on its list of '100 Books of the Century'. One of Conolly's 100 Key Books of the Modern Movement. The outwardly simple tale of an office clerk who kills an Arab, "à cause du soleil", and finds himself condemned to death for moral insensibility. Taking the form of a récit or monologue, Camus here dramatizes the ideas behind The Myth of Sisyphus - incessantly pushing his rock to the hill-top, only for it to keep rolling back - or what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." Employing a striking unity between form and content (the first-person narrative, the severely restricted and concrete vocabulary - denuded of adjectives but rich in verbs), the perfect tense or le passé composé employed throughout - all serve to give an authentic directness to Mersault's character, who exists in a 'continuous present,' or in the grip of immediate sensual sensations. Refusing to conform to societal norms or justify his actions, he is sentenced to death, yet feels innocent: "I wasn't conscious of any 'sin'; all I knew was that I'd been guilty of a criminal offence." In the preface to a mid-50's American edition of The Stranger, dated January 8, 1955, Camus states: "I summarized The Stranger a long time ago, with a remark I admit was highly paradoxical: 'In our society any man who does not weep at his mother's funeral runs the risk of being sentenced to death. I only meant that the hero of my book is condemned because he does not play the game.' [How does Meursault not] play the game[?] The reply is a simple one; he refuses to lie." Holding fast to his innocence, Meursault attains at the end of his life a peace of mind, a Buddhist-like enlightenment, a state of nirvana: "[G]azing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe." In the same preface, Camus mischievously but not entirely tongue in cheek sums up: "I had tried to draw in my character the only Christ we deserve." Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Basis for the 1967 Luchino Visconti film starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anna Karina. "A book so well written and profoundly disturbing that it is in a class by itself, seldom have I read a work which says so much in so short a space," John Betjeman. [Carroll, David. Albert Camus the Algerian: Colonialism, Terrorism, Justice. Columbia University Press. p. 27] 144.