ONE OF 100 COPIES "HORS COMMERCE"

SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL.

L'homme et les choses.

Seghers, (1947). 12mo. Uncut in original printed wrappers; wrappers brownspotted, but internally nice and clean. 76, (2) pp.

First separate printing, one of 100 copies "Hors Commerce" (outside of commerce - i.e. not for sale), of this important work on Francis Ponge.

Francis Ponge was very important for Sartre's thought. He was the only communist that Sartre happily associated with after the war and he calls him "the only authentic writer in communist literature".

The work was originally printed in "Situations I" (December 1944) and for the first time separately as it is here. This printing is constituted in 100 copies on vélin Johannot, 880 copies on Alfa Marais, and 100 copies that were not for sale, marked "H.C.", of which this is one.

Order-nr.: 41376