EARLY STORIES Elizabeth Bowen Very Rare SIGNED First Ed. VG with VG dust jacket

Description: Hardcover Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1951 1st Edition VG/VG. Extremely rare copy. Signed and dated on front free end page by Elizabeth Bowen. Tightly bound in lavender cloth boards faded with non-faded color apparent on back board, Embossed initials of Elizabeth Bowen on front cover. Some spotting inside the covers. Text is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is bright, with minor shelf wear along the edges. Selected short stories by a known leading writer of this form. A very scarce, impressive copy. Shipped with USPS Media Mail in a sturdy box. Elizabeth Bowen, 7 June 1899 – 22 February 1973, was an Irish- British novelist and short story writer, notable for some of the best fiction about life in wartime London. She often met with the Bloomsbury Group that included Virginia Woolf and other famous writers during her time. Bowen was greatly interested in "life with the lid on and what happens when the lid comes off", in the innocence of orderly life, and in the eventual, irrepressible forces that transform experience. Bowen also examined the betrayal and secrets that lie beneath the veneer of respectability. The style of her works is highly wrought and owes much to literary modernism.

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Location: Stonington, Connecticut

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