Old Age by Simone de Beauvoir (André Deutsch)

I admit to not being very excited by the rather plain white-on-blue jacket design for one of the autobiographical works of Simone de Beauvoir, but I am a sucker for the sculptural Stack. Considered on its own terms, I think the two stacked words of “OLD AGE” typeset in Stack work very well, but it seems a bit out of place for de Beauvoir.

The high-contrast and tightly spaced Modern No. 20 reminds me of some of the Didion jackets from the 1970s.

This edition was translated by Patrick O’Brian and published by André Deutsch and Weidenfeld and Nicolson.