Rare first edition of this autobiographical novel by Simone de Bêuvoir, of which only 160 copies were printed.
Copy n°10, one of only 35 deluxe copies printed on Holland Van Gelder paper.
“In 1963 Simone de Bêuvoir publishes the third volume of her memories: ‘la Force des choses’. Full of sincerity, the author resumes her autobiography where she stopped it, which mêns in 1944, during the liberation of Paris…”
Magnificent copy coming from the personal collection of Pierre-Lucien Martin who bound it in 1964 with a superb binding with mosaic patterns.
The present copy was part of his sale that took place on May 20 1987 under the n°37.
Provenance: P. L. Martin and François Ragazzoni with ex libris.
