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The Outsider.: Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert. Introduction by Cyril Connolly.
by CAMUS, Albert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Hamish Hamilton,, 1946. Mother died to-day. Or, maybe, yesterday... First edition in English, first impression, an exemplary copy. Translated from Camus's L'Étranger, first published in 1942, this English version was made by Stuart Gilbert, the British scholar and friend of James Joyce. The London edition was published in January 1946, preceding the New York edition by Knopf which appeared in April under the title The Stranger. Octavo. Original grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the Bawden-designed dust jacket. Slight sunning to spine, some trivials spots to page edges only; jacket somewhat toned to spine, very minor wear to ends and corners: a near-fine copy in like jacket, unclipped.
Synopsis
Published in 1942, The Outsider was Camus' first novel. The main character is Meursault, who holds no real opinion, nor does anything seem to effect him. From the dark horizon of my future a sort of slow, persistent breeze had been blowing toward me, all my life long, from the years that were to come. and on its way that breeze had leveled out all the ideas that people tried to foist on me in the equally unreal years i then was living through."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 168861
- Title
- The Outsider.
- Author
- CAMUS, Albert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Hamish Hamilton,
- Date Published
- 1946
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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