Subject:  Jean-Paul Sartre

Size:  Approximately 5.5x8.75; 722 pages, paperbound

Description:  Supremely rare 1973 edition of Being and Nothingness (L'être et le néant; 1943), inscribed and signed by the French existential philosopher (1905-1980) who was awarded, but declined, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964.  Signed copies of this, his most important nonfiction work as well as one of the key philosophical texts of the twentieth century, are nearly nonexistent.  In French.  (Item signed in the early seventies)

Condition:  Fine with some edge discoloration and light wear