Description
First edition, first impression of Wigs on the Green by Nancy Mitford.
Octavo, 253pp, [1], [2pp ads]. Green cloth, title in blue on front cover and spine. Stated “First Published 1935” on copyright page. Includes the half-title. Solid text block, heavy sunning to spine and edges. Some wear to rear hinge, still sound. Lacking the publisher’s scarce dust jacket.
Wigs on the Green, a satirical novel, lampoons the British upper classes and, most controversially, the rise of fascism and the political enthusiasms of her own family-particularly her sisters Diana and Unity Mitford, who were supporters of Oswald Mosley and Adolf Hitler. The story centers on romantic entanglements and social absurdities in a fictional English village, with thinly veiled caricatures of contemporary figures and movements. Because of family tensions arising from its content, Mitford later suppressed reprints, and the novel remained out of print for decades until it was reissued in 2010 by Penguin Classics
