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Buchbeschreibung: Gallimard, Paris, 1938. First Edition. " L a n a u s é e . . . c ' e s t m o i . " Sartre, Jean-Paul. LA NAUSÉE [Nausea]. Paris: Gallimard, [1938]. 8vo., original publishers wrappers, 223pp. First Edition Advance Review Copy with "S.P." on the lower front cover. A near fine splendid example especially for a "Service de Presse" copy. Sartre's much sought after First Book. His Presentation Copy, inscribed in dark blue fountain pen on the second blank page; "A Monsieurs Rivière / en homage de l'auteur / JP Sartre". An exceptional copy of this cornerstone work of existentialism. Connolly, The Modern Movement, #84. With, Sartre, Jean-Paul. NAUSEA. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1962. hardbound. 8vo., 238pp. A near fine copy in dustwrapper designed by Patricia Davey. First Edition Thus translated by Lloyd Alexander, originally published in 1949 under the title "The Diary of Antoine Roquentin". Custom TBCL collector's clamshell case with compartments for both books in fine condition. "Nobody is better qualified than the commercial traveller over there to sell Swan toothpaste. Nobody is better qualified than that interesting young man to fumble about under his neighbour's skirts. And I am among them and if they look at me they must think that nobody is better qualified than I to do what I do. But I know. I don't look very important but I know that I exist and that they exist. And if I knew the art of convincing people, I should go and sit down next to that handsome white-haired gentleman and I should explain to him what existence is. The thought of the look which would come on to his face if I did makes me burst out laughing." The rationality & solidity of this world, Roquentin thinks, is a veneer. "Nausea (orig. French La Nausée) is an epistolary novel by the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, published in 1938 and written while he was teaching at the lycée of Le Havre. This is Sartre's first novel and one of his best-known. The novel concerns a dejected historian in a town similar to Le Havre, who becomes convinced that inanimate objects and situations encroach on his ability to define himself, on his intellectual and spiritual freedom, evoking in the protagonist a sense of nausea. It is widely considered one of the canonical works of existentialism. Sartre was awarded (but declined) the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964. They recognized him "for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age." He was one of the few people ever to have declined the award, referring to it as merely a function of a bourgeois institution. In her La Force de l'âge (The Prime of Life - 1960), French writer Simone de Beauvoir claims that La Nausée grants consciousness a remarkable independence and gives reality the full weight of its sense. It has been translated into English at least twice; by Lloyd Alexander as "The Diary of Antoine Roquentin" (John Lehmann, 1949) and by Robert Baldick as "Nausea" (Penguin Books, 1965)". - Wikipedia. Signed by Author. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 30935

Buchbeschreibung: Paris, Gallimard, 1938. 1 vol. (185 x 118 mm) de 223 pp., revorim souple série «prototype - Jean de Gonet Artefacts», dos box marron, titre doré, couv. et dos cons. (Reliure signée de Jean de Gonet, 141/200). Édition originale. Un des 15 ex. hors commerce sur alfa (d?un tirage total à 63 ex. sur grands papiers). Envoi autographe : « à Monsieur Ripault, en témoignage de cordiale amitié »Expliquant son premier roman, Sartre écrivait : « Cette saisie perpétuelle par mon pour-soi d?un goût fade et sans distance qui m?accompagne jusque dans mes efforts pour m?en délivrer et qui est mon goût, c?est ce que nous avons décrit ailleurs sous le nom de Nausée ». Achevé au début de 1936, après cinq ans de travail, le manuscrit que l?auteur confie à Paul Nizan porte encore le titre de Melancholia, en référence à une gravure de Dürer. Présenté une première fois aux éditions Gallimard, Paulhan refuse ce texte qu?il juge trop long pour une parution dans la Nouvelle Revue Française. Mais Sartre aura raison de ces réticences et Gaston Gallimard lui-même, sous un titre qu?il a proposé, accepte sa publication en volume pour le mois de mai 1937. Très bel exemplaire, dans une reliure prototype revorim de Jean de Gonet, une des premières réalisées par l'artiste-relieur (vers 1984). Buchnummer des Verkäufers 6370

Buchbeschreibung: (Paris), Gallimard, (1943). Bound with the original printed wrappers, also the backstrip, in a contemporary (no later than 1955) beautiful, very elegant grey half morocco binding with five raised bands and gilt title to spine (Gemet&Plumbelle). A beautiful, near mint copy. The seminal first edition, presentation-copy for Claude Gallimard, one of 15 large paper copies, of Sartre's groundbreaking play, "The Flies", which constitutes his very first play as well as the only one he himself characterized as a "drama". The first edition appeared in 15 copies on pur fil and 525 regular copies. The 15 copies on pur fil are not numbered (presumably because the issue was so small and there were no other copies on fine paper made), but the back wrapper states ("EXEMPLAIRE SUR PUR FIL/ 60 francs"). "Gallimard, [1943]. 145 pages. 15 exemplaires pur fil et 525 exemplaires reliés Héliona dont l'achevé d'imprimer est de décembre 1942. Volume mis en vente en avril 1943." (Contat & Rybalka, p. 88).The magnificent presentation-inscription which reads as thus: "A Claude Gallimard/ en hommage amical de/ JPSartre" ("Gallimard" is vague, as someone (presumably Gallimard himself, or his family, when selling the copy) has tried to erase it, as is often done with identifiable names when trying to hide the provenance, but it is still fully legible) is for Sartre's publisher, Claude Gallimard (1914-1991), the son of Gaston Gallimard. Claude Gallimard worked in the family publishing company since 1937."The Flies" counts as Sartre's most important play as well as one of his most important works. It is a dramatical exposition of his central philosophical themes and a main exponent for his existentialism. As such it is also one of the most important plays of the 20th century. It is in 1943, with "The Flies" and with "l'Étre et le Néant" (same year) that Sartre's ideas become fully developed, and of the two, "The Flies" had, by far, the greatest impact on contemporary thought, philosophy, and literature. The work thus constitutes one of the most important and influential works of the period. Following its premiere (June 3rd 1943) in the "Théatre de la Cité" in Paris, the play was censored by the German military administration. Almost immediately after the war, the play was performed again, in Germany as well as in France. Contat & Rybalka: 43/35 (pp. 88-89). Buchnummer des Verkäufers 44574

