London: Michael Joseph, 1969.

8vo., red publisher’s boards lettered in gilt to spine with publisher’s device to foot; in the unclipped red, black and white dustwrapper (unclipped, £2.50 to front flap) designed by Peter Brooks; pp. [vii], 8-344; with black and white photographic frontis showing Jeanne d’Arc’s birthplace at Domremy; spine a touch rolled and pushed with a little bowing the boards; previous owner’s inscription to ffep; with some spot marks to the upper right hand corner of prelims; the wrapper with some associate spotting and dampstaining; a very good copy. 

Second impression of the revised edition, originally published in 1936. 

The first full-length biography by Vita Sackville-West, who was at the time living at Sissinghurst Castle and devoting much of her time to historical research. A second biography, Pepita, concerning the author’s grandmother, was also published around this time. Here, Sackville-West provides extensive background on the hundred years war, and insights into medieval French politics, before tracing the life of the Saint from her humble origins as a shepherd girl, to her murder as a heretic and subsequent canonisation in 1920. An elegant and intruiging work.