DE BEAUVOIR, Simone. Old Age
DE BEAUVOIR, Simone. Old Age. London: Andre Deutsch and Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1972. 8vo. First English language edition. Publisher’s purple cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. A very good copy overall, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the topstain vivid and the contents fine throughout. The dust jacket price-clipped with several closed tears along the edges, most noticeably to the front panel spine joint and the spine head, with smaller nicks and instances of rubbing to all corners, some creases along rear panel upper and lower. Still, quite a respectable copy and rather uncommon.
A 650-page behemoth which underpins the unwritten ‘secret shame’ of that ‘crusher of humanity’, ageing. So a formal age discrimination thesis, in which Beauvoir suggests only one person can begin to dispel his or her own embarrassment of old age, the mythical beliefs, before genuine cultural change. A highly-regarded work by one of the major French philosophers of the twentieth century, but a disclaimer for the time-conscious: you don’t get the time taken to read this monolith back.
DE BEAUVOIR, Simone. Old Age. London: Andre Deutsch and Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1972. 8vo. First English language edition. Publisher’s purple cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. A very good copy overall, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the topstain vivid and the contents fine throughout. The dust jacket price-clipped with several closed tears along the edges, most noticeably to the front panel spine joint and the spine head, with smaller nicks and instances of rubbing to all corners, some creases along rear panel upper and lower. Still, quite a respectable copy and rather uncommon.
A 650-page behemoth which underpins the unwritten ‘secret shame’ of that ‘crusher of humanity’, ageing. So a formal age discrimination thesis, in which Beauvoir suggests only one person can begin to dispel his or her own embarrassment of old age, the mythical beliefs, before genuine cultural change. A highly-regarded work by one of the major French philosophers of the twentieth century, but a disclaimer for the time-conscious: you don’t get the time taken to read this monolith back.
DE BEAUVOIR, Simone. Old Age. London: Andre Deutsch and Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1972. 8vo. First English language edition. Publisher’s purple cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. A very good copy overall, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the topstain vivid and the contents fine throughout. The dust jacket price-clipped with several closed tears along the edges, most noticeably to the front panel spine joint and the spine head, with smaller nicks and instances of rubbing to all corners, some creases along rear panel upper and lower. Still, quite a respectable copy and rather uncommon.
A 650-page behemoth which underpins the unwritten ‘secret shame’ of that ‘crusher of humanity’, ageing. So a formal age discrimination thesis, in which Beauvoir suggests only one person can begin to dispel his or her own embarrassment of old age, the mythical beliefs, before genuine cultural change. A highly-regarded work by one of the major French philosophers of the twentieth century, but a disclaimer for the time-conscious: you don’t get the time taken to read this monolith back.