The Last September.

£850 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

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 fine copy, with neat owners signature to front free endpape

• Year: 1929

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