Jean-Paul Sartre — The Chips Are Down (Les Jeux Sont Faits)

London, Rider and Company , 1951. First edition. Cloth. A bright first UK edition of this powerful screenplay by Jean-Paul Sartre, with the publisher's charming dust wrapper. An uncommon first UK edition of this work. With the publisher's clipped dust wrapper.This thought-provoking screenplay centres around two characters, Pierre Dumaine and Eve Charlier, who learn upon their deaths that they are predestined to be soulmates. From leading 20th-century French philosopher and playwright, Jean-Paul Sartre, the recipient of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature despite attempting to refuse it. The screenplay was adapted into a 1947 French fantasy film directed by Jean Delannoy, which was entered into the Cannes Film Festival. In the original cloth binding, with the original clipped dust wrapper. Externally, lovely, with minor shelf wear only. Dust wrapper is very smart, with minor sunning to the spine and minor shelf wear. Handling marks to the wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with minor offsetting to the endpapers. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.