This vintage hard cover book is in good vintage condition with age appropriate wear and no dust jacket. Previous owners name on front inside board. Copyright this edition 1952 Alfred A. Knopf. New York. Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert. 278 pages . Some notes and underlining by previous owners seen throughout. The page edges are deckled. Bumps and age appropriate wear to cover and back. Binding tight and spine features gold gilt lettering . Back bottom corner of book is embossed Borzoi Books with a dog symbol.

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NOTE: This book tells the story of a Oran a city in Algeria swept by a plague.
The novel is believed to be based on the documented Cholera epidemic which killed a large percentage of Oran's population Circa 1849 following French colonization. The time frames for this scenario = 1940's.