First edition in English of Sartre's lecture on the philosophy that animated his career.
Very good in a good plus jacket.
Price: $125.00
"If a voice addresses me it is always for me to decide that this is the angel's voice..."
Published in French and later re-translated under the title EXISTENTIALISM IS A HUMANISM, this introduction to Sartre's thought—"sold for a high price that reflected Sartre's current faddishness in literary circles" (Fulton)—was the non-French-speaking public's first opportunity to reckon with the philosophy of many of the 20th century's greatest writers and thinkers.
Read more: Ann Fulton, Apostles of Sartre: Existentialism in America, 1945-1963
First printing. New York: Philosophical Library, (1947). 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original blue cloth boards gilt-stamped to front and spine in red labels. Original unclipped ($2.95) dust jacket. (4), 92 pages. Intermittent pencil markings and corner-folds to leaves, front hinge starting, bumping and scratching to boards. Dust jacket chipped and torn with evidence of repairs to verso.
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