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Small octavo, [8], 154pp, [2]. Olive cloth, title stamped on spine in red. Stated "first American edition" on copyright page. Light offsetting to endpapers, faint foxing to leafends. Free of any marks or notations. Top right corner bumped, wear to cloth along front panel. In the publisher's early state dust jacket, $3.95 on the front flap, shallow chips to spine and along top edge, bright illustrations, a near fine example. (Roeming 0294) A scarce first American edition of this work. The publisher's first state dust jacket had a retail price of $2.00 net on the front flap, with an advertisement for "Men Of Good Will" by Jules Romains on the rear panel.

L'Etranger (The Stranger) is a novel by French author Albert Camus published in 1942. Its theme and outlook are often cited as examples of Camus's philosophy of the absurd and existentialism, though Camus personally rejected the latter label.