De Beauvoir Simone Preface (27 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First American Edition. Fine condition in fine, unclipped dust jacket. The complete text of Lanzmann's nine-and-a-half hour film about the Holocaust. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 200 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition. A nine-and-a-half-hour documentary on the Nazi extermination camps, SHOAH (the Hebrew word for "Holocaust") was internationally hailed as a masterpiece upon its release in 1985. Shunning any re-creation, archival footage, or visual documentation of the events, filmmaker Claude Lanzmann relied on the words of witnesses—Jewish, Polish, and German—to describe in ruthless detail the bureaucratic machinery of the Final Solution, so that the remote experiences of the Holocaust became fresh and immediate. This book presents in an accessible and vivid format the testimony of survivors, participants, witnesses, and scholars. This tenth anniversary edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of the camps, is newly revised and corrected in order to more accurately present the actual testimony of those interviewed. SHOAHis an unparalleled oral history of the Holocaust, an intensely readable journey through the twentieth century's greatest horror. Contains the complete text of Claude Lanzmann's film. Fine, unread, first edition, first printing,in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} NF73/NF42.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Black Cloth Boards With Gold Lettering On Spine. Light Surface Soiling To Boards. Binding Is Tight And Square. Red End Papers And Tinted Top Outer Page Edges. Bumping With Light Wear To Spine Ends And Corner Tips. Pages Are Clean Throughout. Stated First Printing. First English Translated Edition. The Dust Jacket Has Multiple Chips, Tears And Creasing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Vintage study on female sexuality on Grove. Sturdy, clean copy. Mild to moderate edgewear to jacket. Packed and shipped with care.

Condition: FINE. First American edition. transcription of English subtitles to the 1985 French film. Photographs. 200 pages. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. First Edition By This Publisher. 288 pages. "this time is the nature of woman's sexuallity as revealed by experiments and by intimate autobiographies" >> Cover scuffing. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

paperback. Condition: VERY GOOD. Original 1966 softcover in French; white cover with POW child's head on the front cover; stitched binding for long life. Cover has very slight wear; a couple of spots. Interior as new except pages have very slight ripple. **We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING WITHIN USA.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears and nicks. There is a long vertical scratch to the rear dust jacket panel. "Treblinka was an extermination camp, built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It was located in a forest north-east of Warsaw, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) south of the Treblinka train station in what is now the Masovian Voivodeship. The camp operated between 23 July 1942 and 19 October 1943 as part of Operation Reinhard, the deadliest phase of the Final Solution. During this time, it is estimated that between 700,000 and 900,000 Jews were killed in its gas chambers, along with 2,000 Romani people. More Jews were killed at Treblinka than at any other Nazi extermination camp apart from Auschwitz. ".…

TEXT IN FRENCH; paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 432 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Condition: Good. 1967. Paperback. Good clean copy with age & shelf wear to covers. Lightly toned, text is clear and remains a good reading copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 1st printing ; black cloth ; ex-lib ; stamps, pocket, label, reinforced spine ; marks ; pencilings ; knocked ; a good reading copy ; FAIR. Book.

paperback. Condition: good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGood, trade paperback, sunned, 200 pages, 8vo.

Condition: Good. 1967. Paperback. Good clean copy with age & shelf wear to covers. Lightly toned, text is clear and remains a good reading copy. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 117 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. DJ shows wear in some places. Previous owner's name inscribed on first front-end page.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear and scuffing to boards and dust jacket due to age and use. All pages are intact, binding is sound. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Dust jacket missing. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear to boards due to age and use. All pages are intact, binding is sound. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. cloth hard cove.large Quarto.photo-illustrated.117 pages.very good copy in very good dust Jacket.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO20258368: 1967. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos plié, Quelques rousseurs. 501 pages - en anglais. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Fine in price clipped, otherwise fine dust jacket. Lovely copy of an oversize book which seldom turns-up in collectable shape. ; 117 pages.

Paris: Gallimard. 1964. 8vo. Publisher's wrappers printed in red and black; pp. 462, [2], first leaf blank; very minimal toning to spine and a few marks to upper wrapper; otherwise near-fine; authorial inscription to half-title 'a Anne Germain, avec ma sympa tres attentive apres un bon apres-midi . Violette Leduc' (see below).First edition of Leduc's (1907-1972) memoir, one of the boldest explorations of sex, queer desire, and the female experience in twentieth-century French literature, this copy intimately inscribed to the singer Anne Germain, affectionately thanking her for a pleasant afternoon.'A woman is descending into the most secret part of herself', writes Simone de Beauvoir in her illuminating preface, 'and telling us about all she finds there with an unflinching sincerity, as though there were no one listening' (trans.). Leduc was de Beauvoir's protegee, and they had met in 1945; through De Beauvoir's efforts, Gallimard published Leduc's first novel, L'Asphyxie. In the same year, De Beauvoir sent a letter to Leduc rejecting her sexual advances, describing it as 'strange to find out that you are so precious to someone [.] there is a mirage effect there which will certainly dissipate quickly' (trans.). De Beauvoir frequently cited Leduc in her analysis of lesbianism contained within The Second Sex.Leduc sought not provocation but precision: of the lesbian passages suppressed from her earlier novel Ravages, she explained that she was 'trying to render as accurately as possible, as minutely as possible, the sensations felt in physical love [.] not aiming for scandal but only to describe the woman's experience with precision' (trans.). After the success of La Batarde, Leduc planned to have a rival edition of the suppressed passages of Ravages published, at Genet's suggestion, by Jean-Jacques Pauvert, publisher of the Story of O; Gaston Gallimard forced Leduc to cancel her contract with Pauvert and hastily brought out the work as Therese and Isabelle, albeit in a censored edition.An immediate bestseller, La Batarde sold 170,000 copies within only a few months of publication and narrowly missed the Prix Goncourt.Provenance: the Anne Germain to whom this copy was presented 'apres un bon apres-midi' is likely the French singer (1935-2016) of the same name, known for dubbing the singing voice of Catherine Deneuve in Les Demoiselles de Rochefort and Peau d'Ane. After studying under soprano Ninon Vallin, she became a member of the original lineup of the vocal jazz group The Swingle Singers in the early 1960s, and later worked as a backing vocalist for the likes of Charles Aznavour, Francoise Hardy, and Sylvie Vartan. …