Men and Saints: Prose and Poems. Charles Péguy.

Men and Saints: Prose and Poems

Kegan Paul, 1947.

8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt titles, 299p. First British edition. Unclipped dust jacket (10s. 6d. net) with discreet tape repairs to reverse of jacket, creasing and rubbing to panels, small loss and chips to edges. Boards with minimal spotting and slight bowing. Contents clean, binding firm and square. An anthology of verse and essays by the French religious poet, critic, nationalist and WWI hero, presented in a bilingual French-English edition with translation by Julian Green. Contains essays on modernity, old France, The Dreyfus Case, Joan of Arc, with a few verse selections taken from The Mystery of the Holy Innocents and other poems. A nice copy in mylar. 
. Very Good.

Price: $45.00

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