CAMUS, Albert.

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Lettres à un ami allemand. First edition, inscribed by the author on the half title, "à M. L. D. Hirsch avec la cordial sympathie Albert Camus". This work consists of four texts in the form of letters written by a Frenchman to a former German friend who has embraced Nazism. The first three were published in clandestine newspapers during the occupation. The recipient, Louis-Daniel Hirsch, was the marketing director of Gallimard from 1922. He later became the general secretary to Gaston Gallimard and was head of the Reading Committee. This is from a limited edition of 2,265 copies, of which this is Number 2,213 of the 2,000 numbered trade copies on alfa Navarre.

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