Buchbeschreibung: (Paris), Gallimard, (1949). Uncut and unopened in the orig. printed wrappers, excellent copy + original handwritten manuscript-leaf in ink, 2pp., 4to, for the pages 134-138 in the first edition, containing numerous corrections and emendations as well as a burnt hole from one of Sartre's cigarettes. The paper is watermarked "Herakles". Both items are placed in a very beautiful custom-made red full-morocco box, internally broadened to fit both items, w. single gilt line-borders to boards and back, beatifully gilt titles on back. The manuscript-fragment is placed in a red morocco-backed plastic-folder. First edition of this splendid and important novel, without doubt the best of the novel-cycle, one of three copies out of commerce printed on "vergé antique blanc", numbered "C". The manuscript-fragment greatly varies from the printed leaves, and is probably part of Sartre's very first notes to the manuscript, which were written several years before the publication of the work. The work was announced already in 1945 under the title "La Dernière Chance", and was supposed to appear in "Les Temps modernes" in November 1947, but because the work grew to great, Sartre let it become part three of the novel-cycle "Les chemins de la liberté", instead of setting free the characters in the already printed novels (I and II) and casting them as main characters in new independent novels. This work represents one of Sartre's best literary works, and in it he presents us with the existentialist moral sentiments that were philosophically outlined in his main philosophical work, L'être et le néant, but this time in literary form."Le volume - qui est sans doute le meilleur de la série - fut écrit en 1947-1948 en même temps, notons-le que l'ébauche de la morale de l'existentialisme promise à la fin de L'ÊTRE ET LE NÉANT. Le première partie couvre chronologiquement la période du 1 au 18 juin 1940 et se termine en laissant Mathieu dans une situation particulièrement despérée; la deuxième partie décrit le début de captivité d'un groupe de soldats francais qui comprend le militant communiste Brunet et un certain Schneider que l'on soupconne d'être un indicateur." (Contat & Rybalka, p. 207).The first edition of the work appeared in 2163 copies , out of which 8 were on "vergé antique blanc", numbered I-V and A-C (the last three being "hors commerce"), 105 were on "vélin pur fil Lafuma Navarre", numbered VI-CV and D-H (the last five being "hors commerce"), and 2.050 on "alfa Navarre", numbered 1-2050 (the last 50 being "hors commerce"). Contat & Rybalka 49/179. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 34301

Buchbeschreibung: Gallimard, Paris, 1947. Softcover. First French edition. Translated by Marcel Duhamel in collaboration with Andre R. Picard. Wrappers in tissue dustwrapper. Pages browned, a small chip on the last leaf affecting no text, else near fine. A novel which became the bestselling book by an African-American up until that time. This copy Inscribed by Richard Wright to French Nobel Prize-winning author Jean-Paul Sartre: "For Jean-Paul With all my best, As ever, Dick." Additionally signed by the translator Marcel Duhamel. Wright was keenly interested in Existentialist writing and it had a great influence on his own work. His association with Sartre, in particular, was a more intimate one -- the two authors became close friends and Wright's journals speak often of his high personal regard for the French author. Similarly, Sartre spoke of Wright as one of the greatest living American writers, without regard for race, and on several occasions enlisted Wright's aid in political causes. A magnificent association. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 63755

Buchbeschreibung: Paris, Gallimard, (1938). Bound uncut with the original printed wrappers, also the back-strip, in a very nice, elegant black half morocco binding with dark red marbled paper over boards. Housed in a dark red marbled paper slip-case with black morocco edges. Binding signed to bottom of inside of front board: "J-P Miguet". Backstrip mounted and with a few repairs, far from affecting lettering, otherwise a very fine copy indeed. Gilt super ex libris to inside of front board. A magnificent double-presentation-copy of the first edition (issue unknown) of Sartre's first book, a canonical work of existentialism. Of the first edition, 63 numbered copies appeared, and an unknown number of copies for regular sale. According to Contat & Rybalka, several reimpressions appeared, varying a bit in format and number of pages ("Nombreuses réimpressions, dont le format et le nombre de pages varient quelque peu."). The present copy has the 223 pp. (as the numbered copies), and the imprint "Paris, 5-4-1938" (the numbered copies were released for sale on March 23rd 1938). The present copy is inscribed (and signed) twice by Sartre, both times on the half-title, first around the time of the appearance of the work, and then again decades later. The first inscription reads: "A Jean Jansion/ en souvenir d'une conversation/ sur la liberté. Cordialement/ JP Sartre", and the second reads: "A M. Fortin/ en souvenir d'une autre/ conversation/ JP Sartre". The first being in his early, somewhat neater handwriting, and the second in his later, larger and looser characteristic handwriting. The present copy was originally given by Sartre to Jean Jansion (who was killed by the Germans in 1944), apparently after a conversation on liberty, a theme important for both. Some time after the death of Jansion, Mr. Fortin has presumably bought the presentation-copy of Sartre's first novel, met and talked to Sartre and then had him inscribe it again, reflecting the inscription he originally wrote. The second inscription is presumably from the 70'ies. The original association is highly interesting, as Sartre evidently knew the young writer Jansion and is one of the few to actually refer in writing to his only published work, "A Man Walks in the City", now primarily known through the film-adaption of it. It seems that Jansion had potential to become a writer of renown, but he died at a very young age and never got to publish anything himself. His only work appeared posthumously, but it did attract some attention. Sartre, who seems to have enjoyed his conversation about liberty with the young author, writes the following about him, in connection with other great writers of the era: "The French novel which caused the greatest furor between 1939 and 1945, "The Stranger", by Albert Camus, a young writer who was then director of the clandestine newspaper, "Combat", deliberately borrowed the technique of "The Sun Also Rises". In "Un Homme Marche dans la Ville", the only and posthumous book of Jean Jansion, a very young man who was killed by the Germans in 1944, you might be reading Hemingway . the same short, brutal sentences, the same lack of psychological analysis, the same heroes. "Les Mendicants", by Desforêts, and Gerbebaude, by Magnane, used the technique of Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying" without changing anything. They took from Faulkner the method of reflecting different aspects of the same event, through the monologues of different sensitivities." (Sartre, "American Novelists in French Eyes" in: Atlantic Monthly, Aug. 46, translated by Miss Evelyn de Solis)."La Nausee" ("Nausea") is Sartre's first novel and one of his best-known. As Kierkegaard's "Either-Or", the work is also an epistolary novel, written in the form of journal entries. The work contains the earliest of the famous Sartre quotes, e.g. "Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do", "I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 44691

