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Albert Camus. Outsider. Hamish Hamilton, 1946.
Price: US$37.26 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.5
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Camus, Albert. The Outsider. Hamish Hamilton, 1946.
Price: US$302.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hamish Hamilton, London 1946 / Hardback. UK First Edition and First Impression of the first english translation of the authors existential masterpiece. Very Good Hardback with some discoloration to cover and minor rubbing to extremities. Book is square and the binding is tight, with minor dust-toning/spotting to text-block (lacks Dustjacket). A sound copy of the first printing of this now elusive edition.
Seller: fahrenheit978, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Price: US$457.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First published in France 1942 as "L'Etranger. 19cm tall. 104pp. In the original green cloth (gilt titles to spine) with gilt initials to bottom of front board. No previous owner marks, or book plate etc. Some minor soiling round the extremities of front board; otherwise as discribed.
Seller: anglimm books, Truro, United Kingdom
Camus, Albert. The Outsider. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1946.
Price: US$1030.61 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Pages bright, light spotting on some pages, inscription on front endpaper, spotting and light foxing on endpapers and pastedowns, heavy spotting on closed edges, shelf wear to boards but binding firm, illustrated front of dust jacket in good condition but heavy spotting to rear of jacket, jacket price clipped, some chipping to edges, tear with 3cm loss on foot of jacket spine, tear with 2cm loss on head of jacket spine. Please inquire for photos of condition. Size: 12mo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Camus, Albert. The Outsider. Hamish Hamilton, 1946.
Price: US$1223.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1946 Hamish Hamilton hardback 1st edition 1st impression. Very good clean tight binding in very good restored unclipped dustjacket. Wonderful jacket design by Edward Bawden.
Seller: MacKellar Art & Books, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Camus, Albert. The Outsider (The Stranger). Hamish Hamilton, London, 1946.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First British edition, first English language translation as well. Bluish green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Very Good with light spine lean, cloth sunned through dust jacket, pages toned, and foxed at endsheets and edges. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with toning, foxing, dust-soiling and edge wear, with a roughly 2" closed split to the top end of the front spine joint. The existential novella better known to American readers as The Stranger and the French as L'Etranger.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Albert Camus. The Outsider. Hamish Hamilton, 1946.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: G/G. Jacket in mylar. 1st UK edition. Spine of book and jacket sunned, corner bump, very small chip to head
Seller: AwardWinningBooks, Spring Branch, TX, U.S.A.
Camus, Albert. The Outsider. Hamish Hamilton, 1946.
Price: US$1545.92 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1946 Hamish Hamilton hardback 1st edition 1st impression. Very good clean tight binding in very good+ unclipped dustjacket. Very minor repairs to jacket. Wonderful jacket design by Edward Bawden. A clean bright copy with no inscriptions.
Seller: MacKellar Art & Books, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
CAMUS Albert. The Outsider. , 1946.
Price: US$1610.33 + shipping
Description: First edition in English. 8vo., original green cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, original lithographed dust jacket by Edward Bawden. London, Hamish Hamilton. The first English translation, by Stuart Gilbert, of Camus's famous work of 1942 with an introduction by Cyril Connolly. The 1946 US edition, entitled 'The Stranger', Gilbert's own choice, hints at debates about the translation including the famous first line. Edward Bawden's jacket design is informed by his years as an official war artist in the Middle East and North Africa. Neat contemporary ownership inscription of 'K. Scholfied' to front free endpaper, light spotting to endpapers and edges of text block, otherwise generally internally clean and unmarked, light wear to extremities of jacket, minor chipping to head of spine and short closed tear at the foot with a small, unobtrusive tape reinforcement to verso, some minor marking and spotting to rear panel, notwithstanding a very good copy overall.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Camus, Albert. The Outsider [Stranger]. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1946.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First UK edition, preceding the first American edition. A lovely, Near Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket. Book with a bit of foxing, mostly to the closed text block and the spine cloth a trifle faded. Dust jacket with slight wear at the crown and a very small chip at the base of the spine. Spine a bit toned and a few spots of foxing to the rear panel, but generally a fresh, bright copy. Camus' groundbreaking debut, first published in France in 1942, positioned him as one of Europe's most influential existentialist thinkers (though Camus himself would resist that label). Written in the lead up to the Nazi invasion, The Outsider follows the protagonist Meursault, a French Algerian, as he learns of his mother's death, commits a murder the same day, and is ultimately sentenced to death. Throughout the experience, Meursault eschews all of the expected human emotions; he is detached from bourgeois feelings, focusing instead on the absolute absurdity of life. Before Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, becoming the first African-born laureate, he explained that the novel was inspired by "a remark I admit was highly paradoxical: 'In our society, a man who does not weep at his funeral runs the risk of being sentenced to death.'.the hero of my book is condemned because he does not play the game" (Carroll). A foundational and brilliant part of the modern literary-philosophical canon. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
CAMUS, Albert.. The Outsider.. London Hamish Hamilton, 1946.
Price: US$1815.00 + shipping
Description: First edition in English, first impression; 8vo; light spotting to margins and fore-edge; publisher's grey cloth, gilt lettering to spine, spine and edges slightly faded, with the original pictorial dust jacket designed by Edward Bawden, neatly repaired tear to front panel, slight edge-wear, spine ends slightly chipped, some toning to edges, overall a very good example. A very good example of the UK first of Camus' masterpiece. Gilbert's wonderful translation matched by one of its era's greatest pieces of book design. Connolly (100 Modern Books), 94B.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1932.39 + shipping
Description: First edition in English, first impression, translated from L'Étranger, first published in 1942. The English translation by Stuart Gilbert, the British scholar and friend of James Joyce, was published in London by Hamish Hamilton as The Outsider and in New York by Alfred A. Knopf under Gilbert's original title, The Stranger. The London edition was published in January 1946, preceding the New York edition, which had been planned to coincide with the author's visit there in April. Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in black morocco, spine lettered in gilt, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, twin rule to turn-ins, gilt edges. The occasional minor blemish, an excellent copy in a fine binding.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2576.53 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom