BOWEN, Elizabeth.
The Last September.
The Last September.
Stock Code 115901
London, Constable & Co Ltd., 1929.
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Boldly inscribed by the author 'John from Elizabeth March 1931' in black ink to the front free endpaper.Bowen's 'greatest novel', portraying an 'Anglo-Irish family clinging to its way of life in the midst of the Troubles of 1920, and ends with the execution of the Big House by rebel arsonists' (Maud Ellmann, Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page, p. 41).
A supplied near-fine example of the vanishingly rare original dust-jacket, which emanated from a collection of jackets removed from their books when new.
First edition, inscribed by the author; 8vo; original olive green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in green, faint scattered foxing to outer leaves with some occasional isolated instances of faint spotting to contents, light wear to corners, supplied dust-jacket, only minor creasing along the top edge, a very good copy.
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