Buchbeschreibung: Paris, Gallimard, 1964, 1964. In-12 de 216pp. broché sous couverture rempliée, non coupé. Édition originale du chef d'?uvre autobiographique de Jean-Paul Sartre. Un des 45 exemplaires sur Hollande, venant après 15 Japon; celui-ci non numéroté. "Intellectuel total", personnage peut-être encore plus controversé aujourd'hui qu'il ne l'était de son vivant, Sartre demeure pour beaucoup une énigme. Ce très grand livre au style d'un classicisme flamboyant, récit autobiographique où la vie se confond avec la passion de la langue, montre qu'il fut, avant tout, un remarquable écrivain. Exemplaire à l'état de neuf. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 9266

Buchbeschreibung: n.d. [c. 1950-51], n.p. [Paris]., 1950. First Edition. SARTRE, Jean-Paul. Autograph Manuscript. N.d. [c. 1950-51], n.p. [Paris]. 1 page - small 4to. On his typical graph paper. One page from his famous play, Le Diable et Le Bon Dieu published in 1952 & staged in Paris in 1951. A fragment of the second act, Scene IV with part of the dialogue between Hilda & Goetz. A few corrections & certain variants from the published printed version. Rare. Signed by Author. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 29536

Buchbeschreibung: Paris, Gallimard, (1939). Bound uncut with the original printed wrappers, also the back-strip, in a magnificent, elegant, and highly artistic black full calf binding with onlays of blood-red lacquered calf in stipes of varying thickness to all of front and back board as well as to spine, elegantly representing a "wall". Gilt author and title to spine. Inside of boards and recto and verso respectively of free end-papers coved with exquisite red suede and with white calf edges. Hand-sewn capital-bands in red and black. All edges gilt (also the uncut ones). Blindstamped super-ex-libris to inside of front board. Housed in an exquisite chemise with elegant patterned paper in red and grey tones and with black calf spine (same gilding as to binding) and edge, chemise covered with exquisite red suede on the inside, and an elegant slip-case of the same patterned paper, with black morocco edges. Binding signed to bottom of inside of front board: "C. et J-P. Miguet" and to bottom of inside of back board: "2003". A mint copy. First edition, one of in all 110 numbered copies, of Sartre's first collection of short stories, which are generally accepted as Sartre's greatest existentialist works of fiction and the book as such as his greatest book of fiction. The present copy is one of 20 "outside of commerce" ("hors commerce") copies on alfa paper. In all 110 copies appeared, 40 of which are on on pur fil and 70 on alfa (50 of them numbered 31-80, and 20 hors commerce numbered 81-100). This is number 86.The collection "The Wall" contains the short story "The Wall", which is one of Sartre's most famous and most widely read stories. It coldly depicts a situation in which prisoners are condemned to death. The story takes place during the Spanish Civil War (July 1936 -April 1939). "The Wall" is probably the piece of fiction that best captures Sartre's central philosophical themes and is thus regarded as one of his most important works.The title refers to the wall used by firing squads to execute prisoners, and the deep blood-red of the magnificient "wall"-binding by Miguet is thus particularly well chosen. At the time of its appearance, "Le Mur" was well received, and because of it, Sartre won the price of the "Roman populiste" in April 1940. The work was fiercely attacked by Robert Brasillach in April 1939, but defended in "La Nouvelle Revue Francaise" in May 1939. Among the first reviews of it was Camus' in the "Alger républicain". The publication of "Le Mur" contributed to giving Sartre a reputation of being obscene by those who did not admire his style and courageous writing. By those many of those who do admire him, this is considered some of the best that he ever wrote. Contat & Rybalka: 39/21 (pp. (69)-71). Buchnummer des Verkäufers 44689

