PRESENTATION-COPY

CAMUS, ALBERT.

L'Exil et le Royaume. nouvelles.

(Paris), Gallimard, (1957). Bound with the original printed wrappers in an elegant light brown morocco binding with gilt lettering to spine and waxed patterned paper in red-browninsh nuances to boards. Gilt lineborder to boards. Top-edge gilt. Binding signed Alain Devauchelle. Gilt super ex-libris to inside of front board. Housed in brown paper slipcase with light brown morocco-edges. An excellent, clean, blight, and fresh copy. With the original advertisement-leaf for "L'Exil et le Royaume".

First edition, Service de Presse-copy ("S. P." punctured to bottom of back wrapper) - with signed presentation-inscription for the publisher Camille Bloch to half-title - of Camus' great collection of stories, which are considered among the best of his works. Together, these stoires cover the entire variety of existentialism - or absurdism. There is general consensus that the clearest manifestation of the ideals of Camus can be found in the present work.

Order-nr.: 58823