Preface simone beauvoir (13 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: FINE. First American edition. transcription of English subtitles to the 1985 French film. Photographs. 200 pages. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 432 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Good. 1967. Paperback. Good clean copy with age & shelf wear to covers. Lightly toned, text is clear and remains a good reading copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 1st Edition. 1st printing ; black cloth ; ex-lib ; stamps, pocket, label, reinforced spine ; marks ; pencilings ; knocked ; a good reading copy ; FAIR. Book.

paperback. Zustand: good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGood, trade paperback, sunned, 200 pages, 8vo.

Zustand: Good. 1967. Paperback. Good clean copy with age & shelf wear to covers. Lightly toned, text is clear and remains a good reading copy. . . . .

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear and scuffing to boards and dust jacket due to age and use. All pages are intact, binding is sound. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Dust jacket missing. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear to boards due to age and use. All pages are intact, binding is sound. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Couverture souple. Zustand: bon. RO20258368: 1967. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos plié, Quelques rousseurs. 501 pages - en anglais. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Paris: Gallimard. 1964. 8vo. Publisher's wrappers printed in red and black; pp. 462, [2], first leaf blank; very minimal toning to spine and a few marks to upper wrapper; otherwise near-fine; authorial inscription to half-title 'a Anne Germain, avec ma sympa tres attentive apres un bon apres-midi . Violette Leduc' (see below).First edition of Leduc's (1907-1972) memoir, one of the boldest explorations of sex, queer desire, and the female experience in twentieth-century French literature, this copy intimately inscribed to the singer Anne Germain, affectionately thanking her for a pleasant afternoon.'A woman is descending into the most secret part of herself', writes Simone de Beauvoir in her illuminating preface, 'and telling us about all she finds there with an unflinching sincerity, as though there were no one listening' (trans.). Leduc was de Beauvoir's protegee, and they had met in 1945; through De Beauvoir's efforts, Gallimard published Leduc's first novel, L'Asphyxie. In the same year, De Beauvoir sent a letter to Leduc rejecting her sexual advances, describing it as 'strange to find out that you are so precious to someone [.] there is a mirage effect there which will certainly dissipate quickly' (trans.). De Beauvoir frequently cited Leduc in her analysis of lesbianism contained within The Second Sex.Leduc sought not provocation but precision: of the lesbian passages suppressed from her earlier novel Ravages, she explained that she was 'trying to render as accurately as possible, as minutely as possible, the sensations felt in physical love [.] not aiming for scandal but only to describe the woman's experience with precision' (trans.). After the success of La Batarde, Leduc planned to have a rival edition of the suppressed passages of Ravages published, at Genet's suggestion, by Jean-Jacques Pauvert, publisher of the Story of O; Gaston Gallimard forced Leduc to cancel her contract with Pauvert and hastily brought out the work as Therese and Isabelle, albeit in a censored edition.An immediate bestseller, La Batarde sold 170,000 copies within only a few months of publication and narrowly missed the Prix Goncourt.Provenance: the Anne Germain to whom this copy was presented 'apres un bon apres-midi' is likely the French singer (1935-2016) of the same name, known for dubbing the singing voice of Catherine Deneuve in Les Demoiselles de Rochefort and Peau d'Ane. After studying under soprano Ninon Vallin, she became a member of the original lineup of the vocal jazz group The Swingle Singers in the early 1960s, and later worked as a backing vocalist for the likes of Charles Aznavour, Francoise Hardy, and Sylvie Vartan. …