Joan of Arc de Lucie-Smith, Edward - 1976

London: Allen Lane, 1976. xiv, 327 pages, 16 pages of b/w plates, double-page map: France, 1429, maps of Sieges of Orleans and Compiegne, bibliography, references, index. There are two bookshop stamps by the lower edge of the front flyleaf and a prev owner's surname by the upper edge of the same page. Papered boards in price-clipped dust-jacket. In writing this biography, the author constructs a convincing portrait of Joan and charts the action of her short life from rural Lorraine to the tensions of her Dauphin's court, the siege of Orleans, the coronation at Rheims, the capture, trial and the end on the Place de Vieux-Marche at Rouen.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.