Description
The first printing of The Feminine Mystique, in the publisher’s scarce first state dust jacket.
Octavo, 410pp, [4]. Red cloth, quarter black cloth spine, title in gilt on spine. First edition, first printing with full number line on copyright page. Wear along head and heel of the spine, sunning to boards. Free of marks or notations, solid text block. In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, price clipped, blurbs by Pearl S. Buck and Virgilia Peterson on both front and rear panels, sunning to spine, chipping along edges, a few tape repairs to verso, a good example.
A groundbreaking study on feminism.
The first state dust jacket is identified by the Pearl S. Buck and Virgilia Peterson blurbs on the front and rear panels. The second issue jacket has the same retail price ($5.95), but with only one blurb by Virgilia Peterson on the front panel and seven blurbs on the rear panel.
