Description

FIRST EDITION.

One of 325 numbered copies on gravure paperafter 25 copies on pur-fil and before 35 copies hors-commerce on papier bouffant.

This first work by Camus originated Pain by André de Richaud, " the first [says Camus], to talk to me about what I knew: a mother, poverty, beautiful evenings in the sky "This is the story of a childhood spent in the working-class streets of Belcourt. After a series of essays on this district of Algiers come travelogues to the Balearic Islands, Prague and Venice.
Published by Charlot in less than 400 copies, the text would later benefit from the success of The Stranger and The myth of Sisyphus. The author agreed to a reprint with a preface published by Gallimard in 1958.

Elegant full paper binding, signed Goy-Vilaine, with the two-tone title running horizontally across the spine and boards.