The Mandarins.

Cleveland & NY: World (1956). First US edition, numbered & signed issue. 610 pp. Faint sunning to spine, else very near fine in two-part full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Very good plus publisher’s slipcase with some light evidence of damp staining to side panels. One of 325 (of 500) copies SIGNED by Beauvoir for “private distribution.” Winner of the Prix Goncourt. Laid into this copy is a printed slip from the publisher, “With the compliments of Ben D. Zevin.”