Buchbeschreibung: Paris, Gallimard, 1964. 1 vol. (185 x 117 mm) de 224 pp., chagrin maroquiné noir, dos à nerfs, titre doré, tête dorée, date en pied, couv. et dos cons., étui bordé (Patrice Goy). Edition originale. Un des 45 exemplaires sur hollande.Ce récit autobiographique qui, sous prétexte de raconter le parcours d?un homme de lettres, met à bas la littérature, renvoie tous les songes-creux à leur méprise : prendre leurs désenchantements pour la vérité. Écrire fut longtemps pour Sartre donner sens, « arracher ma vie, comme il disait, au hasard. » Revenu, ô combien, de cette gageure, l?auteur quinquagénaire des Mots dresse un bilan définitif de ses illusions passées : « depuis à peu près dix ans je suis un homme qui s?éveille, guéri d?une longue, amère et douce folie et qui n?en revient pas et qui ne peut se rappeler sans rire ses anciens errements et qui ne sait plus que faire de sa vie. » Quittant ce texte, le lecteur lui aussi ne sait plus, comme par contagion. Contat & Rybalka, Les Écrits de Sartre, 63/383. Très bel exemplaire. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 13690

Buchbeschreibung: Paris, Gallimard, 1938. Couverture rigide. Buchzustand: Très bon. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Très bon. 1ère édition. Livre d'occasion 18,8 x 12,5 cm, plein maroquin rouge, dos à nerfs, tête dorée, titre doré, date en pied, filets dorés et noirs sur les gardes, couv. et dos cons., 223 pp. Condition : Edition originale. L'un des 40 ex. num. imprimés sur alfa des papeteries Lafuma Navarre (après 23 ex. sur vélin pur fil). Livre d'occasion. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 1771

Buchbeschreibung: Paris, Gallimard, (1960). Bound uncut with the original printed wrappers, also the back-strip, in a magnificent, striking, elegant red morocco binding with a large decorated grey calf onlay to both boards, filling out most of the boards. The grey calf with 9 blindstamped red lines on each side of the borad, seeking towards a small black lacquered calf square. All lines crossed by three vertical lines on each side. All in all creating an extraordinary effect of perspective, illustrating the dreadful prisoner's ward, on the silent grey background. Gilt title and author to spine. Top edge gilt. Gilt super-ex-libris to inside of front board. Housed in a thin, exquisite grey wooden chemise with red morocco edges and spine (with the same gilt lettering) and a thin, exquisite grey wooden slip-case with red morocco edges. Binding signed to bottom of inside of front board: "C. et J-P. Miguet" and to bottom of inside of back board: "1998". Mint copy. First edition in book form, Nr. 34 out of 45 copies on vélin de Hollande van Gelder (premier papier), out of a total of 260 copies (in all 45 on Holland, numbered 1-40 + A-E (hors commerce) + 210 on vélin pur fil Lafuma Navarre, numbered 41-240 + F-O (hors commerce). "The Condemned of Altona" (or "Loser Wins") is one of Sartre's last play, and the only one of his fictional works to deal directly with Nazism. The play is full of Sartre's characteristic philosophical concepts and brings forth many of his key philosophical notions (e.g. those of responsibility and freedom and the contrast between bad faith and authenticity).The play was very well received by critics and was considered one of his most important plays, and possibly the best that he wrote. Contat & Rybalka 59/311 (pp. (323)-325). Buchnummer des Verkäufers 44690

Buchbeschreibung: 1946, 1946. FIRST EDITION. . SARTRE, Jean Paul. L'Existentialisme est un Humanisme. (Paris): Les éditions Nagel, (1946). Small octavo, original paper boards, original printed dust jacket, uncut and unopened. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $5800. Limited first edition of Sartre's popular—and controversial—discourse on existentialism, the work that firmly established him as one of France's preeminent intellectuals, number 172 of 500 copies on fine vellum-paper. "Sartre must be seen as a major figure of his time His body of writing has been of considerable importance in the post-war world, and he himself, both through his positive contribution to intellectual life and through his questioning of accepted values, has exerted an undoubted influence on more than one generation" (Reid, 577). This concise restatement of tenets Sartre had put forth in his major work L'Être et le néant (1943) "consolidated [his] position as France's leading existentialist philosopher" (Blackburn, 339). On October 24, 1946, "Sartre lectured on existentialism in Brussels, and, four days later, speaking to the Club Maintenant in Paris, he took as his title 'L'Existentialisme est un humanisme' ['Existentialism is a Humanism']. Women fainted—partly, perhaps, because of oxygen shortage—and he could scarcely make himself heard. In the lecture he described T.E. Lawrence as an existentialist, but this passage is suppressed in the published text" (Hayman, 235-36). Sartre is "without doubt an immensely stimulating and acute critical mind" (Edwards VII:293). Text in French. Interior pristine. Minor soiling to dust jacket. A fine copy. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 69283

