Joseph Delteil, Joan of Arc, 1stUS Ed. 1926 illustrated

"Joan of Arc", by Joseph Delteil, translated by Malcolm Cowley, published by Minton, Balch & Company, New York, 1926, First American Edition with '1926' imprinted on the bottom of the title page and copyright 1926 by the publisher, illustrated.

Joseph Delteil (20 April 1894 - 16 April 1978) was a 20th-century French writer and poet. The publication in 1922 of his first novel "Sur le fleuve Amour" attracted the attention of Louis Aragon and Andre Breton. However, Delteil's second novel, "Jeanne d'Arc," a work rewarded by the Prix Femina, aroused the rejection of the Surrealists and of Breton in particular, in spite of the scandal caused by the anti-conformist vision Of the Maid of Orleans. Despite surrealist critique, the film director Carl Theodor Dreyer cooperated with Delteil who completed the script for the 1928 landmark silent movie "The Passion of Joan of Arc."

Malcolm Cowley (August 24, 1898 - March 27, 1989) was an American writer, editor, historian, poet, and literary critic. Cowley, best remembered for resuscitating the careers of William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald, spent time among the Lost Generation, in France. This translation of "Joan of Arc," predating his own first book by three years, is one of the fruits of that experience.

US: Priority (c 2-4 days) -------- $8.50
Canada: Priority (c. 2-6 weeks) -- $27.50
World: Priority (c.2-8 weeks) ---- $37.50
Condition Report: Hard boards, original publisher’s dark blue cloth with gold lettering on spine [some soiling and wear]; 6” x 8.1/2”; 266 pages, rough-cut page edges, 5 woodblock illustrations, small vintage book store label on front enpaper, a little soiling and foxing [see photos], very good condition.