8vo. Original blue-green cloth, spine stamped in silver and lettered in red (light spotting to text block); dust jacket (price-clipped, spotting to extremities). Provenance: From the William A. Strutz Library (his sale, Heritage, 10 September 2025, lot 45037). 

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Originally published in French in 1947 as La Peste (Paris, Gallimard), this edition was translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert and precedes the U.S. edition published by Knopf.  "[The Plague] represents the liberation of Camus from existentialism into something nearer the collective revolutionary heroism of La Condition Humaine. It is an allegory of the German Occupation, transposed as an outbreak of the plague in Oran" (Connolly, The Modern Movement 95). A BRIGHT COPY.