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Leather Bound. 8vo. Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA. 1979. Xxxvii, 715 pgs. Signed by the Simone de Beauvoir on the FFEP. Bound in leather with gilt titles and devices. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. Simone de Beauvoir s essential masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of "woman, " and a revolutionary exploration of inequality and otherness. Vital and groundbreaking, Beauvoir s pioneering and impressive text remains as pertinent today as when it was first published, and will continue to provoke and inspire generations of men and women to come. E-317; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Go Tell It on the Mountain is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Baldwin that examines the role of the Christian Church in the lives of African-Americans, both as a source of repression and moral hypocrisy and as a source of inspiration and community. It also details the social and psychological pressures that lead to the moral and spiritual decline of John Grimes, a teenage boy much like Baldwin himself.