Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert. Introduction by Cyril Connolly.
London: Hamish Hamilton. 1946.
First edition in English. 8vo. 185x120mm. pp. [iv], 3-103 [1]. Grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Original dustjacket illustrated by Edward Bawden. Bumping to head and foot of spine. Repair to top and bottom edges of dustjacket and two closed tears to top edge and slight chipping to bottom edge of rear of dustjacket but otherwise in very good condition and internally excellent. It is not common in a good jacket. Camus's concise, dense, absurdist novel of alienation first appeared in 1942. Stuart Gilbert's English translation was meant to published with the title The Stranger but, as a Polish novel had recently been translated with this title, Hamish Hamilton changed it to The Outsider which captures rather better the psychological darkness of the novel.
