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Camus, Albert.. The Plague.. Hamish Hamilton, London. 1948. First edition. Translated by Stuart Gilbert., 1948.

Price: US$162.44 + shipping

Description: Very Good-, without dust jacket (covers and spine unevenly faded; owner's name on FFEP; minor marginal lines). with laid in review from The New Statesman and Nation (1948) by V.S. Pritchett.

Seller: Much Ado Books, Alfriston, SUSSE, United Kingdom

Albert Camus. Translated by Stuart Gilbert.. The Plague.. Hamish Hamilton, London 1948, 1948.

Price: US$194.93 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition in English. Hardback. Bound in recent quarter leather over marbled boards, gilt spine titles, new endpapers. A fine copy.

Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom

Camus, Albert. The Plague. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1948.

Price: US$648.00 + shipping

Description: An acceptable copy of the first English edition in its original jacket featuring Michael Ayrton's bloody rat illustration. Acceptable in faded, dulled, and age stained original publisher's cloth. Foxed on the outer edges. Pages lightly toned and clean. Good with chips at the head and foot, hinges starting, price clipped, and heavily foxed on the back.

Seller: Memento Mori Fine and Rare Books, Stafford, VA, U.S.A.

Camus (Albert). The Plague. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1948.

Price: US$662.77 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First English edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 9s6d. First English edition of Camus' account of the Algerian town of Oran overtaken by a deadly epidemic, forcing its inhabitants to confront existential despair and the absurdity of human suffering. The story explores themes of isolation, morality, and the human condition.

Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom

Camus, Albert. The Plague. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1948.

Price: US$950.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First British edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with red spine titles blocked in silver. Very Good. Lean to binding and uneven sunning to cloth through dust jacket. Former owner names to front free endpaper and pages toned. In a Good unclipped dust jacket with losses at the spine ends, toning and edge wear, with heavy-handed tape repairs made to the blindside resulting in some active stickiness to the ends of the flap folds where the tape protrudes slightly over the paper.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Albert Camus. THE PLAGUE. Hamish Hamilton, New York, 1948.

Price: US$2144.95 + shipping

Description: Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Tiny owner name on FEP. Faint foxing throughout text. 1 inch open tear at bottom of front flap fold. Light chipping at spine crown.

Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.

Camus, Albert. THE PLAGUE.translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert. Hamish Hamilton [1948], London, 1948.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, cloth. Novel set in the 1940s concerning an epidemic in the city of Oran in French Algiers. Some critics viewed it as an allegory to the Nazi occupation. Considered with some relevance today vis-a-vis the coronavirus pandemic-sales surged for this book during the pandemic. Light foxing to page edges, some offsetting to the spine panel from the spine of the dust jacket, a just about fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a bright front panel and foxing to the rear panel. An attractive superior copy. (30701)

Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.