First edition, number 26 of 50 numbered large paper copies on vélin pur chiffon by Rives Arjomari-Prioux. Two volumes. 8vo. 400, [8]; 441, [13] pp., profusely illustrated with facsimile letters throughout both volumes. Original printed wrappers, edges untrimmed. Partially unopened, remarkably fine copies, with glassine jackets. Paris, Gallimard, 1990.
The complete, unedited letters of Simone de Beauvoir to Jean-Paul Sartre, one of the great intellectual relationships of the twentieth-century, compiled and annotated by Simone’s adoptive daughter Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir.