The Last September
London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1929.
First edition, first printing. [vii], 312 pp. Bound in publisher's variant grayish blue cloth (204) with spine lettered in black (267) per Sellery & Harris. Near Fine with toning to spine cloth and contents, bookseller's ticket at rear pastedown. In a Near Fine dust jacket, with flap price clipped and revised price sticker to spine, toning and light wear at the extremities. A beautiful copy of Bowen's modernist novel set in Danielstown, County Cork during the Irish War of Independence. Often considered her best work, it portrays an Anglo-Irish aristocratic family desperately clutching onto their gentry roots in the midst of political turmoil. Rarely, if ever, presented in the trade with the jacket. Sellery & Harris A4a.
Price: $7,800
Status: On Hold