Buchbeschreibung: Paris), Les éditions Nagel, (1946). 8vo. Bound uncut with the original wrappers, also the backstrip, in a magnificent elegant and artistic black morocco binding with exquisite decorated lacquered inlays to boards, consisting in a striking blue, grey and black triangle put together, filling out the front board, and the same combination turned upside-down on the back board. Author in gilt horizontal lettering and title in large gilt vertical lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Gilt super-ex-libris to inside of front board. Housed in a thin, exquisite blue wooden chemise with black morocco edges and spine (with the same gilt lettering) and a thin, exquisite blue wooden slip-case with black morocco edges. Binding signed to bottom of inside of front board: "C. et J-P. Miguet". Front wrapper with a bit of light soiling, and back-strip mounted, with a bit of tiny loss to capitals (far from affecting lettering). Internally mint. On vellum-paper. 141, (3) pp. First edition, no. 447 of 500 copies on "vélin supérieur des papeteries Navarre, numérotes de 1 a 500."L'Existentialisme est un Humanisme" is the second of Sartre's two main philosophical works, which have both influenced 20th century philosophy greatly, and contributed immensely to the development of existentialism in general. "Existentialism is a Humanism" became one of Sartre's most widely read and most criticized works, and it caused great controversies and uproar at the time of its appearance; -as opposed to his "L'Être et le Néant", all of Sartre's critics actually read this work, and so did huge parts of the population, causing the book to appear in huge numbers after the publication of the first edition.The work is the literary re-working of an exposition given by Sartre at a conference in October 1945, where he caused a scandalous discussion, which among other things led to the fact that all references to the existentialist T.E. Lawrence were omitted from the work when it appeared in print. "Cette conférence marqua une date dans l'histoire anecdotique de l'existemtialisme." (Contat & Rybalka p. 131)."L'Existentialisme est un Humanisme" fut l'un des ouvrages les plus lus et les plus critiqués de Sartre et suscita de considérables malentendus. Comme l'a bien vu M.-A. Burnier dans "Les Existentialistes et la politique" (p. 31), "l'importance prise par ces pages semble due à la paresse d'un bon nombre de critiques qui hésitant à lire "L'Être et le Néant" et qui furent heureaux de pouvoir attaquer Sartre sans grande fatique et avec bonne conscience après avoir parcouru 141 pages." Il est bon de rappeler cependant que l'ouvrage constitue une assez mauvaise introduction à la philosophie de Sartre, surtout pour un public non averti." (Contat & Rybalka p. 132). Sartre himself also disowned great parts of this work, which makes it all the more interesting, since it is the only one of his works of which he has done so. The work was reprinted numerous times during the first years, and the first edition (on vellum-paper) is very difficult to come by. Contat & Rybalka bibliographically merely state "141 pages. Volume paru en mars 1946. Nombreuses réimpressions". This copy states "Achevé d'imprimer en février 1946." and "(1946 1er trimestre)" on colophon.Contat & Rybalka 46/88. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 44572

Buchbeschreibung: George Braziller, New York, 1964. First Edition. First American Edition Inscribed and Signed by Jean-Paul Sartre on the title-page in blue ballpoint: 'A John P. James, Jr. trés cordialement [signed] Sartre, 18 Oct. 69'. 8vo. 255 pp. A near fine copy in black cloth, white titles to the spine, rose topstain, (John P. James, Jr's neat bookplate on the front pastedown), in a bright, fresh, price-clipped dustwrapper. Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman. A brilliant autobiography that is often compared with, Rousseau's, Confessions. Housed in an elegant custom clamshell case, black cloth over marbled paper, red morocco spine label with gilt titles. Signed by Author. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 26709

Buchbeschreibung: Manuscrit autographe à l'encre bleue, s.d. (vers 1966), 4 feuillets in-4 au recto., 1966. Manuscrit autographe complet de la préface de Sartre à "La Promenade du Dimanche", pièce en deux actes de Georges Michel, composée à la fin de la Guerre d'Algérie, qui met en scène une famille petite bourgeoise dont la promenade dominicale est perturbée par une fusillade. Les dialogues, qui reprennent tous les clichés ordinaires de la vie familiale, inscrivent cette oeuvre dans le registre du théâtre de l'absurde. L'auteur y démasque la violence des rapports humains derrière le conformisme social. Dans sa préface, Sartre se plait à souligner la dimension "existientialiste" de l'argument, qui s'articule autour du conflit entre Histoire et répétition. "La répétition, ce sont nos petits rites misérables et ce bavardage qui nous assourdit : les lieux communs. [.] Les récitants n'entendent plus le bruit de leur vraie vie, de la mort qui s'approche. Ils n'ont de solidarité qu'en ceci qu'ils s'entraident à passer sous silence la vérité, à cacher hors de nous, en nous, la violence, le malheur, notre misérable condition. Le seul personnage qui connaît encore l'angoisse d'être né, qui s'interroge un peu sur la signification de son existence, c'est un enfant". L'auteur des Mots évoque un souvenir d'enfance : "Nous avons tous été ce môme à cloche pied - "les enfants s'ennuient le Dimanche, le Dimanche les enfants s'ennuient" - qui ne sait que faire de son corps et qui sent ce jour-là, plus amèrement que les autres jours, sa parfaite gratuité. Et nous avons vu, depuis, cinq cents ou mille fois, ces familles grises, endimanchées, le père brutal et peureux, pompeux et grossier, content de soi et honteux ; la mère aigre raisonneuse, disputant et cédant toujours, glisser dans les rues sous un ciel pluvieux". "Cette pièce est scandaleuse et forte parce que, puisque la vie s'y résume en une promenade, l'invraisemblable y devient la vérité. Le grand-père meurt, tué par une balle perdue, une service spécial de la voirie fait disparaître le corps en vitesse et les survivants poursuivent la promenade dominicale comme si de rien n'était. Et si l'invraisemblable devient la vérité, du coup c'est la vérité qui nous paraît invraisemblable. C'est invraisemblable et vrai, cette indifférence à la mort des vieux, cet égoïsme, ces mots veules et mille fois répétés qui tombent comme des pelletées de terre sur le cadavre : voilà comment nous sommes dans la vie avec nos morts. Nous le savions, bien sûr : mais ce grossissement savant et réglé nous fait voir, avec un humour noir, cet Autre étrange, inacceptable et scandaleux : nous-mêmes". "La Promenade du Dimanche" fut créée en 1966 au Studio des Champs Elysées et publiée chez Gallimard. Elle est aussi parue en allemand et aux Etats-Unis dans une collection de manuel scolaires pour l'apprentissage du français. C'est la deuxième pièce d'un artisan horloger de Belleville, écrivain autodidacte d'origine prolétarienne dont Sartre avait publié le premier texte dans "Les Temps Modernes". L'auteur sera l'un des proches compagnons du philosophe dans les dernières années de sa vie, distribuant notamment avec lui "La Cause du Peuple" dans les rues. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 43659

