The Ethics of Ambiguity
Beauvoir, Simone de. The Citadel Press, 1964 (2nd Paperback Ed.). Softbound. ‘My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy,’ writes Beauvoir in this response to her partner Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness. ‘I can not appropriate the snow field where I slide.’ A handsome trade paperback edition translated by Bernard Frechtman, the frequent interpreter of Genet and Céline. Printed on high-quality paper and featuring a cover design by Ira Silberlight, who shakily employs Morris Fuller Benton’s Franklin Gothic and an in-profile author portrait reflected in the frontispiece.
Tight, uncreased spine has a very subtle lean. Clean unmarked interior. Some areas of rubbing and light edge-wear to the covers. 159 pp. Featured Rare & Collectible.
