Albert CamusABAA
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1940149802N.p.: N.p. 1940. Draft English language script of Camus' 1944 play. Ribbon copy typescript on onionskin circa 1940s largely faithful to the 1947 Stuart Gilbert English translation "Caligula and Cross Purpose" but with modifications made apparently for a smaller production. The adaptation includes the removal of incidental characters patricians knights poets guards and servants with their dialogue frequently merged with that of secondary characters the creation of an added "porch" set piece utilized to retain some dialogue otherwise lost the the simplification or removal of more elaborate set pieces and other minor editorial changes. <br/><br/>No information regarding the date or location of the production or intended production nor the translator or editor of this typescript is known.<br/><br/>Begun in 1938 and subject to numerous revisions "Caligula" was finally published in 1944 by Editions Gallimard first jointly with "The Misunderstanding" then alone later the same year. Part of Camus' "Cycle of the Absurd" with the 1942 novel "The Stranger" and the 1942 essay "The Myth of Sisyphus." The play premiered at the Theatre-Hebertot Paris September 9 1945 directed by Paul Oettly starring Gerard Philipe Michel Bouquet and Margo Lion.<br/><br/>Caligula third Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Germanicus after having been missing for three days following the death of his sister and lover Drusilla returns with a belief in 'absolute logic' which incurs the humiliation torture and murder of as many men and women as he can seeking 'total freedom' and leading to his own assassination. <br/><br/>Set in 41 AD Rome. <br/><br/>Beige title wrappers. Title page present with credits for playwright Albert Camus. 80 leaves with last page of text numbered IV--19. Ribbon copy typescript on onionskin rectos only. Pages 5.5 x 8.5 inches Near Fine with light wrinkling on first two leaves wrapper 6.5 x 9.5 inches Very Good plus with splitting on bottom half of spine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1956WN6448New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1956. Blue cloth spine with gilt lettering and brown paper boards with star ornaments. Top edge stained red. Owner bookplate on front pastedown. Some light foxing to endpapers. Unpriceclipped dust jacket has sunned spine and light soiling. A major work translated from the French from a great post-war author. First American Edition. Cloth Backed Boards. Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Trade. Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover books
1946192354Alfred Knopf: New York 1946. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good. First American Edition. Beige cloth boards have minor wear with light dust soiling. Clean has a good binding old name and address Asheville NC is written inside on the front pastedown- no other marks or notations. 154 pages. Foxed endpapers. Alfred Knopf: New York hardcover books
196781651NY:: Modern Library. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. Hardcover. Modern Library number 90. Translated from the French. Introduction by Ruby Cohn. Stated first edition. Very good in a very good a short closed edge tear and a tiny chip along the bottom edge of the front panel price clipped dust jacket. . Modern Library, hardcover books
1972175027New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1972. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. A posthumously published novel from the author of "The Fall." Translated by Richard Howard. A close to near fine copy with some bumping to the top corners and a former owner signature to the front free endpaper in a near fine dust jacket with some slight bumping to the top front corner. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1972298119London: Hamish Hamilton 1972. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Translated from the French by Richard Howard. Small 8vo cloth d.w. price clipped. Hamish Hamilton 1972. First British Edition.<br/><br/> His first novel published for the first time in English. Inscribed by the translator on the title page.<br/><br/> Hamish Hamilton unknown books
1972297558New York: Knopf 1972. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Translated from the French by Richard Howard. Small 8vo cloth d.w. New York: Knopf 1972. First American Edition.<br/><br/> His first novel. Review copy with publicity photo of the author.<br/><br/> Knopf unknown books
1972289618New York: Knopf 1972. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Translated from the French by Richard Howard. Small 8vo cloth d.w. New York: Knopf 1972. First American Edition.<br/><br/> His first novel.<br/><br/> Knopf unknown books
1972119628New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1972. First American edition of Camus' first novel published over 30 years after it was written and 11 years after his death. Octavo original cloth. Translated from the French by Richard Howard. Afterword and Notes by Jean Sarocchi. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson. In many ways A Happy Death foreshadows The Stranger but its most striking difference - beyond its differences of plot and intention - is that her Camus reveals more of himself than in his later more mythic fiction. At the root of the novel's drama is the existential concern: how is one to live in order to have a happy death Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
196023754New York: Caedmon Records 1960. First Edition. Near fine. 33 & 1/3 RPM LP album no. TTC 1138. Vinyl near fine. Album cover very good plus with minor wear to edges/corners. <br/><br/>Selections from La Peste La Chute L'été and L'Etranger read by the author in French. Cover design by S. Neil Fujita. Caedmon Records unknown books
