NMLP P-000831 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Plague (La Peste)

Albert Camus · Éditions Gallimard (Paris) · 1947

The French Gallimard edition is the true first. It precedes both the UK Hamish Hamilton (1948) and US Knopf (1948) English editions, both in the Stuart Gilbert translation; of the two English issues, Hamish Hamilton precedes Knopf.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-000831 for "The Plague (La Peste)" by Albert Camus (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-000831, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).