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Albert CAMUS L'Etranger

Albert CAMUS

L'Etranger

Gallimard, Paris 1942, 11,5x19cm, relié.


CAMUS Albert
L'étranger [The Stranger] Gallimard, Paris 1942, 115 x 190 mm (4 1/2 x 7 1/2 ”), half morocco
First edition, of which there were no grand papier (deluxe) copies, a rare advance (service de presse) copy.
Half black morocco over marbled paper boards by Alix, spine in six compartments, gilt date to foot, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt.
Ex-libris to one endpaper.
A fine copy in a very elegant binding by Alix.
This first edition of The Stranger was printed on 21 April 1942 in a few advance (service de presse) copies.
The copies for the author were lost on the way to Oran, where Camus was living (he received only one copy). The advance copies, which were not for sale, do not have a price [25 francs] marked on the lower cover.
The ordinary edition was printed in 4,400 copies and divided into eight fictive “editions” of 550 copies. Thus, most copies have a “false” mentioned of the 2nd to the 8th edition on the lower cover.
Paper was scarce in 1942 and Camus being as yet unknown at the time, Gallimard did not print luxury (or large) paper copies, as they often did. The advance copies are thus the leading copies and take the place of the grand papier (deluxe) copies.
 

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