To The North. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1932. First Edition. Publisher’s black cloth boards, pine lettered in green. in yellow dust jacket lettered in black. Light toning to jacket & endpapers, light crease to head of spine, but overall a fine bright copy.

Inscribed by the Author on the front free endpaper.

Bowen’s fourth novel & her first work published with Victor Gollancz, who courted Bowen for his own lists as she was “a prestige point – she was now a prestige commodity.” Reviewing her work in The Sketch, the novelist L. P. Hartley wrote: “I was going to say I was among the first to discover its merits, but they were so obvious that one might as well claim the honour of discovering Big Ben.”

‘To the North,’ is widely regarded as one of her most cosmopolitan and structurally daring works. The story centres on Emmeline Summers, a young widow who co-founds a travel agency and becomes entangled in a doomed romance with the manipulative Mark Linkwater. The novel’s title gestures toward both literal and metaphorical journeys—northward travel symbolising emotional and existential displacement.