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One of Twenty-Four Hors Commerce Copies of Camus’ “L’Etat de Siege”
CAMUS, Albert.  

L’État de Siège.  Spectacle en trois parties  [Paris]: Gallimard, [1948].

First edition.

Octavo. [239] pp. Text in French. Original light blue wraps printed in red and black, in the original glassine. Some light wear to glassine, else fine. Many pages unopened.

First edition, one of twenty-four Hors Commerce copies out of 235 copies printed on “alfa Navarre,” out of a total edition of 1,250. Hors Commerce copies were numbered from “XVII” to “LI.” This copy is numbered “XXXIV.”

L’État de Siège (“State of Siege”) is a play based loosely on his book, The Plague, but is different in tone, being about how an opportunistic young man creates a totalitarian regime in Cadiz through manipulation of fear.

Camus (1913-1960) was a major French philosopher and writer. He is known as an existentialist, but he considered himself a nihilist. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.

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$ 300


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