The Death of the Heart
by Elizabeth Bowen
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-/Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0224021117
- ISBN 13
- 9780224021111
- Seller
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Uncasville, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
hardcover edition in dust jacket (Jonathan Cape, 1983); no prior owner marks; little age tone to text pages, slight dust top text block edge; tight bind; clean cloth cover bright gilt titling; dust jacket has little age tone along spine and panel edges but no tears; flap price clipped dsk
Synopsis
Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899. She wrote many acclaimed novels, including The Heat of the Day and Eva Trout . She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1948. She died in 1973.
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- Bookseller
- DrPanglossBooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 918533
- Title
- The Death of the Heart
- Author
- Elizabeth Bowen
- Format/Binding
- Cloth hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0224021117
- ISBN 13
- 9780224021111
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1983
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- Gilt
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