(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968).

FIRST EDITION OF CAMUS' EARLIEST PUBLISHED WRITINGS, CONCERNING HIS YOUTH IN ALGERIA AND THE MOST IMPORTANT CRITICAL STATEMENTS MADE BY HIM OVER THE YEARS. "The first section includes autobiographical and lyrical writings. This is the young Camus exploring, within the context of his own immediate experience, ideas about the absurdity of the world, about physical life, about death; writing with passion about his feelings for nature, particularly the sea...The second section contains critical writings about the then unknown Sartre, and also Stendhal, Madame de Lafayette, Melville, and William Faulkner.' - Knopf. Item #34807

First American Edition. 8vo, publisher's original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, in the original dustjacket. x, 365 pp. A very fine copy and a fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to the extremities and a tiny chip at the foldover corner.