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Camus, Albert
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
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Description
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The Stranger. New York: Knopf, 1946
8vo (7 1/4 x 4 7/8 in;185 x 125 mm). Publisher's brown-lettered tan cloth in illustrated dust-jacket; jacket rubbed, loss at head and tail of spine panel.
8vo (7 1/4 x 4 7/8 in;185 x 125 mm). Publisher's brown-lettered tan cloth in illustrated dust-jacket; jacket rubbed, loss at head and tail of spine panel.
Provenance
Raymond Chandler (Drexel Avenue, Los Angeles address stamp); Jean Davis signature
Catalogue Note
Publisher's presentation from Blanche Knopf of the first American edition "From Blanche Knopf" in Chandler's hand on front blank.
Knopf recognizes kindred spirits Chandler's novels were first issued in France in 1947 as numbers in the Serie Noire imprint (see lots 125 and 126) placing him among a roster that included "hard-boiled" Americans like David Goodis, Cain, Hammett and Chandler. The bleak themes and moral ambivalence on display paralleled the Existentialists and Camus was particularly interested, especially by Chandler. Mrs. Knopf obviously thought the interest might be reciprocal, thus her presentation of The Stranger to him.