SIMPSON A LIFE.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., [1931]. Green gilt cloth. First edition. Bookplate removed inexpertly from front pastedown, light foxing to rear endsheets and fore-edge, front inner hinge cracked but sound; a good copy, lacking the dust jacket. This fourth novel by Sackville West won the "Femina Vie Heureuse" prize in 1931. Initially established in 1904 by the British publishers Hachette as an annual prize for a French novel, from 1919 a prize was also awarded for an English work calculated to reveal to French readers "the true spirit and character of England." -- Cambridge University Library, 1919. Sackville West dedicates the book "to Mopsa Von Ripper in joyful memory of November 1928 to March 1929. Von Ripper (nee Dorothea Sternheim, known as Mopsa), in the 1940s, was active in the French resistance against the Nazis, before being arrested and tortured by the Secret State Police and deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp, from where she was not released until April 1945. Good. Item #321
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