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Dust jacket has small tear on back corner, near spine, along with general light edge wear. Interior pages are moderately tanned, but still readable, and without markings. Binding is firm.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First American Edition. First American edition. Signed on Jewish Community Federation bookplate affixed to front endpaper. Jacket spine head lightly bumped. 2005 Hard Cover. 299 pp. Gamaliel Friedman is only a child when his family flees Czechoslovakia in 1939 for the relative safety of Hungary. For him, it will be the beginning of a life of rootlessness, disguise, and longing. Five years later, in desperation, Gamaliel's parents entrust him to a young Christian cabaret singer named Ilonka. With his Jewish identity hidden, Gamaliel survives the war. But in 1956, to escape the stranglehold of communism, he leaves Budapest after painfully parting from Ilonka. Gamaliel tries, unsuccessfully, to find a place for himself in Europe. After a failed marriage, he moves to New York, where he works as a ghostwriter, living through the lives of others. Eventually he falls in with a group of exiles, including a rabbi - - a mystic whose belief in the potential for grace in everyday life powerfully counters Gamaliel's feelings of loss and dispossession. When Gamaliel is asked to help draw out an elderly, disfigured Hungarian woman who may be his beloved Ilonka, he begins to understand that a real life in the present is possible only if he will reconcile with his past. Signed by author.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. reprint edition. 299 pages. 7.95x5.20x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. Alfred A. Knopf Inc., A Borzoi Book, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1995. First (1st) Printing with "First American Edition" stated and no other printings listed. Very Fine in an As New Dust Jacket. Unread. The Text Block is clean, white, quite tight, straight and square with deckled fore-edges and no markings of any kind. The Binding is red quarter cloth to beige boards, colors uniform throughout, with author's initials in bright gilt to the front board, bright gilt title, etc., to the spine, unmarked endpapers with photocopies of manuscript pages, with a prior owner's name on the reverse of the front free endpaper, and all corners square and sharp. The Dust Jacket is flawless - colors bright and uniform throughout, and fully intact with the original price ($23.00) intact on the front flap See the accompanying photos. viii, 325, [i] pages. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4". Translated into English from the French Le Premier homme (Éditions Gallimard, 1994) by David Hapgood, this last work by the author, first published 34 years after his death in 1960, is an incomplete autobiographical novel set in Algiers where Camus grew up and reflects on the condition of a colonizing people in a sometimes hostile colonized country. ISBN 10: 0679439374 / ISBN 13: 9780679439370.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 325 pages. 7.75x5.75x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. A First UK translated edition. Translated by David Hapgood. A near fine book, in a very good DW. "In The First Man Albert Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own.".