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Notes on Camus' The Plague The first printing shows 405 titles on the dust jacket inverse. The second printing retains the "First Printing" statement on the verso but has a fall 1961 Giants list and sports a fall 1961 jacket showing a lower number, 403 titles, on the DJ inverse. The May 1961 first printing of 20,000 copies sold so well that there was a second printing of 10,000 copies in December 1961 and two printings of 15,000 copies each in 1962. First copyright page text: First Printing First binding style: 8 First inverse DJ number: 405 [NOT 403!!!] First list entries: BOOK: Wilson, Shock of Recognition, but not Dates in print: 1961 [Spring] - 1975 Toledano number: 109.2 Confirmed buckram sighting? yes Genre: Novel Original language: French Translator: Gilbert
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