The Second Sex
by De Beauvoir, Simone
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- Signed
- Condition
- Fine
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Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. Full black leather, hubbed spine, tooled gilt decoration to spine and boards, moire silk endpapers and pagemarker, all edges gilt, (9.5 x 7 inches). xxxvii, 714 pages, with Index; illustrations by Eugene Karlin. Translated and edited by H.M. Parshley. A limited edition, privately printed and individually SIGNED by the author. 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 hundred most influential books since World War II. An exceptionally clean, tight (unread) copy with a strong shelf presence; collector FINE condition. Signed. Limited Edition. Leather. Fine. Illus. by Eugene Karlin. Octavo.
Synopsis
The Second Sex is one of the best-known works of the French existentialist Simone de Beauvoir. It is a work on the treatment of women throughout history and often regarded as a major work of feminist literature.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Second Sex
- Author
- De Beauvoir, Simone
- Illustrator
- Eugene Karlin
- Format/Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
- Date Published
- 1979
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Feminist Philosophy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Leather Bound Books;
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