Preface Simone Beauvoir (29 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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Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. The complete text of the 1985 documentary "Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust." "Here is the complete text of Claude Lanzmann's film, whose publication will coincide with the American release, following the successful launching in Paris. With all that has been written about the Holocaust, Shoah is an extraordinary acheivement. The result of years of research, the nine-and-a-half-hour film is an oral history of the Holocaust that brings together a full range of witnesses". Light dust soiling on top edge only, else as new. NEAR FINE/FINE. Book Club Edition. Movie Stills. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 200 pages First American Edition. Book Club Edition.…

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: 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.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st US edition. First US edition stated 1985, first printing, translated from French. Published by Pantheon. Hardcover with DJ. Condition new, square tight and crisp book, no edgewear, corners not bumped, no names no underlinings, no highlights, no bent page corners, not a reminder. DJ as new, bright and shiny, no tears, no chips, no edgewear, price clipped. 8vo, XII + 200 pages.…

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.

Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. Edition originale. Travail, vie et mort à 800 mètres sous terre. Henri Keller nous entraîne à sa suite au fond d'une mine de potasse, là où tout n'est que fatigue, peur, résignation, révolte et souffrance. Il nous fait entrer dans sa nuit, "une épuisante obscurité qui consomme les forces vives de l'homme et ses pensées". Première édition en collection de poche.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First US Edition. About As New in all respects in a priced, protected dust jacket. The book and jacket show slight bumping to the spine tips. 1st printing, no others noted. Clean and unmarked. Claude Lanzmann 1925 - 2018) was a French filmmaker, best known for the Holocaust documentary film Shoah (1985), which consists of nine and a half hours of oral testimony from Holocaust survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators presented using contemporary, non-historical footage. "The complete text of spoken words and subtitles of a recent documentary film on the Holocaust by French journalist and director Lanzmann is presented here in an unusual but grimly effective format. Doubtless seeing the film would be a vastly different experience, but the text carries a relentless strength and coherence of its own. Excerpts from interviews with a couple of dozen Jewish survivors, German officials and guards, Polish villagers and railway men, and contemporary historians in the United States, Israel, Germany, and Poland are juxtaposed, following the pattern of the film's scenes. The result is a powerful and unique impres sion of the Jewish tragedy drawn from the composite viewpoints of these radi cally different participants and observers. Highly recommended." James B. Street, Santa Cruz Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. Browse my books: www.abebooks.com/The-Book-Shed-Benson-VT-U.S.A/602765/sf Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Tracking number and estimated delivery date always provided. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed, an ABE Heritage Seller, has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997 An on-line bookseller with a bookshop sensibility.…

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.

Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

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. …