Lot 623

WARREN, Suzanne [i.e. Suzanne Henriette Angèle WARENGHEM ([?]1921-99)] - Gordon YOUNG (b. 1905). In Trust and Treason. The Strange Story of Suzanne Warren, London, 1959, original cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, HEAVILY ANNOTATED BY SUZANNE WARREN.

Estimate: £200 - £300
Hammer price: £80
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

WARREN, Suzanne [i.e. Suzanne Henriette Angèle WARENGHEM ([?]1911-99)] - Gordon YOUNG (b. 1905).  In Trust and Treason. The Strange Story of Suzanne Warren. London: E. Hulton and Co., Ltd., 1959 [imprint and date on a printed label pasted onto the verso of title]. 8vo (217 x 140mm). Half title, half tone portrait frontispiece and illustrations. Original black buckram, spine lettered in silver (some damp-staining), variant dust-jacket printed in black, yellow and white with price of 18s. unclipped (a few tears without loss, some creasing at edges). Provenance: "Suzanne Charise ..." (signature, with Wimbledon address, on front free endpaper; "Charise" was Suzanne Warren's codename); various typed notes and relevant newspaper clippings loosely-inserted. FIRST EDITION, SUZANNE WARREN'S COPY, with her extensive ink proofing and annotation. A preliminary leaf is inscribed by Suzanne Warren, "This book is to be returned to me as soon as possible. The following corrections are marked clearly on the pages concerned: take out full pages 89, 90, 91 [etc] ... page 113: only change to make us sleep and be found in separate bedrooms - take out photo of me carring[sic] my baby (facing page 144). The above information is given only to help find pages where corrections are clearly marked"; with the corresponding amendments and deletions made in the body of the text itself. Most of the deleted passages relate to Suzanne Warren's relationship with and marriage to the infamous double-agent Paul Cole (a.k.a. Harry Cole, and with various other aliases) about which - perhaps unsurprisingly - she seems especially sensitive, to the point of wishing it to be expunged altogether from Young's narrative. "The heroic story of a Frenchwoman in the Resistance Movement includes one of the most extraordinary and personally tragic episodes of the war in France. Suzanne Warren (her anglicised name in British Intelligence records) threw herself into the work of helping the escape from France of British soldiers and airmen. In the course of this she met a dashing Englishman [Cole] who ran the escape route organisation in northern France. She fell in love with him and they were married in Nazi-occupied Paris. From then on the story, as unexpected and exciting as a novel, turns to a tragedy and a climax which ends in a gun battle in a Paris tenement ..." (from the turn-in).

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