BOWEN, ELIZABETH

A World of Love

London, Jonathan Cape Harrison Smith. 1955, 1st. Hard, 8vo. First Edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published London: Jonathan Cape Harrison Smith, 1955. Slight foxing along front edges, else fine in near fine dj with light fraying at the crown. Fine/Near Fine.

The Wild MuseProfessional seller

Book number: 000135

Catalogue: Literary & Modern First Editions

Keywords: Bowen Elizabeth World Love First Edition Novel Fiction

Bowen, Elizabeth

A World of Love

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. 1st Am. ed. Hardcover. 244 p. Typography, binding, and jacket design by George Salter. Very good condition/good.

Brookline Village BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 008742

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Literature Fiction First Editions

Bowen, Elizabeth

A World of Love

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. 244 p. 22 cm. Very good condition/good d.j.

Brookline Village BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 33433

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction

BOWEN, ELIZABETH

A World of Love

London, Jonathan Cape. 1955, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. 224 pp. Illustrated green cloth with silver to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket. Top-edge tinted black. First edition of this quintessential work by the author who portrays 'life with the lid on and what happens when the lid comes off'. Very Good/Very Good.

Neale Williams Antiquarian BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 9607

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Novels, Irish Writers, Bowen

BOWEN, ELIZABETH

A World of Love

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1981. Hardcover. ISBN: 0224600516. 1981 edition, 149pp, bound in black cloth. Gilt lettering to spine, price clipped dustwrapper; 7.9 X 5.3 inches; 149 pages. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .

Castle Hill BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 84497

Keywords: 0224600516

BOWEN ELIZABETH

A World of Love

London, England: Panther, 1966. Mass Market Paperback. Mass Market Paperback in good + condition with scuffing and edgewear to the covers. Squared, well bound with an unmarked interior. Pages have yellowing along the edges. "A packet of letters, found in an attic, leads a young girl into the world of love. The attic is in Montefort, a corroding country house in County Cork, which harbours a group of people held together by odd ties of kinship or habit, and haunted by the memory of its former owner who was killed in France as a young man." ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 171 pages. Good+ with no dust jacket .

Bytown BookeryProfessional seller

Book number: 7291

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction

Bowen, Elizabeth [1899 - 1973]

A WORLD Of LOVE

London: Jonathan Cape and The Book Society, 1955. 1st edition thus (cf. Sellery & Harris A22b). Light green cloth with dark green leaf design. Black topstain. Pale red dust jacket, printed in white & black. 224 pp. 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5-1/8". VG+ (bookplate)/VG (spine panel sunned somewhat). This edition the Book Society version that varies slightly from that noted by Sellery & Harris: the t.p. imprint notes the Book Society in addition to Cape, as well as the publication blurb on the title leaf verso- "This edition issued on First Publication by the Book Society Ltd. in Association with Jonathan Cape Ltd. March 1955." The dust jacket differs slightly also, with the Book Society frame in pink vice the black noted by S & H. Sellery & Harris, while aware of this BS version, had not seen a copy.

Tavistock Books, ABAAProfessional seller

Book number: 20525.1

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Elizabeth Bowen

A World Of Love

Penguin Books Ltd 1983 Paperback, 149pp. "Memories and emotions are heightened to breaking point in this novel developed from the finding of a batch of old love letters in an Irish country house. The author also wrote "The Death of the Heart", "The Heat of the Day", "The House in Paris" and "The Last September". Tanning.". Good.

Book HavenProfessional seller

Book number: 1574337

Catalogue: General

Keywords: Fiction, Classics