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BEAUVOIR SIMONE DE (1908-1986)

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BEAUVOIR SIMONE DE (1908-1986)

The farewell ceremony followed by Interviews with Jean-Paul Sartre. August-September 1974. Paris, Gallimard NRF, 1981
Fort volume in-8, 559 pp. Paperback, uncut, untrimmed, flap cover.
Original edition. One of the 42 copies on white laid paper of Hollande Van Gelder (n° 9).
"So, this is the farewell ceremony?" Sartre told me, as we were leaving for a month, at the beginning of the summer. I sensed the meaning these words would one day take on.
The ceremony lasted ten years: those are the ten years I'm recounting in this book." Simone de Beauvoir.
PROVENANCE Bibliothèque Jacques Bredèche (ex-libris with the motto "Savoir Bâtir" glued on the introductory page).
(Very good condition)