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THE HOUSE IN PARIS.
by Bowen, Elizabeth (1899-1973)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good+ dust jacket. (small chips at ends of spine, original pri/red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good+
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About This Item
New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1936.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good+ dust jacket. (small chips at ends of spine, original price of 2.50 still present). First US printing. Bowen's fifth novel, set in post-World War I France, and one of her most accomplished and psychologically acute novels - "a timeless masterpiece of nuance and atmosphere. When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers house in Paris, she is prepared to spend her day between trains looked after by an old friend of her grandmothers. Henrietta longs to see a few sights in the foreign city; little does she know what fascinating secrets the Fisher house itself contains. For Henrietta finds that her visit coincides with that of Leopold, an intense child who has come to Paris to be introduced to the mother he has never known. In the course of a single day, the relations between Leopold, Henriettas agitated hostess Naomi Fisher, Leopold s mysterious mother, his dead father, and the dying matriarch in bed upstairs, come to light slowly and tantalizingly. And when Henrietta leaves the house that evening, it is in possession of the kind of grave knowledge usually reserved only for adults."
Synopsis
Elizabeth Bowen died in 1973.
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- Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86910
- Title
- THE HOUSE IN PARIS.
- Author
- Bowen, Elizabeth (1899-1973)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good+ dust jacket. (small chips at ends of spine, original pri
- Jacket Condition
- red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good+
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1936.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern first editions;
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