THE DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937. First American Edition. Item #7828
First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; [vi],298pp. Small, faint triangular damp mark to lower right edge of front cover, subtle offsetting to endpapers; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.75), showing some toning to spine, light wear and a few tiny nicks to spine ends, with a 1.5" closed tear to lower rear joint; Very Good+.
Attractive copy of the French author's best-known novel, originally published in French in 1936 under the title Journal d'un curé de campagne. "A new priest arrives in the French country village of Ambricourt to attend to his first parish. The apathetic and hostile rural congregation rejects him immediately. Through his diary entries, the suffering young man relays a crisis of faith that threatens to drive him away from the village and from God" (Criterion #222). Basis for Robert Bresson's 1951 film adaptation, starring Claude Laydu, Jean Riveyre, and André Guibert.
Price: $650.00