195023755n.p.: Les Disques de France / Period Music Co. ca. 1950s. First Edition. Near fine. 33 & 1/3 RPM 12-inch LP album no. FRL 1534. Vinyl near fine. Cardboard sleeve heavily scuffed along edges cover moderately rubbed. Lower joint split with tears starting at spine and upper edge. <br/><br/>Four selections by Camus: a previously unpublished Address and a selection from L'Etranger read by Camus; Le Malentendu Act 2 Scene 1 read by Maria Casares and Alan Cuny; and Les Amandiers read by Serge Reggiani. Text of Camus' address printed on album sleeve in French and English. Rare. Les Disques de France / Period Music Co. unknown books
1948636891948. PRASSINOS Mario. CAMUS Albert. L' ETAT DE SIEGE: spectacle en trois parties. Paris: Gallimard 1948. Limited edition: From an edition of 1050 numbered copies on alfa Navarre bound in decorated paper-covered boards after a maquette by Mario Prassinos this is one of 60 specially numbered copies that were not offered for sale; this copy is number LV. Small 8vo.: 237 pp. Publisher's artist-style binding; bound in white paper boards decorated in gold and black with patterned endpapers. Light dust-soiling to top-edge of book block but internally fresh. Some sunning to top-edge of boards and spine with some occasional light soiling and joints are just starting at the top-edge. Very good plus. unknown books
1958D16556New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1958. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Small 8vo; pp. 213. Original cloth; dust jacket. Photo of Camus on rear panel by Karsh. Stated First American Edition. Nice copy. <br/><br/> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
195877349NY:: Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1958. Hardcover. B00710OUHQ . A novel. Translated from the French by Justin O'Brien. First American edition. Very good in a very good fading and age toning along the spine dust jacket. . Knopf, hardcover books
1958WN54854New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1958. Red cloth spine with gilt lettering and gray/green paper covered boards. Top edge has faint green stain. Dust jacket unpriceclipped is near fine but for some soiling on yellow section of upper panel. An exceptional copy of this Nobelist's explanation of man himself seeking an "inner kingdom" in which he "may be reborn.". First American Edition. Cloth Backed Paper Covered Bds. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover books
195832519London: Hamish Hamilton 1958. First English edition. 8vo pp. 156. Translated from the French by Justin O'Brien. Slight foxing on front endpapers and half-title o/w VG in chipped and mended dj. The author's debut and only collection of short stories. Now regarded as a late-modern classic. Hamish Hamilton unknown books
196829265Paris 1968. 26 cm; periodical illustrated. Wrappers very good. Nos. 413-414. <br/><br/> unknown books
1953012191Paris: Gallimard 1953. Early Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 1953 printing the first being 1942. Cream-colored printed paper covers a tad soiled. leaves gently toned as expected still solidly bound. With bookseller ticket forSchoenhof's Foreign Books Cambridge MA. Gallimard unknown books
197130107Paris: Gallimard 1971. First edition. Copy 190 of 306 on vélin Lafuma-Navarre second paper. Bound in dark green morocco with wood veneer panels inlaid on the covers by Alain Devauchelle top edge gilt others uncut. Fine. <br/><br/> Gallimard unknown books
197130087Paris: Gallimard 1971. First edition. Wrappers fine. Copy 22 of 106 on Holland van Gelder paper tirage de tête. <br/><br/> Gallimard unknown books
19472309450Gallimard 1947. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Ink underlining on just a couple pages. 1947 Mass Market Paperback. 255 pp. Often translated as "The Plague" this French-language novel tells the story of a plague that sweeps through French Algiers. Gallimard paperback books
1994042127Paris: Gallimard 1994. 331 4p. original stiff printed wrappers Cahiers Albert Camus 7. Gallimard unknown books
1945040113Paris: Gallimard 1945. 1e Edition. 80 7p. original stiff printed wrappers "sur Alfa" no. 52 of 2000 copies. Gallimard unknown books
1948119263Paris: Gallimard 1948. First edition of this classic play by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo original wrappers. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the half-title page "A. M. Antomin <span class="match">en</span> cordial hommage Albert Camus." In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Written in 1948 The State of Siege--the original sense is closer to state of emergency--is a play in three acts presenting the arrival of plague personified by a young opportunist in sleepy Cadiz and the subsequent creation of a totalitarian regime through the manipulation of fear. In a piece written in 1948 in reply to criticisms from Gabriel Marcel Camus defended his decision to set the play in Spain and not in Eastern Europe citing the ongoing oppression in Spain France's collusion in it and the Catholic Church's abandonment of Spanish Christians. The piece was first performed in October 1948 and was initially received poorly by critics and public who had eagerly awaited the work but expected a dramatization of Camus's novel The Plague. While the two share a common background the treatments are entirely different in tone. Although Camus himself was pleased with the work critics remained unimpressed. The State of Siege has remained constantly in print in French and since 1958 in an English translation by Stuart Gilbert--in Caligula and Three Other Plays. Gallimard unknown books
194795102Paris: Gallimard 1947. First edition of Camus' short story collection exploring themes of existentialism and absurdism. Octavo original cloth. One of only 950 numbered copies this is number 783. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable. This collection of six short stories covers the whole variety of existentialism or absurdism as Camus himself insisted his philosophical ideas be called. The six works collected in this volume include: The Adulterous Woman The Renegade of a Confused Spirit The Silent Man The Guest Jonas or the Artist at Work and The Growing Stone. The final story most clearly manifests Camus' existential ideals with a protagonist who actively shapes his life in spite of receiving a deep insight into the absurdity of the world and acting morally nevertheless. Gallimard hardcover books
