SARTRE (Jean-Paul).

La Nausée.

INSCRIBED BY SARTRE, IN A REVORIM BINDING BY JEAN DE GONET

First edition, one of fifteen ‘hors commerce’ copies printed on ‘Lafuma Navarre’ paper numbered 41-55 (this copy ‘No 45’), from a total edition sixty-three copies. 8vo. Bound by Jean de Gonet binding in a ‘Revorim’ binding with moulded polyurethane boards, front cover with in-laid circular brown calf panel circular panel lettered in gilt ‘Revorim Prototype’ with gilt latticework, smooth brown calf spine with exposed sewn red bands, lettered in gilt, signed by Gonet and numbered ‘141 / 200’ on red paper label to front pastedown, original printed wrappers bound-in, edges uncut. Paris, Gallimard, 1938.

£5,000.00
SARTRE (Jean-Paul).
La Nausée.

An exceptional copy of Sartre’s first and most important philosophical novel, with an unsigned presentation inscription from the author ‘A Monsieur Ripault en témoignage de cordiale amitié’ in black ink to the half title, and finely bound by the pioneering Parisian designer bookbinder Jean de Gonet (b. 1954).

Spine only slightly rubbed, otherwise very good.

Stock No.
259857