Camus, Albert (1947) ‘Two Plays – Caligula and Cross Purpose’, signed association copy

Albert Camus (1947) ‘Two Plays: Caligula and Cross Purpose’, US first edition, first printing, published by New Directions Book. Signed and inscribed by Camus in French “A Martin Shuttleworth avec les amicales pensées [signature]”. Martin Shuttleworth was an influential literary critic of the Paris Review who knew most of the prolific writers of his time.

Condition: very good in a very good minus dust jacket. The book is clean, but has one previous owner’s name stamped on the front past downs to the upper left corner where it is not visible behind the jacket’s flap. Otherwise a beautiful copy of an extremely scarce signed book. The jacket displays some edge wear with minor loss to the extremities.

Alber Camus won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.