Description
The first edition, first printing of The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail.
Octavo, [8], 311pp, [1]. Blue hardcover, title stamped in black on the spine. The first printing, with a full number line on the copyright page, starting with “1.” Faint ring mark on front cover, some wear at tips of the spine. Internally clean. In the publisher’s near fine dust jacket, $8.95 retail price on front flap, faint sunning to the spine, bright illustrations. Translated from the French by Norman Shapiro.
The Camp of the Saints was first published in France in 1973 as Le Camp des Saints and first appeared in English with this Scribner edition. The novel remains Raspail’s best-known and most controversial work, widely discussed for its dystopian treatment of mass migration and criticized for racist and xenophobic themes.
