The Death of the Heart. London: Gollancz, 1938. First Edition. Pp, 443. Original black cloth boards, corners bumped, lettering faded to spine with wear to head. Contents in good condition.

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.