Woman Destroyed by Simone Beauvoir, First Edition (6 results)

Condition: Good. 1971. First Edition Thus. 220 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Paper cover has mild edgewear with curling to corners. Splits to spine edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. NOT ex-lib. Tape marks to boards and glue residue to rear end paper. Two-inch tear to jacket.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. London: Collins, 1969. First U.K. Edition. Octavo; 255pp. Illustrated dust jacket over publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Price-clipped jacket shows a good-sized dampstain to front panel and flap -- staining mainly visible to interior, but with some external cockling to front panel and running / separation to laminate along front fold; jacket also rubbed along edges and corners, with a vertical crease to rear flap. Boards and textblock unaffected by dampstaining, showing just some bumping at top corners and spine ends. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Triptych of novellas by the author of The Second Sex, each an examination of a different facet of female vulnerability: aging, loneliness, rejection.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Name of the previous owner written on the front free endpaper page and on the block of the book. Publication of 255 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed. The boards are in good condition. There are old tape residue marks on the endpapers. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text is legible. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Boards in d.j. 1st UK Edition. First impression. Original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 255. Some minor spotting to the outside edge of the textblock, otherwise clean. Near-fine condition in like d.j., protected. The stories of the lives of three women. First published in Grance under the title, "La Femme Rompue". Translated by Patrick O'Brian.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A first edition copy of this compassionate collection of three short stories by Simone de Beauvoir. A first English edition.This volume contains three short novellas that explore women's vulnerability within the face of ageing, loneliness and the growing indifference of a loved one. The stories are compassionate and lucid in their exploration of the complexities and inequalities that women face.Simone de Beauvoir was a French philosopher, social theorist and feminist activist.In the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, lovely. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original unclipped dust wrapper which is very smart with some light chipping to the head of the spine. Fine. book.