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The Priest
Béatrix Beck, translated by Constantine Fitzgibbon
Béatrix Beck was born in Switzerland, became a French citizen in 1955, and died in Paris in 2008, aged 94y. She won the Prix Goncourt for this novel in 1952, which in French was called Léon Morin, prêtre, and was published by Editions Gallimard. She was secretary to the writer André Gide.
The design for the jacket is not signed; there is a credit inside the front fold-in: Wrapper design by EDMUND BLAMPIED
. It is uninspired, to say the least. I suspect that Blampied was asked for a design by Sir Robert Lusty, a friend who was Deputy Chairman on Michael Joseph until 1956. But Blampied hadn't designed a dust jacket for over 10 years, and was 66 years old by then.
Bibliography code: JOS-53.1
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Series: none
Year: 1953
Format: 16mo
Pages: pp 192
Binding: plain maroon cloth cover; author, title, publisher's logo and publisher on spine
Size: 190 x 128 mm
Dust jacket signed: no
Internal illustrations: none
Price: 10 shillings 6 pence
Printing history: first edition
Printed by: Tonbridge Printers Ltd, Peach Hall Works, Tonbridge
Dust jacket (click to enlarge)