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The Stranger
by Camus, Albert
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good
- Seller
-
Albany, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First US Edition/6th Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. A very nice early copy in ochre cloth with brown titling and brown tinted top page ends. Nice and clean with sharp corners and tight binding. Only slightest cock to spine, a little wear/fading at heel and crease to one page corner. MCA Artists bookplate to bottom of ffep Unclipped jacket ($3.00) has chips at front corners and a couple to same flap crease. Paper clip mark to top of front panel and tiny staple holes to top of front flap. A little wear to spine ends, a few light scuffs, crease to top front corner edge and tiny abrasion to jacket spine. In extremely scarce wrap around belly bound celebrating the author receiving the Nobel Prize which has creases to inside flaps and tanning at spine with nick/tiny chip at top.
Synopsis
Born in Algeria in 1913, Albert Camus published The Stranger –now one of the most widely read novels of this century–in 1942. Celebrated in intellectual circles, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LPB005950AC
- Title
- The Stranger
- Author
- Camus, Albert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First US Edition/6th Printing
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Bookseller catalogs
- French Literature;
Terms of Sale
Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
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About the Seller
Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Albany, California
About Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Jacket
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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