SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR A LIFE ... A LOVE STORY
by [DE BEAUVOIR, Simone]: FRANCIS, Claude, and Fernande Gontier
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
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About This Item
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Cloth and boards. First U.S. edition. Photographs, including an intriguing 1960 photo of de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Fidel Castro in a powerboat. Translated from the French by Lisa Nesselson. A review copy with the publisher's publicity sheet laid in. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Second Wind Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000077
- Title
- SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR A LIFE ... A LOVE STORY
- Author
- [DE BEAUVOIR, Simone]: FRANCIS, Claude, and Fernande Gontier
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
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- Fine
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