Evergreen Review – Vol. 1, No. 1

New York: Grove Press, 1957.

Price: $45.00

Softcover. Vol. 1, No. 1. Small octavo. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates. Pictorial wrappers. Owner name on the inside front cover. Slightly cocked, wraps with small bumps and a few small chips along the edges and spine, creases on the spine, very good. The inaugural issue of this important magazine, with contributions by Samuel Beckett (a short story as well as poems), Jean-Paul Sartre, James Purdy, Baby Dodds, Henri Michaux, Michael Hamburger, Mark Schorer, and photographs by Harold Feinstein.

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Item #603423 Evergreen Review – Vol. 1, No. 1. Samuel BECKETT, James Purdy, Jean-Paul Sartre.

Jean-Paul Sartre
birth name: Jean-Paul Sartre
born: 6/21/1905
died: 4/15/1980
nationality: France

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French novelist, playwright, and exponent of existentialism, a philosophy acclaiming the freedom of the individual. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964, but he declined the award. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore