A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir (Warner, 1973)

Contributed by Florian Hardwig


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First published by Gallimard in Paris in 1964 under the title Une mort très douce, this autobiographical book covers the time Simone de Beauvoir spent visiting her aging mother, who was dying of cancer. Patrick O’Brian provided the English translation. Shown here is the paperback edition published in the Warner Paperback Library in August 1973.

The display typeface is Benguiat Caslon, set stacked and interlocked with a lowered B, and used with swash caps. Around the same time, Bantam employed a similar typographic setup for their Philip Roth paperbacks.

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