Le Mur

SARTRE Jean-Paul
Le Mur [The Wall] Gallimard, Paris 1939, 120 x 190 mm (4 3/4 x 7 1/2 ”), 20th-century calf, custom slipcase  
 

First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on vélin pur fil paper, leading copies.
Black calf by C. and J. P. Miguet (1985), spine blindtsamped à la chinoise with title, covers mosaiced with a perspective geometric pattern in red, orange and burgundy calf, pastedowns framed in black calf, pastedowns and endpapers in burgundy suede, all edges gilt, covers and spine preserved, half black calf chemise over faint pink wood-paper, slipcase of same edged with black calf.
Inscribed by Jean-Paul Sartre to Raymond Gallimard, brother of Gaston and co-owner of Gallimard, the publishers: “à Monsieur Raymond Gallimard en hommage de J.P. Sartre [to Monsieur Raymond Gallimard with best wishes J.P. Sartre].”
Provenance: from the library of R. and B. L. (ex-libris).
A very good copy of the only collection of Sartre’s short stories, in a magnificent signed binding by Miguet.