The Stranger
by Camus, Albert
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/Very Good
- Seller
-
Albany, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. First US Edition/19th Printing. Hardcover. Fair/Very Good. In beige cloth with brown titling. An ex-library copy with tape shadows to boards, some spotting to same and rubbing through bottom corners. Stamp to top page ends. Tape and/or tape shadows to endpapers with stray spots. Both hinges split with with mull showing, but still solid. FFEP cut out with stickers and tape shadows to first page after. Stickers and stamps to title page and page following. About 20 stray marks - brackets and underlines in text. Jacket is unclipped ($7.95) and in great shape with light edgewear and a few tiny chips and nicks to head of spine. Sticker shadow towards bottom of spine.
Synopsis
Born in Algeria in 1913, Albert Camus published The Stranger –now one of the most widely read novels of this century–in 1942. Celebrated in intellectual circles, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident.
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Details
- Seller
- Lost Paddle Books, IOBA (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- LPB005222AC
- Title
- The Stranger
- Author
- Camus, Albert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US Edition/19th Printing
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- French Literature;
Terms of Sale
Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
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About the Seller
Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
About Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...