Albert Camus // Lettres à un Ami Allemand

 

Lausanne, Marguerat, 1946

First Swiss Edition

 

First Swiss edition, 1946 – inscribed and signed by Albert Camus who mentions ‘the plague’, which is also an explicit reference to the book “The Plague”.

“A Jacqueline Danne ... ces lettres... écrites au temps de la Peste, avec la fidèle sympathie d'Albert Camus." (“To Jacqueline Danne, these letters written at the time of the plague, with the loyal sympathy of Albert Camus”)

In original wrappers, unopened – in fine condition.

Four letters written to a fictitious German as wartime inspiration to free Europeans. First published in 1945 by Gallimard. The first three letters were initially published separately during the war, in clandestine newspapers.

 
$2,200

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