First edition of Jean-Paul Sartre's Huis Clos [No Exit]

GARCIN: This bronze. Yes, now's the moment; I'm looking at this thing on the mantelpiece, and I understand that I'm in hell. I tell you, everything's been thought out beforehand. They knew I'd stand at the fireplace stroking this thing of bronze, with all those eyes intent on me. Devouring me. What? Only two of you? I thought there were more; many more. So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is- other people

SARTRE, Jean-Paul. Huis Clos. (Paris): Gallimard, (1945). Small octavo, original wrappers; glassine. $500.

First edition, number 34 of 2250 numbered copies (out of a total edition of 2274) of Jean-Paul Sartre's dramatic masterpiece, one of the core texts of the existential movement. Mild fading to spine, slight crease on rear wrapper; an extremely well-preserved copy.