ENGLISH NOVELISTS; Elizabeth Bowen / with 8 plates in colour and 19 illustrations in black & white
Bahamas: Britain in Pictures, N.D. Colour & B&W illustrations. Early Reprint: Britain in Pictures. Boards. 8vo (6 1/2" x 9"), pictorial maroon paper with white lettering and triple ruled boarders over boards with depiction of little girl fishing, illustrated with 8 glossy plates in colour and 19 illustrations in black & white, pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), 47, [48] pages. Very Good / Very Good. Item #5564
Elizabeth Bowen, CBE (1899 – 1973) was an Irish- British novelist and short story writer, notable for her fiction about life in wartime London.
Among authors discussed, Elizabeth mentions Henry Fielding, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Richardson, Lawrence Sterne, Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, Mrs. Gaskell, Thomas Hardy George Eliot, and Arnold Bennett.
Cloth tight and without annotations; very light foxing on front pastedown but not to illustrations; light uniform age-toning. Dust jacket unclipped with fraying at edges.
Price: $25.00