Buchbeschreibung: Paris, Gallimard, (1940). 8vo. Bound uncut with the original wrappers, also the backstrip, in a magnificent elegant and artistic brown morocco binding with exquisite decorated lacquered inlays to boards, consisting in four squares in brown, grey and black put together, filling out the front board, and the same combination mirrored on the back board. Author in gilt horizontal lettering and title in large gilt vertical lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Gilt super-ex-libris to inside of front board. Housed in a brown paper slip-case with brown morocco edges. Binding signed to bottom of inside of front board: "C. et J-P. Miguet" and to bottom of inside of back board: "1992". A magnificent, mint copy. 246, (2) pp. First edition, one of five copies out of commerce ("hors commerce") on pur fil. In all 25 copies of the limited first edition were printed. They were printed on pur fil and numbered 1-25, five of which were hors commerce (these numbered 21-25). This is number 23. "Il a été tiré de cette édition: vingt-cinq exemplaires sur vélin pur fil Lafuma Navarre, dont: vingt exemplaires numérotés de 1 à 20; cinq exemplaires hors commerce numérotés de 21 à 25." "EXEMPLAIRE H.C. No 23"."L'Imaginaire" ("The Imaginary") constitutes a cornerstone of 20th century philosophy and is one of Sartre's main philosophical works, founding his phenomenology and laying the ground for the ideas presented in his "Being and Nothingness" (from 1943). He examines the structure of the image and applies it to the phenomenological method, referring notably to the Husserlian theory of the intentionality of consciousness, making this one of his most relevant and noteworthy theoretical works and a main work of modern philosophy. "First published in 1940, Sartre's "The Imaginary" is a cornerstone of his philosophy. Sartre had become acquainted with the philosophy of Edmund Husserl in Berlin and was fascinated by his idea of the "intentionality of consciousness" as a key to the puzzle of existence. Against this background, "The Imaginary" crystallized Sartre's worldview and artistic vision. Here he presented the first extended examination of the concepts of nothingness and freedom, both of which are derived from the ability of consciousness to imagine objects both as they are and as they are not. These ideas would drive Sartre's existentialism and his entire theory of human freedom, laying the foundation for his masterwork "Being and Nothingness" three years later." (Review of the newest English translation, Routledge, 2004).Contat&Rybalka: 40/29 (pp. (77)-79). Buchnummer des Verkäufers 44573

Buchbeschreibung: 1960, 1960. Celui qui disait non; celui qui disait oui : Ortiz offre une chance de les mettre d'accord. Chance provisoire : qui croirait, aujourd'hui, aux fraternités éternelles ? Mais c'est la chance de la France. Les gens vaquent à leurs affaires, ils s'arrêtent un instant pour jeter un coup d'?il aux manchettes des journaux et puis ils s'en vont sans un mot. On voudrait leur demander : vous ne comprenez donc pas ? Et l'on s'en va, sans un mot, on les laisse peut-être avec la même angoisse. Il faut pourtant le rompre, ce silence : c'est lui qui nous perdra. Rappelez-vous : il a perdu, déjà, la défunte quatrième. C'était au mois de mai. Il suffisait d'un mot et personne n'a rien dit; il suffisait d'un geste et personne n'a rien fait. Nous sommes tous coupables, les non comme les oui, ceux qui ont raté leurs grèves, ceux qui ont pris l'auto pour le week-end et sont partis; ceux qui répétaient : "n'importe quoi pourvu que ça change" et les autres : "Je ne me bats pas pour Guy Mollet". On disait beaucoup à l'époque pour justifier ce quiétisme, que le régime s'était "déconsidéré". Quand la république est menacée par un pronunciamiento, faut-il avant de la défendre, se demander sérieusement si elle reste digne de toute notre estime ? Tous ces parlementaires sans honneur, doivent nous préférer les factieux qui, par leurs chantages perpétuels, les avaient déshonorés. Ce 14 mai les Européens d'Alger n'en menaient pas large. Ils nous lorgnaient : que feront-ils ? Et puis, devant ce mutisme qui plonge l'Europe dans la stupeur, ils s'écrièrent joyeusement : "La métropole française, ça ? c'est tout au plus une nécropole" et se mirent en devoir de nous choisir un régime. Nous l'avons depuis deux ans; depuis deux ans la sape et la mine le travaillent, comme le régime précédent. Quel malentendu ! Vous, les oui, vous avez donné vos votes à un général prestigieux parce que vous respectiez en lui l'armée qui ne le respectait guère et qui ne vous respectait pas. Je tiens - avec les autres non - qu'un plébiscite est un acte de dictature parce qu'il donne à choisir entre la guerre civile et le fait accompli. Mais vous, vous êtes sûrs d'avoir voté librement. En votre âme et conscience. Et nous, la gauche, par impuissance, bien sûr, mais aussi par respect pour vos suffrages, qui donnaient à la Vème une légitimité boiteuse, nous n'avons combattu le régime que dans le cadre de la loi. Le silence s'est épaissi, il a gagné tous les moyens d'information. Était ce là ce que vous souhaitiez ? Peut-être. J'ai de la peine à croire, en tout cas, que vous misiez sur la grandeur française, quand je vois nos ministres s'époumoner dans le désert. Vous vouliez la paix, surtout, le calme et qu'on vous décharge des soins politiques; sans doute ignorait-on que, pour vous la laisser, cette paix, au bureau, à l'usine, au foyer, il fallait la faire, d'abord, avec votre soutien, en Algérie. Quoi qu'il en soit, c'est votre régime, De Gaulle est votre homme, il fait votre politique : car vous avez tous approuvé, c'est sûr, ses tentatives incertaines mais sincères pour régler le problème algérien. Et vous étiez si fiers de vos oui qu'un grand parti a fait sa propagande en vous donnant le conseil de ne pas les laisser perdre. Et bien, c'est le moment : ils sont calmes tout frais en ce mois de janvier. Qu'allez vous faire pour qu'ils ne se perdent pas ? Ortiz prend Alger d'assaut, avec la tolérance des pouvoirs locaux, on insulte le chef que vous avez plébiscité, on parle de le mettre au poteau, on lui propose de se démettre ou de se soumettre; pour la première fois, peut-être, son orgueilleuse solitude lui semble moins un mérite ou un choix qu'un destin. Qu'allez vous faire pour l'aider puisqu'il est à vous et que vous êtes les siens ? Est-il possible qu'ils soient déjà fanés, ces oui rutilants qui n'ont pas dix-huit mois ? Est-il possible que vous persévériez dans votre inaction, cette arme unique mais terrible de nos adversaires. Voyez-vous à présent que la Cinquième s'est elle aussi. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 5599

