Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$10.61 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 154 pp. Nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Previous owner's writing, underlining and marginalia throughout text. Mildly shelf worn.
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Camus, Albert; Gilbert, Stuart [translator]. THE STRANGER. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 154 pages. In Good condition lacking the dust jacket. Bound in the publisher's full beige cloth with brown lettering to the spine. Boards show slight shelf wear including lightly age toned spine and to the head/tail edges. Slight cocking to the spine. Text block has moderate age toning to the edges. Mild offsetting to the end papers. Pencil to the front free end paper. Slight tape residue and damage to the end papers. Some light foxing to a few pages. Rear end paper torn out. Newspaper toning to last leaf. Shelved case 6. 1377324. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Camus, Albert. The Stranger. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.
Price: US$227.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert. First American Edition stated. Foxing and glue discoloration inside covers. Stains on spine, 2 on front cover, handling. 154 pages.
Seller: Take Five Books, Ashland, OR, U.S.A.
CAMUS, Albert. The Stranger. Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1953 5th printing of the American edition in lightly shelf worn price intact ($2.75) jacket. Tight and unmarked. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Albert Camus. The Stranger. Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert. First American Edition/First Printing/First Issue Dust Jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION stated on copyright page, verso title page. 1946 stated on both copyright & title page. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Boards are firm & straight. Engraved maroon lettering on spine & matching Borzoi logo on back board are entirely unfaded, clear, & intact. A couple of small stains on spine & front board. Minor tanning to top edges of both boards. Minor fraying along one small strip of front board's bottom edge. Extremely small-scale pilling of cloth on both boards. Notable bumping to both ends of spine. Some spotting to top of text block. Side & bottom of text block look clear & attractive. Binding is tight overall - very slightly less-so where text-block meets either board. A couple of very small stains on front pastedown. Areas of staining & small pieces of residue remaining on FFEP (opposite front pastedown). Residue appears to be from removed bookplate, sticker, or similar. Vertical staining to half of final page of text, p. 154, darkening text but not ruining text's legibility. Novel's entire 154 pages of text are present, including novel's correct last line, but copy's RFEP - in addition to the 1 page immediately preceding it - have been cut out. While RFEP would be blank, the nature of the preceding missing page remains unknown. No writing, markings, stickers, bookplates, or similar found inside book. All text (w/ exception of aforementioned staining on p. 154) appears 100% clean, clear, legible, & unfaded. Pieces of residue & areas of abrasion present on rear pastedown. Not a single stamp or other library marking exists anywhere in or on this copy, so unlikely to be ex-library. Residue & abrasions thus likely due to removed stickers, bookplates, tape, etc. ORIGINAL dust jacket. Jacket currently consists of 4 separate, unattached pieces, due to splitting along vertical creases between each panel & flap. Mylar covering alone now holds dust jacket together. Jacket appears to have been horizontally folded into thirds at some point, leaving creases. Prior owner had both glued & taped stiff backing material to jacket, which was later removed. Significant abrasions, chipping, open & closed tears, splitting, residue, & residual black tape along the top of jacket as result. Despite past, rough mishandling, dust jacket remains mostly complete & almost entirely legible. Foxing to much of jacket. Unclipped. Original $2.00 net price still visible on front flap, albeit in slightly broken type (presumably from tape abrasion). Overall, a solid & exceptionally rare copy in first! Additional images available upon request. Please don't hesitate to message me for any further information!
Seller: Liv's Library, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Camus, Albert. The Stranger. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with spine stamped in brown; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light toning and dust-soiling, former owner name stamped to front free endpaper, pages toned and with a few light brown stains and creased corners. A nice copy.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Albert Camus. The Stranger. Knopf, 1946.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.NEAR FINE hardcover book in VERY GOOD mylar-protected, price-clipped dust-jacket. DJ has chipping along the upper edge of front panel and a little bit of wear at spine ends. No previous owner names or markings. Not remainder marked. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. First US Edition, First Printing.
Seller: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, U.S.A.
