210 - Jean-Paul SARTRE. *Visages*. Preceded by *Portraits officiels*. With 4 drypoint engravings by Wols.

Jean-Paul SARTRE. *Visages*. Preceded by *Portraits officiels*. With 4 drypoint engravings by Wols. Paris, Seghers, 1948. In-12, paperback, hardback cover. First edition. Both texts first appeared in the journal *Verve* in 1939, in issues 5 and 6. Limited edition of 925 copies: one of the 900 printed on Crèvecœur du Marais paper (no. 77). The illustration includes four original full-page drypoint prints by Wols. “Wols’s artistic career was extremely brief—barely six years, from his return to Paris in 1945 to his death in 1951 at the age of thirty-eight. In a long and beautiful study published in 1963, Jean-Paul Sartre notes that this painter, who was his friend, strove to see the world through inhuman eyes: this, he believes, is the only way to universalize our experience” (Antoine Coron, 50 Illustrated Books Since 1947, 1988, no. 3.)