Shelfmark
Id7.3.03
Author
Uniform title
[Sursis. English]
Title
The reprieve / Jean-Paul Sartre ; translated from the French by Eric Sutton.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Hamish Hamilton, 1947.
Physical description
398 p. ; 19 cm
Language
Translated from French into English.
Note
"Le Sursis (The Reprieve) was first published in France in 1945. It is the second volume of Jean-Paul Sartre's trilogy, Les Chemins de la Liberté (The Roads to Freedom). This translation was first published in 1947: that of the first volume, L'Age de Raison, appeared earlier in the same year." -- title-page verso.
Note
Translation of: Le Sursis.
Note
Publisher's red cloth binding; title, author, and publisher stamped in gold on spine.
Provenance
Previous bookseller's label on inside cover: "Henry Sotheran Ltd., Booksellers, 2 to 5 Sackville St. London, W1".
Provenance
From the library of Frank Ashton-Gwatkin.
Binding
With full colour dust-jacket.
Copy-specific note
Two newspaper cuttings of articles about the 1948 libel case Frank Ashton-Gwatkin brought against the Times Literary Supplement's review of this book loosely inserted.
Added entry--name
Sutton, Eric translator.
Added entry--name
Ashton-Gwatkin, Frank Trelawny Arthur, 1889 - 1976 former owner.
Added entry--name
Hamish Hamilton Ltd. publisher.
Added entry--name
Henry Sotheran Ltd. bookseller.
Language code
eng fre
Identifier
B43561