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1957229058New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1957. Fourth Printing . Hardcover. Very Good-/No Jacket. Hardcover; 8vo; 732 pp. First ed fourth printing. Two tone blue cloth with faded gilt on spine. Rubbed edges some light fraying. Bright and clean interior. No dj. VG-/-- <br/> <br/> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1953140944911New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1953. First American Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition and first in the English language. Bound in publisher's green cloth lettered in blind over quarter dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with light edge wear and pages tanned with upper corners lightly bumped. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning light soiling and light wear to the extremities. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
195321090New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1953. First edition in English of the author's masterpiece. Octavo original half cloth. Signed by Simone de Beauvoir on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Signed first editions of this classic work are rare and none have appeared at auction in the last sixty years. In 1946 Simone de Beauvoir began to outline what she thought would be an autobiographical essay explaining why when she had tried to define herself the first sentence that came to mind was “I am a woman.†That October my maiden aunt Beauvoir’s contemporary came to visit me in the hospital nursery. I was a day old and she found a little tag on my bassinet that announced “It’s a Girl!†In the next bassinet was another newborn “a lot punier†she recalled whose little tag announced “I’m a Boy!†There we lay innocent of a distinction— between a female object and a male subject— that would shape our destinies. It would also shape Beauvoir’s great treatise on the subject. The Second Sex deals with the treatment of women throughout history and is regarded as a major work of feminist philosophy and the starting point of second-wave feminism. Literary scholar Camille Paglia praised The Second Sex calling it "brilliant" and "the supreme work of modern feminism." Named by Modern Library as one of top 100 books of non- fiction of the twentieth century. Also named by The Times Literary Supplement as one of the most hundred influential books since World War II. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
198312540Wellington: New Zealand Computer Society. Good in Good dust jacket. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 0959765700 . No signatures. Underlining and marginalia to the Introduction and to the first two chapers. Some tears and chips at corners of dust wrapper and at ends of dust wrapper spine the largest tears being a couple of 1 1/4" tears at the head of the dust wrapper spine. Dust wrapper is price clipped. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; First UK edition. 702 pages. Oatmeal coloured cloth boards with blue cloth spine. Page dimensions: 221 x 143mm. Top page edges dyed blue. "De Beauvoir is best known for 'The Second Sex' 1949 a pioneering examination along existentialist lines of the female condition. Sartre's Hegel-derived model of the struggle between subjective consciousnesses - each seeking to avoid objectification and to be looker rather than looked-at - is adapted to describe male-female relations." - Jane O'Grady in Honderich Ted ed. "The Oxford Companion to Philosophy" second edition 2005. ; 8vo . New Zealand Computer Society hardcover
1987SKU0618208Pantheon 1987-08-12. paperback. New. 5x0x7. New Textbook Ships with Tracking Pantheon paperback
1969092139London: Collins 1969. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition first printing hardback 256 pp Very Good condition in Near Very Good unclipped dust jacket now in protective transparent sleeve. No inscriptions <br/> <br/> Collins hardcover
1982582103New York: Pantheon Books 1982. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Red wrappers. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. Fine. Pantheon Books unknown
1984Q-0394722353Pantheon 1984-03-12. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Pantheon paperback
197912289New York: Pantheon Books 1979 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition of this semi-autobiographical collection of short stories written fifteen-years before her landmark book The Second Sex adopted by many American feminists as 'a book of their own'. Slim 8vo. 212 pp. Translated into English b y Patrick O'Brian. Ex-Libris Nancy Southam of the Southam newspaper family whose name appears on the title page on the copyright page the date is circled on pp. 11 the first paragraph is neatly noted with a faint outside black line the first s ix words of the third paragraph are underlined on pp. 15 the last three lines of the third paragraph are noted on the outside with a faint black line and on pp. 17 paragraph two consisting of one line is annotated with a faint question mark in b lack. Very good in near fine dustwrapper. An important Patrick O'Brian translation of an important book by one this century's finest author's. Pantheon Books, (1979) hardcover
199745659NY: New Press 1997. First American edn. 8vo pp. 559. Illustrated with photographs. Paper wraps. Bottom edge lightly spotted rear cover slightly soiled o/w a very nice copy. New Press unknown books
194949087London: Horizon 1949. Periodical. 8vo pp. 285-357. Paper wraps. Cover little soiled spine a little worn at ends o/w VG. Includes contributions among others "Leonid" by James Thrall Soby illustrated with several reporductions; "Brave New Europe" essays by Alberto Moravia and Roy Bongartz; a poem by W. H. Auden. Horizon unknown books
