Jean-Paul Sartre // Les Mots + The Words
Gallimard, Paris, 1964 and Georges Braziller, New York, 1964
First French Limited Edition and First American Edition
The famous autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre, in which the author recounts in particular his childhood, with great rigor and honesty.
Published in 1964, just before Sartre received and refused the Nobel Prize for literature, the text was originally published in the review “Les Temps Modernes” in 1963.
Two books sold together:
First French Limited edition:
Gallimard, Paris, 1964
In French
One of the 125 copies in pure Vellum, after 15 on Japon and 45 on Holland paper.
Book in wrappers, in a beautiful half buffalo case, gold title, date on foot, sleeve from Claude Honnelaître. In Fine condition.
First American edition:
Georges Braziller, New York, 1964.
Hard cover, first printing, in very good condition.
Ex Libris (Bookplate)
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