Camus, Albert; Stuart Gilbert [Translator]. The Stranger. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition. [vi], 154, [1] pp. Bound in publisher'sl tan cloth with maroon spine lettering, red topstain. Basically Fine, contents unmarked, hint of toning to spine, lacking the dust jacket. A very nice copy of the classic existential novel.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Camus, Albert. The Stranger. Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Stated first american edition- a petite hardcover in creme cloth with maroon titling and flowers along spine. 154p. Deckled pages with deep red top stain. Book is in good condition. Moisture exposure is present, though mild, has faintly stained both boards and endpapers. Last 69 pages are slightly wrinkled and top stain has been rubbed away from these pages. Binding is secure. Dust jacket is in good- condition, unclipped. More visibly moisture soiled, especially over rear panel and inner flaps. Small chips have been taken from spine ends, edges and folds. Bit of creasing and minor scuffing around margins.
Seller: Chamblin Bookmine, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.
CAMUS, Albert. The Stranger. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. Small stain on front board, a very good copy lacking the dust jacket. Renowned sculptor and artist Tony Smith's copy with his Signature on the front fly written over a pale wash of watercolor and dated in the year of publication. *Connolly 100*.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Albert Camus. The Stranger. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.
Price: US$1575.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American Edition stated on copyright page. In original, unclipped ($2.00 net) jacket in protective sheet. Jacket design by Warren Chappell. General wear and chipping at edges, toning to the rear panel. Tan cloth over boards with red lettering on the spine. Minor dsicoloration to covers at edges, buming at head/tail of spine. Solid and square binding. Top-stain red, long edge deckled. Old bookseller notes in pencil on front pastedown and ffep. The interior is lightly and evenly toned, otherwise it is clean and clear. A seminole work of 20th century philosophical literature and the first novel from Camus, part of his cycle of the absurd. Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert. Pages:(8) 155 Dimensions:7½ x 5 x ¾ .
Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$1921.30 + 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
Camus, Albert. The Stranger.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition of Camus' first novel and masterpiece. Octavo, original beige cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, contemporary inscription to the front free endpaper, abrasion to the front panel. Jacket design by Warren Chappell. Translated by Stuart Gilbert. Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." With the publication of this first novel LâEtranger (The Stranger), Camus introduced his lifelong attempt to reconcile a philosophy of heroic nihilism with âthe ideal of human fraternityâ (Encyclopedia of Philosophy). It remains one of the classic works of the twentieth century.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Camus, Albert. The Stranger. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's beige cloth stamped in brown. Near Fine with light toning and light wear to the edges, softening to the spine ends. Browning to pages 78/79 from a clipping formerly laid in, affect adjacent pages as well. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, edge wear, chipping to spine ends, and foxing and two small tape repairs to the blindside.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Camus, Albert. The Stranger.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1946.
Price: US$45000.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition of Camus' first novel and masterpiece. Octavo, original beige cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "A Vincent Sheean pour le remercier de savoir si bien parler de Stendhal Sympathiquement Albert Camus." The recipient, Vincent Sheean was an American journalist and novelist. Sheean's most famous work was Personal History, which won one of the inaugural National Book Awards: the Most Distinguished Biography of 1935. Film producer Walter Wanger acquired the political memoir and made it the basis for his 1940 film production Foreign Correspondent, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Sheean wrote the narration for the feature-length documentary Crisis (1939) directed by Alexander Hammid and Herbert Kline. He translated Ãve Curie's biography of her mother, Madame Curie (1939), into English. Sheean wrote Oscar Hammerstein I: Life and Exploits of an Impresario (1955) as well as a controversial biography of Dorothy Thompson and Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy and Red (1963). He studied at the University of Chicago, becoming part of a literary circle which included Glenway Wescott, Yvor Winters, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Janet Lewis while he was there. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Warren Chappell. Translated by Stuart Gilbert. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Presentation copies of The Stranger are rare, with only one appearing at auction in the past 70 years. Exceedingly scarce and desirable. Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." With the publication of this first novel LâEtranger (The Stranger), Camus introduced his lifelong attempt to reconcile a philosophy of heroic nihilism with âthe ideal of human fraternityâ (Encyclopedia of Philosophy). It remains one of the classic works of the twentieth century.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.