SHE CAME TO STAY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York & Cleveland: World Publishing Co., (1954) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this French existentialist writer, social theorist, and feminist activist, and only her fifth book to be published in the US. Inspired by her own life and her long relationship with Sartre, it both challenges the traditional roles assigned to men and women and dissects the psychological turmoil of a codependent trio in 1930s Paris, exploring the complexities of freedom, jealousy, and the destructive nature of relationships. The story's intense examination of how one's sense of self is both challenged and defined by another left a lasting mark on existentialist literature. Originally published as L'InvitŽe in France in 1943. 404 pp. Dust jacket by Laszlo Matulay.
Condition: Near fine in black cloth with red lettering and a red spine panel, in a good only example of the uncommon dust jacket with the loss of approximately 1/2 in along part of the bottom of the front cover, other edgewear, sunning to the spine (but still legible) and price-clipped.