8vo. Original printed wrappers; original glassine (some browning, small stain to front free endpaper).

FIRST EDITION, ordinary issue, of SARTRE'S FIRST NOVEL, a canonical work of existentialism. La Nauseé was "on the whole well received by the critics and the success of Sartre the novelist served to enhance the reputation he had started to enjoy as a writer of short stories and philosophical texts, mostly on perception" (David Drake, Sartre, p.42).