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CAMUS (Albert).

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L'Envers et l'endroit. Paris, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1956. In-8, two-tone grey and incarnate box, mosaic title in wooden letters scrolled on both boards straddling the caesura underlined by a printed leather inlay, smooth spine decorated with a vertical fillet titled in gilt, scrolled wooden lining, beige suede endpapers, untrimmed, cover and spine, grey box-covered folder and slipcase (Devauchelle). Second edition, partly original, with a long preface by the author. It is decorated with an original drypoint by Hans Bellmer. Unique edition at 100 copies on Arches vellum. Albert Camus' first published work, L'Envers et l'endroit was first published in Algiers in 1937. Superb binding by Devauchelle.

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