(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963).

FIRST EDITION OF A SPIRITUAL AND INTELLECTUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY. "From 1935 until his death, Albert Camus kept a series of notebooks to sketch out ideas for future works, record snatches of conversations and excerpts from books he was reading, jot down his reflections on death and the horror of war, his feelings about women, about loneliness, and art and the Algerian sun and sea. This volume, the first of three, includes all entries made from the time when Camus was still completely unknown in Europe, until 1942, when the publication of The Stranger made him immediately famous." - Knopf. Item #34802

First American edition. 8vo, original black cloth lettered in red and gilt on the spine and upper cover, in the original dustjacket. x, 224 pp. A fine copy of the book. The jacket near fine but for a closed tear and unobtrusive minor edgewear.