Beauvoir, Simone deLivre Rare Book
Le Deuxieme Sexe The Second Sex
1949réf. 140949823Paris: Gallimard 1949. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition limited issue in two volumes. Numbers 292 and 1117 of 2050 numbered copies on Alfama Marais paper. 395 5; 577 6 pp. text in French. Bound in publisher's black paper-covered boards with striking color-stamped designs by Mario Prassinos. Near Fine with light rubbing to extremities and small bump to upper edge of Volume 1 rear board. Light foxing to textblock edges prelims and margins. Creasing and short edge tear to first 15 pages of Volume 2 with 1 inch tear to half-title page repaired with tape to verso. An attractive copy of the groundbreaking feminist work in which the author describes and analyzes the subordination of women to men. Gallimard unknown books
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA · États-Unis3 800,00 $US≈ 3 394,98 €
