Belle de Jour
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Joseph Kessel
Belle de Jour
New York, St. Martin's Press, 1962
First printing
Originally published in French, in 1928, this is the first English translation, by Geoffrey Wagner.
Made into a film by Luis Buñuel in 1967, starring Catherine Deneuve, it chronicles the transformation of a housewife whose vivid fantasies drive her to seek employment at a brothel.
By day, she enacts her customers' wildest cravings under the pseudonym "Belle de Jour"; in the evenings, she returns home to her chaste marriage.
Book is in fine condition; unclipped jacket, designed by William Metzig, has faint foxing to inner side of flaps.