Apr 17, 2012 - Sale 2276

Sale 2276 - Lot 386

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
WRITING TO A P.O.W. IN 1942 CAMUS, ALBERT. Autograph Postcard Signed, twice ("A Camus" and "Albert Camus"), to prisoner of war Charles Autrand, in French, in pencil, on a German prisoner of war postcard, expressing sympathy. Signed in the closing and in the return address verso. 1 page, oblong 12mo; minor scattered soiling. Mazet-Saint-Voy, July[?] 1942 [from postmark]

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". . . I sometimes read news from you in the Cahiers and in Poesie 42. . . . I do not have much to say: all the experience is on your side . . . . [W]e suffer humiliations but we have freedom of movement: you now know that this is inestimable . . . ."