Une mort très douce
Paris, Gallimard, (September) 1964.
1 vol. (125 x 195 mm) of 163 p. and [2] f. Lightly sanded purple calf, smooth spine, title in blue Oeser leather, mosaic decoration in relief on the covers, edges gilt on the rough, blue velvet doublures and endleaves, original wrappers and spine preserved, matching chemise and slipcase (binding signed by Honnelaître, 1990).
First edition.
One of the first 40 copies on Hollande paper (no. 9).
One of the first 40 copies on Hollande paper (no. 9).
Sartre considered Une mort très douce Simone de Beauvoir’s finest book: the autobiographical — and universal — account of a daughter at her mother’s bedside, “a poor tormented body.” In a moving testimony, Beauvoir questions the relentlessness of medical treatment, euthanasia, and the final moments of “an adventure common to all, yet which each person lives alone.”
A delicate and rare calf binding by Claude Honnelaître.
From the library of Robert Moureau (bookplate).
#28802
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