Heat of the Day [SIGNED]

Elizabeth Bowen.

Jonathan Cape. London. 1950. First edition, sixth impression. First published a year earlier in 1949. Signed and dated by the author to the front free endpaper - 'Elizabeth Bowen February 24th 1950'. Hardback, octavo; biege cloth-bound boards, dust jacket. 319 pages. English. 200 x 140mm. 0.4kg. . Very good, in very good dust jacket; light shelf wear to jacket, light ruffling to spine ends and forecorners, slight toning to spine, slight waving to rear panel, not price-clipped; light browning to edges.

'There is so much that is very, very good in The Heat of the Day that beside it most novels are as substantial as petits fours.' (Daily Telegraph review).
 
A signed copy of Heat of the Day, a war-time novel by Elizabeth Bowen. The story is set in London, at a time when its inhabitants maintained a fear of nights and a sense of impermanance. Love, independence, spying and espionage are all themes.