DE BEAUVOIR, Simone.
The Mandarins. A Novel …
Cleveland and New York, The World Publishing Company, [1956].
8vo, pp. [8], [11]-610, [2]; a very good copy in the original red cloth, black cloth spine, lettered direct (slightly sunned), top edge stained black, without the sleeve and slipcase or dustjacket; bookplate of the poet and broadcaster D. G. Bridson, with dots under his initials in the colophon.
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First edition in English, signed by De Beauvoir on the limitation leaf, one of 500 unnumbered copies, of which only 275 were for sale.
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