The Demon Lover and other Stories. London; Cape, 1945. First Edition. Cream cloth boards in publisher’s dust jacket. A litte loss to head of jacket, otherwise a fine bright copy.

Collects twelve of Bowen’s most accomplished stories set during the Blitz, many with supernatural undertones. Including Pink May, Ivy Gripped the Steps, In the Square.

Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) was born in Dublin. She lived in the ancestral home, Bowen’s Court at Farahy, Co. Cork, and in 1907, she and her mother moved to England.

As a novelist and short story writer she is best known for fictional works that focused on life in wartime London and relationships among the upper-middle class.

Scarce in dust jacket.