To Sartre, amicably yours
A bid of €29,000 (£25,085) – some seven times the estimate – was taken on one of 26 special lettered copies (from a run of 450) of a 1949 Paris edition of Nourritures suivi d’extraits de la Nausée by Jean Paul Sartre in a Venator & Hanstein (23% Buyer’s premium) sale of March 23-24.
Lettered B and the only one of these special copies to feature in auction records, it is inscribed…