Leon Bloy

The Woman Who Was Poor

Sheed and Ward: 1947. 8vo, beige buckram cloth, green titles, 356pp. First edition. Boards mildly worn to spine corners, short fraying to cloth edges and previous sticker residue to spine. Lacking the dust jacket. Contents clean, binding firm. Subtitled ‘A Contemporary Novel of the French ‘Eighties’, the novelistic masterpiece by the French decadent  era writer, mystic and madman, an allegory of poverty and charity. First instance of publication in English, translated by I.J. Collins. A good copy. Good.

Price: $25.00