19481360NY: Knopf 1948. First US edition. 8vo Pp. 292. A fine copy in near little worn dj. Knopf unknown books
195877Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company 1958. First Edition. Octavo 513 pages. Very Good with some light soiling to the boards. End papers slightly toned. Pages 490-491 contain some offsetting from an index card but all the text is still legible. Dust jacket rubbed and lightly soiled with some small chips at the bottom of the spine. <br/><br/> The World Publishing Company hardcover books
19589515Cleveland & NY: World 1958. First edn. 8vo Pp. 513. A nice copy in sl. soiled dj. A book on China. De Beauvoir offers her reflections drawn from a trip to "Red" China. World unknown books
1958102000Cleveland 1958. First. hardcover. very good. Translated by Austryn Wainhouse. 513pp. 8vo cloth. Cleveland 1958. First Edition. Very good.<br/><br/> unknown books
195321090New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1953. First edition in English of the author's masterpiece. Octavo original half cloth. Signed by Simone de Beauvoir on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Signed first editions of this classic work are rare and none have appeared at auction in the last sixty years. In 1946 Simone de Beauvoir began to outline what she thought would be an autobiographical essay explaining why when she had tried to define herself the first sentence that came to mind was "I am a woman." That October my maiden aunt Beauvoir's contemporary came to visit me in the hospital nursery. I was a day old and she found a little tag on my bassinet that announced "It's a Girl!" In the next bassinet was another newborn "a lot punier" she recalled whose little tag announced "I'm a Boy!" There we lay innocent of a distinction-- between a female object and a male subject-- that would shape our destinies. It would also shape Beauvoir's great treatise on the subject. The Second Sex deals with the treatment of women throughout history and is regarded as a major work of feminist philosophy and the starting point of second-wave feminism. Literary scholar Camille Paglia praised The Second Sex calling it "brilliant" and "the supreme work of modern feminism." Named by Modern Library as one of top 100 books of non- fiction of the twentieth century. Also named by The Times Literary Supplement as one of the most hundred influential books since World War II. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
197556236NY: Saturday Review / World 1975. Periodical. Large 8vo pp. 12-30 56-57. Also includes other articles on the International Woman's year. Paper wraps. Cover llittle stained o/w a VG tight copy. Saturday Review / World unknown books
1962246914Cleveland: World Publishing 1962. Hardcover. 479p. mottling to topstain light wear otherwise a very good first US edition stated in red cloth boards and edgeworn unclipped dj. The philosopher/author/critical-thinker's second volume of autobiography covers the years to 1944. World Publishing hardcover books
19621341454n.p.: Editions Gallimard 1962. Softcover. Small Octavo; VG-/G; off-white spine with blue and dark yellow text; dust jacket has slight smudges to exterior; mild edge wear; tape mends inside dj edges; small chips to spine corners; covers show light tone to exterior; intact panels; text block exterior edges have slight age toning; deckled edges; frontispiece; gift inscription to half title page; illustrated; tight binding; pp 280; text in French. 1341454. FP New Rockville Stock. Editions Gallimard unknown books
1965Embry 30951G.P. Putnam's Sons 1965. 1st U.S. Edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket with some light rubbing and a few short closed tears. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1965. 1st U.S. Edition. unknown books
198833157New York: Garland 1988. 1st edition. Green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. Issued w/o dust jacket. Faint smudge to fore-edge otherwise a Fine copy. 474 pp including Index. 8vo. <br/><br/> Garland hardcover books
1981701712Boston: Beacon Press. 1981. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Beacon Press paperback books
19926800Bielefeld : Ceres, 1992. Geschichten und Rezepte berühmter Paare 189 S.; 27x23 cm Großformat, Leinen mit Klarsichtumschlag / gebundene Ausgabe
198745114Napoli: Il Mattino 1987. First Edition. Folio 34.5cm.; publisher's cream pictorial boards printed in black; 235pp.; illus. throughout some in color. Boards a bit rubbed and corners bumped shallow toning to extremities of rear cover else Very Good or better. Publisher's compliments card laid in. Collection of traditional Campanian Christmas fables with illustrations reproduced from nineteenth-century lithographs and engravings. Il Mattino unknown books
1934586293Milano: Siculorum Gymnasium 1934. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Cover S. Quattrrocchi . 12mo. Pictorial wrappers. Binding very slightly cocked with modest wear and soil a bright very good or better copy. Inscribed to noted author journalist scholar and anti-Fascist Giuseppe Antonio Borgese on the first page. Poetry by a pro-Fascist Sicilian in the same year he would publish a book titled Al Duce. In a printed introductory note framed as a letter addressed to "Amici e Poeti d'America" de Simone thanks Sicilian-Americans for naming an art group after him and says nice things about poetry Sicily Italy in general Mussolini etc. Six copies in OCLC one in the U.S. Georgetown bound with another volume. Siculorum Gymnasium unknown