Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
New York: Alfred a Knopf, 1961. First American Edition. Octavo. Item #024028
272 pp., translated from the French and with an introduction by Justin O'Brien. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, this work introduces a new Camus in this testament of a writer who, more than any other of the twentieth century, believe that the artist must be committed to his times, that his "only justification....is to speak up...for those who cannot do so." he himself selected the pieces that make up this volume because they represented the sum total of his life. A very good copy bound in 1/4 maroon cloth over blue paper covered boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, from the library of Ernest Robert Simon, M.D., noted hematologist and medical ethicist, and discoverer of adenine as an essential additive for prolonging the shelf life of blood intended for transfusion with his bookplate, in a very good unclipped dust jacket with some chipping to spine ends, wear along the upper edges, and a circular piece torn away from spine which has also formed a circular fade spot on spine.
Price: $85.00