LA BÂTARDE by Leduc, Violette - 1965

Très bon état. France Loisirs -Edition 1975

Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Collectible - Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Good. Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (authors, autobiography)

Bon état.

Gallimard, , 1972. Paperback. Acceptable. Fair Paperback. Text unmarked but pages are tanned. A few pages have corner bends. Covers show edge wear with rubbing, creases.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

1997 Riverhead, Translated by Derek Coltman // Lightly worn edges, Dog ear on bottom right corner of front cover, Torn corners on back cover (see photo 2), Stamp of previous owner Lesley Sly on front page // An extraordinary life of a remarkable woman written in a phenomenal style // 427 pages, 511g, 231mmm x 154mm x 31mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

Brand: Riverhead Trade, 1997-07-01. paperback. Used: Good.

London: Peter Owen, 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Early English-language printing of the French writer's autobiography, an immediate best-seller praised by the likes of Genet and Camus, which details her numerous affairs with men and women, among them several members of the French literary elite. Translated by Derek Coltman, with a preface by Simone de Beauvoir. London: Peter Owen, 1965. Second printing, issued one month after the first. Octavo, 8-3/4 x 5-5/8 in. 469pp. Gray textured-paper boards; bronze spine lettering; dust jacket. Some minor outward bowing to boards. Light dust soiling to textblock top. Former owner's name penned neatly on the ffep, which shows some light foxing/offsetting. About near fine in a near fine, price-clipped jacket with a sticker ghost on front panel and some rubbing/creasing along front spine hinge.

URSS.: Gallimard., 1964.. Paperback. Cubierta deslucida. Good. 19 cm. 462 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma francés . Cubierta deslucida. Ensayo

London: Peter Owen, 1965. DJ rather rubbed with some wear to edges and lightly sunned spine. Book clean and tight.. First Edition. Hard. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

London: Peter Owen, 1965. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 9" by 5.5". None . A very scarce copy of this translation of Violette Leduc's autobiography, the first English edition. The very scarce first English translation of this autobiography of French author Violette Leduc, originally published in French the previous year in 1964. With a preface by Simone de Beauvoir. The author's best known book, which quickly became a best-seller and nearly won the Prix Goncourt. In the present volume, she explores her childhood as the illegitimate daughter of a servant girl and the son of a rich Protestant family, suffering from poor-self esteem, her mature years, and particularly details her love and affection for Maurice Sachs. Her first novel, L'Asphyxie, was published by Albert Camus for Éditions Gallimard, and earned her praise from Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Cocteau, and Jean Genet.With the unclipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally excellent… Read More