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1953réf. 1374New York: Alfred Knopf 1953. First American. Cloth. Very good./Fair. Blue teal cloth with 1/4 navy cloth gilt lettering on front and spine price sticker of $40 on rear free endpaper. Dust jacket has several tears and folds including a 1 inch open tear at the top of spine. It does not affect lettering on dust jacket but does reveal the word "The" at top. v-xxx 3-732 index i-xiv. This is the first English language printing of this seminal feminist text. Alfred Knopf hardcover
1953réf. 065517New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dark green and blue cloth lettered in gilt Stated 1st American edition. A few surface marks and mild soiling to covers short mended closed tear at head of front joint. Some soiling/tanning to endpapers. Firm binding clean interior. xxx732xvi pp. Front flyleaf shows bold signature of former owner actress Connie Hull signed as "Constance Ford Hull" best known for her long-time role on the soap opera Another World 1967-1992 dated Feb. 1953 during her marriage to actor Shelley Hull. Though not marked as such this copy also emerged from the library of science fiction author Alfred Bester. Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover
2011réf. SKU0570698Vintage 2011-05-03. paperback. Good. 5x1x7. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLY-NO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Tracking Vintage paperback
2011réf. SKU0618205Vintage 2011-05-03. paperback. New. 5x1x7. New Textbook Ships with Tracking Vintage paperback
1953réf. 583397New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First American edition. Edited and translated by H.M. Parshley. Quarto. xxx 732 xiv pp. Faint paperclip impression on a couple pages of the introduction a bit of gilt spine rubbed off bottom corner of rear board lightly bumped very good or better in a good only dust jacket with several tears creases and toning. Owner name of Clifford Sellers Henderson on front fly dated 1953 with the inscription: "Most disappointing limited point of view. C.S.H." Henderson was a founding editor of the Reader's Digest Book Club and was married to Ralph Ernest Henderson who was the creator and first editor in chief of The Reader's Digest Condensed Books. The book was possibly being considered for the book club or the condensed books as there is also a laid in note addressed to Ralph from someone named Harry possibly another editor with the initials "REH" at the top that reads: "Ralph: Goodness! I'm afraid I was misled by the ads. At any rate there is more in here about women than I think I want to contemplate on vacation. Thanks just the same. Harry. 2/3." The author's controversial book which was banned by the Vatican was considered a groundbreaking work of feminist philosophy and laid the groundwork for the second wave of feminism. Originally published in two volumes as Le Deuxième Sexe: I. Les Faits et les Mythies II. L'Expérience Vécue. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1979réf. 3117073Franklin Center: Franklin Library. Fine with no dust jacket. 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Leather Binding. SIGNED limited edition. Fine in black leather binding with gilt edges & a satin marker ribbon without dust jacket as issued. 715pp. 6 1/2" X 9 1/4" Lovely copy. ; 6 1/2" x 9 1/4" ; 715 pages . Franklin Library hardcover
1953réf. 140944911New 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
1953réf. 031283London: Jonathan Cape 1953 VG/VG. 8vo. original blue backed oatmeal cloth gilt rubbed & a little marked spotting to leaf edges and outer leaves in dustwrapper price-clipped frayed & marked with slight chipping to spine ends some toning to spine; pp. 702. Heavy item 1.25kg additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy. First UK. Hard Cover. VG/VG. Jonathan Cape hardcover
1957réf. 229058New 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-/-- Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
2010réf. Q-009949938XVintage Books USA 2010-11-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Vintage Books USA paperback
2011réf. Q-030727778XVintage 2011-05-03. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Vintage paperback
1968réf. 70411London: Jonathan Cape 1968. Second edition first printing. Light wear lightly sunned content clean and firm. Hard. Good Plus/Good. 8vo. Jonathan Cape Hardcover
1953réf. 21090New 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
1983réf. 12540Wellington: New Zealand Computer Society. Good in Good dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. 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 . 1983. New Zealand Computer Society hardcover
réf. GOR001295709Paperback. Very Good. paperback
réf. 45156486-75HarperCollins Publishers Limited. Used - Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. HarperCollins Publishers Limited unknown
1969réf. 092139London: 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 Collins hardcover
1987réf. SKU0618208Pantheon 1987-08-12. paperback. New. 5x0x7. New Textbook Ships with Tracking Pantheon paperback
réf. 032410Spain: E.D.H.A.S.A. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover with DJ. Chipping to edges and crack along DJ spine. Overall clean unmarked and square. 8vo. E.D.H.A.S.A. hardcover
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2021réf. SKU0618207Penguin Books 2021-06-08. paperback. New. 7x5x0. New Textbook Ships with Tracking Penguin Books paperback
1982réf. 582103New York: Pantheon Books 1982. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Red wrappers. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. Fine. Pantheon Books unknown
1979réf. 12289New 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
réf. 8477746516.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
