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Lot 62
Sale 1023 - The Library of Jack Charles Davis, Sold to Support Charitable Institutions
May 3, 2022
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CAMUS, Albert (1913-1960). La Peste. Paris: Gallimard, 1947.
8vo. Half-title. Original wrappers; original glassine.
FIRST EDITION, one of 215 copies on velin pur fil des Papeteries Lafuma-Navarre, this being one of 15 hors commerce copies labeled "i", of a total edition of 2355. "La Peste 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).