CAMUS, ALBERT. La Peste. [Paris]: Gallimard [1947]. 8vo, original printed cream wrappers, unopened, plain glassine overlay; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, no. 143 of 200 numbered copies on vélin pur fil des Papeteries Lafuma-Navarre of an edition of 2355, DOUBLE PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author in blue ink at head of half-title: "pour Yves Breton, ami des livres, ce petit essai de prophylaxie avec l'hommage très cordial d'Albert Camus"; later, in black ink, Camus crossed through Breton's name, and drew an arrow from it to a new inscription lower on the half-title: "variante 1952: Jacques Lecat." Connolly, The Modern Movement 95. A very fine copy.

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CAMUS, ALBERT. La Peste. [Paris]: Gallimard [1947]. 8vo, original printed cream wrappers, unopened, plain glassine overlay; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, no. 143 of 200 numbered copies on vélin pur fil des Papeteries Lafuma-Navarre of an edition of 2355, DOUBLE PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author in blue ink at head of half-title: "pour Yves Breton, ami des livres, ce petit essai de prophylaxie avec l'hommage très cordial d'Albert Camus"; later, in black ink, Camus crossed through Breton's name, and drew an arrow from it to a new inscription lower on the half-title: "variante 1952: Jacques Lecat." Connolly, The Modern Movement 95. A very fine copy.