The Diary of Antoine Roquentin: A Novel by Sartre, Jean-Paul - 1950

John Lehmann, 1949. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1949. Second Impression. 238 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with sunning to spine. Notable scuffing, staining and marking to boards.

John Lehmann, 1949. Hardcover. Good. 1949. Second impression. 238 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Book has slight forward lean.

First edition, first impression in English. An American edition more aptly titled, Nausea, was released in the same year using these British sheets. Another translation also titled, Nausea, would appear in the U.K. in 1962.
Publisher's cloth boards – bright covers and spine, spotting along textblock edges, first few leaves foxed otherwise internally clean. Very Good.
Unclipped dust jacket with light chips at some edges, spine a shade toned, light general wear. Overall a nice, Very Good example of the charismatic jacket.
The work follows the story of Antoine Roquentin, a loner young man who becomes increasingly nauseated by his own existence. 'The basic element that underlies the novel and Sartre's existentialism more generally is the matter of human freedom. At one part of the novel Roquentin says to himself, "I am free now. I do not have the slightest reason for living." Roquentin suffers by being confronted with his total freedom. He suffers from life's and the world's contingency, its randomness… Read More

First edition, first impression in English. An American edition more aptly titled, Nausea, was released in the same year using these British sheets. Another translation also titled, Nausea, would appear in the U.K. in 1962.
Publisher's cloth boards – bright covers and spine, spotting along textblock edges, first few leaves foxed otherwise internally clean. Very Good.
Unclipped dust jacket with light chips at some edges, spine a shade toned, light general wear. Overall a nice, Very Good example of the charismatic jacket.
The work follows the story of Antoine Roquentin, a loner young man who becomes increasingly nauseated by his own existence. 'The basic element that underlies the novel and Sartre's existentialism more generally is the matter of human freedom. At one part of the novel Roquentin says to himself, "I am free now. I do not have the slightest reason for living." Roquentin suffers by being confronted with his total freedom. He suffers from life's and the world's contingency, its randomness… Read More