The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen: Books, First Edition (5 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. The Last September captures one of those periods in history when there is a significant change in the wind, yet the people directly impacted don't quite believe it's going to happen to them. Story of an Anglo-Irish family in the 1920s southern Ireland during troubling times as the movement for Irish independence gathers pace. Elizabeth Bowen was awarded the CBE in 1948 and made a Companion of Literature by The Royal Society of Literature in 1965. "The Last September" was her second novel, published in 1929. It was adapted for the screen in 1999. Dust-jacket with chips and closed tears, not price-clipped ($3.50). Internally very clean. First Borzoi edition. 5¼" - 7¾". book.

First Edition. Carroll C. Snell dustjacket art. Author's scarce second book. 'A story of Ireland during the Revolution, dealing with the characters and fortunes of a group of well-to-do English and Irish people of position and family'. Very Good, spine faded in lovely Near Fine dustjacket.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. "First Borzoi Edition." Octavo; publisher's cloth, black topstain, in lavender decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($3.50); [2],xi,[3],303pp. Light edge wear to jacket margins, spine panel quite toned as are edges of both flaps, endpapers toned with contemporary ownership inscription on front pastedown (obscured by flap), otherwise a Very Good and sound copy. The Anglo-Irish author's second novel, first published in 1929 and centering around the Troubles in Bowen's native County Cork.

First edition. 8vo. Original olive green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in green, supplied dust jacket. London, Constable & Co Ltd. 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 very good copy, faint scattered foxing to outer leaves with some occasional isolated instances of faint spotting to contents, light wear to corners, with 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, only minor creasing along the top edge.