Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error (English and French Edition)

New York: George Braziller, 1978. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing From the verso of the Title Page: Published in the United States in 1978 by George Braziller, Inc. Originally published in France (Copyright 1975) under the title ""Montaillio, village occitan de 1294 a 1324."" Stated First Edition of this American Edition. No Additional Printings (NAP) noted which, per the McBride ""Pocket Guide to the Identification of First Editions"" was a convention used by Braziller to indicate First Edition / First Printing of some first American editions of translated books. Hard cover in very good condition with white boards and red spine lettering with only ghost of age toning. Top edge stained dark gray. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings noted. Concludes with a Selective Bibliography and an Index of the Main Families of Montaillou. 383 numbered pages. Dust jacket in very good condition with just a ghost of age toning. Has been price clipped. There is a photo of the author from the view of his left side on the rear jacket flap and also a separate glossy black & white 5 x7 photo laid in the book which also appears to be of the author (full face view.) Photo credit on back of separate photo: Jacques Robert N.R.F. * From a review by the Times Literary Supplement, ""Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie has had a success which few historians experience and which is usually reserved for the winner of the Prix Goncourt. . . .Montaillou, which is the reconstruction of the social life of a medieval village, has been acclaimed by the experts as a masterpiece of ethnographic history and by the public as a sensational revelation of the thoughts, feelings, and activities of the ordinary people of the past.""