title: Old Books in the Old World: Reminiscences of Book Buying Abroad
author:  Leona Rostenberg 
description: If your pulse increases inexplicably at the sight of a used bookstore, if your heart leaps like a hungry weasel when you encounter a rare first edition that has been erroneously priced at $5.00, this collection of journal entries and letters of two American book dealers in Post-War Europe is certain to delight you. Although I personally would have enjoyed this book more if it had been fleshed out more completely, its presentation--whether by intention or chance--has the same serendipitous and chaotic feeling as rummaging through the bookstores and bookstalls of Europe.
zlib_text: **THE**
  
   **Stranger**
  
    
    
  
  By ALBERT CAMUS
  
    
    
  
   _Translated from the French_
  
   _by_ _Stuart Gilbert_
  
    
    
    
  
  ![](Images/image00062.jpeg)
  
    
  
  VINTAGE BOOKS
  
   _A Division of Random House_
  
  NEW YORK
  
    
    
    
  
   **VINTAGE BOOKS**
  
  are published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
  
  and Random House, Inc.
  
  _Copyright 1942 by Librairie Gallimard as_ L’ÉTRANGER
  
  Copyright 1946 by ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC. All rights reserved. No part of this
  book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the
  publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review to be
  printed in a magazine or newspaper. Manufactured in the United States of
  America. Distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
  
    
    
    
  
   **Contents**
  
   _Contents_
  
   _Part One_
  
  >  _I_
  
  >  _II_
  
  >  _III_
  
  >  _IV_
  
  >  _V_
  
  >  _VI_
  
   _Part Two_
  
  >  _I_
  
  >  _II_
  
  >  _III_
  
  >  _IV_
  
  >  _V_
  
   _About the Author_
  
    
    
  
   **Part One**
  
   _ **I**_
  
  MOTHER died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t