Ann Lee’s and Other Stories. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1926. First Edition. Pp 288, [8]. Publisher’s brown cloth boards, title in gilt to spine. Scattered foxing, otherwise a nice bright copy.

A collection of eleven short stories.

Regarded by many critics as one of the most important novelists of the twentieth century, 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.