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three books are sitting on a white surface, one is red and the other is whitethe cover of the book actueles by albert camusa book with a drawing of a person on itan open book with a handwritten title on itan old book with the title actueles ii on itan open book with a handwritten quote on the coveran open book with a picture of the title of actuelles iithe cover of a book titled actueles iiia book opened to show a list of articles in french
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247 - Set of three volumes:
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Set of three volumes: - Albert CAMUS. Actuelles. Chroniques 1944–1948. Paris, Gallimard, 1950. 12mo paperback, yellowed paper. EDITION published in the year of the first edition. AUTOGRAPHED COPY signed on the half-title page: ‘To Margaupauleau, these futile ramblings of their exhausted nephew, Affectionately AC’. - Albert CAMUS. *Actuelles II*. Chronicles 1948–1953. Paris, Gallimard, 1953. In-12, paperback, yellowed paper. EDITION published in the year of the first edition. AUTOGRAPHED COPY signed on the half-title page: ‘To Margo-Polo, these new exercises by his little ship’s boy, with all my affection, Albert Camus’. - Albert CAMUS. *Actuelles III*. *Chronique Algérienne 1939–1958*. Paris, Gallimard, 1958. 12mo paperback, yellowed paper. Provenance: Estate of Paul OETTLY – French actor and theatre director. Paul Oettly’s wife, Marguerite Faure, was the daughter of the architect Jean Faure, and the aunt of Francine Faure. Following Francine Faure’s marriage to Albert Camus in 1940, Paul Oettly thus became the writer’s uncle-in-law. This is why the future Nobel Prize winner in Literature moved in with Mrs OETTLY when he suffered a relapse of haemoptysis in 1942. One of the many favours the actor did for Camus during his enforced stay at Le Panelier was to supply him with paper, a scarce commodity during the war and essential for the writer. The two men got on very well and often went fishing together. Oettly was involved in the production of all of Albert Camus’s plays.
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