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Simon de Beauvoir – She Came To Stay – First UK Edition 1949
£875.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘She Came To Stay’ by Simon de Beauvoir published by Secker and Warburg in association with Lindsay Drummond in 1949. A very good (or better) book without inscriptions. In a very good unclipped wrapper which has some light archival internal repairs, including to a minute hole on the spine and a thin sliver of loss to the spine head and a little light chipping to the foot of the spine and to the corners.
Simone de Beauvoir, a prominent existentialist philosopher and feminist, wrote “She Came to Stay” (1943), exploring complex human relationships. Set in Nazi-occupied Paris, it delves into the entangled lives of existentialist intellectuals, including herself and Jean-Paul Sartre, as they navigate love, jealousy, and existential crises. Through the character of Françoise, Beauvoir examines themes of freedom, authenticity, and the struggle for individual identity in a world fraught with moral ambiguity.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘She Came To Stay’ by Simon de Beauvoir published by Secker and Warburg in association with Lindsay Drummond in 1949. A very good (or better) book without inscriptions. In a very good unclipped wrapper which has some light archival internal repairs, including to a minute hole on the spine and a thin sliver of loss to the spine head and a little light chipping to the foot of the spine and to the corners.
Simone de Beauvoir, a prominent existentialist philosopher and feminist, wrote “She Came to Stay” (1943), exploring complex human relationships. Set in Nazi-occupied Paris, it delves into the entangled lives of existentialist intellectuals, including herself and Jean-Paul Sartre, as they navigate love, jealousy, and existential crises. Through the character of Françoise, Beauvoir examines themes of freedom, authenticity, and the struggle for individual identity in a world fraught with moral ambiguity.