Buchbeschreibung: Paris: Gallimard, 1938, 1938. Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in red and black. In a green quarter morocco solander case. Small, vertical repaired crack on the spine, wrappers lightly toned, margins of contents tanned. A superb copy. First edition, first impression, trade issue. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 62806

Buchbeschreibung: Paris: Eric Losfeld, 1971., Paris, 1971. First Edition. First Edition Inscribed and Signed by Jean-Paul Sartre to his close friend Michelle Vian (Boris Vian's wife). A bright, fresh copy, (some sunning to edge of cover), else near fine in the publisher's stiff illustrated wrappers. 50 pp. Housed in an elegant custom clamshell case, black cloth over marbled paper, red morocco spine label with gilt titles. An Important Association Copies as Sartre began a life-long affair with writer & maverick creative force, Boris Vian's first wife, Michele L'Eglise in the late 40's, which lasted until Sartre's death in 1980. L'Eglise & Vian divorced in 1951. Sartre & de Beauvoir loved Boris & promoted him often. Sartre nominated Vian for a celebrated literary prize for the novel, L'Ecume. Vian's extraordinary work mirrored his fascinating life. A jazz trumpeter, film actor, cabaret singer, translator, record company executive, jazz writer, inventor of the elastic wheel, Vian moved in both the world of Miles Davis & Dizzie Gillespie, as well as that of Sartre & de Beauvoir. Signed by Author. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 26705

Buchbeschreibung: Nouvelle Revue Française, Gallimard, Paris, 1948. Broché. Buchzustand: à L'état De Neuf. Edition Originale. Petit In-8°. 259 pp., 1 p. non pag., 2 ff. Exemplaire N° LV de cinquante exemplaires sur vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre numérotés de XI à LX. Édition Originale. Excellent État. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 004094

Buchbeschreibung: La Cité, Lausanne, 1958. First Edition. Alleg, Henri & Sartre, Jean-Paul. LA QUESTION - UNE VICTOIRE. Signed. Lausanne: La Cité, 1958. First Edition and the First Collected Edition of these important texts exposing the methods of torture used by French troops in the Algerian War. Near fine or better in the publisher's printed wrappers, Inscribed and Signed by Jean-Paul Sartre on the half-title page to close friend Michelle Vian, (Boris Vian's wife). Housed in an elegant custom clamshell case, black cloth over marbled paper, red morocco spine label with gilt titles. An Important Association Copies as Sartre began a life-long affair with writer & maverick creative force, Boris Vian's first wife, Michele L'Eglise in the late 40's, which lasted until Sartre's death in 1980. L'Eglise & Vian divorced in 1951. Sartre & de Beauvoir loved Boris & promoted him often. Sartre nominated Vian for a celebrated literary prize for the novel, L'Ecume. Vian's extraordinary work mirrored his fascinating life. A jazz trumpeter, film actor, cabaret singer, translator, record company executive, jazz writer, inventor of the elastic wheel, Vian moved in both the world of Miles Davis & Dizzie Gillespie, as well as that of Sartre & de Beauvoir. Signed by Author. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 26707

Buchbeschreibung: Paul Morihien, Paris, 1946. First Edition. First Edition Inscribed by Jean-Paul Sartre on the half-title page. A fine unopened copy in the publisher's wrappers and glassine cover. Housed in an elegant custom clamshell case, black cloth over marbled paper, red morocco spine label with gilt titles. A lovely copy indeed. Signed by Author. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 26703

Buchbeschreibung: Paris: Gallimard, 1953., Paris, 1953. First Edition. First Edition of this collection relating to the famous post-Indo-China war political scandal in France. Inscribed and Signed by Sartre on the half-title page to Françoise Adelson. Introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre. A fine copy in the publisher's printed wrappers and original glassine. Housed in an elegant custom clamshell case, black cloth over marbled paper, red morocco spine label with gilt titles. An excellent copy. Signed by Author. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 26700

Buchbeschreibung: [Paris], 27. VI. 1967., 1967. Large 4to. ½ p. With autogr. envelope. To the dramatist Georges Michel (b. 1926), who sent him a tin tobacco box on the occasion of Sartre's 62nd birthday: "Oui, le tabac se conserve mieux dans les pots. Surtout dans les beaux, ceux en étain comme le votre. Merci. Ca me fait plaisir de le voir sur ma table, et de penser qu'il me vient de votre amitié [.]". - Somewhat wrinkled. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 28327

