Autograph Manuscript of “Old Age”, his review of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Coming of Age, with numerous corrections, deletions, insertions, etc.

by V. S Pritchett

$500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Ink on rectos of 7 leaves, paginated irregularly. 1 vols. 4to. Fine. Item #4832 Published in the New York Review of Books, July 20, 1972. A sharp and appreciative view of De Beauvoir’s study “honest and indignant” of a subject whose neglect is, in his words “scandalous.”.

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