THE MOST ORIGINAL BODY OF ESSAY WRITING OF THE MIDDLE OF THE 20TH CENTURY

SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL.

Situations, I-III.

(Paris), Gallimard, (1947-49). 8vo. All three in the orig. decorated black cardboard-bindings w. art deco-inspired decorations to spines and boards, in white and yellow, yellow and grey, and grey and blue. Gilt titles to spines. All three volumes placed in a custom-made black cardboard-cassette. Very minor traces of use to capitals, and the white paper on boards of vol. one w. a bit of brownspotting, otherwise an excellent, nice and clean set.

First editions of Sartre's first three "Situations, all three copies numbered (vol. one: No. 421 out of 990 copies, vol. two: No. 631 out of 990 copies, vol three: No. 781 out of 1000 copies) copies on "alfa des Papeteries Navarre".
Volume one states "20 novembre 1947" on colophon, though Contat & Rybalka state "20 octobre 1947".

Contat & Rybalka 47/117 + 48/155 + 49/180.

Sartre's "Situations" contain many of Sartre's most important articles and essays, and it is within these that Sartre foremost shows his philosophical and political face. "The several volumes of Jean-Paul Sartre's Situations, published from 1947 on, constitute the most weighty and, in the two first volumes in particular, the most original body of essay writing of the middle of the 20th century." (Encyclop. Britannica).

In all 10 "Situations" appeared.

Order-nr.: 34816