Full Title:

Le Choc En Retour

Publication:

Paris, Les Petit-Fills de Plon et Nourrit, 1929

Wraps:

Crown octavo, 7 ¾ in. x 5 ⅛ in., in the typical flimsy paper wraps of French paperbound books of the period. Decorations in red and lettering in red black on both front cover and spine. Spine: [red decorative rule] FEUX CROISÉS | Deuxième Série | 5 | [red rule] [red decorative rule] HOPE | MIRRLEES | [rule] | LE CHOC | EN | RETOUR | [rule] | [device in red] | [rule] | 11-1929 | LIBRAIRIE PLON | [rule] | [red decorative rule]. Front cover: [all enclosed in a single decorative ruled box] FEUX CROISÉS | [in red] AMES ET TERRES ÉTRANGÈRES | [double rule in red, bottom rule decorated] broken in the center by the number "5" | [in red] HOPE MIRRLEES | LE CHOC | EN RETOUR | ROMAN | [in red italic] Traduit de l'anglais par | [in italic] SIMONE MARTIN-CHAUFFIER | LIBRAIRIE PLON . PARIS (see image above).

Notes:

This is copy no. 2256 of an issue of 3355 copies of the regular edition, 3025 of which for sale. There was also an issue of 30 copies on Lafuma paper, CP-C1a, of which 22 were for sale. This edition of The Counterplot was the only translation of a book-length work by Hope Mirrlees published during her lifetime.