Michel Foucault

Herculine Barbin

Pantheon, 1980. 8vo, quarter wheat cloth over gilt decorated cream paper boards, gilt titles, 199pp. Stated First American Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (8.95) moderately toned to panels. Copy presents printer’s defects, with pages 79-82, 87-90, 95-98, 103-106 blank with impression of text indiscernible. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. ‘Being the recently discovered memoirs of a ninteeenth century French hermaphrodite.’ Introduced by Michel Foucault and translated from the French by Richard McDougall. A nearly fine copy less printer’s defects, scarce.

Price: $75.00