V.SACKVILLE-WEST: Challenge. A novel

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V.SACKVILLE-WEST : Challenge. A novel

George H.Doran, New York [1923]., 1923

The second American issue. 8vo. 297pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine, and with blind-stamped lettering and decoration to the upper board. The cloth lightly faded at the backstrip, and with the tiniest hint of wear to several corner tips, and a little bruising and fraying to the backstrip ends. Quite discrete three-inch tear to the base of the title page. A very crisp copy, lacking the most uncommon dust wrapper. A semi-autobiographical novel, the protagonists were based on Violet Trefusis ('Eve'), with whom the author was having an affair, and the author herself ('Julian'). The book had been scheduled for publication in the UK by Collins in 1920 but Sackville-West, under pressure from her mother during the height of the VSW/Trefusis scandal, withdrew it at the last moment after the sheets had been printed, and these were subsequently sold to Doran who published it in the US in 1923. This second issue (comprising 2,000 copies) appeared later the same year, this time bound with sheets printed in the US. The novel was not published in the UK until 1974. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A9b.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: No Jacket

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