De Beauvoir, Simone; Translated and Edited by H M Parshley (7 results)

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. NOT an ex-library book. Well read copy with some spine wear. Colouring of page edges due to age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. STATED SECOND Printing of the FIRST Everyman's Library Edition. A FINE/PERFECT volume, no markings, being clean and tight, except for two very small 'creases' at foot of spine cloth. Blue cloth with gilt titles and ribbon marker. A mylar cover permanently fitted from publisher. A classic feminist text. A fifteen (15) page personal author Chronology at front, followed by a twenty (20) page Introduction. At rear, a full Index. 786 pages. A FABULOUS Copy of this classic work. Nearly MINT. Suggest Media postage due to weight.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 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.

Decorative Canvas Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st & 2nd Printing Before Publication. 732 pp. Stated 1st & 2nd Printing Before Publication!!! A rare, hard-to-find-gem!!! Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear and clean text. Stamp on top edge. Pen marking on title page. Minimal fraying on top and bottom of spine. Slightly slanted spine.

Leather. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Eugene Karlin (illustrator). Limited Edition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First UK Edition. Second impression of the true first UK edition, published in 1954. The printer's page states: 'First published in Great Britain October 1953, second impression 1954. The book was originally published in English translation in the USA, by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York in 1953. ***Edited by and translated from the French by H. M. Parshley, Professor Emeritus of Zoology at Smith College. ***Very good in grey duotone cloth-covered boards, over a dark blue cloth covered spine, with gilt titles to the spine. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Corners sharp. Boards clean and bright. Internally also very good with no foxing. With neat original ownership details on the back of the front free endpaper. Pages clean and uncreased. Very light tape off-setting to the rear free endpaper. Spine tight. ***In a very good colour printed dustwrapper, which has been neatly corner price-clipped. Edges of dustwrapper creased and rubbed, especially at the head and tail of the spine. Small are of loss at the head of the spine of dustwrapper, but not affecting the titles. Small closed tears, creasing and rubbing to the edges of the dustwrapper. No serious chips or tears. Spine of dustwrapper slightly darkened but remarkably unfaded. Back panel of dustwrapper has some darkening at the top edge. Front panel bright and clean. ***225mm x 155mm. 702 pages including a detailed 12pp Index at the back of the book. ***'The subject is Woman in all her aspects, and out of it Mlle de Beauvoir has produced a book which may well become a classic of its kind --- "The Second Sex" is notable for its analytical detachment, its avoidance of a rigid "line" or the slightly hysterical propaganda of the early feminists. But Mlle de Beauvoir is a feminist of the sort produced by women's mature realization that they really have the power to be a man's equal. She believes that women are inferior to men only because they are made so --- The second half of this remarkably exciting and readable book deals with woman's life today, her childhood, sexual initiation, and marriage. Each paragraph is packed with wisdom and information.' Manchester Guardian ***'In her appraisal of childhood and adolescence, and of the special problems of the married woman, the mother, the Lesbian, the prostitute, the "hetaira", the woman in middle age, and the woman in old age, she shows herself uniformly responsible and balanced. She is not only a careful and scholarly writer: she is a novelist, and the value of her work owes a great deal to the penetrating power of her imagination --- There is no doubt that this is an important and serious study which will demand consideration for a very long time to come.' Times Literary Supplement (Review quotes from inside front flap of dustwrapper). ***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. ***A second impression of the first UK edition, published in 1954 - the book being originally published in the UK in October 1953, and reprinted in 1956. All three of these original Cape editions are rare to find now, especially in the dustwrapper. ***Of interest to collectors of landmark and revolutionary twentieth century first edition titles. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Leather Binding. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. 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.