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Sale 286: Fine Modern Literature (#286) 05/27/2004 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 05/27/2004 1:00 PM PDT

Lot #42 The Second Sex

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Title:

The Second Sex

Author:

de Beauvoir, Simone

Place Published:

Various places

Date Published:

Various dates

Description:

2 copies. Duo-tone cloth, jacket. First Edition. Knopf, 1953. * Full gilt-decorated black morocco, moiré silk endpapers, attached silk-ribbon bookmark, all edges gilt. Limited Edition, signed by de Beauvoir on special inserted leaf with tissue-guard, laid in (as issued). Franklin Library, 1979.

The classic manifesto of the liberated woman. From the Library of Arthur W. Stone.

Condition:

First edition jacket with wrap-around horizontal crease and spine with vertical crease; light shelf wear and soiling to volume, else near fine in a very good and bright jacket; Franklin Library copy in fine condition.

Item#:

148816
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