The Plague (Modern Library #109.2) by CAMUS, Albert - [c.1961]

New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. [c.1961]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition of the famed novel by Albert Camus, in which the people of the Algerian city of Oran are caught up by the dread disease. The story, loosely based on a real 1849 cholera epidemic in Oran, tells the story from a number of vantage points: those of tourists, a journalist, and medical personnel, among others. Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert. Wrapped in jacket with image of a bloody scythe to front panel. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style j, verso lists 405 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1961 (despite "First Printing" statement and 1948 date on copyright page). ML #109.2. --- An unmarked, sound copy but with dulling to cover gilding. Price-clipped, Fair-only dust jacket with considerable rubbing to extremities along with a few tears and chips, but remaining mostly intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); (6), 278 pages .