François Mauriac — La Pharisienne

Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1941. First edition. Leather. A near fine, first edition copy of François Mauriac's novel. A first edition of François Charles Mauriac's novel, A Woman of Pharisees. Published in French. Viewed through the perspective of Brigitte's stepson, A Woman of Pharisees explores the moral and religious values of a Bordeaux community as the reader witnesses how the ideals of love and companionship are stifled through the interference of an austere religious woman. Alongside novels, Mauriac also produced dramas, poetry, and journalistic writing. Having been admitted to the Académie française in 1933, he later won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1952. With a prior owner's bookplate to the recto of the front endpaper. The small red bookplate depicts a flaming torch with the initials K.S.E to the centre. With the original paper wraps bound in. Rebound in a brown quarter leather binding over patterned boards. Externally, lovely, with just some very light rubbing to the paper boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned but clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .