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1949 The Plague
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Description
Early Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
First published in the original French in 1947, and first translated into English the following year, this is the first edition, second impression of the first English language edition, translated by Stuart Gilbert.
In the original price clipped dust wrapper, with front flyleaf stamped with the later price of 7s 6d.
Camus's novel is set in the French Algerian city of Oran as it combats a plague outbreak and is put under a quarantine. The novel stresses the powerlessness of the individual characters to affect their own destinies.
Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, largely due to this novel.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth binding, with clipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Dust wrapper lightly age toned, with minor loss and a touch of chipping to back strip tail, and with dust wrapper restored with tape to the reverse at back strip head and tail and flyleaf folds head and tail. Price stamp to tail of front flyleaf. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright.
Fine
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