Buchbeschreibung: Editions du Continent,, Geneva, 1945. First Edition. First French Edition of 'Uomini e No', (Men and not Men), a novel of resistance against the German occupation of Italy, Inscribed and Signed by the author to Jean-Paul Sartre on the front endpaper. With Cesare Pavese, Vittorini, an acclaimed translator, novelist, (his Conversations In Sicily was published in the United States with an introduction by Ernest Hemingway), editor and anti - fascist, was a pioneer in translating English, French and American authors into Italian. A bright, fresh copy in the original wrappers. Housed in an elegant custom clamshell case, black cloth over marbled paper, red morocco spine label with gilt titles. A significant Association. . Signed by Author. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 26708

Buchbeschreibung: Buenos Aires: Editorial Columba, 1963., 1963. First Edition. First Edition of this Argentinian study of Sartre, (in Spanish), Inscribed and Signed by Sartre on the title-page to his close friend Michelle Vian (Bors Vian's wife). A near fine or better copy in the original printed wrappers. 88 pp. Housed in an elegant custom clamshell case, black cloth over marbled paper, red morocco spine label with gilt titles. An Important Association Copies as Sartre began a life-long affair with writer & maverick creative force, Boris Vian's first wife, Michele L'Eglise in the late 40's, which lasted until Sartre's death in 1980. L'Eglise & Vian divorced in 1951. Sartre & de Beauvoir loved Boris & promoted him often. Sartre nominated Vian for a celebrated literary prize for the novel, L'Ecume. Vian's extraordinary work mirrored his fascinating life. A jazz trumpeter, film actor, cabaret singer, translator, record company executive, jazz writer, inventor of the elastic wheel, Vian moved in both the world of Miles Davis & Dizzie Gillespie, as well as that of Sartre & de Beauvoir. Signed by Author. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 26704

Buchbeschreibung: (Paris), Les éditions Nagel, (1946). 8vo. Fully uncut and unopened in the orig. blank wrappers, with the original white wrapper w. black and blue printing, some monor soiling, and a small very neat repair to upper capital, not affecting lettering. Internally near mint. Ex libris to front free end-paper ((P.R. Méry). On vellum-paper. 141, (3) pp. First edition, no. 466 of 500 copies on "vélin supérieur des papeteries Navarre, numérotes de 1 a 500."L'Existentialisme est un Humanisme" is the second of Sartre's two main philosophical works, which have both influenced 20th century philosophy greatly, and contributed immensely to the development of existentialism in general. "Existentialism is a Humanism" became one of Sartre's most widely read and most criticized works, and it caused great controversies and uproar at the time of its appearance; -as opposed to his "L'Être et le Néant", all of Sartre's critics actually read this work, and so did huge parts of the population, causing the book to appear in huge numbers after the publication of the first edition.The work is the literary re-working of an exposition given by Sartre at a conference in October 1945, where he caused a scandalous discussion, which among other things led to the fact that all references to the existentialist T.E. Lawrence were omitted from the work when it appeared in print. "Cette conférence marqua une date dans l'histoire anecdotique de l'existemtialisme." (Contat & Rybalka p. 131)."L'Existentialisme est un Humanisme" fut l'un des ouvrages les plus lus et les plus critiqués de Sartre et suscita de considérables malentendus. Comme l'a bien vu M.-A. Burnier dans "Les Existentialistes et la politique" (p. 31), "l'importance prise par ces pages semble due à la paresse d'un bon nombre de critiques qui hésitant à lire "L'Être et le Néant" et qui furent heureaux de pouvoir attaquer Sartre sans grande fatique et avec bonne conscience après avoir parcouru 141 pages." Il est bon de rappeler cependant que l'ouvrage constitue une assez mauvaise introduction à la philosophie de Sartre, surtout pour un public non averti." (Contat & Rybalka p. 132). Sartre himself also disowned great parts of this work, which makes it all the more interesting, since it is the only one of his works of which he has done so. The work was reprinted numerous times during the first years, and the first edition (on vellum-paper) is very difficult to come by. Contat & Rybalka bibliographically merely state "141 pages. Volume paru en mars 1946. Nombreuses réimpressions". This copy states "Achevé d'imprimer en février 1946." and "(1946 1er trimestre)" on colophon.Contat & Rybalka 46/88. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 39543

Buchbeschreibung: (Paris), Gallimard, (1947). 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Uncut and unopened. Lower right corner of front wrapper bent and a few minor lacks of paper, otherwise fine. Internally fine and clean. 297, (7) pp. - the last 4 pp. being the "Table". First edition of one of Sartre's most important literary productions, with a signed presentation-inscription "A Monsieur/ Maurice Nöel/ homage toi/ sympathique de/ JPSartre"Maurice Noël was an important person in literary circles at the time, and in fact the year 1947, when Sartre's "Theatre" was published, was of utmost importance to both Noël and French history of literature - it is the year that "Le Figaro Littéraire" is born, and Noël was its director.The respected literary supplement to Figaro, "Le Figaro Littéraire", is the oldest literary supplement to the paper. In the beginning when Noël started it, it was an independent publication, but today it has been re-integrated into the Figaro, where it appears every Tuesday. From its beginning, "Le Figaro Littéraire" has been recognized as an important and respected publication, well known for its slandering of the purges and totalitarian Soviet regime.At the time of Sartre, "Le Figaro Littéraire" was highly important politically, intellectually, and ideologically, and Sartre played a great role in the gathering intellectuals and writers to join and spread the political and literary message of "Le Figaro Littéraire", a main one being the literary freedom of authors suppressed by communist regimes. The journal did much to defend and help writers of socialist countries.Contat&Rybalka: 47/116. "Les réimpressions ont 317 pp.". "Le texte de MORTS SANS SÉPULTURE présente d'importantes variantes par rapport à celui de l'édition Marguerat (cf. 46/89).". Buchnummer des Verkäufers 43876