ILLUSTRATED WITH SIX ORIGINAL COLOR LITHOGRAPHS

[Original Publisher's Prospectus for]: OEUVRES COMPLETES by Albert Camus. Six volumes in-quarto. Lithographies Originales de: Bores * Cavailles * Garbell * Guiramand * Pelayo * Andre Masson.

Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1961.

Price: $750.00


About the item

First edition, original publisher's prospectus (for six-volume set Oeuvres Completes by Albert Camus), illustrated with six original color lithographs (text in French). Illustrated with six original color lithographs (text in French) by Andre Masson, Francesco Bores, Jules Cavailles, Alexandre Garbell, Paul Guiramand and Orlando Pelayo) "tirees sur les presses de Mourlot Freres.". 4to. ILLUSTRATED WITH SIX ORIGINAL COLOR LITHOGRAPHS. Unprinted cardstock covers in printed dust jacket, bright copy in publisher's unprinted glassine dust wrapper; fragile glassine has few tiny nicks at tips of corners, else near fine.

Item #333574

Prints specimen title pages and sample text for four of the six volumes [Tome I: Recits et Romans, Tome II: Essais Litteraires, Tome III: Essais Philosophiques, Tome IV: Essais Politiques]. Also prints publisher's information about the set, quotes, and excerpts from text by Albert Camus, "Note de L'Editeur" by Andre Sauret, excerpts from reviews of Camus, and brief statements about each of the six illustrators.