Gravity Grace Thibon Gustav Edited by Weil Simone (1 results)

FIRST EDITION THUS. 8vo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. xxxvii + [i] + 160 pp. Bound in original brown cloth, gilt, with contrasting blue spine title label, gilt, in pictorial title label, with small missing section of rear top edge and foxed lower edges. Rough cut lower page edge. Some wear to extremities, including a few small water stains and foxing of lower board edges; otherwise a very good copy. 1954 gift inscription on first free endpaper. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. Selections from the notebooks recording her meditations, of Simone Weil (1909-43) French philosopher, mystic, increasingly attracted to Catholicism, and political activist. Long introduction by Gustav Thibon (1903-2001), French philosopher and Catholic author, who hosted Weil at his farm in the Ardeche in World War 2 PHILOSOPHY THEOLOGY PHILOSOPHY THEOLOGY- FRENCH 20TH CENTURY FIRST EDITION PHILOSOPHY.