Léon Bloy. La femme pauvre: episode contemporain. Paris: Mercure de France, 1962. 267 pages. Volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8", is bound in red cloth, with bright stamped gilt lettering to spine and blind-stamped pictorial design to front cover. Book is like new, preserved in transparent plastic cover. The second novel of French writer Leon Bloy (1846-1917), originally published in 1897, whose female protagonist becomes involved with the Paris art and literary scene in the 1880s.