The Plague

by Albert Camus

$575 · Offered by B Street Books

First edition

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first American edition of La Peste translated by Stuart Gilbert. From the jacket: When in the spring of 1947 La Peste was published in Paris, it created an immediate sensation. Camus was recognized all over Europe as having realized to the full his enormous promise. The Plague is far and away the finest novel to come out of postwar Europe . Wear to upper

• Binding: Hardcover

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