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250711031Vintage 2059-02-12. Mass Market Paperback. Like New. 5x0x7. Softcover Different cover than image. Near Fine condition. For any additional information or pictures please inquire. Vintage paperback
1955000016359New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1955. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 6 vi 4 3-212 2 pp. Quarter navy cloth over yellow paper boards with a design in blind on the front board gold lettering on the spine. Price of $3.50 net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Rudolph Ruzicka. Translated from the French by Justin O'Brien. Roeming 0453. Camus' writings on the absurd the nature of fate and human happiness. A pleasing example. A bump and small tear to the front board a bump to the rear board; jacket with a tape ghost on its reverse and with a closed tear on its front panel. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1955192704London: Hamish Hamilton 1955. One must imagine Sisyphus happy First edition in English including a new preface by Camus and collecting the title essay alongside "Summer in Algiers" "The Minotaur or The Stop in Oran" "Helen's Exile" "Return to Tipasa" and "The Artist and His Time". Camus's absurdist treatise on the philosophical problem of suicide was first published as Le Mythe de Sisyphe in 1942. Addressing his English readers Camus comments that "written fifteen years ago in 1940 amidst the French and European disaster this book declares that even within the limits of nihilism it is possible to find the means to proceed beyond nihilism. This book is in a certain sense the most personal of those I have published in English". It acts as a non-fictional companion to his novel L'Étranger 1942. The translator Justin O'Brien 1906-1968 was a professor of French at Columbia University who translated many works by Camus and certain works by Jean-Paul Sartre and André Gide including Gide's collected journals. Octavo. Original blue boards spine lettered in silver. With dust jacket. Spine ends bumped a few spots to edges; jacket unclipped spine lightly toned closed tear to spine head couple of nicks and creases: a very good copy in like jacket. hardcover
39797502-20Used - Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. unknown
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1955022279London: Hamish Hamilton. Original blue cloth in Dust Jacket. First English Edition. Provenance: From the library of Professor William B. Bjornstad with his small neat signature on the front free endpaper dated November 21 1955 the year of publication. Important statement of Camus philosophy of the absurd. Heffer written in small letters at foot of front flap of Dust Jacket Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1955. Hamish Hamilton hardcover
1955212314Hamish Hamilton 1955. First English Translation first printing. Hardcover in dust jacket. Inked in ownership along inside edge of ffep light rippling to inside edge of front paste down from binding some acid browning from laid in Times supplement now in mylar sleeve. Text block is extremely clean crisp and tight very near fine in near fine to fine dust jacket with a shade of toning to spine and just a touch of wear to spine head NOT price-clipped in mylar cover. It's difficult to find a more beautiful copy of this monumental absurdist text. <br /> <br /> Originally written in 1942 The Myth of Sisyphus is in many ways the literary companion to The Stranger––published that same year. <br /> <br /> As an introduction to his absurdist philosophy this work addresses what is in Camus' estimation the only truly serious philosophical problem"––suicide. In Camus' own words: "This book declares that even within the limits of nihilism it is possible to find the means to proceed beyond nihilism. The Myth of Sisyphus sums itself up for me as a lucid invitation to live and to create in the very midst of the desert." <br /> <br /> Translated from the French by Justin O'Brien. <br /> <br /> Includes the Times literary supplement from Friday Jan. 8 1960 discussing Camus' influence. Hamish Hamilton hardcover
7525London: Hamish Hamilton 1971. 141 x 217 x 21 mms. Bound by Haein Song in 2013 in a Bradel binding with dark blue vellum sides and natural goatskin spine. Hand tooled in gold. Hand printed endpapers with leather joint to panel doublures. Housed in the original purple cloth clamshell box with gilt lettering on upper cover.Camus' philosophical essay compares the absurdity of man's life with the Sisyphus a figure of Greek mythology who was condemned to repeat forever the same meaningless task of pushing a boulder up a mountain only to see it roll down again. Song’ inspiration for the binding design came from a beautifully haunting reflection on life's absurdity and our futile search for meaning unity and clarity.<br>Haein Song originally from Seoul in South Korea is a fellow of Designer Bookbinders and a remarkable book artist. Her bindings and artist’s books are in many public and private collections and her work is much sought after. Hamish Hamilton hardcover
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19584622512 volumes each with around 100 pages plus advertisements at front and rear monthly review of literature plus letters includes index booklet for the volume loose in issue 1 the last four issues of the year include original yellow promotional wraps on covers Published by The London Magazine paperback
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