The Death of the Heart.

BOWEN, Elizabeth.

$2,000.00

Item Number: 117614

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1938.

First edition of Bowen’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the month of publication, “William from Elizabeth October 1938.” Very good in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed as most examples are signed on a bookplate.

The Death of the Heart manages to make a major statement about human character. . . . We finish the book with that sense fiction nowadays rarely communicates, of life's having been mysteriously enlarged" (The New Yorker). "Bowen is a major writer. . . . She is what happened after Bloomsbury . . . the link that connects Virginia Woolf with Iris Murdoch and Muriel Spark" (Victoria Glendinning). Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.