Regine Pernoud; Katherine Anne Porter

The Retrial of Joan of Arc

Harcourt, Brace and Company. 8vo, blue buckram cloth, silver titles, 264pp. Second printing (B.5.56). Price-clipped dust jacket with moderate wear to panels, tape repair to spine edges. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. ‘The Evidence at the Trial for Her Rehabilitation 1450-1456.’ Historical study of the second, posthumous trial of Joan of Arc, where she was exonerated of the charges of heresy. With an introduction by the Southern novelist Katherine Anne Porter, who deemed it both her favorite work and ‘the last word’ on the subject. A nice copy in mylar.

Price: $40.00