The Death of the Heart. London: Gollancz, 1938. First Edition. Pp, 443. Original black cloth boards, in publisher’s yellow dust jacket lettered in red & black. A fine bright copy.

Bookplate Signed by the Author, to front pastedown. 

Perhaps Elizabeth Bowen’s best-known book, set in the interwar period about a sixteen-year-old orphan, Portia Quayne, who moves to London to live with her half-brother Thomas and falls in love with Eddie, a friend of her sister-in-law.