L'Être et le Néant. Essai d'ontologie phénoménologique.
SARTRE (Jean-Paul).

L'Être et le Néant. Essai d'ontologie phénoménologique.

First edition. 8vo. 722, [6] pp. Original printed wrappers, edges untrimmed (foot of spine lightly bruised, small mark to spine, wrappers and paper stock very slightly browned, otherwise a very good copy). Paris, Librairie Gallimard, Bibliothèque des Idees, 1943.

£3,000.00

The scarce first printing of Sartre’s greatest philosophical work and the foundational text of French existentialism, with the colophon stating printing on 28th of June 1943 (“Le vingt-cinq juin mil neuf cent quarante-trois”) and the printed dedication to Simone de Beauvoir “au CASTOR”.

Provenance: a review ‘service de presse’ copy from the library of the French poet and essayist Claude Roy (1915-1997), with his pencilled ownership inscription to the front free endpaper and a few pencilled annotation to the rear free endpaper.

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